European Television History is a much-needed text that brings together television historians and media scholars to chart the development of television in Europe since its inception. Taking an insistently comparative approach to the topic and organizing the volume around a set of common questions, themes, and methodological reflections, the volume interrogates the history of the medium in divergent political, economic, cultural and ideological national contexts. Organised around critical debates that illuminate the many ways television has grown up in Europe, European Television History is an authoritative account of the development of television in the various countries of Europe. The volume will be welcome among students of media culture and history, as well as academic specialists seeking a coherent methodology and source text for their research.