Towards a Market in Broadcasting

A Note on Language and Terminology Acknowledgements List of Tables List of Figures List of Abbreviations PART I: INTRODUCTION, THEORY AND METHODOLOGY Theorezing Broadcasting Marketization The Logic of Comparison PART II: DEVELOPMENTS AND TRANSITIONS IN BRITISH BROADCASTING From the Origins of Broadcasting to the Postwar Period (1920-45) Welfare State and Broadcasting Duopoly (1945-55) Social Democratic Consensus and BBC2 (1955-64) A Changing Society (1964-79) The Turn to Market-Driven Politics (1979-90) From Broadcasting to Communications Policy (1990-2003) Ofcom, Public Value and Beyond (2003 onwards) PART III: DEVELOPMENTS AND TRANSITIONS IN GERMAN BROADCASTING From the Origins of Broadcasting to the Postwar Period (1920-45) From Partial Sovereignty towards Independence (1945-55) Federal Government vs. Länder: The Battle for Broadcasting (1955-69) From Public Oligopoly to Commercial Competition (1970-82) The Start of Commercial Broadcasters / Competition (1982-89) Reunificationand Consolidation (1990-2004) Centralized Governance, the Three Step Test and Beyond (2004 onwards) PART IV: ASSESSING THE DYNAMICS OF BROADCASTING REGULATIONIN THE UK AND GERMANY Interdependencies between Public and Private Sector Centralization vs. Federalism: Implications and Responses The Market and the State Policy-Making, Continuity and Change Appendix 1: Interviews and Correspondence Appendix 2: Short Biographies of Interviewees Bibliography Index

CHRISTIAN POTSCHKA is a postgraduate researcher in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Loughborough, UK.