256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
British Television Policy: A Reader provides a forum for the significant policy debates which have informed and shaped television broadcasting since the publication in 1986 of the Peacock Committee Report on the financing of the BBC. The Reader presents key documents and critically analyses their impact on the organisation, financial resources, programme content, editorial philosophy and the... Read more
Television Policy Post-Peacock: An Introduction PART ONE CHANGING UNDERSTANDINGS AND PERCEPTIONS; CRITICAL VOICES; PART TWO THATCHER AND PEACOCK SET AN AGENDA; FINANCING THE COMMERCIAL SECTOR OF TELEVISION; FINANCING THE BBC; PART THREE WHAT IS BROADCASTING QUALITY? PROGRAMMING POLICY AND THE BBC; NEWS, CURRENT AFFAIRS AND CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMES; PART FOUR PROGRAMME CONTENT; MEDIA OWNERSHIP; CONVERGENCE IN THE DIGITAL AGE; PART FIVE BROADCASTERS AND POLITICIANS: THE RELATIONSHIP UNDER PRESSURE; IMPARTIALITY; TELEVISION AND PARLIAMENT; PARTY POLITICAL BROADCASTING
Biography
Bob Franklin is Professor of Media Communications in the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield. His publications include Making the Local News, Social Policy, the Media and Representation, Hard Pressed: Newspaper Reporting of Social Work and Newszak and the News Media.
