RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

comprehensive than the others, and may be said to represent all activities in its programme. Thus, merely this addition miiltiplies its responsibilities and obhgations. It does not seem necessary to enumerate them all. What may be set apart as a striking peculiarity of Radioßelgrade, is unquestionably the highly complex and stratified structure of the audience it addresses. This indicates that there is similarly a stratified and complex public taste by means of which it verifies its work. S everal programmes are broadcast simultaneously by a single radio centre, while the number of regional and local radio stations is also rising steeply. They act upon their audience with their music, and with their undifferentiated programme content in the main they ail address the same audience with the same music. This is a programme policy problem of course, and so may be considered to be beyond the boundaries of the present topic, but it is not superfluous to note that soon it will be a very relevant question. F ог now we can only refiect on it

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