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Switching Channels

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Description for Switching Channels Hardcover. In the past twenty five years, the expansion of cable and satellite systems has transformed television. Examines the economics of this phenomenen, and the nature and logic of the broadcast network's response. Num Pages: 376 pages, 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 548.

Media critics invariably disparage the quality of programming produced by the U.S. television industry. But why the industry produces what it does is a question largely unasked. It is this question, at the crux of American popular culture, that Switching Channels explores.

In the past twenty-five years, the expansion of cable and satellite systems has transformed television. Richard Caves examines the economics of this phenomenon--and the nature and logic of the broadcast networks' response to the incursion of cable TV, especially the shift to inexpensive unscripted game and "reality" shows and "news" magazines. An explanation of these changes, Caves ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674018785
SKU
V9780674018785
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About Richard E. Caves
Richard E. Caves is Nathaniel Ropes Research Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University.

Reviews for Switching Channels
This book is a successful effort to subject to economic analysis an industry that has undergone substantial organizational changes within a short time and that is marked by quite peculiar structural properties and production practices. Caves ingeniously sorts out the industry's peculiarities and reads the economic meaning and implications of its "tribal customs."
Dick Netzer, Robert F. Wagner Graduate ... Read more

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