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Boston [u.a.]
Allyn and Bacon
1998
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| Beschreibung: | XII, 370 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 0205200133 |
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Preface viii
1 Converging Lines 1
A Snapshot of the Industries 3
Cable Television 3
Satellite TV 7
The Telephone Companies 10
Terrestrial Broadcasters 11
Convergence 11
Converging Technology 11
Convergence and Regulatory Policy 13
Converging Markets 14
Some Implications of the Emerging System 15
Summary 18
Notes 18
2 A Brief History of Cable and Satellite Television 19
A Pre-History of Cable TV 21
Communication by Wire: Telegraph and Telephone 22
Television by Wire and the Issue of Bandwidth 24
Bandwidth, Broadcasting, and the FCC 26
The 1948-1952 Freeze 27
The Problem of the Fringe 28
The Pioneers 29
Mom n Pop: The Early Operations 33
The NCTA and the Birth of the Industry 34
Early Federal Activity and the FCC 35
Building the Business 40
Early Pay-TV 41
The Frozen 1960s 42
Copyright I 44
The Wired Nation 45
The Telephone Companies 46
Building the Companies 46
The Early 1970s: Thaw and Renewal 48
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The 1972 Rules 49
The Economic Problem 50
Reregulation 51
Launching a New Era in Television 51
Home Box Office 53
Copyright II 54
Blue Skies, Redux 55
Deregulation 56
Franchising Wars 56
The Cable-Satellite Explosion of the 1980s 57
The Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 57
The Surging Market 59
Direct Broadcast Satellites: The False Start 60
Control and Competition 61
The Cable Television Consumer Protection and
Competition Actofl992 61
Must Carry and Retransmission Consent 62
Epilogue 63
Notes 64
3 How It Works: The Technology 68
Transmission Pathways 69
The Electromagnetic Spectrum 69
Wire-Based or Closed-Circuit Systems 72
Being Digital 78
Analog Signals 78
Digital Signals 79
Digital Bandwidth and Compression 81
Digitizing the Process: Production and Servers 83
Standards 85
Digital Boxes 86
Distribution Systems 87
Satellite Systems 88
Terrestrial Multichannel Broadcasting 97
Cable Architectures 98
Telephone Architectures 104
ATM 109
Dueling Systems 110
Dueling Systems #1: HFC or FTTC? 110
Dueling Systems #2: Satellites versus Terrestrial Options 111
A Concluding Note 112
Notes 113
Contents v
4 Distribution, Competition, and Convergence:
The Waltz of the Elephants 115
Competition and Convergence 116
Distribution and Programming 118
The Distribution Landscape 118
Wireline Industries 120
Cable Television 120
The Telephone Companies 125
The Utilities 135
Broadcasting 135
Traditional Broadcasters 135
The New Broadcast Industry 13 8
Wireless Cable 139
The Satellite Industry 141
Industry Structure 141
Direct-to-Home Program Satellite Television 148
TVROandSMATV 151
Dancing in the Dark 152
Notes 154
5 Content and Control: It s the Programming (and Services) 157
Software: Programming and Services 158
Programming 159
Programming Networks 159
Telco Program Packagers 172
Broadcasting 173
Cable Access and Local Origination 174
Program Guides and Navigators 176
Telephone Services 177
Cable Telephone Service 177
Wireless Telephone Service 180
Data Communications 185
Cable Data 185
Telco Data 187
Satellite Data 187
The Multimedia Future 189
Merger Mania 189
Competition in the Local Market 190
Horizontal Integration 192
Vertical Integration 195
The Big Dance 198
Notes 201
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6 Multichannel Business Operations: The Real World 204
Cable Systems 204
Structure and Operations 204
Income and Expenditures 211
Cable Financing and the Bottom Line 220
Programming 221
Tiering and Pricing 225
Marketing, Promotion, and Sales 229
Customer Service 232
Theft of Service 233
Local Advertising 234
Ratings 236
Satellite and Telco Operations 237
Satellite Carriers 238
Program Networks 239
Structure 239
Profit and Loss 241
Building Brand Identity 242
Programming 242
Starting Up 248
Industry Associations 251
A Concluding Note 253
Notes 254
7 Law and Regulation 257
Congress and the Legislative Framework 258
Primary Telecommunications Legislation 259
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 259
Continuing Controls 265
The Executive Branch 266
The National Telecommunications and
Information Administration 266
The Department of State 267
The Federal Communications Commission 267
The Judiciary 271
Cable Television and the First Amendment 271
Spectrum Management Basics 275
Background 276
Spectrum Management in the United States 277
International Policy and Regulation 282
International Spectrum Allocation 282
WRC-95 285
The Great Parking Place Battle 286
Summary 287
Notes 288
Contents vii
8 Television without Frontiers 295
Why Satellites? 295
A Global Gold Rush to Serve New Markets 297
International Cable and Satellite Ventures 299
Asia-Pacific 299
Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East 307
Europe 308
The United Kingdom 310
The Americas 311
Network Globalization and Programming 314
Privatization of Satellite Cooperatives 315
A Concluding Note 315
Notes 316
9 Social Issues in Cable and Satellite Television:
The Broadband Society 317
The Information Society 318
Using Multichannel TV 322
Viewing Habits and Fragmentation 324
Information Rich and Information Poor 326
The Knowledge Gap 327
Access: The Pay-Per Society 328
Information as a Commodity 330
Copyright 331
Privacy in the Information Age 334
Television Violence 336
Multichannel TV and Socialization 339
Pro-Social Effects 341
Multichannel Television and Political Life 342
Nonstop News 343
Unfiltered News 343
Tele-Democracy 344
A Concluding Note 345
Notes 345
Appendix A: Selected Programming Networks 349
Appendix B: Selected Programming Network Ownership 353
Bibliography 357
Index 363
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