RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

V 1. АЛ four aspects of the integrating effect of television are worthy of thorough analysis... Where the first aspect is concerned, the relations of all Yugoslav TV stations with theatres, the film industry, news papers, musical institutions, artists 5 associations etc. could be better. Where the second aspect of integrating activity is concerned, it is sufficient to reiterate the criterion for analysis given in a joint document from the Executive Committee of the Presidency of the League of Comminists of Yugoslavia Central Committee and the Federal Conference Secretariat of the Socialist Alliance: »It should be assured that all parts of the system function in such a way as to express the direct interests of the republic or province to which they belong and also that of others and of all together in order that all organs be at the same time republican ог provincial and Yugoslav. This is also the condition for the accomplishment of joint interests in the domain of information and the obstacle to centraUstic tendencies, all forms of isolation and particularism.« 2. It is possible to analyse the second two aspects of the integrating effect of television on!y with common effort. Such analyses have not been prepared for today’s symposium. The existmg statistics, even if they were not so unsystematic, аге quite insufficient, for they do not speak of the content and could therefore lead us into formaUsm... 3. The selection of examples and the formulas m which this selection wiU be presented аге not put fonvard with the intention of our agreeing with them today but rather with the intention of provoking discussion in order to deal with the given question in detail. For many years it has been stressed that the fundamental aspect of cooperation amongst the TV centres should be agreement prior to production and not after the production of programmes, and matters have not changed greatly up to the present day. There stiU exists the same kind of excess and the same kind of deficit in the overall programme and co-productions remain symbolic in number. At this уеаг s TV Festival not one single programme had been co-produced amongst two ог more TV centres. The exchange of programmes takes place rather according to daUy needs, interventions and inertia rather than planned over a longer Period of time. We saw at this Fesdval 10 news programmes prepared for the same day - 9th Мау. If someone attempted to ргераге, according to good journahstic criteria one single television news programme from aU the material shown in the news programmes for transmission for the whole of the country, the attempt would be doomed to faUure: there would not be sufficient material for one single TV programme. If, however, someone

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