This book is the first to offer a global perspective on the unique contemporary media phenomenon of transnational television channels. It is also the first to compare their impact in different regions of the globe. Revealing great richness and diversity across seven key broadcasting regions, North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South and East Asia, the book examines the place of these channels in the process of globalization, their impact on the nation-state, and many more elements central to the study of international media and communications.

List of tables * Acknowledgements * Notes on contributors * Introduction: Towards an Understanding of Media Transnationalism--Jean K. Chalaby * Whoever Looks Always Finds: Transnational Viewing and Knowledge-Experience--Kevin Robins and Asu Aksoy * The Quiet Invention of a New Medium: Twenty Years of Transnational Television in Europe--Jean K. Chalaby * Maverick or Model? Al-Jazeera's Impact on Arab Satellite Television--Naomi Sakr * Transnational Television in Sub-Saharan Africa--Graham Mytton, Ruth Teer-Tomaselli and André-Jean Tudesq * The Transnational and the National: Changing Patterns of Cultural Influence in the South Asian TV market--David Page and William Crawley * The Transnationalization of Television: The Indian Experience--Daya Kishan Thussu * Transborder Broadcasters and TV Regionalization in Greater China: Processes and Strategies--Joseph Man Chan * International Television Channels in the Latin American Audiovisual Space--John Sinclair * Adapting US Transnational Television Channels to a Complex World: From Cultural Imperialism to Localization to Hybridisation--Joseph Straubhaar and Luiz Guilherme Duarte * Index of TV channels * General index