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Fantoni, G 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6249-3993,
2022.
The revolution will be televised: the Italian communist party, public television broadcasting and the 'free television' experiment.
Contemporary European History.
ISSN 0960-7773
Abstract
It is a little-known fact that the Italian Communist Party invested vast financial resources in the establishment of a network of local television stations. By 1980, there were as many as twenty of these stations. This article examines how the PCI's ‘free television’ experiment developed within the context of private broadcasting in Italy, and why it was eventually abandoned. A discussion of some of the programmes produced by communist television stations, complemented by interviews with some of the experiment's protagonists, will frame the experience of communist broadcasting within the PCI's history and television policy.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
|---|---|
| Publication Title: | Contemporary European History |
| Creators: | Fantoni, G. |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| Date: | 21 March 2022 |
| ISSN: | 0960-7773 |
| Identifiers: | Number Type 10.1017/s0960777321000692 DOI 1546490 Other |
| Rights: | Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press. |
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Arts and Humanities |
| Record created by: | Linda Sullivan |
| Date Added: | 18 Jul 2022 07:49 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2022 07:49 |
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/46610 |
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