The Peacock Committee and UK Broadcasting Policy [Hardcover]

This fascinating collection of essays is the first full-length scholarly study of the genesis and influence of Alan Peacock's intellectually radical 'Report of the Committee on Financing the BBC' (1986), which fundamentally altered the principles governing the development of broadcasting policy in the UK.Acknowledgements Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction; T.O'Malley Planning and Competition; T.O'Malley Liberalism and Broadcasting Policy from the 1920s to the 1960s; T.O'Malley Technology, Politics and Economics 1962-84; T.O'Malley Twenty and Thirty and Forty Years On: A Personal Retrospect on Broadcasting Policy Since 1967; P.Jay The 'Politics' of Investigating Broadcasting Finance; A.Peacock The Fight for Freedom in Broadcasting; S.Brittan It was the BBC Wot Won It: Winning the Peacock Report for the Corporation, or How the BBC Responded to the Peacock Committee; J.Seaton & A.McNicholas Paradigm Found: The Peacock Report and the Genesis of a New Model UK Broadcasting Policy; R.Collins The Unbearable Light of the Market: Broadcasting in the Nations and Regions of Britain post-Peacock; K.Williams PSB 2.0. UK Broadcasting Policy after Peacock; J.Jones Impressions, Influences and Indebtedness; A.Peacock Conference Witness Testimonies Appendix 1 Peacock Report: Recommendations Appendix 2 -Biographies of Members of the Peacock Committee Notes Bibliography Index

'There has long been a need for the clear description and appraisal of the work of the Peacock Committee one of the most momentous and misunderstood events in British broadcasting that is provided here. But, in tracing the long and respectable history of liberal economic thinking about broadcasting and in connecting the Peacock Committee directly with current debates about the internet and the notion of the citizen/consumer , this essential book also makes a fundamental contribution to our understanding of the development of British broadcasting.' - Peter Goddard, Senior Lecturer in Media&l³