Public Service Media (PSM) online is a highly up to date topic. There is no clear consensus among researchers if Public Service Media should have a legitimization online and if so to which extent. Some authors still demand for an extensive role of public service provision in the digital era...

Public Service Media (PSM) online is a highly up to date topic. There is no clear consensus among researchers if Public Service Media should have a legitimization online and if so to which extent. Some authors still demand for an extensive role of public service provision in the digital era...

This paper offers an explanation of European cross country differences in the trust enjoyed by television. Our argument turns on the way that, while there is significant public ownership of television in all countries (so that trust in broadcasting as a whole is bound to depend importantly on...

This paper examines how increases in broadcast channels affect equilibrium in broadcasting markets and social surplus. In our model, viewers have preferences for many potential varieties of news and entertainment programs. Our model explains different market phenomena: the previous limited...

A welfare-maximizing Public Service Broadcaster (PSB) broadcasts both information-type and show-type content if (i) the information consumption of TV viewers generates external benefits for society by improving the ability of voters to control politicians and (ii) the marginal external benefits...

A number of reviews of the BBC and public service broadcasting have been conducted recently. The issues of public service broadcasting, the licence fee and the governance of the BBC are all interlinked. Contestability of funding for public service broadcasting is desirable. Funding of public...

We offer a tractable model of broadcast media as a three-sided platform, serving entertainment and news to viewers, commercial opportunities to advertisers, and electoral influence to politicians. We characterize the profit-maximization decision of a media firm, and study the effect on social...