RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

Each TV centre, generally speaking, makes its series separately and the subject matter is rather narrow. On the occasion when we have made series of a general Vugoslav character they have been well accepted in the world... BAJRA ISMAIL JRT Executive Committee Chairman, General Director of RTV Priština We who work in radio-television are only опе of those information factors. Only with co-ordinated work can be fmd better solutions. I agree wholeheartedly with the introductory report and the discussion. It is my opinion that this country has never been more integrated, more umted, stronger or based on firmer self-management foundations than it is today in all aspects - political, internationality, and in the relations amongst the people. For this we can thank all that has happened from the people’s liberation war to the present day, especially the self-management construction of socialism and the just policy of national equahty. Yugoslav radio-television has doubtless contributed to this, especiaUy television. These results can evidently not be denied regardless of the fact that we have no reason to be satisfied with what we have. achieved. There is no room for satisfaction as concerns cooperation amongst the TV stations in Yugoslavia in the Hght of existing technological, personnel, programme anđ other possibihties. Advantage has not been taken of the possibihties. The Yugoslav television centres, which аге, of course, at varying stages of development, have a daily transmission time of 2 to 15-16 hours. In 1976, only 5 to 11 percent of the centers transmissions was made up of programmes from other centres, 30-50 percent was made up of their own productions and the rest was imported, with only 0.3 to 2.4 percent of the imported programmes from the non-aligned countries... It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that Yugoslavs frequendy know more about other cultures and civihsations than they do of the Yugoslav heritage. It is a good thing that they know about others but it is bad that they do not know enough about one another. Television, which is the most powerful of the mass media and could be described as an ambassador bringing cultures, peoples and civihsations closer together, has evidently not done its job. The question arises as to why this has occurred. I would just like to say what needs to be done in order to ensure better programme and overall cooperation and a more dynamic development of the process of self-management sociahst integration in the Yugoslavia society and television’s role therein.

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