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Content and Advertising in the Media: Pay-TV versus Free-To-Air

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  • Peitz, Martin
  • Valletti, Tommaso

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We compare the advertising intensity and content of programming in a market with competing media platforms. With pay-tv media platforms have two sources of revenues, advertising revenues and revenues from viewers. With free-to-air media platforms receive all revenues from advertising. We show that if viewers strongly dislike advertising, the advertising intensity is greater under free-to-air television. We also show that free-to-air television tends to provide more similar content whereas pay-tv stations differentiate their content. In addition, we compare the welfare properties of the two different schemes.

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Keywords: advertising; media; product differentiation; two-sided markets;

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