CHAPTER 7
The Economics of Television
and Online Video Markets
Gregory S. Crawford
Department of Economics, University of Zu
¨
rich, and CEPR, Zurich, Switzerland
Contents
7.1. Introduction 268
7.2. The Television Industry 270
7.2.1 The Types of Television 270
7.2.1.1 Broadcast (Free) Television 270
7.2.1.2 Pay Television 275
7.2.1.3 Broadcast (Pay) Television: DTT 284
7.2.2 Cross-Platform Television Statistics 285
7.3. A Simple Model of the Television Market 292
7.3.1 The Baseline Model 292
7.3.1.1 Baseline Results 292
7.3.1.2 Oligopoly 295
7.3.1.3 Content Choice 297
7.3.2 Evaluating the Simple Model 299
7.3.2.1 Testable Implications 299
7.3.2.2 What Can We Learn? 300
7.4. Extensions to the Simple Model: The Four Bs 302
7.4.1 Public Service Broadcasters 302
7.4.1.1 The Economic Rationale for PSBs 302
7.4.1.2 Effects of PSBs 305
7.4.2 Bargaining 306
7.4.2.1 Bargaining Theory 306
7.4.2.2 Bargaining Empirics 308
7.4.3 Barriers to Entry 308
7.4.3.1 Market Power in Wholesale (Programming) Markets 309
7.4.3.2 Market Power in Retail (Distribution) Markets 313
7.4.3.3 Horizontal Merger Review 315
7.4.4 Preference Heterogeneity and Bundling 316
7.4.4.1 Bundling Theory 316
7.4.4.2 Bundling Empirics 318
7.4.4.3 Welfare Effects of à la Carte 319
7.5. Open Policy Issues in Television Markets 321
7.5.1 Wholesale Bundling and Competition in Programming Markets 322
7.5.2 Vertical Integration and Foreclosure 323
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Handbook of Media Economics,Volume1A © 2016 Elsevier B.V.
ISSN 2213-6630,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-62721-6.00007-X All rights reserved.
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