1st Edition

Europe's Digital Revolution Broadcasting Regulation, the EU and the Nation State

By David Levy Copyright 2000
    226 Pages
    by Routledge

    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    Europe's Digital Revolution assesses the impact of digital broadcasting on regulatory practices in Europe. The current roles and responsibilities of nation states and the EU will have to respond to rapid technological and market developments. Levy considers how these responsibilities are likely to be divided in the future, and which are the emerging issues and problems.

    Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction List of Abbreviations Section 1: The Impact of Convergence 1. Converging Technologies, Changing Markets Section 2: Regulating Analogue Broadcasting 2. National Regulatory Traditions in France, Germany and the UK 3. European Regulation of Analogue Broadcasting Section 3: National and European Responses to Digital Broadcasting 4. Regulating Access to Digital Broadcasting: The Advanced Television Standards Directive 5. The Impact of European Competition Policy on Digital Broadcasting 6. National Approaches to Digital Regulation 7. From the European Information Society to Convergence: Co-ordinating or transcending National responses to digital broadcasting? Section 4: Conclusions 8. Convergence: New Approaches 9. Broadcasting Regulation, the Nation State and the European Policy Process Bibliography

    Biography

    David Levy

    `David Levy here offers an insider's view of why global convergence did not occur, and remains unlikely so to do in the foreseeable future' - Chris Marsden

    `Levy's analysis...is written with admirable clarity despite the technical detail of much of the argument' - Chris Marsden

    `Levy accomplished the fraught task of detaching himself from his professional advocacy admirably' - Chris Marsden

    '...detailed and inspiring presentation of the crucial issues and central conflicts of european communications policy in the era of digital broadcasting.' - West European Politics, Raymund Werle