Jonathan Bignell is Professor of Television and Film at the University of Reading (UK).
Andreas Fickers is Assistant Professor for Television History at the University of Utrecht (NL).

Acknowledgments.
1. Introduction: Comparative European perspectives on television history: Jonathan Bignell and Andreas Fickers.
2. Early TV: Imagining and realising television: Knut Hickethier.
3. Institutionalizing European Television: The shaping of European Television Institutions and Infrastructures: Christina Adamou, with Isabelle Gaillard and Dana Mustata.
4. Searching for an Identity for Television: Programmes, Genres, Formats: Jérôme Bourdon, with Juan Carlos Ibáñez, Catherine Johnson and Eggo Müller.
5. TV Nations or Global medium?: European television between national institution and window on the world: Sonja de Leeuw, with Alexander Dhoest, Juan Francisco Gutiérrez Lozano, François Heinderyckx, Anu Koivunen and Jamie Medhurst.
6. American Television: Point of Reference or European Nightmare?: Ib Bondebjerg, with Tomasz Goban-Klas, Michele Hilmes, Dana Mustata, Helle Strandgaard-Jensen, Isabelle Veyrat-Masson and Susanne Vollberg7. European TV Events and Euro-visions: Tensions Between the Ordinary and the Extraordinary: Rob Turnock, with Alexander Hecht, Dana Mustata, Mari Pajala and Alison Preston.
8. European Television Audiences: Localising the viewers: Mats Björkin, with Juan Francisco Gutiérrez Lozano.
9. Conclusion: Reflections on doing European television history: Andreas Fickers and Jonathan Bignell.
10. European Television Archives and the Search for Audiovisual Sources: Andy O'Dwyer

European Television History is a much-needed text that brings together television historians and media scholars to chart the development of television in Europe since its inception. Taking an insistently comparative approach to the topic and organizing the volume around a set of common questions, themes, and methodological reflections, the volume interrogates the history of the medium in divergent political, economic, cultural and ideological national contexts.
Organised around critical debates that illuminate the many ways television has grown up in Europe, European Television History is an authoritative account of the development of television in the various countries of Europe. The volume will be welcome among students of media culture and history, as well as academic specialists seeking a coherent methodology and source text for their research.