RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

from their audiences on the territory in which they operate. At the end of 1978, there were 4,989.394 radio and 3,957.439 television sets in use throughout Yugoslavia. All nine radio and television organizations signed a self-management agreement on association in the Vugoslav Radio and Television Community. This stipulated that self-management agreements and compacts аге to be used to resolve issues of common interest in carrying out the civic function of radio and television, especially: ® the determination of a joint radio and television program policy based on the common and individual social aims and interests of the members and their founders; • collaboration in the production and exchange of programs; @ coordination of technical development and the construction of a uniform technical system; ® joint international collaboration based on the principles of Yugoslavia’s independent and non-aligned foreign policy; ® fortification of the defense capabilities of the country; ® cooperation with socio-political organizahons and federal authorities. In managing the affairs of the Community, all the members share equal rights, regardless of their size, number of subscribers, technical and program abilities, etc. In order to conduct joint and specialized affairs, the members of Yugoslav Radio and Television have founded a separate work organization called the Yugoslav Radio and Television Secretariat. Local radio stations ате associated in the Yugoslav Radio and Television Community via the republican and provincial radio and television organizations. At the end of 1978 there were more than 200 local radio stations which are now joined to the whole Yugoslav system of radio broadcasting to comprise a uniform entity. Every radio and television organization has a well-developed system of workers’ self-management in which all employees participate in public assemblies and directly through their workers’ councils. In this way the workers decide on all the more significant programs, technical and other projects, as well as on the distribution of radio and television subscription revenues and other incomes. The council is the form of self-management assuring the broad participation of all parties interested in radio and television programs. Delegates of the