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Internet killed the TV star

In 1960s UK, there were 10.5 million television sets. There will be a predicted 74m by 2020. Welcome to an era where a converging consumer revolution dictates that at least 20% of the market will have internet powered TV sets in Europe, and where the first European three-dimension TV channel, Sky, went live in April. Television, a marker of post-war middle-class American affluence, has stayed central to peoples lives. Focus on whether that affluence has become an influence that the Europeans just can't shake via TV and web series

• Read the special edition Internet killed the TV star
• Malviviendo vs Lisa Kudrow? The rise of EU web series
• The Office, Spiral: tour of European TV shows, American style
• TV: can Europeans reverse the dominant American trend?

FrauTV, Emma: women top the media tower in Cologne

Over a third of German national TV programmes are produced in Cologne. Alongside the eight channels based on the banks of the Rhine, in ‘media city’, are the offices of the young, resolutely feminist FrauTV and the militant magazine Emma

by Marie Krpata @ // 31/07/09

television channel, women, television, cities, european media, gender equality, feminism