The SNP is proposing that post-independence media regulator Ofcom's economic responsibilities be handed over to a combined economic regulator for Scotland, while "appropriate measures" should be put in place recognising the "cultural significance of broadcasting" within the country's new regulatory regime.
"This kind of thing — I hate to use the words 'multi-cultural diversity' — in broadcasting is unique to the United States," Henry Sapoznik, an American cultural historian, said.
Not channels, remits, regulatory structures or the finer points of broadcasting or cultural policy.
The choir and its sister orchestra were spinoffs of the post-World War II orchestras and choruses established in Western Europe to bolster the cultural programming of national broadcasting corporations.
For is it not grating that the intellectual attainments necessary to design and hurl a satellite into geosynchronous orbit should in the end turn out to have been deployed to no greater humanitarian or cultural end than the broadcasting of a channel called WOWOW TV at a target audience of Japanese schoolchildren?
Dyke has not only given it a reprieve, he has re-directed the way in which it can release its unique broadcasting and cultural force - by putting programmes not just at the centre of its purpose, but by declaring they are the meaning of its existence.
Mr Richards, who was also a key figure in former BBC director general John Birt's strategy team before joining No 10, added: "In economic terms, a combination like that may make sense", but said it was equally important for Channel 4 to "maintain its cultural place" in the broadcasting landscape.
Due to changing technologies and advent of E-culture classic public-good arguments for government intervention in broadcasting and other cultural activities become less relevant.
"Of course, one of the inspirations for the show's title was Federico Fellini," says Fontana, a native of Milan and a former interviewer for cultural programs on the state broadcasting network in Italy.
