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Book The Effect of Format Changes and Ownership Consolidation on Radio Station Outcomes

Download or read book The Effect of Format Changes and Ownership Consolidation on Radio Station Outcomes written by Charles J. Romeo and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing a panel data set tracking format changes and ownership consolidation in local radio markets, we find that format changes frequently have enabled stations to improve their performance. The success of reformatting varies widely across format, and the likelihood that changing to another format will boost station performance declines as that format space becomes more crowded. Successful reformatting is not limited to large radio groups. In fact, weak evidence that radio groups garner economies of scope from owning multiple stations in the same format is the only indication we find that larger radio groups have been able to choose formats strategically in order to obtain a boost in their listening shares. In the face of substantial and ongoing ownership consolidation in local radio markets, our results suggest that format changes by smaller station groups may counter the potential exercise of market power by a radio group that acquires a substantial share of a particular audience demographic through merger.

Book FCC Record

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008-02
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 978 pages

Download or read book FCC Record written by United States. Federal Communications Commission and published by . This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book As Heard on TV  Popular Music in Advertising

Download or read book As Heard on TV Popular Music in Advertising written by Bethany Klein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of popular music in advertising represents one of the most pervasive mergers of cultural and commercial objectives in the modern age. Steady public response to popular music in television commercials, ranging from the celebratory to the outraged, highlights both unresolved tensions around such partnerships and the need to unpack the complex issues behind everyday media practice. Through an analysis of press coverage and interviews with musicians, music supervisors, advertising creatives, and licensing managers, As Heard on TV considers the industrial changes that have provided a foundation for the increased use of popular music in advertising, and explores the critical issues and debates surrounding media alliances that blur cultural ambitions with commercial goals. The practice of licensing popular music for advertising revisits and continues a number of themes in cultural and media studies, among them the connection between authorship and ownership in popular music, the legitimization of advertising as art, industrial transformations in radio and music, the role of music in branding, and the restructuring of meaning that results from commercial exploitation of popular music. As Heard on TV addresses these topics by exploring cases involving artists from the Beatles to the Shins and various dominant corporations of the last half-century. As one example within a wider debate about the role of commerce in the production of culture, the use of popular music in advertising provides an entry point through which a range of practices can be understood and interrogated. This book attends to the relationship between popular culture and corporate power in its complicated variation: at times mutually beneficial and playfully suspicious of constructed boundaries, and at others conceived in strain and symbolic of the triumph of hypercommercialism.

Book Sounds of Change

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher H. Sterling
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2009-09-15
  • ISBN : 0807877557
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Sounds of Change written by Christopher H. Sterling and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it first appeared in the 1930s, FM radio was a technological marvel, providing better sound and nearly eliminating the static that plagued AM stations. It took another forty years, however, for FM's popularity to surpass that of AM. In Sounds of Change, Christopher Sterling and Michael Keith detail the history of FM, from its inception to its dominance (for now, at least) of the airwaves. Initially, FM's identity as a separate service was stifled, since most FM outlets were AM-owned and simply simulcast AM programming and advertising. A wartime hiatus followed by the rise of television precipitated the failure of hundreds of FM stations. As Sterling and Keith explain, the 1960s brought FCC regulations allowing stereo transmission and requiring FM programs to differ from those broadcast on co-owned AM stations. Forced nonduplication led some FM stations to branch out into experimental programming, which attracted the counterculture movement, minority groups, and noncommercial public and college radio. By 1979, mainstream commercial FM was finally reaching larger audiences than AM. The story of FM since 1980, the authors say, is the story of radio, especially in its many musical formats. But trouble looms. Sterling and Keith conclude by looking ahead to the age of digital radio--which includes satellite and internet stations as well as terrestrial stations--suggesting that FM's decline will be partly a result of self-inflicted wounds--bland programming, excessive advertising, and little variety.

Book Handbook of Media Economics  vol 1A

Download or read book Handbook of Media Economics vol 1A written by Simon P. Anderson and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Media Economics provides valuable information on a unique field that has its own theories, evidence, and policies. Understanding the media is important for society, and while new technologies are altering the media, they are also affecting our understanding of their economics. The book spans the large scope of media economics, simultaneously offering in-depth analysis of particular topics, including the economics of why media are important, how media work (including financing sources, institutional settings, and regulation), what determines media content (including media bias), and the effects of new technologies. The book provides a powerful introduction for those interested in starting research in media economics. Helps academic and non-academic economists understand recent rapid changes in theoretical and empirical advances, in structural empirical methods, and in the media industry's connection with the democratic process Presents the only detailed summary of media economics that emphasizes political economy, merger policy, and competition policy Pays special attention to the economic influences of the Internet, including developments in social media, user-generated content, and advertising, as well as the Internet's effects on newspapers, radio, and television

Book Handbook of Media Economics

Download or read book Handbook of Media Economics written by Simon P. Anderson and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Media Economics provides valuable information on a unique field that has its own theories, evidence, and policies. Understanding the media is important for society, and while new technologies are altering the media, they are also affecting our understanding of their economics. Chapters span the large scope of media economics, simultaneously offering in-depth analysis of particular topics, including the economics of why media are important, how media work (including financing sources, institutional settings, and regulation), what determines media content (including media bias), and the effects of new technologies. The volumes provide a powerful introduction for those interested in starting research in media economics. Helps academic and non-academic economists understand recent rapid changes in theoretical and empirical advances, in structural empirical methods, and in the media industry's connection with the democratic process Presents the only detailed summary of media economics that emphasizes political economy, merger policy, and competition policy Pays special attention to the economic influences of the Internet, including developments in social media, user-generated content, and advertising, as well as the Internet's effects on newspapers, radio, and television

Book Corporate Stock Ownership as an Alignment Mechanism

Download or read book Corporate Stock Ownership as an Alignment Mechanism written by Cindy R. Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Effects of Mergers in Open Auction Markets

Download or read book The Effects of Mergers in Open Auction Markets written by Keith Waehrer and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Radio

Download or read book Radio written by Steve Warren and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Handbook of Media Management and Economics

Download or read book Handbook of Media Management and Economics written by Alan B. Albarran and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a synthesis of current work and research in media management and economics, and establishes an agenda for future activities. It will serve as a foundational resource for scholars and students in media management and economics.

Book Mergers  Station Entry  and Programming Variety in Radio Broadcasting

Download or read book Mergers Station Entry and Programming Variety in Radio Broadcasting written by Steven T. Berry and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free entry into markets with decreasing average costs and differentiated products can result in an inefficient number of firms and suboptimal product variety. Because new firms and products draw their customers in part from existing products, concentration can affect incentives to enter as well as how to position products. This paper examines how product variety in the radio industry is affected by changes in ownership structure. While it is in general difficult to measure the effect of concentration on other factors such as the number of products and the extent of product variety, the 1996 Telecommunications Act substantially relaxed local radio ownership restrictions, giving rise to a major and exogenous consolidation wave. Between 1993 and 1997 the average Herfindahl index in major US media markets increased by almost 65 percent. Using a panel data set on 243 U.S. radio broadcast markets in 1993 and 1997, we find that concentration reduces entry and increases product variety. Our results are consistent with spatial preemption. Jointly owned stations broadcasting from the same market are more likely than unrelated stations - and more likely than jointly owned stations in different markets - to broadcast in similar formats.

Book Vertical Ownership Without Control

Download or read book Vertical Ownership Without Control written by Patrick Greenlee and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Effects of Local market Radio Ownership Concentration on Radio Localism  the Public Interest  and Listener Opinions and Use of Local Radio

Download or read book Effects of Local market Radio Ownership Concentration on Radio Localism the Public Interest and Listener Opinions and Use of Local Radio written by Michael J. Saffran and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and ensuing radio ownership consolidation are blamed for harming radio localism and the public interest. Prior studies examined impacts attributed to consolidation on format diversity and other measures; however, none explored influences on listener perceptions. The present research sought to determine effects of local-market ownership concentration on listener opinions and use of radio -- potentially indicative of stations' localism and public service -- by surveying listeners in markets categorized by ownership concentration levels. Findings suggest concentration does not strongly influence perceptions; however, overall results indicate potentially negative consequences from local and national consolidation on amounts of local music, news, and public-service programming; live-local programming; and station responsiveness. Findings suggest policy change that could enhance radio localism."--Abstract.

Book Format Matters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marek Jancovic
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2020-02-19
  • ISBN : 3957961556
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Format Matters written by Marek Jancovic and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From TIFF files to TED talks, from book sizes to blues stations - the term "format" circulates in a staggering array of contexts and applies to entirely dissimilar objects and practices. How can such a pliable notion meaningfully function as an instrument of classification in so many industries and scientific communities? Comprising a wide range of case studies on the standards, practices, and politics of formats from scholars of photography, film, radio, television, and the Internet, Format Matters charts the many ways in which formats shape and are shaped by past and present media cultures. This volume represents the first sustained collaborative effort to advance the emerging field of format studies.