Meeting Minutes

Meeting regarding teacher certification, salaries, merit pay, television courses, thefts and summer school

Competition between TV platforms

The aim of this paper is to identify the factors that affect the market penetration of pay television by studying the competition that exists between three types of technology (satellite, cable and ADSL). We distinguish three groups of factors: the level of market competition, the level of competition in the industry and the quality of the product being offered. Our results seem to indicate that as market concentration increases, the television service can achieve greater penetration. This relationship is specifically captured by the level of intra- and inter-platform competition. We also examine the relationship between free television channels and pay television and find that as the amount of time dedicated to the broadcasting of advertising by the former increases, the number of subscribers to pay TV rises. Finally, we examine product quality by introducing the effect of holding the rights to broadcast Professional Football League matches and an HBO or Showtime produced series. Our results suggest that these variables are critical for the penetration of pay television

Unleashing Cable T.V., Leashing the FCC: Constitutional Limitations on Government Regulation of Pay Television

Article examines the Federal Communications Commission’s 1975 decision to prohibit cablecasters from showing certain types of programming, on the rationale that pay cablevision, through successful competitive bidding, would ‘siphon’ this programming away from broadcast television and deprive the general public of popular programming. Article discusses the history behind the decision, the court of appeals’ treatment of the FCC rules and the decision’s possible effect on future pay cable regulation

SVOD Global Expansion in Cross-National Comparative Perspective: Netflix in Israel and Spain

This article compares the processes by which Netflix entered national pay-television markets in Israel and Spain. In both contexts, Netflix first establishes itself through collaborations with over-the-top (OTT) television operators and then expands through collaborations with legacy providers. By using the perspective of cross-national comparative research, this analysis complicates the scholarly understandings of subscription video on-demand (SVOD) global expansion by drawing attention to the significance of national multichannel providers. Given the differences between the Spanish and Israeli pay-TV markets, Netflix’s similar pattern of engagement in each case highlights the value of understanding SVOD global expansion as a coherent industrial process that produces distinct, context-dependent outcomes. Ultimately, the histories of Netflix in Israel and Spain reveal that internationalization operates at a meso-level where collaborations with pay-television providers facilitate access to national audiences

On the Development Ways of China’s Digital Pay Television

本文分析了中国数字付费电视业现状和当前中国数字付费电视存在的几个问题,并从数字付费电视的营销模式和核心竞争力、付费电视业的整合等方面分析了中国数字付费电视的发展路径。The article analyzes the present conditions and the main problems of China’s digital pay television; and it analyzes the the development ways of China’s digital pay television from the aspects such as marketing model of digital pay television and core competitiveness, and integration of pay television industry

The Importance Of Audience Statistics In Pay Television Market

Pay digital televisions are private companies which offer a number of television channels in a single package against a price, by all means they do not offer only television service but high technology. The platform’s objective is to maximize their profits by rising the earnings and sales of the offered subscriptions. For this reason it is necessary for them to know to whom they are offering the service and how it is used. They have to do what in media is known as audience measurement. This is what this paper is about. First, we give an answer to the question: why the audience measurement is important to pay television platforms? We are based on foreign literature and companies experience which operate in this field. Second, we analyze the path that the audience measurement has experienced through the years beginning with the diaries, interviews, people-meter, portable people-meter until nowadays used equipment, the set top box. At each stage we analyze the problems and the advantages of each device or method used for this process. Third, we take into study and analyze the audience measurement in our country by comparing the infrastructure with European countries. Furthermore, we analyze the process and results done by an Albanian company which operates in pay television field. This concrete case study gives us the possibility to come to some conclusions and modest recommendations. The author’s work experience in statistics and in the pay television field is an advantage for our study and we hope we give our contribution in the subject. The interested parties are audio and visual operators, academics and the independent institutions that operate in this field

Does Service Bundling Reduce Churn?

We examine whether bundling in telecommunications services reduces churn using a series of large, independent cross sections of household decisions. To identify the effect of bundling, we construct a pseudo-panel dataset and utilize a linear, dynamic panel-data model, supplemented by nearest-neighbor matching. We find bundling does reduce churn for all three "triple-play" services. However, the effect is only "visible" during times of turbulent demand. We also find evidence that broadband was substituting for pay television in 2009. This analysis highlights that bundling helps with customer retention in service industries, and may play an important role in preserving contracting markets.Bundle, Service, Churn, Triple Play, Telecommunications, Cable, Broadband, Telephone, Screen

Broadcasting the 2006 World Cup: The Right of Arab Fans versus ART Exclusivity

The 2006 World Cup found itself at the center of Arab countries’ attention. In the past fans enjoyed free access to the televised World Cup on public channels that maintain publicservice obligations.3 However, Arab Radio & Television (ART), a commercial broadcaster, bought the telecast rights to the World Cup matches in Arab countries. As a result of this deal, fans in Arab countries were not able to conveniently watch the World Cup broadcast. Further, the legal significance of the ART exclusive rights deal is not yet fully appreciated in Arab countries

Football and media matters

Examines how media and communication studies have engaged with football, both as a cultural form and as industry over the years