Crisi, declino, incertezza : il 1973 e l'economia italiana

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. [Publisher's Text]