TY - BOOK AU - Johnson,Catherine TI - Branding television T2 - Comedia SN - 9780415548434 (pbk.) U1 - 384.550688 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Television broadcasting KW - United States KW - Great Britain KW - Branding (Marketing) KW - Television broadcasting -- United States; KW - T Branding (Marketing) -- United States KW - Branding (Marketing) -- Great Britain N1 - 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? ER -