Author: Thomas W. Hazlett
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780844740690
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book analyzes the effectiveness of the federal government's vacillating regulatory policy toward the cable television industry.
Author: Lori A. Brainard
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781588262448
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Despite a political environment conducive to deregulation, television is one industry that consistently fails to loosen government's regulatory grip. To explain why, Lori A. Brainard explores the technological changes, industry structures and political dynamics which influence policy.
Author: Robert W. Crandall
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2010-12-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 0815706960
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1984, Congress simultaneously eliminated state-local regulation of cable television rates and banned telephone companies from offering cable service in their own franchise areas. Five years later, the General Accounting Office discovered that basic cable rates had risen more than four times as rapidly as the overall consumer price level since rate deregulation. As a result, Congress began to move to reimpose cable rate regulation once again, finally succeeding (over President Bush's veto) in 1992. In this book, Robert Crandall and Harold Furchtgott-Roth examine the case of reregulating cable television and find that viewers gained far more than they lost during the brief deregulatory era because cable services expanded so rapidly in the deregulated environment. Moreover, they show that new technologies, such as direct-broadcast satellites, are likely to provide considerable market discipline for cable operators in the next few years, weakening any case for rate regulation. Given regulation's history of impeding innovation, they conclude that economic welfare is more likely to be enhanced by policies aimed at encouraging new entry into video services than by rate regulation.
Author: Leland L. Johnson
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute
Published: 1994-06
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780844740553
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book identifies the major sources of competition to the cable television industry, such as telephone companies, direct broadcast satellite services, and traditional broadcasting stations.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies, and Business Rights
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 658
ISBN-13:
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