The impact of media concentration and economic factors on broadcast public interest programming

Prisuta, Robert H.

doi:10.1080/08838157709363841

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“…From a scholarly perspective, a consistent stream of scholarship has focused on the issues of localism and competition by concentrating on the overall ownership structure of media industries (Nixon & Ward, 1961;Sterling, 1975;Waterman, 1991) and the link between ownership and media content (Entman & Wildman, 1992;Iosifides, 1999;Levin, 1954;McQuail, 1992;Napoli, 1999). In particular, several studies have explored the impact of ownership type and the amount of content diversity in terms of television news content (Besen & Johnson, 1985;Busterna, 1988;Prisuta, 1977;Wirth & Wollert, 1979), editorial content in news-44 CHAMBERS papers (Hale, 1988;Lacy, 1988Lacy, , 1989, and radio news (Lacy & Riffe, 1994). The evidence has indicated fewer owners controlling more properties at the national and local level.…”

Section: Ownership Diversity As Policymentioning

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Structural Changes in Small Media Markets

Chambers¹

2003

Journal of Media Economics

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This article addresses the structural changes in the local broadcast television, radio, and daily newspaper industries in small media markets. Specifically, the study explores the consequences of shifting from a managed structure of regulation to an open-market structure of deregulation in markets with a population of 125,000 or less. Overall, the statistical analysis suggests a limited impact on the number of local owners when considering the gradual change from regulation to deregulation. However, the analysis suggests that there has been a negative impact on ownership diversity in some local media industries in the small markets since the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

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