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Transnational Television in Europe : Reconfiguring Global Communications Networks
ISBN: 9781845119546 | 1845119541
Format: PaperbackPublisher: I. B. Tauris
Pub. Date: 3/15/2009
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Today transnational TV networks count among television's most prestigious brands and rank among Europe's leading TV channels. This is the first, dynamically told story of the extraordinary journey of transnational television in Europe from struggling origins to its present day boom. It is based in extensive research into the international television industry and makes full use of its author's remarkable access to leading industry figures, from Sky and Turner to Discovery and BBC World. The tale begins with a few cross-border TV channels, who fo... MORE
| Tables | p. ix |
| Abbreviations | p. xi |
| Acknowledgements | p. xv |
| Introduction: Television's Transnational Paradigm Shift | p. 1 |
| Impossible Beginnings | |
| Pioneers in Satellite Television, 1982-4 | p. 7 |
| The Difficult Expansion of Europe's Satellite TV Market, 1985-9 | p. 21 |
| The End of a Chimera? | p. 43 |
| The Coming of Age of Pan-European Television | ... MORE |
| Ushering in a New Era: European Regulation and Satellite Technology | p. 57 |
| The Advent of Transnational Advertising | p. 83 |
| Public Broadcasters: Coming to Terms with the New Media Order | p. 99 |
| Transnational Television in Europe | |
| Key Entertainment Genres and Channels in Transnational Television | p. 115 |
| Powering Tomorrow's European Television: American TV Brands and Diversified Entertainment Conglomerates | p. 155 |
| The Sun Always Shines on Global News TV Networks | p. 173 |
| Inside Globalization: The Transnational Shift | |
| Reasons and Strategies for Crossing Borders | p. 195 |
| When the Local Meets the Global: Transnational TV Networks | p. 207 |
| Reconfiguring Communications Networks: Television for a Global Order | p. 227 |
| Conclusion: New World, New Networks | p. 241 |
| Notes | p. 245 |
| Index | p. 263 |
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Jean K. Chalaby teaches media history as well as comparative media systems and international communication at City University, London, where he is Director of the MA in Transnational Media and Society. He is the author of The Invention of Journalism (1998) and The de Gaulle Presidency and the Media (2002) and editor of Transnational Television Worldwide (2005).
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