Overview
- Provides a forensic and empirically grounded examination of how and why seismic shifts have taken place in the structure of ownership of the television production industry
- Draws on interviews with leading television executives and industry stakeholders and on extensive ground-breaking quantitative analysis of company data and programme content
- Offers major advances in understanding the economic and socio-cultural significance of restructurings of ownership in the television industry and examines the wider interplay between cultural production, indigeneity and globalisation
Part of the book series: Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business (GMPB)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Focusing on the growing power of transnational media corporations in an increasingly globalized environment for distribution of television content, and on the effects of mergers and acquisitions involving local and independent television production companies, this book examines how current and recent re-structurings in ownership across the television industry reflect changing business models, how they affect creativity and diversity of television output, and to what extent they call for new approaches to regulation and policy. Based on a major study of the UK production sector as a case study, it offers a unique analysis of wider transformations in ownership affecting the television production industry worldwide and of their economic, socio-cultural and policy implications.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Gillian Doyle is Professor of Media Economics and directs Glasgow’s MSc in Media Management. A former President of the Association for Cultural Economics International, she has led funded projects for the OECD, Council of Europe and UK research councils and her research on media economics, policy and on the impact of digitisation has been published in several languages.
Richard Paterson is former Head of Research and Scholarship at the BFI where he had been on the staff for more than 30 years. He has published widely on film and television industry issues and led two major longitudinal research projects in the 1990s: the Television Audience Tracking Study and the Television Industry Tracking Study.
Kenny Barr was a post-doctoral researcher on the Television Production in Transition project based in CCPR. Funded by a Lord Kelvin/ Adam Smith Scholarship his doctoral research investigated music copyright in the digital age. His main researchinterests centre on creative and commercial decision making and intellectual property.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Television Production in Transition
Book Subtitle: Independence, Scale, Sustainability and the Digital Challenge
Authors: Gillian Doyle, Richard Paterson, Kenny Barr
Series Title: Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63215-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63214-4Published: 04 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63217-5Published: 04 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-63215-1Published: 03 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-6192
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6206
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 253
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media and Communication, Media Policy, Film/TV Industry