Intervision (television)
Intervision (Russian: Интервидение, Polish: Interwizja) was an institution founded in 1960 by the Organization Internationale de Radiodiffusion et de Télévision for the exchange of television programs between the then Eastern Bloc countries and with Eurovision . The joint intervision transmissions were musically introduced by a fanfare composed for this purpose by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1971 .
The association with the coordination center in Prague was founded on January 30, 1960 with the television companies of Hungary , Poland , the GDR and the ČSSR , analogous to the Eurovision . A short time later, the central television of the USSR as well as the television stations of Bulgaria (1961), Romania (1962) and the Mongolian People's Republic joined. The transfer of the image modulation to the Czechoslovakia and Hungary was due to technical inadequacies, initially terrestrially via cable and radio links , later with the help of Soviet satellites. In addition to these states, the only television companies in non-aligned countries were the Austrian ORF and the Finnish YLE . To a lesser extent, there was also an exchange of programs with Eurovision.
From 1977 to 1980 the Intervision organized the Intervision song competition as a competitive event to the Eurovision Song Contest .
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- ↑ Thomas Lindenberger (ed.): Mass media in the Cold War: actors, images, resonances. Cologne 2006, p. 241, ISBN 3-412-23105-3 .
- ↑ Thomas Lindenberger (ed.): Mass media in the Cold War: actors, images, resonances. Cologne 2006, p. 242, ISBN 3-412-23105-3 .