curran and seaton – TV

  • “Power without responsibiliy, is concerned with narrating the story of how media has fallen under the control of a handful of global media conglomorates” – PSB (first published 1981)
  • “profit driven motives take precedence over creativity in the world of commercial media”
  • “protect UK PSB to counterbalance the free market”
  • “the need to produce mass audiences means that the television industry replicates rather than originates”
  • Commercial media – Amazon prime (broadcaster) KILLING
  • PSB – ZDF Enterprises KILLING
  • Horizontal integration – DR founded European broadcasting union, operates 6 TV stations and 8 radio stations
  • Vertical integration – ZDF (parent company) founding ZDF Enterprises

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