US Television Abroad, 1960/1990

Following The Traumatic post-war debates over the viability and nature of commercial television in the American home, the TV industry settled into a half-century of remarkable economic growth and institutional stability. However, after decades of steady expansion and stable industry structures, the early 1990s marked—in both the USA and Europe, in both public service and commercial television systems—a moment of crisis in political and economic legitimization for broadcast institutions and a reconfiguration of the long-established institutional representations of the national audience.

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