Should We Regulate Media Ownership?

2009 ◽  
pp. 20-25
Keyword(s):  
Media Ownership

UK Television Policy and Regulation, 2000–10

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Hardy
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Market Failure ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
Communications Policy ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
Broadcasting Regulation ◽  
Structural Regulation

Between 2000 and 2010, new institutional arrangements were created for UK broadcasting regulation, built upon a radical rethinking of communications policy. This article examines key changes arising from Labour's media policy, the Communications Act 2003 and the work of Ofcom. It argues that changes within broadcasting were less radical than the accompanying rhetoric, and that contradictory tendencies set limits to dominant trends of marketisation and liberalisation. The article explores these tendencies by reviewing the key broadcasting policy issues of the decade including policies on the BBC, commercial public service and commercial broadcasting, spectrum and digital switchover, and new digital services. It assesses changes in the structural regulation of media ownership, the shift towards behavioural competition regulation, and the regulation of media content and commercial communications. In doing so, it explores policy rationales and arguments, and examines tensions and contradictions in the promotion of marketisation, the discourses of market failure, political interventions, and the professionalisation of policy-making.

Globalization of Mass Media Ownership

1992 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 677-681 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAUL M. HIRSCH
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Ownership

Re-Visiting Tom O’Regan’s Australian Television Culture: Why Media Ownership, Regulation and Policy Still Matter

2021 ◽  
Vol 180 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-23
Author(s):  
Anna Potter
Keyword(s):  
Media Industries ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
Ownership Structures ◽  
Analytical Frameworks

Almost 30 years after its publication, Tom O’Regan’s innovative and ambitious, multi-layered analysis of Australian television culture remains an important text for contemporary scholars of television studies, cultural and communications studies, and media industries. In this article, I re-visit the multiple lessons of value that we can take from Australian Television Culture and its distinctive analytical frameworks. Two of the book’s key areas of focus, media ownership structures, and media policy and regulation are explored further, including in work Tom and I would go on to do together.

Black Voices, White Power

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Redding
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
Black Voices ◽  
Black Media ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
Insight Into

When a former Black editor says he was told that Blacks do not care about news by his White boss and a Black deejay is told that his commentary is too hard hitting and not to go to an event featuring a Black militant leader by his White boss, these personal accounts could be extrapolated to mean that there may still be a world filled with White privilege and an ensuing hegemonic bifurcation in a communication studies context. This study utilizes Afrocentricity and the agency that is denied to these two individuals to provide insight into a world where these Black media/newsroom personnel describe how they lost ground to their White media owners. Those interviewed said this world does not promote the agency that comes with Afrocentricity, which is utilized as a critical cultural studies lens to interpret these 18-question qualitative interviews. The environment that those interviewed described is a world not often viewed in the context of White media ownership and the Black-focused content that is produced within them, but is a phenomenon that may be better understood by utilizing an Afrocentric lens in a Communication Studies context.

Media Ownership and News Coverage of International Conflict

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew A. Baum ◽  
Yuri M. Zhukov
Keyword(s):  
International Conflict ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Media Ownership

Media ownership and market structures: banes of news media sustainability in Nigeria?

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 1270-1280
Author(s):  
Tokunbo Ojo
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Life Span ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
Short Life ◽  
Market Structures ◽  
Short Life Span ◽  
Democratic Norms ◽  
Privately Owned

With the mixture of government-owned media outlets and private media establishments, Nigerian news media industry is deemed as one of the leading media industries in Africa. But, in spite of its leading status on the continent, the industry is plagued with a series of multi-faceted challenges of sustainability that is rooted in the socio-economic and political contexts. Consequently, privately owned media outlets have short-life span in Nigeria. This article assesses the challenges of news media sustainability in Nigeria. The article underscores the adverse effects of structural deficit in the democratic norms and institutional capabilities on the news media sustainability in Nigeria.

scholarly journals DINAMIKA INTERAKSI AGEN DAN STRUKTUR DALAM MENCEGAH KONSENTRASI KEPEMILIKAN MEDIA TELEVISI

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Nusatyo Nursatyo
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Body ◽  
Commercial Television ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
Comprehensive Description ◽  
Holding Company ◽  
Broadcasting System ◽  
The Face ◽  
Television Media

The acquisition PT IDKM by PT EMTEK that have an impact of the unification INDOSIAR and SCTV in the same holding company between period 2011 – 2012, bring a nation-wide discussion about concentration of media television ownership in Indonesia. Broadcast act no.32/2002 with Indonesia Broadcasting Commision as an independent regulatory body considered weak in the face of concentration. This paper provide a comprehensive description about the dynamics interaction between agent and structure of Indonesian broadcasting system particularly in order to organize commercial television media ownership.

scholarly journals Good news media book in regional bad news year

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-212
Author(s):  
Patrick Craddock
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
News Media ◽  
National Development ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Good News ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
The Media

Media, Information and Development in Papua New Guinea is one of the most interesting books I have on Pacific media. It is a collection of different writers, some of whom are current or former journalists. Several of the authors have direct media links as staff working with the Divine Word University in Madang, a private Christian institution. For the uninitiated, the opening chapter gives an outline of the media landscape in PNG. Other chapters explore media ownership, journalism education and the role of media national development. 

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