This paper recalls the Italian audio-visual industry main macroeconomic data and structure as analysed in a recent book: a system centred on television with seven major national players (UK has 3, France 4), but not so able to create revenues and employment, to produce original programmes,...

This paper is aimed at examining the peculiar features of the Italian labour market in the performing arts and show business, according to data collected on annual basis by ENPALS/Ente Nazionale Assistenza Lavoratori dello Spettacolo, our ad hoc social security organisation. Data regarding those...

This article looks over the role played by radio and television broadcasting in the cultural unification of Italian society. Analogies with the experiences of other major European countries are outlined as well as distinctive features: the socio-economic factors holding back the radio...

Twenty years ago the more sensible sectors of economic and institutional culture were regarding the liberalist model of modernization as necessary to the innovation and development of Italian cultural industries. Here the present condition of the sector is considered in the light of that model...

The law n. 112/2004, so-called Gasparri, decrees the resurgence of representatives of political parties in the Board of Directors of Italian public service corporation, the RAI. This change of the previous 1993 law along with the governance pattern of the corporation stated by the law call off...