The Changing Face of the German Broadcast Television Industry

MedienJournal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Murschetz
Keyword(s):  
Organization Theory ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Competitive Behavior ◽  
Television Industry ◽  
Broadcast Television ◽  
Television Broadcasting ◽  
Broadcasting Industry ◽  
Smart Tv ◽  
Fundamental Transformation ◽  
Industrial Organization Theory

This study offers an economic analysis of the television broadcasting industry at the convergence of broadcast and broadband connectivity. It applies the „Structure-Conduct- Performance“(SCP)-paradigm of Industrial Organization theory as framework and investigates how the model can contribute to explaining emergent issues in the economics of Smart TV. It is argued here that SCP model provides a useful heuristic and can fruitfully be applied to various questions surrounding the fundamental transformation of the television broadcasting sector towards Smart TV, notably issues of market structure and competitive behavior. The argument is illustrated by the emerging ecosystem for Smart TV services in Germany. There, the market is still immature and each provider is struggling with the challenge of developing an optimal strategy and organizational form in the Smart TV ecosystem.  

The Changing Face of the German Broadcast Television Industry

MedienJournal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 44-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Murschetz
Keyword(s):  
Organization Theory ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Competitive Behavior ◽  
Television Industry ◽  
Broadcast Television ◽  
Television Broadcasting ◽  
Broadcasting Industry ◽  
Smart Tv ◽  
Fundamental Transformation ◽  
Industrial Organization Theory

This study offers an economic analysis of the television broadcasting industry at the convergence of broadcast and broadband connectivity. It applies the „Structure-Conduct- Performance“(SCP)-paradigm of Industrial Organization theory as framework and investigates how the model can contribute to explaining emergent issues in the economics of Smart TV. It is argued here that SCP model provides a useful heuristic and can fruitfully be applied to various questions surrounding the fundamental transformation of the television broadcasting sector towards Smart TV, notably issues of market structure and competitive behavior. The argument is illustrated by the emerging ecosystem for Smart TV services in Germany. There, the market is still immature and each provider is struggling with the challenge of developing an optimal strategy and organizational form in the Smart TV ecosystem.  

scholarly journals The delay economy of “continuity” and the emerging impatience culture of the digital era

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne Bruun
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Television Industry ◽  
Broadcast Television ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Temporal Structures ◽  
Media Experience ◽  
Over The Top

AbstractThis article compares the “continuity” produced by private- and public service television companies and discusses whether it can survive in the digital era. In broadcast television, “continuity” carries the industry’s dominating business model: the commercial break. The present disruption to this model, caused by digital technology, over-the-top companies like Netflix and social media like Youtube, has made the television industry eager to adapt to new television viewing habits. However, based on a comparative analysis of the communicative strategies of four television companies in Denmark, the article argues that a traditional delay economy still governs the temporal structures and constructions of continuity. This delay economy draws heavily on the patience of its implied viewers. The article discusses this conceptualization of the audience in the context of an emerging impatience culture in which instant access to personalized audio-visual content and gaming on different devices are part of the viewers’ media experience.

scholarly journals Changing channels: an exploration of disruptive technologies and the challenges they pose to English-Canadian television product

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tessa Sproule
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Television Industry ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Disruptive Technologies ◽  
Television Broadcasting ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Broadcasting System ◽  
Television Plays ◽  
English Canadian

"The audience wants to be able to watch a program when they want - in fact most every technological innovation adopted by the television industry has had some aspect in its design to fulfil that desire. I'm interested in how technologies facilitate audiences in finding a way to watch what they want to, when they want to. I'm also interested in (and to be frank, somewhat anxious since I work in television) what new pitfalls and possibilities the latest technologies pose for the future of television production and distribution in Canada. As we'll lean later, there are technological changes afoot that could sideswipe the effort of generations of Canadian broadcast policymakers and topple the Canadian television industry in their wake. Ours is a fragile television broadcasting system, crippled by a deeply divided policy framework based on two opposing philosophies -- one that puts an emphasis on television's role as a public service and another that emphasizes its commercial purposes and profitability. I will evaluate whether that policy framework is equipped to safeguard Canada's precarious television industry against what some say is an inevitable tidal wave of American domination heading our way. But first I want to investigate whether American domination of our TV sets is such a horror. If television doesn't really matter when it comes to our cultural and national sovereignty, I might as well stop writing right now. But as we'll learn, it does matter. While there is much debate over how television plays a role in our functioning as a sovereign society there is a general consensus that something is happening when we watch TV. It is to the problem of what that something is that I turn to first."--Pages 1-2.

scholarly journals Effects of Deregulation and Consolidation of the Broadcast Television Industry

2016 ◽  
Vol 106 (8) ◽  
pp. 2185-2218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Calfee Stahl
Keyword(s):  
Market Power ◽  
Ownership Structure ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Significant Cost ◽  
Television Industry ◽  
Broadcast Television ◽  
Joint Ownership ◽  
Market Consolidation

This paper exploits deregulation in the 1990s to estimate viewership and revenue effects of consolidation in broadcast television, then finds cost effects that explain the ownership structure given viewership and revenue effects. Results suggest that consolidation greatly increased profitability in an industry with otherwise declining profitability. Groups with broader national coverage attract more advertising per station. Joint ownership of two stations within a market and network ownership both allow for significant cost savings. There is some evidence that within-market consolidation allows stations to achieve local market power. However, both within-market and across-market consolidation appear to have boosted viewership, on net. (JEL G32, L13, L25, L51, L82, L88)

Hospital mergers, acquisitions and regulatory policy implications

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (10/11) ◽  
pp. 1354-1362
Author(s):  
Bhavneet Walia ◽  
Christopher John Boudreaux
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Industrial Organization ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Regulatory Policy ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Power Cost ◽  
Hospital Mergers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Industrial Organization Theory

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on hospital mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Design/methodology/approach The authors conduct a systematic review of the literature on hospital M&As to summarize their effects upon cost of health care delivery (access), efficiency, market power, cost and price. Implications for health care industry policy are provided. Findings A significant majority of results conclude lower costs, increased efficiency, but higher prices (due to a market concentration effect) following hospital merger or acquisition. These results are consistent with industrial organization theory and suggest that regulatory policy (e.g. price cap regulation) will raise allocative efficiency, consumer surplus and overall market surplus within markets for hospital services. Originality/value This is the first study to review the price, cost and efficiency effects of M&As with respect to industrial organization theory in the context of hospitals. This study also provides regulatory policy implications.

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