The Peacock Committee and UK Broadcasting Policy

by O'Malley, Tom; Jones, Janet

• ISBN13: 9780230524743
• ISBN10: 0230524745
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This is the first full-length scholarly study of the genesis and influence of Alan Peacock's intellectually radical "Report of the Committee on Financing the BBC" (1986), which fundamentally altered the principles governing the development of broadcasting policy in the UK.

Author Biography

JANET JONES is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of the West of England, UK. She is the co-editor of Big Brother International: Formats, Critics and Publics (2004), and worked for fifteen years as a broadcast journalist with the BBC.
 
TOM O'MALLEY is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK. His previous publications include Regulating the Press (co-authored, 2000), The Media in Wales: Voices of a Small Nation (2005) and Reconstructing the Past: History in the Mass Media 1890-2005 (co-edited, 2008). 
  
 

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vi
Introduction	p. 1
Attacking Collectivism	p. 11
Liberalism and Broadcasting Policy from the 1920s to the 1960s	p. 22
Technology, Politics and Economics, 1962-84	p. 45
Twenty and Thirty and Forty Years On: A Personal Retrospect on Broadcasting Policy since 1967	p. 66
The 'PoliticsÆ of Investigating Broadcasting Finance	p. 84
The Fight for Freedom in Broadcasting	p. 101
It Was the BBC wot Won it: Winning the Peacock Report for the Corporation, or How the BBC Responded to the Peacock Committee	p. 121
Paradigm Found: The Peacock Report and the Genesis of a New Model of UK Broadcasting Policy	p. 146
The Unbearable Light of the Market: Broadcasting in the Nations and Regions of Britain post-Peacock	p. 165
PSB 2.0-UK Broadcasting Policy after Peacock	p. 187
Impressions, Influences and Indebtedness	p. 207
Conference Witness Testimonies: Extracted from 'The Peacock Legacy: turning point or missed opportunity?Æ	p. 214
Contributors to Conference
Appendices	p. 248
Bibliography	p. 260
Index	p. 274
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