RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

and nationalities оп the basis of full national equality, for the Yugoslav independent and non-aligned policy, for peace and progress in the world and against everything contrary to the Yugos!av revolution and progressive development. Television today represents the most powerful mass media for information and communication amongst the working people and citizens of all nationalities in the Yugoslav repubUcs and provinces in Yugoslavia as a whole. The development of the television programme in the languages of the nations and nationalities - the result of the consistent LCY policy in the realisation of national equaUty - is of exceptional importance for the creation of reaUstic conditions for cultural and general development of the Yugoslav nations and nationahties, for the development and assertion of theh class-sociaUst and national make-up. From the point of view of the programme, this represents a contribution to its enrichment in Yugoslav dimensions. The multi-lingual nature of the programme has not lead to the disintegration, isolation and atomisation of the broadcasting system, as various unitarian and anti-self-management elements have attempted to show the equal development of the TV cedntres. On the contrary, the many languages have contributed to greater coopc ation, unity and have brought the nations and nationalities eve doser together. They have helped the democratisation enn ,hmg of the form and content of programmes, the furthermg of the policy of national equality and the deepening of socialist self-management relations in аД republics and provinces and in thc whole of the country. For well-known reasons there аге still considerable diiferences in the level of development of television programmes both in volume and in structure. AU the problems and contradictions which come to Ught between the developed republics and the msufiiciently developed republics and the autonomous province of Kosovo are also mirrored in a specific way in the radio-broadcasting systems. The insufiicient level of development of some Yugoslav TV centres has a bad effect on the satisfaction of programme requirements in those regions to which they transmit, and also on the possibiUty for programme cooperation between studios - either through joint programme ог the direct exchange amongst centres. This is why the overcoming of the unequal development of television in Yugoslavia is closely Unked with the struggle for the gradual eradication of differences in the development level of the republics and provinces, AIl endeavours to promote mutual programme cooperation amongst Tv centres аге worthy of support. Joint agreements assure better programmes both joint and separate. Working people and citizens thereby receive better information on aU events in the country and in the world. There is also the more effective realisation of the interests

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