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With apologies for cross posting The Peacock Committee and UK Broadcasting Policy Edited by Thomas O'Malley and Janet Jones (London: Palgrave Macmillan) 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 Since1967; 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 BBCResponded 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 TOM 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 Order via: www.palgrave.com<http://www.palgrave.com/>, ------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA Policy mailing list W: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa-policy.html Please visit this page to browse list's archives, or to join or leave the list.