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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Franklin, Bob
• Ball, Tony
• Bazalgette, Peter
• Birt, John
• Dyke, Greg
• Elstein, David
• Eyre, Richard
• Forman, Denis
• Franklin, Bob
• Grade, Michael
• Gran, Maurice
• Humphrys, John
• Isaacs, Jeremy
• Jay, Peter
• Lambert, Verity
• Lear, Norman
• Liddiment, David
• Marks, Laurence
• Martin, Troy Kennedy
• McGrath, John
• Mortimer, John
• Murdoch, Rupert
• Ockrent, Christine
• Ophuls, Marcel
• Potter, Dennis

Titel

Television Policy : The MacTaggart Lectures

Ort / Verlag

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2022]

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748617180);Television Policy offers a unique and authoritative account of the major developments in television programming and policy since 1976 by collecting in a single volume the MacTaggart lectures delivered at the Edinburgh International Television Festival across the last quarter of a century. The MacTaggart lecturers include the most celebrated and distinguished programme makers, producers, performers, playwrights, policymakers and senior media executives across all sectors of broadcasting.-
• They include Greg Dyke, John Humphrys, John McGrath, Marcel Orphuls, Norman Lear, Jeremy Isaacs, John Mortimer, Peter Jay, Ted Turner, Jonathan Miller, Denis Foreman, John Schlesinger, Troy Kennedy-Martin, Philip Whitehead, Christine Ockrent, Rupert Murdoch, Verity Lambert, David Elstein, Michael Grade, Dennis Potter, Janet Street Porter, John Birt, Laurence Marks, Maurice Gran, Peter Bazalgette, Richard Eyre, David Liddiment and Mark Thompson.With a Foreword by John Willis and an introductory essay exploring the history of the MacTaggart lectures and a review of the shifting themes and concerns of the lectures, the book provides a forum for the significant debates which have helped to shape both television content and policy across twenty five years of considerable and unprecedented change in broadcasting.-
• Topics covered include the future of public service programming; the relationship of government to broadcasters; the impact of ownership on the freedom of broadcasters; and debates about whether and how television should be regulated.Television Policy is essential reading for all students of media and communication studies as well as those interested in reading accounts of television programming and policy written by some of the most eloquent, eminent but contentious figures in television broadcasting.Key FeaturesThe first collection of the prestigious MacTaggart LecturesA unique insight into the development of television programming across 25 yearsAuthoritative and eloquent analyses of television policyCritical assessment of the contribution of the MacTaggart Lectures to current policy debatesInsider accounts of the development and future of Public Service Broadcasting."