Market competition, station ownership, and local public affairs programming on broadcast Television

Journal of Communication

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 795-812

  Yan, Michael Zhaoxu ^a   Napoli, Philip M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); MARKET DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC SERVICE; TELEVISION;

EID: 33750858925     PISSN: 00219916     EISSN: 14602466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2006.00320.x     Document Type: Article

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