Title Statements
- Full title :Privatising the bbc.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2016.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Inst. of Economic Affairs
- Place of Publication:Lieu de publication non identifié
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 ressource en ligne.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780255367264, 0255367260
- oclc:ocn987322159
- LC Classification:HE8689.9.G7
- Dewey Decimal:384.540941
Table of Contents
_GoBack; 16; a2; n3; n13; n5; n6; The authors; Foreword; Acknowledgement; Summary; Tables, figures and boxes; 1 Introduction: broadcasting in the twenty-first century ; Philip Booth and Stephen Davies; The origins of the licence fee; The evolution to a hypothecated television tax; The collapse of the justification for licence fee funding; Television broadcasts are not a public good; The licence fee debate should be dead -- at least among economists; What might replace the licence fee model of funding the BBC?; Public service broadcasting; Bias and the BBC; Privatising the BBC; Conclusion.
Is the BBC biased to the left?Institutional bias and the BBC; Shared values of BBC staff; The BBC, 'conventional wisdom' and the problem of nuanced views; Conclusion; References; 5 Privatising the BBC; Tim Congdon; Setting the scene; The case for ending the licence fee; The BBC in the digital era; Common defences of state funding of broadcasting; Final remarks on the licence fee; The case for the privatisation of the BBC; A possible alternative approach: a smaller BBC? ; References; About the IEA; Table(1 PSB channels and channels operated by public service broadcasters.
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