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Hotelling Location Problems with Directional Constraints: An Application to Television News Scheduling

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Maria Cancian (University of Wisconsin)
Angela Bills (University of Michigan)
Ted Bergstrom (University of California, Santa Barbara)

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If viewers prefer to watch the news as soon as they get home from work, how should competing television stations schedule their broadcasts to maximize their own numbers of viewers. This is a Hotelling location problem with a directional constraint. Viewers can watch after they get home, but not before. We show that for this model, there exists no pure strategy Nash equilibrium.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara in its series University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series with number 1995C.

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Date of creation: 01 Mar 1995
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Keywords: hotelling spatial model; television; time-slotting; oligopoly; news-broadcasting;

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