From Satellite to Single Market: New Communication Technology and European Public Service Television

by Richard Collins

Richard Collins explores public service television's role in fostering pan-European cultural identity. Based on extensive primary research, interviews with participants and analysis of key European programmes, this book documents the growth of the public service satellite television network which was backed by the European Union, and its eventual alliance with Rupert Murdoch's commercial Sky network.

312 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Richard Collins taught at the Polytechnic of Central London. He has written on German and Canadian communication systems.