The Licence Fee Challenged

The advancement and development in delivery of media content has also affected the audience’s behavior in certain manner. In distant past, families use to gather around the only television screen in home and enjoy the prime time programs aired by these limited broadcasters. “Millions of households already have cancelled pay-TV subscriptions - up to 10 million U.S. households are currently broadband-only. And about 45 percent of Americans stream television shows at least once a month, according to research firm eMarketer. That number is expected to increase to 53 percent or 175 million people by 2018.” Anderson, Mae, and Michael Liedtke. "HBO Unleashes Streaming from Cable Contracts." The Charleston Gazette, 16 Oct. 2014. Web.

Health care in the UK relies heavily on a public market rather than a private driven market; thus, giving free care to its people. NHS services are free of charge to patients in England unless stated (Department of Health, 2013). Free health care in the UK aim to prevent ill health and

This has not changed in the current NHS, albeit more values have been added to improve service delivery. The NHS remains free with the exception of some charges, such as prescriptions, optical and dental services. It covers everything from antenatal screening and routine treatments for long-term conditions, to transplants, emergency treatment and end-of-life care.

Yet some readers may challenge my view by insisting that the radio industry is a dying industry and that a new website is a waste of resources. While it is true that the radio industry isn’t what it once was it doesn’t mean that it can’t adapt to the changing times. A new website will help the radio station get with the times. It will also help keep the station financially afloat by bringing in new users and ideally those new users would lead to donations.

“reinvention” of the BBC during the 1990s, relating a managerialist “politics of forgetting” to the

The Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, wanted to broadcast television to have equal opportunity with cable television. So, they required cable television systems to give a certain amount of channels to the local broadcast television. In Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, broadcasting for the speakers or broadcasters are challenge because they have problems with sharing the same frequency and the physical limitation on the number of speakers, where as in cable, there is no problems with speakers sharing the same channel. Since there have been “rapid advances in fiber optics and digital compression technology” (pg.523). In order for the government to fix the more broadcaster than frequencies available in the electromagnetic spectrum problem. The government would have to “divide the electromagnetic spectrum and assign specific frequencies to particular broadcasters” to prevent any signal collision (pg.523). The government forcing the must-carry law to cable television system questions whether they violate the cable television First Amendment right. But the 5-4 decision, the justices believe that they are creating a competitive market for other broadcast televisions.

The New Yorker published an article describing how competition affected the Internet market in Britain (Cassidy). They state that U.K. regulators forced incumbent cable and telephone operators to lease their networks to competitors at a cost which enabled new providers to enter the market and bring prices down. Effectively the government regulators forced competition to enter the market resulting in lower prices. For example; Virgin Media, a popular fiber optics provider, can provide speeds of 152 Megabytes for around 32 U.S. dollars and services half of the U.K. ; this could be an effective strategy to implement in the states (Join Virgin Media). The networks simply have to be made readily enterable by viable

As an individual who is looking to cut cable and pursue a streaming service, I believe that Hulu’s $39.99 Live Stream subscription, as described in the case, could be a strong supplement for pay TV. Although margins for this offering are predicted to be low, I believe that the development of such a subscription illustrates Hulu’s ability to complete market research and listen to consumers. This package indicated that Hulu understands that consumers want Live TV, but wishes to avoid costly bills and wasted

Comcast later responded, “In response to questions from commission staff, we explained that running our network code directly on third party devices without our application was not feasible for a variety of reasons.”Comcast then went on to say, “The FCC’s proposed set top box mandate threatens to undermine this highly dynamic marketplace, create substantial costs and consumer harms, and will take years to develop.” You know what really creates substantial costs and harms you, the customer; the bullshit cash grab policies that are currently in

However, the closure of the channel will save about £30m a year and would save money budget for BBC1. This means that more viewers will switch to watching BBC 1 relying better production or would use the internet. This is because teenagers these days rely on downloading apps and watching BBC I player. Therefore, BBC are trying to put better content online to ensure they have high views. According to my research BBC believe it will allow them to innovate with new ideas and new forms of content for younger

Funding for the NHS is a combination of private and public sources. All legal UK residents have access to the NHS and pay a payroll tax, which equates approximately to 10% of earnings. Although health care provided by the NHS is largely free, there are fees for certain services such as prescriptions, dental and optician services, which are paid by all citizens who are working and make more than minimum wage.

I believe that CRTC’s intentions were good in terms of the implementation of “skinny-basic” packages. However, I believe that this decision occurred too late in the game to be both beneficial for consumers, and TV service providers. At this point in time, in order to gain access to much cheaper online streaming options, many Canadian’s as well as cord-cutters, have already abandoned their cable and satellite subscriptions. Therefore, if this decision had been implemented a few years back, then the retention of subscribers would potentially remain higher, thus generating more revenue for BDU’s. Furthermore, these online options appeal to consumers due to the deliverance of more choice and flexibility in terms of when and where they can watch their desired content, which is the main reason CRTC does not regulate internet content. Despite these digital challenges, TV continues to prevail as powerful medium.

Must carry rues is the communications act keeping cable operators and other multichannel video programming distributors from retransmitting commercial television, low power television and even radio broadcast signals without first getting the broadcaster’s permission. The second-long term effect is access channels. In cable television, a group of no broadcast channels dedicated to local education, government, and

Ignorance– this was introduced to provide free education for children up to the age of 15.

4. Instead of being rational and engaging in cooperative behaviour to increase profits for the overall industry, the battle between BSB and Sky became a war of attrition, in the end leaving only one player to survive in the long run. We can refer some reasons why this battle became so costly. First, following Sky’s decision to enter the market, both companies engaged in major battle for film rights and other programming. Both BSB and Sky paid a premium as high as 3 times the average for the exclusive rights to programming. These costs became sunk for both the firms and were strong commitments signalling that the companies were devoted to stay in the business for the long run. Second, the promotion and advertising levels were above the optimal to fight against each other and not to increase the market size.