Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction List of Abbreviations Section 1: The Impact of Convergence 1. Converging Technologies, Changing Markets Section 2: Regulating Analogue Broadcasting 2. National Regulatory Traditions in France, Germany and the UK 3. European Regulation of Analogue Broadcasting Section 3: National and European Responses to Digital Broadcasting 4. Regulating Access to Digital Broadcasting: The Advanced Television Standards Directive 5. The Impact of European Competition Policy on Digital Broadcasting 6. National Approaches to Digital Regulation 7. From the European Information Society to Convergence: Co-ordinating or transcending National responses to digital broadcasting? Section 4: Conclusions 8. Convergence: New Approaches 9. Broadcasting Regulation, the Nation State and the European Policy Process Bibliography

About the Author

David Levy

Reviews

`David Levy here offers an insider's view of why global convergence did not occur, and remains unlikely so to do in the foreseeable future' - Chris Marsden

`Levy's analysis...is written with admirable clarity despite the technical detail of much of the argument' - Chris Marsden

`Levy accomplished the fraught task of detaching himself from his professional advocacy admirably' - Chris Marsden

'...detailed and inspiring presentation of the crucial issues and central conflicts of european communications policy in the era of digital broadcasting.' - West European Politics, Raymund Werle