TV format sector consolidation and its impact on the configuration and ‘stickiness’ of the UK entertainment production market

• Autores: Andrea Esser
• Localización: International Journal of Digital Television, ISSN-e 2040-4190, Vol. 8, Nº. 1, 2017, págs. 143-165
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article is concerned with the consolidation of European TV format production companies during the first two decades of the twenty-first century and its likely impact on the configuration and long-term sustainability of the world’s leading format production market, the United Kingdom. Theoretically and methodologically influenced by various approaches – critical political economy, meso-level television industries research and scholarship concerned with the locational choice of economic activity – this exploratory study combines the macro-picture of consolidation at the European and international level with a fine-grained case study of the UK television market. It discloses an ecology faced with a range of opportunities and threats, likely to result in marked and enduring changes to UK entertainment.