Construction of Public Service Broadcasting in Turkey and TRT Example
Construction of Public Service Broadcasting in Turkey and TRT Example

Summary/Abstract: This works, explores the Turkey's encounter with the concept of public service broadcasting and the construction of this concept in the Republic of Turkey, first with the radio and then inevitably with the television broadcasts. In 1926, the Republic of Turkey, which was just newly established, meets radio. Established as a joint-stock company, TTTAŞ continues radio broadcasts until 1936. With the state's transfer of radio broadcasts to Posts, Telegraph and Telephone organization, “State Radio” period started in public broadcasting. Until the establishment of TRT (Turkish Radio Television Corporation), which will be an autonomous public service broadcaster in 1964, the radio continued to stay under state control. The Turkish society, which started to meet with television with experimental television broadcasts started in Istanbul Technical University in 1952, on January 31, 1968, with the TRT's first broadcast throughout the country, will be able to watch regular television broadcasts. The Republic and the TRT saw the television medium as a vehicle for educating the public and creating a type of citizen they wanted, rather than an entertainment platform.

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