Transnational Television History offers a new approach to television as a medium of transnational circulation of formats, programmes and ideas. It questions common views about television as an agent of national identity formation and underlines the importance of comparative perspectives for the historical understanding of televisio

Andreas Fickers is Associate Professor of Comparative Media History at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He is specialised in the cultural history of communication technologies. He is co-editor of A European Television History (2008) and Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe (2010).

Catherine Johnson lectures in the Department of Culture, Film and Media at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her research examines the Western television industries and the impact of industrial shifts on the cultural artefacts they produce. She is the author of Telefantasy (2005) and co-editor of ITV Cultures (2005).

Introduction Andreas Fickers and Catherine Johnson Section 1: Retracing paths and places of transnational circulation 1. Transnationality in Dutch (Pre) Television: The central role of Erik de Vries Sonja de Leeuw 2. The 'North Atlantic Triangle': Britain, the USA and Canada in 1950s television Michele Hilmes 3. Transatlantic Spaces: Production, location and style in 1960s-1970s action-adventure TV series Jonathan Bignell 4. Creating Transnationality Through an International Organization?: The European Broadcasting Union's (EBU) television programme activities Christian Henrich-Franke 5. European Crimeatches: A comparative perspective on Aktenzeichen XY's transnational circulation Eggo Müller 6. Eventing Europe: The transnational emergence of a European television landscape in the 1950s Andreas Fickers 7. Re-placed Communities: Crossover as a transnational practice of television in Cold War Eastern Europe Dana Mustata 8.Video Active and the challenges of developing online access to compare European television programmes from the archive Rob Turnock Section 2: Localizing the Transnational in Regional Television History 9. Perspectives on Localizing the Transnational in Regional Television History / Introduction Catherine Johnson and Andreas Fickers 10. France 3, a state institution: the French model of regional television Benoît Lafon 11. Regional television in Germany Edgar Lersch 12. Regional television in Spain: the Andalusian case Juan Francisco Gutiérrez Lozano 13. From multicultural programming to diasporic television: situating the UK in a European context Sarita Malik