Private Television in Western Europe: Content, Markets, Policies

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Long Live Television....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Editors’ Introduction: Private Television in Europe — A New Beginning or the Beginning of the End?....Pages 11-19
Opening Up Europe to Private Television — Harmonisation and Liberalisation for the Benefit of All?....Pages 20-36
Thirty Years of Private Television in Europe — Trends and Key Moments....Pages 37-55
Private Television in France: A Story of Political Intervention....Pages 56-69
Private Television in the United Kingdom: A Story of Ownership Integration....Pages 70-84
Private Television in Small European States: Ireland, Austria and Switzerland....Pages 85-101
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Children’s Television: A Comparative Analysis of Offers on Free-to-Air Television in the United Kingdom and Finland....Pages 105-122
Children’s Television: Markets and Regulation....Pages 123-135
Television Sports Rights: Between Culture and Commerce....Pages 136-150
Format is King”: Television Formats and Commercialisation....Pages 151-168
Business Model Issues for the Digital Video Content Industry....Pages 169-181
The Political Economy of Retransmission Payments and Cable Rights: Implications for Private Television Companies....Pages 182-196
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Best Frienemies Forever?” Public and Private Broadcasting Partnerships in Flanders....Pages 199-213
Fighting a (Lost) Battle? An Analysis of 20 Years of Private Television Complaints against the Funding of Public Service Broadcasting....Pages 214-228
The Thin Blue Line between Monitoring Advertising Rules and Commercial Freedom in Broadcasting: The Case Study of Product Placement....Pages 229-244
Content Quotas: What and Whom Are They Protecting?....Pages 245-259
From Independence of Audiovisual Media Regulators to Europeanisation of Audiovisual Media Regulation: Reaching for Apples of the Hesperides?....Pages 260-272
Back Matter....Pages 271-279