Blast from the Past? : A Comparative Analysis of Broadcast Licensing in the Digital Era
- Schweizer, Corinne University of Zurich
- Puppis, Manuel University of Fribourg
- Künzler, Matthias HTW Chur
- Studer, Samuel BAKOM
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2014
Published in:
- Journal of Information Policy. - 2014, vol. 4, p. 507-528
Communication policy
Television broadcasting
Industrial regulation
Broadcasting stations
Broadcast regulation
Radio stations
English
The advent of new broadcasting technologies has eliminated spectrum scarcity as a constraint on broadcasting, and with it one of the justifications for broadcast licensing. Have nations moved away from licensing as a form of regulation of their broadcasting sectors? And concomitantly, is there less opportunity to use licensing as a means of promoting the public interest in broadcasting? The authors address these questions through a comparative study of licensing requirements for terrestrial broadcasting and other forms of television and radio distribution in 18 Western nations.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales et du management
- Department
- Département des sciences de la communication et des médias
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Information, communication and media sciences
- License
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License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 323688
- DOI 10.5325/jinfopoli.4.2014.0507
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/307662
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