Research Network: Television from Small Nations

This multidisciplinary, international research network addressed the specific challenges and opportunities facing television broadcasters and producers in small nations.

For small nations the television industry performs a number of important cultural, political and economic functions: constructing cultural identities, contributing towards a democratic public sphere, and enabling minority-languages to thrive in the modern world. However, several structural challenges shape their TV industries including less access to talent, fewer capital resources, higher production costs, and a smaller market for advertising and license fee revenue.

The network directly addressed these imperatives by drawing together academic experts and key stakeholders in the television industry, and enabling them to identify the necessary conditions for sustained success in both cultural and commercial terms.

Read the final report from the Television from Small Nations project here.

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