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Switching Channels
Organization and Change in TV Broadcasting
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Richard E. Caves
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English
Published/Copyright:
2005
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Media critics invariably disparage the quality of programming produced by the U.S. television industry. But why the industry produces what it does is a question largely unasked. It is this question, at the crux of American popular culture, that Switching Channels explores.
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This book is a successful effort to subject to economic analysis an industry that has undergone substantial organizational changes within a short time and that is marked by quite peculiar structural properties and production practices. Caves ingeniously sorts out the industry's peculiarities and reads the economic meaning and implications of its "tribal customs."
-- Dick Netzer, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University
-- Dick Netzer, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University
In Switching Channels, Richard Caves has done a great job bringing together a vast amount of disparate information to provide a comprehensive framework for the study of television broadcasting. The book covers everything from syndication through the rise of cable networks.
-- S. Mark Young, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
-- S. Mark Young, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
Richard E. Caves [is] the don of entertainment economics.
-- Austan Goolsbee New York Times
-- Austan Goolsbee New York Times
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Introduction
1 - PART ONE Tv Programs As Creative Goods
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1. The Market for Broadcast Network Programming
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2. Syndication
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3. The Public Broadcasting System
74 - PART TWO. Switching Channels and Program Quality
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4. The Squeeze on Broadcasters’ Rents
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5. Cable Networks and Upgraded Cable Programming
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6. Broadcast Networks, Stations, and Rents
155 - PART THREE. Bargaining Tables and Media Conglomerates
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7. Program Supply, Integration, And The Fin-Syn Rules
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8. Broadcast Stations: Lengthening the Chains
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9. Cable Networks and Cable Operators: Ownership Links and Carriage Decisions
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Epilogue
243 - Appendixes. Notes. Selected References. Index
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Appendix A: Determinants of Affiliates’ Compensation
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Appendix B: Gains for Chains in Radio
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Notes
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Selected References
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Index
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