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A Forgotten Spirit of Commercial Television? Co-Productions Between Finnish Commercial Television Company Mainos-Tv and Socialist Television

Mari Pajala
- 03 Apr 2019 - 
- Vol. 39, Iss: 2, pp 366-383
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Finnish commercial television company Mainos-TV co-produced a string of documentary and entertainment programmes with television broadcasters in the USSR, Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Hungary and Polan...
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Finnish commercial television company Mainos-TV co-produced a string of documentary and entertainment programmes with television broadcasters in the USSR, Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Hungary and Polan...

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Cold War Television Diplomacy: The German Democratic Republic on Finnish television

TL;DR: This paper examined the role of the state-run, license fee-funded public service television company, the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE), in maintaining and deepening diplomatic relations with East Germany, from the recognition of East Germany in 1972 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
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From socialist hero to capitalist icon: The cultural transfer of the East German children’s television programme Unser Sandmännchen to Sweden in the early 1970s

TL;DR: Based on a case study of the import of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) children's programme Unser Sandmannchen to Sweden in the early 1970s, the authors explores the cultural recoding at work.
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Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television

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Coming Home or Moving Home? `Westernizing' Narratives in Finnish Foreign Policy and the Reinterpretation of Past Identities

TL;DR: This paper analyzed the foundations of such Westernizing narratives in order to expose their politicized nature, and pointed out that as a consequence of a particular reading of the Cold War period through a return to the Finlandization debates of the late 1960s-1980s, ''West' and ''Europe'' are understood in contemporary debate largely in terms of an opposition with Cold War Finnish foreign policy and Cold War characterizations of Soviet/Russian identity.
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Television in the Age of (Post)Communism: The Case of Romania

TL;DR: In this article, the authors take a longue duree perspective at the evolution of television in Romania during and after the communist regime and place Romanian television within the context of European televisual development.