Subjects:

Media and Entertainment Law

Contents:

1. The Historical and Constitutional Background

2. Broadcasting Freedom

3. Public Broadcasting

4. Private Broadcasting

5. Programme Standards

6. Competition Law

7. Access to Broadcasting

8. Elections and Political Broadcasting

9. Advertising

10. International and European Law

The aim of this book is to explore the regulation of broadcasting in five countries: Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the United States. Generally it takes as its starting point the law in the UK and then looks at the comparable rules elsewhere.

The book includes a chapter on International and European Law. The paperback includes a new postscript which brings the law up-to-date as of the end of 1994.;This book is intended for scholars of constitutional and administrative law and media law. Specialized practitioners working in media and entertainment law. Students of media law.