A Case of Asynchronous Media Change in the 1950s: How US-American TV Series Came to Early West German Television by Andre Dechert

“…To exemplify this argument, I delve into examples which demonstrate that West German television executives and executive employees were either creating television series on the basis of US-American television series or were broadcasting the latter after synchronization. …”
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Re-Locating the Spaces of Television Studies by Anna Cristina Pertierra

“…The paper offers two ways in which television scholars might productively re-locate their spheres of concentration to understand the diversity of television worlds today: 1) empirically, it considers the case of the Philippines where broadcast television is successful in ways that could only be dreamed of by television executives in the so-called ‘world centres’ of the global entertainment industry. 2) theoretically, the paper refers to complementary attempts in sociology, literary and cultural studies to offer alternatives to Europe and North America from which scholars might locate the vanguard for modernity, globalization and innovation. …”
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Television 2.0 : reconceptualizing TV as an engagement medium by Askwith, Ivan D

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