Competition in Danish Television News

We studied competitive behavior within Danish network television news to determine differences between broadcasts of the government-funded, public network and the commercially funded, private network. Denmark offers a unique opportunity to study the effect of competition and commercialism on national television news broadcasts because the country had a state monopoly television network until 1988, when a commercial network was introduced. Results reveal there is differentiation between the news broadcasts, but we argue that competition has not had deleterious effects on content but, conversely, has resulted in improvements in the content of state television.     

Strategic Behavior and Competition in Cable Television: Evidence From Two Overbuilt Markets

This article uses evidence from case studies of Montgomery, Alabama and Paragould, Arkansas to examine the strategic behavior of firms in these markets. Incumbents use a variety of tactics including price cutting and litigation to deter entry by a rival. These tactics and their effects impact on the ability of entrants to come into a market and compete. These findings have implications for policymakers particularly in light of the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.     

Impact of Moderate and Ruinous Competition on Diversity: The Dutch Television Market

This article analyzes how competition in television broadcasting influences diversity of program supply. We argue that competition in oligopolistic broadcasting markets can take different forms, depending on the strategies adopted by broadcasters. We distinguish between moderate and ruinous competition, and discuss under what conditions these types of competition will emerge. We hypothesize that moderate competition improves diversity, whereas ruinous competition produces excessive sameness. We test these hypotheses for the Dutch television market.     

Building Communities: Some Experiences with IT

Broad access to information plays a crucial role for empowerment, skill building, and more active participation of different groups of society, thus making an important contribution to social development. While information technology offers almost unlimited ways to enhance information access and management and to improve organizational structures, communication and workflows, it is the interaction between people, organization, and technology that makes economic and social development possible.

In this paper the author describes some of the efforts with which she has been associated directly or vicariously. In these initiatives to enhance economic and social development, ITs enabling capacity has been harnessed imaginatively.     

Market Competition for Cable Television: Reexamining Its Horizontal Mergers and Industry Concentration

This article reviews the recent mergers among multiple-system operators (MSOs), investigates their impact on market concentration, and examines cable multiple ownership rules as well as antitrust applications. The implication of telephone company (telco) entry is then discussed. It was concluded that the exhibition stage of the cable industry is currently moderately concentrated but has reached its highest degree in 20 years. The wave of mergers shifted from the high profile telco-MSO strategic alliances to the major MSOs' consolidations aimed at building efficient market clusters. The trend of market concentration is expected to continue given the current economic and regulatory climate.     

Building Communities: Some Experiences with IT

Broad access to information plays a crucial role for empowerment, skill building, and more active participation of different groups of society, thus making an important contribution to social development. While information technology offers almost unlimited ways to enhance information access and management and to improve organizational structures, communication and workflows, it is the interaction between people, organization, and technology that makes economic and social development possible.In this paper the author describes some of the efforts with which she has been associated directly or vicariously. In these initiatives to enhance economic and social development, ITs enabling capacity has been harnessed imaginatively.     

Direct Competition in Cable Television Delivery: A Case Study of Paragould,Arkansas

In this study I explored the effects of the development of direct competition in the delivery of cable services to a small Arkansas city. The emergence of competition produced lower prices, better customer service, increased choices in programming, and technological improvements as the market structure moved from monopoly to duopoly and achieved an equilibrium in which each service company serves a 50% market share. Because neither firm is producing a profit under the current situation, I argue that in the long-run the competitors may switch to oligopolistic pricing behavior and focus on nonprice competition in an effort to achieve profitability.     

Market Competition and the Media Performance of Taiwan's Cable Television Industry

Using industrial organization as the theoretical framework, this study examines the relation between market competition and the media performance of Taiwan's cable television industry. The media performance of cable television systems is defined as the subscribers' satisfaction with program service, customer service, and community service. A telephone survey was conducted to collect data for the study. This study's findings in general support a positive relation between market competition and media performance, which accords with most previous studies.     

施乐6060数字印刷机使用的几点经验

施乐数字印刷机以其良好的稳定性与实用性为快印等行业带来了很好的效益,受到了业内人士的好评。笔者现就自己在操作过程中碰到的一些小问题及相关解决方案与大家一同探讨分析,希望能对同类设备的操作有所帮助。     

开发利用医学免费电子期刊的点滴体会

依据实践,总结了开发利用医学免费电子期刊开展信息服务的点滴体会.免费电子期刊是馆藏期刊的重要补充,搜索免费电子期刊资源是开发利用的基础与前提,掌握免费电子期刊的主要信息特征有助于提高信息服务的针对性与时效性,图书馆应当加强免费电子期刊的管理,挖掘馆藏期刊与免费电子期刊的综合信息服务潜能.     

美国图书馆网对信息资源的建设与组织给我们的启示

ＬＡＳＳＮＵＭＢＥＲＧ２５９．７１２“信息时代”的新世纪即将来临。作为信息机构的图书馆在飞速发展的信息处理技术的冲击下,处于重大变革时期。笔者有幸在１９９６年赴美国洛杉矶加州大学（ＵｎｉｖｅｒｓｉｔｙｏｆＣａｌｉｆｏｒｎｉａ,ＬｏｓＡｎｇｅ－ｌｅｓ,...     

粤港广播电视传媒竞争与合作的历史考察与现状分析

粤港两地由于地缘、商缘、人脉缘、语言缘相近相依的关系,自近代以来,社会、经济、文化的互动性一直很强。20世纪70年代起,香港广播电视开始辐射广东,为广东广播电视带来巨大压力的同时,也提供了重要动力;而广东广播电视从节目市场和人才市场两方面反哺了香港。     

欧洲理事会与欧盟的广播电视政策法规

针对传播技术的进步、广播电视业经营与市场的变化 ,欧洲理事会与欧盟为规范欧洲范围内的广播电视 ,制定了一系列指导性法规文件 ,力图构建全欧统一的信息与思想交流平台、统一的广播电视业市场 ,推广“欧洲意识” ,抵制美国影视业的“入侵”。这种全方位的法规管理框架对欧洲广播电视业的发展起着越来越重要的作用     

Television Doctors: An Analysis of Physicians in Fictional and Non-Fictional Television Programs

Although fictional television traditionally has portrayed doctors positively, recent fictional programming appears to portray physicians in a less positive manner. It has also been suggested that these images may conflict with depictions of doctors found on non-fictional television. A content analysis conducted here indicates that television's physician portrayals are less positive than they were in 1992, contemporary genres differ in their physician depictions, and television's doctor portrayals do not differ according to sex or race.     

Successful Aging through Television: Selective and Compensatory Television Use and Well-Being

ABSTRACT

We applied the selection, optimization and compensation (SOC) model of successful aging to media use. Using a new self-report measure to assess selective and compensatory media use we illustrate the role of these media selection strategies in successful aging. In other words, we link compensatory and selective media use to different indicators of well-being among older nursing home residents and for a group of younger adults, which served as a comparison group. Selective media use was positively related to well-being for older, but not for younger adults, and compensatory media use was negatively related to well-being for both younger and older adults. In a second study, we replicated these findings with a sample of healthy older adults.     

The Relationship of Competition and Financial Commitment Revisited: A Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis in European Newspaper Markets

The Cincinnati Post published its last edition on New Year's Eve 2007, leaving the Cincinnati Enquirer as the only daily newspaper in the market. The next year, fewer candidates ran for municipal office in the Kentucky suburbs most reliant on the Post, incumbents became more likely to win reelection, and voter turnout and campaign spending fell. These changes happened even though the Enquirer at least temporarily increased its coverage of the Post's former strongholds. Voter turnout remained depressed through 2010, nearly three years after the Post closed, but the other effects diminished with time. The authors exploited a difference-in-differences strategy and the fact that the Post's closing date was fixed 30 years in advance to rule out some noncausal explanations for their results. Although their findings are statistically imprecise, they suggest that newspapers—even underdogs such as the Post, which had a circulation of just 27,000 when it closed—can have a substantial and measurable impact on public life.     

多业并举:中国广电集团发展的策略和空间--以上海文广集团分析个案

自1999年6月中国第一家广播电视集团--无锡广播电视集团成立以来,特别是加入世贸组织以来,探索符合中国国情,有中国特色的广电发展模式,促进广电集团的发展,正日益成为广电改革研究的中心话题之一.