Broadcasting in the Third World

Promise and Performance

Elihu Katz

George Wedell

    I. Promise

    1. The Problem of Development and the Promise of Broadcasting

    II. Process

    2. Broadcasting Structures in the Developing Countries

    3. The Transfer of Broadcasting

    4. The Interaction of Broadcasting and Established Institutions

    III. Performance

    5. Programming Patterns

    6. Promise and Performance

    IV. Prospect

    7. Are There Other Ways?

    Appendixes

    A. Supplementary Tables

    B. Methodology

    C. Levels of Development of Ninety-one Selected Countries

    Notes

    Index

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Elihu Katz is Trustee Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvannia; Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and Scientific Director of the Guttman Institute of Applied Social Research.

E.G. Wedell, formerly Professor of Adult Education at the University of Manchester, is now on the staff of the European Economic Community in Brussels.