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Public service broadcasting is currently going through a crisis period. The latest Government White Paper proposes some of the most radical reforms in broadcasting history. However as this book makes clear, these reforms are an extension of a debate that has run along very traditional lines. At its inception four features were considered central to public service broadcasting: it was protected from purely commercial pressures, it aimed to serve the whole nation, it was a monopoly and it aimed to have a high standard of programmes. At various time these have come under critical scrutiny, particularly with the arrival of independent television in 1954 which broke the BBC monopoly. The technological developments that have characterized broadcasting in recent years threaten changes that are at least as profound. This book traces the development of public service broadcasting by providing a series of extracts which illustrate key aspects of the major debates.

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