Notes for "How U.S. Television Stations are Responding to Digital Conversion"

¹"Summary of DTV Applications Filed and DTV Build Out Status," Federal Communications Commission 16 April 2003, http://www.fcc.gov/mb/video/files/dtvsum.html

²Ben Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly, 6th ed.. (Boston: Beacon Press, 2000).

³Jon Lafayette, "Viewer Fragmentation on Rise," Electronic Media 29 June 1998, 29-30.

⁴Jill Geisler, "Digital Dynamos," RTNDA 2003, http://www.rtnda.org/technology/dynamos.shtml

⁵Sylvia Chan-Olmstead, "Theorizing Multichannel Media Economicsa: an Explanation of a Group-Industry Strategy Competitive Model," Journal of Media Economics 10 (Winter 1997): 36-49.

⁶Terry Lefton, "You Can't Zap These Ads," The Standard.Com 20 March 2001, http://biz.yahoo.com/ st/010320/22864.html

⁷Diane Mermigas, "New Study has some Good News for DTV," Electronic Media 23 November 1998, 28.

⁸Doug West, "The Medium They Couldn't Kill," Broadcasting and Cable 16 November 1998, S7.

⁹Brian McConnell, "Powell Raises Red Flag Over DTV Switch," Broadcasting and Cable 14 September 1998, 14.

¹⁰"Frequently Asked Questions," Public Broadcasting System 2000, http://www.pbs.org/digitaltv/faq.html

¹¹"Current Funding Levels for Public Television Programs," Association of America's Public Television Stations 2001, http://www.apts.org/legislative/current_funding.html

¹²Personal communication 20 October 1997.

¹³"Generational Differences," Barna Research 2003, http://www.barna.org/cgi-bin/PageCategory.asp? CategoryID=22

¹⁴Brad Schultz, "The Effect of Digital Environment on Religious Television Stations," Journal of Communication and Religion 23 (Winter 2000): 50-71.

¹⁵"TV Translators and the DTV Transition," Federal Communications Commission 12 April 1999, http://www.fcc.gov/mmb/vsd

¹⁶"Commission Adopts Rules Establishing a Class A Television Service," Federal Communications Commission 29 March 2000, http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Mass_Media/News_Releases/2000/ nrmm0006.html

¹⁷Everett M. Rogers, The Diffusion of Innovations, 3rd ed. (New York: Free Press, 1983).

¹⁸Heinrich R. Greve, "Managerial Cognition and the Mimetic Adoption of Market Positions: What You See Is What You Do," Strategic Management Journal 19 (Winter 1998): 967-998.

¹⁹Christine Oliver, "Strategic Responses to Institutional Processes," Academy of Management Review 16 (Winter 1991): 145-171.

²⁰Ibid., 165.

²¹Ibid., 161.

²²Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook (New Providence, NJ: R.R. Bowker, 2001).

²³Oliver, 161.

²⁴Personal communication 16 April 2002.

²⁵Ibid.

²⁶Oliver, 154.

²⁷Personal communication 16 April 2002.

²⁸Ibid.

²⁹Ibid.

³⁰Personal communication 16 April 2002.

³¹Ibid.

³²Oliver, 170.

³³Personal communication 16 April 2002.

³⁴Ibid.

³⁵Jon Lafayette, "The Vision for Digital Still Blurry," Electronic Media 17 August 1998, 3.

³⁶Sydney W. Head, Christopher Sterling and Lemuel B. Schofield, Broadcasting in America (7th ed.). (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1994).

³⁷F. Leslie Smith, John W. Wright II, and David H. Ostroff, Perspectives on Radio and Television (4th ed.) (Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum Associates, 1998).

³⁸S. Behrens, "What Value Will Public TV's Funders See in Digital Transition?" Current 9 November 1998, http://www:current.org/tech/tech820d.html