A21TV and the others. Cable TV in the crisis years (1971-1974)
Journal title PASSATO E PRESENTE
Author/s Andrea Sangiovanni
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/126
Language Italian Pages 17 P. 161-177 File size 181 KB
DOI 10.3280/PASS2025-126010
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The article examines the history of cable television stations in the early 1970s, with particular attention to Telebiella, whose court case helped end the State radio and television monopoly between 1974 and 1976. It became the symbol of the battle for freedom of expression and the champion of a model of local and participatory information, an alternative to Rai. The author shows how the cable television affair allows us to illuminate the cultural transformations of the 1970s. This key moment in the history of Italian media reflects both the emergence of “bottom-up” and participatory information born in ’68 and the rise of an individualism that would mark the 1980s, moving away from the initial correspondence with forms of collective participation.
Keywords: Italian television, Cable TV, politics and society in contemporary Italy, 70’s
Andrea Sangiovanni, A21TV e le altre. Le TV cavo negli anni della crisi (1971-1974) in "PASSATO E PRESENTE" 126/2025, pp 161-177, DOI: 10.3280/PASS2025-126010