Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface
• Part 1 Television Environments: Traditions and Transitions
• Introduction
• The Status of TV Broadcasting in Europe
• Key Trends in European Television
• Digital Futures
• European Television in the Age of Convergence
• Part 2 Television Trends: Organization and Representation
• Introduction
• Programming and Channel Competition in European Television
• Popular Drama
• Travelling Templates and National Fictions
• Programme Making across Borders
• The Eurosud News Magazine
• Television Audiences
• Part 3 Television Genres: Borders and Flows
• Introduction
• Music Television
• MTV-Europe
• Arts Television
• Questions of Culture
• Breakfast TV
• Infotainers at Daybreak
• Talk Shows
• Democratic Debates and Tabloid Tales
• Television Current Affairs
• The Case of Northern Ireland
• Television News
• The Case if the French Road Blockades