www.ssoar.info The political structure of UK broadcasting 1949-1999 Elstein, David Veröffentlichungsversion / Published Version Monographie / monograph Empfohlene Zitierung / Suggested Citation: Elstein, D. (2015). The political structure of UK broadcasting 1949-1999. (Media, Democracy & Political Process Series). Lüneburg: meson press. https://doi.org/10.14619/011 Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Dieser Text wird unter einer CC BY-SA Lizenz (Namensnennung- This document is made available under a CC BY-SA Licence Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen) zur Verfügung gestellt. (Attribution-ShareAlike). For more Information see: Nähere Auskünfte zu den CC-Lizenzen finden Sie hier: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.de D a v id E POLITICAL ls t e in     T h e P o litic al S STRUCTURE tr u c tu r e o f U K B r o a d c a BROADCASTING s tin g 19 4 9 -19 9 9 UK ELSTEIN The Political Structure of UK Broadcasting 1949-1999 Media, Democracy & Political Process Series Edited by Christian Herzog, Volker Grassmuck, Christian Heise and Orkan Torun The Political Structure of UK Broadcasting 1949-1999 David Elstein Bibliographical Information of the German National Library The German National Library lists this publication in the Deutsche National bibliografie (German National Biblio­ graphy); detailed bibliographic information is available online at http://dnb.d­nb.de Published in 2015 by meson press, Hybrid Publishing Lab, Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University of Lüneburg www.meson­press.com Design concept: Torsten Köchlin, Silke Krieg Cover Image: Sebastian Mühleis and Christian Herzog The print edition of this book is printed by Lightning Source, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom ISBN (Print): 978­3­95796­060­3 ISBN (PDF): 978­3­95796­061­0 ISBN (EPUB): 978­3­95796­062­7 DOI: 10.14619/011 The digital editions of this publication can be downloaded freely at: www.meson­press.com Funded by the EU major project Innovation Incubator Lüneburg This Publication is licensed under the CC­BY­SA 4.0 Inter­ national. To view a copy of this license, visit: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by­sa/4.0/ Contents Foreword by the Series Editors 9 Foreword by the Author 17 [1] Beveridge 23 [2] Pilkington 45 [3] Annan 65 [4] Hunt 85 [5] Peacock 107 [6] After Peacock: The Politics Of Digital 131 [7] Davies and the Digital Licence Fee 159 [8] The BBC in the Digital Century 183