Intellect

Michael Starks is an Associate of Oxford University’s Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy. He is a leading expert in the field of public policy associated with the switch of entire nations to digital TV. He is the author of Switching to Digital Television, published in 2007 by Intellect Books and the University of Chicago Press. From 2002 to 2004, he managed the UK Digital TV Project, working for the UK Government with all the stakeholders, to plan the UK’s strategy for the full transition to digital. Prior to that, he led the BBC’s initial feasibility study of digital television and its Free-to-View Digital TV Project, culminating in the launch of Freeview. He was the founding Chairman of the UK Digital TV Group.
Michael Starks now works in Oxford – writing, lecturing and consulting on digital television. In 2007 he was a Research Visitor at the University of Melbourne in Australia and in 2008 became a Visiting Fellow at the China Media Centre at the University of Westminster. He has also advised the New Zealand Government and the Broadcasting Commission and Government of Jamaica on digital switchover policy.