Branding television /
Catherine Johnson.
- Abingdon, Oxon, England : Routledge, 2012.
- xvii, 197 p.; 25 cm.
- Comedia .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: but television's not soap!: approaching television branding -- Branding and the US television industry. Deregulation, differentiation, and niche targeting: the emergence of branding in the cable/satellite era -- From channel brands to service brands?: US television enters the digital era -- Branding and the UK television industry. Competition, fragmentation and commodification: the emergence of branding in the UK television industry -- The end of public service broadcasting?: branding Channel 4 and the BBC -- The texts and intertexts of branding. Of idents and interstitials: channel branding -- Longevity, transferability and multiplicity: programme brands -- What's at stake in television branding?
Television broadcasting--United States. Television broadcasting--History.--Great Britain Branding (Marketing)--United States. Branding (Marketing)--Great Britain.