TV Format sector consolidation and its impact on the configuration and ‘stickiness’ of the UK entertainment production market

TY - JOUR

T1 - TV Format sector consolidation and its impact on the configuration and ‘stickiness’ of the UK entertainment production market

AU - Esser, Andrea

PY - 2017/3/1

Y1 - 2017/3/1

N2 - This article is concerned with the consolidation of European TV format production companies during the first two decades of the twenty-first century and its likely impact on the configuration and long-term sustainability of the world’s largest format production market, the United Kingdom. Theoretically and methodologically influenced by various approaches – critical political economy, meso-level television industries research and scholarship concerned with the locational choice of economic activity – this exploratory study combines the macro-picture of consolidation at the European and international level with a fine-grained case study of the UK television market. It discloses an ecology faced with a range of opportunities and threats, likely to result in marked and enduring changes to UK entertainment.© 2017, Intellect. The attached document is an author produced version of a paper published in the International Journal of Digital Televisiony, uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at https://doi.org/10.1386/jdtv.8.1.143_1 Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it.

AB - This article is concerned with the consolidation of European TV format production companies during the first two decades of the twenty-first century and its likely impact on the configuration and long-term sustainability of the world’s largest format production market, the United Kingdom. Theoretically and methodologically influenced by various approaches – critical political economy, meso-level television industries research and scholarship concerned with the locational choice of economic activity – this exploratory study combines the macro-picture of consolidation at the European and international level with a fine-grained case study of the UK television market. It discloses an ecology faced with a range of opportunities and threats, likely to result in marked and enduring changes to UK entertainment.© 2017, Intellect. The attached document is an author produced version of a paper published in the International Journal of Digital Televisiony, uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at https://doi.org/10.1386/jdtv.8.1.143_1 Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it.

KW - TV formats

KW - UK television production

KW - market consolidation

KW - transnationalisation

KW - US media conglomerates

KW - global competition

KW - multinational enterprises

U2 - 10.1386/jdtv.8.1.143_1

DO - 10.1386/jdtv.8.1.143_1

M3 - Article

SN - 2040-4182

VL - 8

SP - 143

EP - 165

JO - International Journal of Digital Television

JF - International Journal of Digital Television

IS - 1

ER -