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The constitutional law and history of broadcasting in Great Britain, 1922-1946

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Brown, Robert Jardine
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2018-03-29T12:21:20Z
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2018-03-29T12:21:20Z
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1947
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1. INTRODUCTION. The development of the British Broadcasting Company from a Public Utility Company created under the Companies Acts into a Corporation established by Royal Charter with an account of the part played in the metamorphosis by the Sykes and Crawford Committees.
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2. THE CORPORATION and the STATE. The formula defining the duty of the Corporation, Governors, Director General. Ministerial control, including right of veto. Parliamentary control. Editorial Rights. Advisory Committees.
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3. THE CORPORATION and the BROADCASTING OF POLITICAL CONTROVERSY. Party Broadcasting by Members of Parliament. Political Broadcasting at Election time. Broadcasting of Parliamentary Reports and Political Broadcasting generally.
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4. THE CORPORATION in the IMPERIAL and INTERNATIONAL SPIERE. Empire and Foreign Broadcasting. The Corporation's part as a Member of International Broadcasting Union and as an expert on International Committees, technics.] political, legal.
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5. THE CORPORATION and its LEGAL STATUS. Powers of Chartered Corporation, public and private. Rights in respect of corporeal and incorporeal property in peace and wartime - Persons - Staff and Third Parties. Wartime Legislation. Libel and Slander of persons and goods. Jurisdiction.
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6. THE CORPORATION as an OPERATING CONCERN. Publications, Public Concerts and other Public Entertainments, News, including its transmission. Copy- :right, Artists, including Children and Staff.
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7. THE CORPORATION and, its FINAJCES with SUBSIDIARY CHAPTER on SPONSORING. Financial history with note of exemptions from ordinary taxation. History of Sponsoring.
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8. THE CORPORATION and RELAY EXCHANGES. History of development and changes in relations between Corporation and Operating Companies.
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9. THE CORPORATION and TELEVISION. History of development and note of special problems relating to Television.
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10. THE CORPORATION and the BROADCASTING ORGANISATIONS in the DOMINIONS. A comparison in some detail of principal points of constitutional interest.
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11. Short ESSAY on future development of BROADCASTING in GREAT BRITAIN.
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12. The FREEDOM of the ETHER - An Article published July 1946 in the B.B.C. QUARTERLY.
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http://hdl.handle.net/1842/29451
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The University of Edinburgh
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Annexe Thesis Digitisation Project 2018 Block 17
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The constitutional law and history of broadcasting in Great Britain, 1922-1946
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Thesis or Dissertation
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Doctoral
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DLitt Doctor of Letters
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