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Cooperative Radio Agreements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
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There is today a new kind of international agreement which, going beyond general provisions and vague expressions of goodwill, has proved to be of immediate, practical consequence. Cooperative radio agreements or, as they are sometimes called, “agreements for mutual assistance”, provide the legal and organizational framework for international relations among broadcasting services in sixteen European countries. At the same time, some of them constitute a basis for the collaboration and coordination of communist-controlled stations, and thus for spreading and strengthening Soviet propaganda; they effectively supplement military and economic ties of the Cominform group in the fields of information and mass communications. Their provisions reflect a new trend in international law, taking into account technical and cultural factors as well as legal considerations, political and economic interests. Although no less than thirty-two agreements have been concluded during the last five years – some also by broadcasting organizations in western Europe – they are little known outside the countries directly concerned.
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1 This figure does not include renewed or supplementary agreements.
2 Bulletin de Documentation et d'Information, No. 5 (p. 465) Organisation Internationale de Radiodiffusion, Brussels, 05 1947Google Scholar.
3 There are also arrangements concerning the daily relay and rebroadcasting of “Voice of America” programs over local stations and networks in France, Italy, Greece, in fifteen Latin American countries, in Ceylon and Vietnam as well as in Austria, Germany, Trieste, Japan and Korea. But, with the exception of the French Radio, the “Voice” does not exchange programs or program material with foreign services.
4 There are exchange arrangements between many other countries, especially in Latin America; but most of them are casual, covering the transmission of important events, national holidays or music festivals, rather than formal and detailed agreements between government agencies.
5 Katolieke Radio Omroep = Catholic Broadcasting Association.
6 A cooperative agreement with Czechoslovakia was negotiated in fall 1951 and was probably signed in spring 1952.
7 Refers only to section in charge of the program entitled “Russische Stunde” (Russian Hour).
8 Radio and Freedom of Information, p. 37; United Nations, document E/CN.4/Sub.1/156.
9 Ibid., p. 35–36.