You can still watch TV in a financial crisis
Don’t forget world television day on 21 November! The UN has consecrated a day to pay homage to an essential instrument of dialogue between cultures. On its twelfth celebration in Europe, sit back and watch a maybe mediocre media in crisis, versus an internet content rival
Telejato: family-run, mini-CNN in Partinico, Sicily
Pino Maniaci has created a family business through his miniature version of CNN. The ‘longest news programme in the world’, with its 150, 000 viewers, is a mini-broadcaster fighting against the local mafia, the Cosa Nostra
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In Europe internet is in, TV is out
Television audiences are diminishing, yet consumers have never been as interested in new content which is switching from one screen to another
‘Zapping’: reaping the rewards of other people’s productions
Programmes made up of clips from other programmes are filling up European television schedules – the deal in Italy, France, Germany, Poland and Spain
