Jan Wieten & Graham Murdock 
Television Across Europe 
A Comparative Introduction

Combining institutional textual and audience analysis, this book introduces students to the factors which have shaped television′s development in contemporary Europe, and invites them to assess the issues that are at stake in its future.

Divided into three parts, the book moves from the European broadcasting environment, through current patterns and trends in programming and programme making, to TV genres and issue-specific broadcasting.

Incorporating a range of pedagogical devices: boxes of key facts, activities and notes for further reading, Television across Europe offers an essential introductory guide to television in Western Europe.

Tabella dei contenuti

Preface – Jan Wieten, Graham Murdock and Peter Dahlgren

PART ONE: TELEVISION ENVIRONMENTS: TRADITIONS AND TRANSITIONS

Introduction – Peter Dahlgren

The Status of TV Broadcasting in Europe – Kees Brants and Els De Bens

Key Trends in European Television – Peter Dahlgren

Digital Futures – Graham Murdock

European Television in the Age of Convergence

PART TWO: TELEVISION TRENDS: ORGANIZATION AND REPRESENTATION

Introduction – Graham Murdock

Programming and Channel Competition in European Television – Taisto Hujanen

Popular Drama – Albert Moran

Travelling Templates and National Fictions

Programme Making across Borders – Aur[ac]elie Laborde and Michel Perrot

The
Eurosud News Magazine

Television Audiences – Winfried Schulz

PART THREE: TELEVISION GENRES: BORDERS AND FLOWS

Introduction – Jan Wieten

Music Television – Keith Roe and Gust De Meyer

MTV-Europe

Arts Television – Marit Bakke

Questions of Culture

Breakfast TV – Jan Wieten

Infotainers at Daybreak

Talk Shows – Graham Murdock

Democratic Debates and Tabloid Tales

Television Current Affairs – Greg Mc Laughlin

The Case of Northern Ireland

Television News – Sari N[um]asi

The Case if the French Road Blockades

Circa l’autore

Peter Dahlgren is Principal Lecturer in the Department of Journalism, Media and Communications at the University of Stockholm. He is the author or editor of numerous works in Swedish and of two books in English, both of which he edited with Colin Sparks: Communication and Citizenship (Sage, 1991) and Journalism and Popular Culture (Sage, 1992).