Competition and public service broadcasting

Stimulating Creativity or Servicing Capital

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4237495
AutoresTurner (0000-0002-5521-8141), Simon Turner (0000-0002-1801-8351, King's College London, autor de correspondencia), Ana Lourenço (0000-0003-1629-4595, Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
Año2012
Volumen10
Número3
Páginas497-523
Fecha de publicación2012-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocio-Economic Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1475-1461 • E-ISSN: 1475-147X
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ser/mwr022
OpenAlexW2156935155
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas20

In UK public service broadcasting, recent regulatory change has increased the role of the private sector in television production, culminating in the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) introduction of ‘creative competition’ between in-house and independent television producers. Using the concept of ‘cognitive variety’, we focus on the increasing role of the independent sector as a source of creativity in the delivery of programming for the BBC. The paper shows that the intended benefit of introducing new competencies has been thwarted by, at the micro-level, a high level of cognitive proximity between in-house and external producers and, at the meso-level, a conflict in values between the BBC and the independent sector, with many of the larger producers responding to a commercial imperative that encourages creativity in profitable genres, but leaves gaps in other areas of provision. Tracing these meso-level institutional effects has implications for micro-level analyses of innovation, notably communities of practice theory.

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