Convergence and the Diversity of European Television Systems

Abstract

After World War II, television in Europe developed as national systems, with each country in charge of managing its broadcasting spectrum and having its own particular political organization as well as a population with specific cultural characteristics. In most European countries, television evolved in the context of a de jure and de facto monopoly of public bodies.

With the collaboration of Florence Hartmann and Deirdre Kevin, analysts at the European Audiovisual Observatory.