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Prospects for Television in Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

George Wedell
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The Classical Model for Broadcasting Structures in Europe is one based on national autarchy and linguistic exclusivity. The model derives from the introduction of radio broadcasting in the 1920s. As always in the field of communications, developments art supply-led rather than demand-led. Thus the early radio manufacturers established local radio stations to demonstrate their new equipment at a time when governments had not formulated any policies to deal with the new phenomenon.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , 01 July 1994 , pp. 315 - 331
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1994

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17 During the two yean 1988–90 BABEL supported the dubbing or sub-titling of only 50 programmes representing 100 transmissions in twelve European languages. Only 500,000 Ecu ($300,000) were available for disbursement.

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21 Quoted in Richard Collins, op. cit., p. 128.

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24 Cable News Network, a worldwide satellite news operation conducted by Turner Communications Inc. from Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

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35 Let the buyer beware.

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37 ibid., p. 231. There is a list of examples of good practice in European Countries on pp. 231–33.