The Regulation of Public Service Broadcasters: Should There Be More Advertising on Television?

42 Pages Posted: 17 Nov 2017

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Gregory S. Crawford

University of Zurich - Department of Economics

Lachlan Deer

Tilburg University - Department of Marketing

Jeremy Smith

University of Warwick - Department of Economics

Paul R Sturgeon

Mindshare

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Date Written: November 2017

Abstract

Increased competition for viewers' time is threatening the viability of publicservice broadcasters (PSBs) around the world. Changing regulations regarding advertising minutes might increase revenues, but little is known about the structure of advertising demand. To address this problem, we collect a unique dataset on monthly impacts (quantities) and prices of UK television channels between 2002 and 2009 to estimate the (inverse) demand for advertising on both public and commercial broadcasters. We find that increasing PSB advertising minutes to the level permitted for non-PSBs would increase PSB and industry revenue by 10.5% and 6.7%.

JEL Classification: D2, L1, L5, M3

Suggested Citation

Crawford, Gregory S. and Deer, Lachlan and Smith, Jeremy P. and Sturgeon, Paul R, The Regulation of Public Service Broadcasters: Should There Be More Advertising on Television? (November 2017). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12428, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3071060

Gregory S. Crawford (Contact Author)

University of Zurich - Department of Economics ( email )

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Lachlan Deer

Tilburg University - Department of Marketing ( email )

Tilburg, 5000 LE
Netherlands

Jeremy P. Smith

University of Warwick - Department of Economics ( email )

Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

Paul R Sturgeon

Mindshare ( email )

London
United Kingdom

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