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On The Bbc System Formation

Posted on:2007-09-27Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D ShaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2208360185967224Subject:Journalism
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BBC(hereafter the "BBC" refers to both British Broadcasting Company before 1927 and British Broadcasting Corporation after the transformation at the end of 1926) was founded after the First World War, when the Britain was in unstable and economic situation was in depression. The Labor Party has replaced the Liberal Party to take part in political life with the Conservation Party. In Britain, manufactures of receiver were moved by the popularity of receiver in America, and they also applied to open broadcasting to promote the sales of receivers. The source of wave was regarded as a kind of public resource. As a unitary organization of broadcasting was more reasonable for the Post Office to control this kind of public resource, as well as for the manufactures to promote receivers, anmonopolistic broadcasting organization--British Broadcasting Companywas founded.As an ordinary commercial company controlled by the Post Office, the foundation of BBC has not drawn much attention from the parties and the society. With the development of broadcasting, broadcasting played a more and more important role in the society, the notion that broadcasting should serve for the public interest come clear. Regarding the question of the BBC's future, the main idea insisted that broadcasting should be independent from political pressure and commercial interest in order to...
Keywords/Search Tags:British Broadcasting Company (BBC), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), John Reith, inner institution, spontaneous order
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