Technical innovation has bestowed us with an abundance of channels for audiovisual media providers. More and more platforms for distributing content have become available. Cable and satellite systems have significantly increased their capacity in recent years. The quality of IPTV (Television...

Most of the countries in the European Union are immersed in the analogue-digital switchover, and it is envisaged that by the end of 2012 all of the countries will have changed over to digital television, giving rise to the digital dividend in Europe. The recently harmonisation of the 800MHz band...

A piece of legislation recently introduced by Representatives Anna Eshoo (D-CA 14th) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI 2nd) that they call the quot;Broadcast Licensing in the Public Interest Actquot; (HR 4882), might deserve a better appellation as the quot;Eradication of Broadcasting Act.quot;At the...

In the Prime Minister's ‘Mansion House speech' of March 2018 on the future economic relationship between the UK and the European Union, the regulation of broadcasting was singled out as an area of special interest. Noting that ‘we cannot have exactly the same arrangements with the EU as we...

The British broadcasting system is heavily influenced by public service broadcasting (PSB) concepts and regulation. The debate over PSB has raged for decades and has to varying degrees been based on the proposition that there are myriad market failures in the provision of broadcast television...

In the past, the use of a compulsory levy on television sets (a licence fee) to finance the BBC could be justified given the problem of spectrum scarcity and the fact that television signals were a public good (i.e. there was effectively a zero marginal cost of an additional user receiving the...

Broadcasting is in a phase of change, with new technologies and new contestants companies are facing an increased competition. One emerging stream of broadcasting is Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and competitive gaming (eSports) scene is resting upon that technology. On the case of eSports...