info: Volume 7 Issue 5

What's wrong with competition policy in new media?

Chris Marsden, Damian Tambini

Aims to introduce the special issue “What's wrong with competition policy in new media?” which is based on a series of seminars given in January‐March 2005 at Oxford University's…

Free, open or closed – approaches to the information ecology

Christopher T. Marsden

The paper aims to analyze the key structural changes required for an effective competitive new media market via digital transmission. It also aims to explain the institutional…

Competition and the exercise of market power in broadcasting: a review of recent UK experience

Martin Cave

To analyse the application of competition law and regulation in the value chain for television broadcasting in the UK, and to evaluate the need for intervention through the…

Broadcasting, universal service and the communications package

Lorna Woods

The purpose of this article is to assess whether the ECS succeeds in respecting the needs of broadcast content, especially given its accepted importance by the European Union and…

Competition policy and regulatory style – issues for OFCOM

Thomas Gibbons

To examine whether OFCOM's Public Service Broadcasting Review has responded adequately to the contestable values entailed in this dimension of media policy.

Competition in the media sector – how long can the future be delayed?

Herbert Ungerer

To demonstrate that the media sector is moving towards a new organization of the sector. Inevitably a larger role will fall to competition law and competition law considerations.

Consolidation in the USA: does bigger mean better?

Peter Curwen