Coordination, Differentiation and the Timing of Radio Commercials
Andrew Sweeting ,
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Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
909-942
December
2006
Abstract

This paper examines the timing of commercial breaks by contemporary music radio stations. A simple model shows that stations may prefer, all else equal, to choose the same times (coordination) or different times (differentiation) for breaks depending on how listeners behave. It also shows that how much commercials overlap in Nash equilibrium should vary in different ways with observable market characteristics, such as the number of stations, depending on whether stations prefer to coordinate or differentiate.

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