Regulating Access to Transnational Satellite Television
Shifting Government Policies in Northeast Asia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9848091 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amos Owen Thomas (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 243-254 |
| Publication date | 1999-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gazette (Leiden Netherlands (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-5492 • E-ISSN: 1460-3594 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0016549299061003004 |
| OpenAlex | W1991561470 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 8 |
The advent of transnational satellite television in the early 1990s caught Asian governments unawares. It captured the imagination of audiences in many countries under the footprint of satellite broadcast, who had long been accustomed to unimaginative public broadcasting and/or government-controlled commercial broadcasting. The new transnational medium fostered a dramatic growth in the sales of satellite dish antennae and the establishment of cable networks, illegal and quasi-legal. Complacent about their dominant market shares, domestic broadcasters were often slow to face up to any threat to their audience shares. Overtaken by events, governments in the region naturally reacted with a range of regulations and policies to what was perceived as cultural imperialism which would undermine their national sociocultural agenda. This article develops a typology of policies concerning consumer access to the new medium adopted by governments in Northeast Asia and their metamorphoses over the first five years. Since the regulatory policies are not sufficient explanations of the impact on the domestic media industry, this article also discusses other significant factors in the penetration of STAR TV, the pioneering transnational television broadcaster
Advertising · Broadcast television systems · Broadcasting (networking · Business · Commercial broadcasting · Geography · Government (linguistics · Political science · Public broadcasting · Satellite · Satellite broadcasting · Telecommunications · Typology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Engineering · Japanese History and Culture
Cultural autonomy in global communications
The Implications of Transborder Television for National Cultures and National Broadcasting
The New Cultural Revolution
Transnationals and the Third World
Structural and Cultural Aspects of the Regulation of Television Broadcasting in East Asia
National Responses and Accessibility to Star TV in Asia
Media Internationalization in China
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2011 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |