Global Media - The Television Revolution in Asia (Hardcover, annotated edition)

Taking a comparative approach, this text examines the processes of globalization by analyzing television case histories in Japan, China and Hong Kong. The text illustrates how television is becoming increasingly global. The conditions of the television industry, of the production of the news, and in particular of the public service broadcaster appear in a symbolic role, metaphors for the reconfiguration of relationships between the global and the local. the three case histories on interviews with key participants in exemplar events: Japanese attempts to set up a rival to CNN and to internationalize NHK; CCTV's defence of its dominant position, under pressure from upheavals in both Chinese society and the government bureaucracy; and the establishment, sale and erratic progress of Rupert Murdoch's STAR TV. gap in the media studies literature as well as making a major contribution to comparative research in Asia.