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This book assesses the impact of digital broadcasting on regulatory practices in Europe. Levy considers how these responsibilities are likely to be divided in the future, and which are the emerging issues and problems.
List of contents
Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction List of Abbreviations Section 1: The Impact of Convergence 1. Converging Technologies, Changing Markets Section 2: Regulating Analogue Broadcasting 2. National Regulatory Traditions in France, Germany and the UK 3. European Regulation of Analogue Broadcasting Section 3: National and European Responses to Digital Broadcasting 4. Regulating Access to Digital Broadcasting: The Advanced Television Standards Directive 5. The Impact of European Competition Policy on Digital Broadcasting 6. National Approaches to Digital Regulation 7. From the European Information Society to Convergence: Co-ordinating or transcending National responses to digital broadcasting? Section 4: Conclusions 8. Convergence: New Approaches 9. Broadcasting Regulation, the Nation State and the European Policy Process Bibliography
About the author
David H. Levy is the co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy, which slammed into Jupiter in 1994 in a series of spectacular explosions with a force equal to several million tons of TNT. He is the author of More Things in Heaven and Earth, the Man Who Sold the Milky Way, The Ultimate Universe and Impact Jupiter. Levy was asked by Parade Magazine to take over the science column after the death of Carl Sagan. Levy is also the editor of The Scientific American Book of the Cosmos.
Summary
This book assesses the impact of digital broadcasting on regulatory practices in Europe. Levy considers how these responsibilities are likely to be divided in the future, and which are the emerging issues and problems.
