Restricted Opportunities for Community Broadcasting in Belgium

  • Frieda Saeys
  • Tomas Coppens
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Abstract

Apart from being an image of developments in Europe, the broadcasting history of Belgium also reflects the country’s specifically local social relations and political evolution (Antoine, d’Haenens, and Saeys, 2001). It provides a clear indication of Belgium’s political and ideological divides as well as of those of language and region, and portrays the evolution from a unitary to a federal state.

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Community Radio Radio Station Community Television Royal Decree Free Radio 
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  • Tomas Coppens

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