Gillian Doyle

• Professor at University of Glasgow

PSM organisations across the globe have been disrupted by a generalised switch in media consumption towards online and the rise of big tech platforms. This article argues that because, in the digital environment, the role that PSM plays in underpinning democracy and promoting social cohesion is pretty much essential to the proper functioning of eve...

The growing popularity of subscription video-on-demand services (SVoDs) has transformed the European media landscape, re-shaped consumption habits, fragmented audiences and made it more difficult for public service media (PSM) organizations to engage especially younger audiences. This article analyses challenges, such as competing against the immen...

This chapter provides a detailed analysis of the historical development of the UK television production sector, highlighting the importance of a series of public policy interventions in determining the character and circumstances of the contemporary British programme-making landscape. It traces the development of what started out as a fragmented in...

In this chapter, we examine key trends and issues affecting the historic and contemporary development of television production as an international industry. The focus is on international industrial, technological and economic contexts that have shaped the contemporary production environment and associated patterns of international trade in televisi...

This chapter offers a cohesive concluding analysis of the study’s findings about configuration, strategy, performance, content decision-making and output. These are drawn together and woven into an overarching analysis of the challenges for contemporary media policy-making posed by recent re-structurings of ownership in the television industry. To...

Having looked at how ownership configuration affects content, this chapter provides a broader analysis of the economic and socio-cultural significance of changing market conditions surrounding the production of television content. We focus on the role of market demand or commissioning as a powerful force shaping production of television content. We...

In this chapter the focus shifts from the experience of production companies (sellers) to the perspective of investors (buyers). We assess the crucial role played by advisors and specialist financial intermediaries in matching buyers and sellers and in facilitating merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions. We also delve more deeply into the main b...

In this chapter, we introduce our case studies and approach to the measurement of business performance. The focus of analysis is on the relationship between, on the one hand, expansion, scale and different sorts of corporate configurations (whether owned by a multinational parent company; vertically integrated or not) and, on the other, economic pe...

Drawing on both content analysis and interview findings, this chapter presents and analyses the findings of our investigation into how differing sorts of corporate configurations effect the quality and nature of content outputs in the television production industry. In this chapter, our focus is on presenting and analysing evidence that addresses t...

Focusing on the growing power of transnational media corporations in an increasingly globalized environment for distribution of television content, and on the effects of mergers and acquisitions involving local and independent television production companies, this book examines how current and recent re-structurings in ownership across the televisi...

Recent technological and market changes in the television industry appear to have transformed the corporate configurations which conduce to economic success in the production industry. As a result, many leading independent television production companies in the United Kingdom and elsewhere across Europe have become prime targets for corporate activ...

Television production is a vital component of the media and a sector whose performance has important cultural and economic ramifications. In the United Kingdom, the growing prosperity of the programme-making sector – attributable partly to historic policy interventions – is widely recognized as being a success story. However, a recent wave of corpo...

Data analysis is steadily becoming more central to management decision-making in media organizations across the globe. The reliance of subscription video on demand (SVoD) services, such as Netflix, on data analytics to underpin decisions about new content investment is well-established. However, what are the key opportunities and challenges facing...

Over recent years leading independent television production companies in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe have become prime targets for corporate activity, and many have been subject to takeover, often by US media groups. Why is it that nurturing the development of television production companies which achieve scale but, at the same time,...

Many media organisations are businesses driven by commercial motives. But the activities of media have both economic and socio-cultural ramifications. While the industry is made up of both non-market participants (such as the BBC) and commercial firms, questions about ethics and values apply to both constituencies because, whether media organisatio...

El creciente aumento de las plataformas digitales está transformando las estrategias de financiación de los medios de comunicación para la producción y la explotación del valor económico de los contenidos creativos. En la industria de la televisión, los cambios que se han producido en las tecnologías de distribución y la aparición de servicios VOD...

This article focuses on distribution of television and, using BBC Three as a case study, provides an in-depth examination of how broadcasters’ strategies for packaging and distributing content are being re-considered in response to newly emerging patterns of audience behaviour and demand. It considers the extent to which the role of the broadcast c...

Windowing—the process of managing the release sequence for content so as to maximize the returns from intellectual property rights (IPRs)—is changing because of transformations in the way that television is distributed and consumed. Drawing on original research into the experience of leading international television producers and distributors, this...

The challenges currently facing systems of media provision across Europe require critical, multidisciplinary research informed by creative economy and policy perspectives. Creative economy themes of relevance to media include the exceptional economic characteristics of cultural and creative content, production activities and markets. The use and ef...

This chapter investigates how well the Council’s evolutionary development served in enabling it to satisfy the differing constituencies of support that form part of the landscape of film provision. Drawing on original interviews with senior figures from the UKFC and with key industry stakeholders, it assesses the challenges the organisation faced i...

Drawing on both documentation and extensive interviews with key industry and policy players, this chapter analyses the role that the transition to digital played in both the policy thinking and interventional practice of the UKFC. It examines the origins, development and impact of the Digital Screen Network (DSN), which became one of the flagship d...

This chapter positions the role and development of UK film policy within the domain of politics and political culture. It highlights the culture-commerce dichotomy that has run through UK film policy for decades. It also highlights the growth of digital and creative economy policy thinking and the positioning of film policy within this discourse. T...

Although from the moment the Film Council was set up, it was clear that the intention was to found an organisation focused on bringing ‘sustainability’ to the British film industry, the Council gradually retreated from this term in favour of a wider set of priorities and the way in which it articulated its mission also gradually shifted. Drawing on...

This chapter first analyses the two decades of policy development and debate that lay behind the creation of the Film Council. It details the rebirth of interest in film policy and consequent key interventions made by successive Conservative governments after 1979. The Conservatives’ deployment of film tax relief along with their use of the Nationa...

This chapter traces the key moments that have shaped UK film policy from the 1920s through to the end of the 1970s. It outlines the culture and commerce dichotomy that has informed government intervention in to the film market in the UK. It also documents the economic and cultural role that the Hollywood film industry has had in shaping the develop...

Based on key players’ testimony and an extensive documented record, this chapter initially discusses the political background to the fraught merger talks between the BFI and the UKFC in 2009-2010, along with the uncertain role of the DCMS. It then turns to consider the shock decision to close the UKFC taken by Conservative ministers in the DCMS ser...

This chapter analyses the performance of the UK Film Council in relation to some of its key stated policy objectives and funding schemes and initiatives. As a distinctive organisation with few obvious comparators around the globe, it notes the challenges and limitations of such a task and the difficulties involved in measuring the performance of pu...

This chapter examines how the UK Film Council managed and organised the allocation of public funds for film production, after taking over the administration of Lottery funding from the Arts Council of England and incorporating existing film investment bodies British Screen Finance and the BFI’s Production Department. It outlines how a distinctive m...

Drawing on interviews with leading film executives, politicians and industry stakeholders, including Alan Parker, Stewart Till and Tim Bevan, this book provides an empirically grounded analysis of the rise and unexpected fall of the UK Film Council, the key strategic body responsible for supporting film in the UK for over a decade. As well as offer...

Drawing on findings from an Economic and Social Research Council-funded research project which investigates how media companies have made the journey from being single sector to digital multi-platform suppliers of content, this article identifies some of the key managerial and economic challenges and opportunities involved in making that transition...

Drawing on empirical research into the strategies of leading UK newspaper groups, this article examines the means by which such firms, through processes of attrition in old and investment in new resources, have gradually re-invented themselves as digital multiplatform entities. It analyses how the adoption of a multiplatform distribution strategy i...

The field of media management is diverse but the management practices and strategies that are prevalent often reflect the unusual or distinctive nature and characteristics of this industry, including the economic peculiarities of media. This chapter explains some of the key economic attributes of media outputs and markets that distinguish them from...

Powerful media branding has historically facilitated successful international expansion on the part of magazine and other content forms including film and TV formats. Multi-platform expansion is now increasingly central to the strategies of media companies and, as this chapter argues, effective use of branding in order to engage audiences effective...

The publication in November 2012 of the Report of the Leveson Inquiry, a major public enquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the UK newspaper industry led by Lord Justice Leveson, was heralded as a great landmark for regulation of the press. But on the question of media ownership the Report was relatively silent (Leveson 2012). The lack o...

The role of media - whether television, newspapers, radio, or the Internet - in supplying the ideas that shape our viewpoints and cultures is such that the dangers that may accompany concentrations of ownership in this sector are well recognized. Ownership patterns affect not only pluralism, but also how well the media industry is able to manage it...

In recognition of the importance of film in generating both economic and cultural value, the UK Labour government set up a new agency - the United Kingdom Film Council (UKFC) - in 2000 with a remit to build a sustainable film industry. But, reflecting a plethora of differing expectations in relation to the purposes behind public support for film, t...

Schumpeter’s trope of ‘creative destruction’ aptly describes current transformations of news media whose business models are adjusting to the twin challenges of digitization and the Internet. While most production studies focus on the journalistic labour process, based on current empirical research in the UK press and access to key decision-makers,...

Innovation is about change, and media products and services are changing. The processes of production and distribution of media are changing. The ownership and financing of media are changing. The roles of users are changing. And our ideas about media are changing. This book argues that innovation theory provides better tools for media researchers...

Although in the United Kingdom public service broadcasting (PSB) — led by the BBC, a non-commercial entity — has traditionally been seen as the bedrock of the television industry, the United Kingdom is home to a significant private or commercially owned television sector too. The first commercial “ITV” broadcasting licences were awarded in the 1950...

The audiovisual sector is a significant component of the economy in terms of wealth creation and employment and audiovisual industries also play an important cultural role. This study reviews the main forces driving patterns of trade in audiovisual (mainly television and film) and identifies key issues that may potentially impact on trade liberaliz...

/ This article examines economic aspects of convergence and of multi-platform expansion in the media sector. Focusing on television broadcasters in the UK, it analyses the recent migration of conventional media towards multi-platform strategies and asks whether digitization is making content delivery more resource—intensive than before or whether i...

The realm of arts and culture can be seen as ephemeral and ill-suited to the ‘intrusion’ of quantitative analysis. Yet, demand amongst end-users for economic research into cultural and creative industries is stronger today than ever it has been in the past. Oddly, culture seems to both attract and resist economic analysis. Drawing on an analysis of...

Obwohl Großbritannien, wie auch andere europäische Staaten, jedes Jahr immer größere internationale Handelsdefizite vorweist, ist die Produktion von Unterhaltungssendungen und -formaten ein relativ erfolgreicher, kreativer Wirtschaftssektor.

The structure and performance of the independent television production sector in the UK has been strongly affected by public policy interventions. Such interventions have introduced more competition and have generally sought to strengthen the position of "indies" by, for example, raising levels of demand for their output amongst domestic vertically...

In the context of European media and cultural policy-making, the impetus to protect diversity is at least partly a reflection of recurrent concerns about concentrations of media and cross-media ownership across Europe. Such concerns have regularly spurred the European Parliament into calling on the Commission to take action. For example, in Parliam...

The collapse of Enron and other corporate scandals have raised concerns about the efficacy of financial journalism. Based on research on where reporters get their ideas for stories and how they approach their work, this article explores the particular circumstances in which production of financial and economic news takes place. The author argues th...

By focusing on the case study of For Him Magazine (FHM)—a magazine that currently sells in 30 editions across 5 continents—this article explores the economics and main managerial challenges associated with global expansion of media products. The success of FHM demonstrates that, to calculate the full returns available from the brand image created b...

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After coming to power in 1997, the UK’s New Labour Government considered various policy responses to ‘convergence ‘- a perceived communications revolution blurring the boundaries between previously distinct media sectors. The approach decided upon is embodied in the Communications Act 2003 which has ushered in a sweeping programme of regulatory cha...

This paper, which draws heavily on a chapter by the authors for the forthcoming Handbook of Media Management and Economics (Albarran, 2005), focuses on potential methodological challenges facing scholars interested in the economics of cultural industries and, especially, economics of media. Drawing on previous work by economic researchers, it exami...

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Investigación sobre las dimensiones políticas y económicas de la posesión de los medios de comunicación en Gran Bretaña y Europa a fines del siglo XX e inicios de la siguiente centuria, en un contexto caracterizado por las alianzas y fusiones de las empresas del sector.

Since the early 1990s, regulators across the globehave faced increasing pressure from media firms toliberalise domestic media and cross-media ownershiprestrictions. Based on empirical research carried outin the U.K., this paper examines the ``economic'' case putforward in favour of deregulation. Findings suggestthat, although factors other than siz...

Since the early 1990s, regulators in the UK and in many other countries have faced increasing pressure from media industry participants to liberalise media and cross-media ownership restrictions. Many countries, including the UK, have responded to this pressure by amending their domestic legislative frameworks in such ways as to remove at least som...

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