Given, Jock, 1960-

Turning off the television : broadcasting's uncertain future / Jock Given. - N.S.W. : University of New South Wales Press, 2003. - xiv, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-312) and index.

Introduction - Part I: Reaching from the tech wreck - 1. The end of the beginning -- Part II: Turning on the wireless: 2. Broadcasting babies - 3. Something special -- Part III: Getting digital: 4. The information age - 5. Inventing digital technology -- Part IV: Choices: 6. What to do with digital technology? - 7. Policy choices in the United States and United Kingdom - 8. Australia's choices: the 1998 decisions - 9. More choices: the 2000 decisions -- Part V: Broadcasting's uncertain future: 10. Change and resistance - 11. Switching on - 12. Turning off the television - Notes - Selected bibliography - Acronyms and abbreviations - Acknowledgments - Index.

0868405000 (pbk.)


Television broadcasting--Australia.
Digital television--Australia.

384.550994 / GIV