Public broadcasting in Finland: Inventing a national television programming policy

Abstract

For a quarter century, Finland's artists, academics, and legislators have attempted to make national public television both an instrument of Finnish culture and an intellectual medium for educating its audience. These goals are similar to principles of the New World Information Order, whose policies were designed to help non‐industrialized Third World countries resist the cultural imperialism fostered by modern communication technologies. The advent of new technologies and new economic imperatives, as the country enters the information age, has led to modification of these goals.