RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

have come together at this table to examine the distribution of this medium throughout the contemporary world, I would nevertheless like to draw уоиг attention to a few data illustrating the fact that a well-developed television is the privilege of the industrially-developed countries. The greatest part of our non-aligned countries come amongst the 103 countries or states in which television is less than 10 years old, or has not yet emerged. Technical television products come from the developed industrial countries. They produce 95 percent of television sets, the distribution of which is illustrated by the following data; while there is one television set per two persons in North America and one рег four in Еигоре, in South America the ratio is one to 12, in Asia one to 40, and in Africa one to 500 persons. Apart from equipment and technology, many countries import between 30 to 70 percent of their programmes. The arsenal of modern communication media includes thirty-three communication systems anchored to satellites put onto orbit by the industrialized countries. The day is not far off when a television viewer will be able to select programmes in the same way listeners select radio programmes. The language of moving pictures will counteract lack of understanding of the language being spoken by the voice of the invisible announcer. Scientists are predictmg that in the course of the two remaining decades of this centurv, the newspapers we have become accustomed to buv at the stands will disappear. We will read оиг newspapers at home via a monitor. (Hopefuliv journalists will not die out as well.) Nevertheless, it is a disturbing fact that the circumstances under which scientific discoveries and technical innovations аге applied in all forms of communication have led to the point at which the skies аге alreadv crisscrossed by information and pictures broadcast by the studios of the most developed television svstems. The image of events in world and relations between states and peoples within them seems overshadowed precisely by the parasol unfurled by the developed world. The picture of our non-aligned countries, similarly, cannot be much brighter with this state of affairs in the world system of communications.