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Dear Tom,
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List members might be interested to know the URL for this book is 
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=279139

Best,

Salvo
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The Peacock Committee and UK Broadcasting Policy
Edited by Thomas O'Malley and Janet Jones

At a time when a radical reorientation of UK broadcasting policy is 
underway, this book offers a
critical assessment of the current state of Public Service Broadcasting. 
Sir Alan Peacock's seminal
1986 report into the financing of PSB has been credited with reshaping 
the broadcasting policy
landscape and changing the way we think about the provision of broadcast 
goods in our society -
Ofcom has been dubbed the 'child of Peacock'. This volume looks at the 
origins, conduct and
impact of the report and offers scenarios for the future of broadcasting 
in a digital media ecology.

It will introduce readers to thinking from the report's principal 
authors, Sir Alan Peacock, Sir
Samuel Brittan and Peter Jay, alongside leading media historians.


CONTENTS:

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

THOMAS O'MALLEY is Professor of Media Studies at Aberystwyth University, UK.

JANET JONES is a Principal Lecturer in Journalism at the University of 
the West of England, UK.

August 2009 Hardback £52.00 978-0-230-52474-3




Thomas Patrick O'Malley [tpo] wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Apologies for cross posting.
>
> Colleagues may be interested in this forthcoming publication
>
> Tom O’Malley
>
> **********