History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume V: Competition

Zusatztext magisterial and comprehensive ... This is a monumental work of scholarship which could only have been undertaken as a public duty. Informationen zum Autor A leading historian and expert on the BBC, and the author of numerous classic scholarly publications, Asa Briggs is Chancellor of the Open University, and Vice-President of the Historical Society. Zusammenfassung `Competition' continues the monumental history of broadcasting in the UK over a period of 20 years, from 1955 to the mid 1970s. Unlike the previous volumes it chronicles and analyses the history of the BBC in an age of competition, so inevitably contains much fascinating material on the `independent' radio and television companies as well as the BBC. The first chapter deals with the early relationship of the BBC to these new companies, sharing their impact on the types of programmes being broadcast. The second chapter concerns Suez, the first time when there was a conflict between what the Government wanted broadcast and what the BBC felt it ought to broadcast. Chapter 3 compares BBC programmes with their rivals' in the 1960s, and chapter 4 evaluates the effect of the new Director-General, Hugh Greene, the man who - Mary Whitehouse said - was `responsible for the moral collapse which characterized the sixties and seventies'. The remaining chapters debate the changing relationship between politicians and broadcasters, Radio Piracy, the changes to the Third Programme, the introduction of new technologies, and the state of the BBC at the time of the Jubilee and the first meetings of the Annan Committee.

Product details

• Authors: Asa Briggs, BRIGGS ASA
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.1995
• EAN: 9780192159649
• ISBN: 978-0-19-215964-9
• No. of pages: 1206
• Series: The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom; The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, Social & cultural history, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Radio, Radio & television industry, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1960 to c 1970, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, c 1950 to c 1959, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1970 to c 1980, C 1945 To C 1960