Broadcasting And Politics In Western Europe (west European Politics)

BROADCASTING AND POLITICS IN WESTERN EUROPE BROADCASTING AND POLITICS IN WESTERN EUROPE Edited by RAYMOND KUHN FRANK CASS First published in 1985 in Great Britain by FRANK CASS AND COMPANY LIMITED Gainsborough House, 11 Gainsborough Road, London, E11 1RS This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” and in the United States of America by FRANK CASS AND COMPANY LIMITED c/o Biblio Distribution Centre 81 Adams Drive, P.O. Box 327, Totowa, NJ 07511 Copyright © 1985 Frank Cass & Co. Ltd British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Broadcasting and politics in Western Europe.— (West European politics, ISSN 0140–2382; v.8; no.2) 1. Broadcasting—Political aspects—Europe I. Kuhn, Raymond II. Series 384.5′4′094 HE8689.E9 ISBN 0-203-98927-9 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-7146-3274-0 (Print Edition) This group of studies first appeared in a Special Issue on Broadcasting and Politics in Western Europe of West European Politics, Vol. 8, No. 2 published by Frank Cass and Co. Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Frank Cass and Company Limited. Contents Notes on the Contributors vi Introduction Raymond Kuhn 1 Politics, Parties and the Media in Britain Jean Seaton 9 Proclaiming the Republic: Broadcasting Policy and the Corporate State in Ireland Desmond Bell 27 France and the ‘New Media’ Raymond Kuhn 51 Political and Market Forces in Italian Broadcasting Donald Sassoon 67 Pluralism in the West German Media: The Press, Broadcasting and Cable Arthur Williams 83 Broadcasting and Politics in the Netherlands: From Pillar to Post Kees Brants 103 Broadcasting in Spain: A History of Heavy-handed State Control Esteban López-EscobarAngel Faus-Belau 121 Greece: A Politically Controlled State Monopoly Broadcasting System Dimitrios Katsoudas 137 The Politics of Cable and Satellite Broadcasting: Some West European Comparisons Kenneth Dyson 153 Abstracts 173 FOR ANNE WITH LOVE AND AFFECTION Notes on Contributors Desmond Bell lectures in the School of Communications at the National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin. He has published a number of articles on social theory and communication practice and is currently researching in the area of the political economy of the media. Kees Brants is a lecturer in politics and mass communication at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely (mainly in Dutch) on media policy-making, the media and elections, and racism in the Netherlands. Kenneth Dyson is Professor of European Studies at the University of Bradford as well as Chairman of its Postgraduate School of Languages and European Studies. He is author of The State Tradition in Western Europe (1981), Party, State and Bureaucracy in West Germany (1977), Industrial Crisis (with S.Wilks, 1983), as well as of numerous articles on comparative public policy and the history of political ideas and institutions. At present he has an ESRC grant for research on satellite and cable broadcasting. Dimitrios Katsoudas is a senior researcher at the Centre for Political Research and Information in Athens. He is also assistant editor of, as well as a regular contributor to, the Ce