PLAP 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: News Corporation, Focus Features, Miramax

• School: University of Virginia
• Department: Politics-American Politics
• Course: PLAP 3140
• Professor: Freedman Paul

Document Summary

The media as a political institution 3: media ownership. Forms of ownership (rationale for public support?) Tocqueville"s ideal: a multiplicity of views and voices. The media as a political institution 4: regulating the media. million for public tv (pbs, etc) million for public radio (npr, etc) Created in 1967 - to facilitate the development of and access to non-commercial high-quality programming. Rationale: not to make a profit, to make high quality content particularly for underserved and unserved audiences. As professor said last time: trend towards concentration and consolidation (emphasized this) Example of mcclatchy -- actually only 29 now, but still huge. Example of clear channel -> iheart media. 1995 - clearchannel owns 46 radio stations. 1996 - telecom act lifts ownership restrictions. Significant because it lifted ownership caps (did other things too, but for this class) 2013 - 850 stations, 110 million weekly listeners, largest radio group in terms of stations and revenue (had sold off unprofitable)