Social Morality Council - The Future of Broadcasting: A Report Presented to the Social Morality Council, October 1973

The Future of Broadcasting: A Report Presented to the Social Morality Council, October 1973 — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "The Future of Broadcasting: A Report Presented to the Social Morality Council, October 1973" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

1234567...25

ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: TELEVISION

---

Volume 14

THE FUTURE OF BROADCASTING

---

THE FUTURE OF BROADCASTING

A Report presented to The Social Morality Council, October 1973

SOCIAL MORALITY COUNCIL

First published in 1974

This edition first published in 2013
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

1974 Social Morality Council

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN: 978-0-415-82199-5 (Set)
eISBN: 978-0-203-51517-4 (Set)
ISBN: 978-0-415-83994-5 (Volume 14)
eISBN: 978-0-203-76895-2 (Volume 14)

Publisher's Note
The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original copies may be apparent.

Disclaimer
The publisher has made every effort to trace copyright holders and would welcome correspondence from those they have been unable to trace.

THE FUTURE OF BROADCASTING

A Report presented to
The Social Morality Council

October 1973

First published 1974
1974 by the Social Morality Council
Printed in Great Britain for
Eyre Methuen Ltd
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
by Butler & Tanner Ltd
Frome and London

ISBN 0 413 31140 6

This edition is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION

Dame Margaret Miles	Dipak Nandy
(Chairman)	Joslyn G. Owen
Dame Elizabeth Ackroyd	Stella Richman
Agneilus Andrew, O.F.M.	Jean Rowntree
Catherine Avent	John Scupham
Dr Jay G. Blumler	Jack Straw
Dr Jeremy Bray	The Rt Rev. Oliver Tomkins
The Rt Hon. Lord Brown	Oliver Whitley
Dame Anne Bryans	John Harriott, S.J.
Sir Ronald Gould	(Rapporteur)
Alan Hill, C.B.E.	Janet M. Mortimer
The Rev. Douglas Hubery	(Secretary)

Observers
Ian Alexander	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
L. J. Burrows, O.B.E.	Department of Education and Science
Col. Robert Hornby, O.B.E.
Dennis Lawrence, O.B.E.	Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
Edward Oliver	Secretary General, Social Morality Council

Members of the Commission took part in their individual capacities and not as representatives of organisations.

The Social Morality Council was
founded in 1969 to foster mutual
understanding between religious
believers and non-believers, and to
undertake joint studies of major
social issues in the light of ethical
values.

Address: 17 York House
London W8 4EY

CONTENTS

This Report, commissioned by the Social Morality Council. in 1972, is offered as a modest contribution to public debate on the future of broadcasting. The SMC initiative was taken at that time partly because the Charter of the BBC and the Act which established the IB A were thought to be due for renewal and revision in 1976. The Government has since postponed the date to 1981, but this decision does not diminish the need for informed public debate; indeed, though the Government still does not intend to set up a full-scale inquiry, the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications has invited opinions and suggestions on such questions as the use of the Fourth Channel and regional broadcasting needs. The postponed date has in fact increased the opportunity for constructive debate.

Our Report has no official blessing or sponsorship, and has no pretensions to be a substitute for the sort of wide-ranging inquiry the Government has commissioned in the past; it is merely an attempt by a few interested lay people to make a socially and morally responsible examination of some of the important questions which issue from broadcasting (particularly television). As might be expected, we did not always agree about everything but on many basic issues there was a remarkable consensus.

Time and resources have been limited, but what we had were used well. In the course of our meetings over a period of nine months we heard evidence from, and had full and interesting discussions with, many experts in the field of broadcasting.

The members of the Commission were invited to serve as private individuals and not as representatives of organisations. Every attempt was made to embrace differing views and varied professional expertise. Such balance was not easy to achieve (after all, everyone is involved to some extent in broadcasting) and it changed according to the pattern of acceptance and the ability of members to attend meetings. The group as finally constituted included some people who had worked voluntarily or professionally in broadcasting, others who had no direct experience except as viewers and listeners. No member was currently directly involved in either of the broadcasting organisations or in Government.

We hope that the Report will be widely read; it therefore includes a considerable amount of information which will be familiar to people within the industry, but which to many of us was new and of absorbing interest.

The experience of trying to take an overall view of such an enormous field has been daunting but stimulating and exciting. Although we deliberately excluded a number of issues external services, religious broadcasting, which is being dealt with fully by the Church of England Report, conditions of employment, which is included in the Report prepared by the ACTT we have been constantly aware of the impossibility of covering the ground or of doing justice to our subject with the limited resources at our disposal.

We have received most generous cooperation from the BBC and the IBA, and are most grateful to those many people who have met us and talked with us in so frank and friendly a way. We have also had most helpful assistance from the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.

Next page

1234567...25

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «The Future of Broadcasting: A Report Presented to the Social Morality Council, October 1973»

Look at similar books to The Future of Broadcasting: A Report Presented to the Social Morality Council, October 1973. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

Lorenzo W. Milam

Sex and Broadcasting: A Handbook on Starting a Radio Station for the Community

Melville Dinwiddie

Religion by Radio: Its Place in British Broadcasting (Routledge Library Editions: Radio)

Paul Lambert

Television Courtroom Broadcasting Effects: The Empirical Research and the Supreme Court Challenge

Chris Schneider

Starting Your Career in Broadcasting: Working On and Off the Air in Radio and Television

Jack Mitchell

Wisconsin on the Air: 100 Years of Public Broadcasting in the State That Invented It

Maggie Andrews

Domesticating the Airwaves: Broadcasting, Domesticity and Femininity

R.H. Coase

British Broadcasting: A Study in Monopoly

Ralph Negrine

Cable Television and the Future of Broadcasting

Bathgate Gordon

Radio Broadcasting: A History of the Airwaves

British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service

Head of drama: the memoir of Sydney Newman

Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Coping With Grief

Columbia Broadcasting System Inc.

In all his glory: the life and times of William S. Paley and the birth of modern broadcasting

Discussion, reviews of the book The Future of Broadcasting: A Report Presented to the Social Morality Council, October 1973 and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.