Market structure, viewer welfare, and advertising rates in local broadcast television markets

Economics Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 331-337

  Brown, Keith ^a   Alexander, Peter J ^a  

^a FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION   (United States)

Author keywords

Advertising; Broadcast; Media; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 14544303188     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2004.09.001     Document Type: Article

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