Kay Richardson is Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies at the University of Liverpool., Ulrike H. Meinhof is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Bradford.

• Introduction; Part 1 The semiotics of time in the third age of broadcasting; Chapter 1 Regularity and change in 24-hour news; Chapter 2 Timeliness; Chapter 3 Liveness as synchronicity and liveness as aesthetic; Part 2 The semiotics of space in the third age of broadcasting; Chapter 4 Constructing Europe; Chapter 5 Narrowcasting; Chapter 6 Spatial relations and sociability; Part 3 Trash and quality; Chapter 7 Bad television?; Chapter 8 European high culture—arts discourse in the new regime; Chapter 9 Worlds in common? Conclusions;

Kay Richardson is Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies at the University of Liverpool., Ulrike H. Meinhof is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Bradford.

• Introduction; Part 1 The semiotics of time in the third age of broadcasting; Chapter 1 Regularity and change in 24-hour news; Chapter 2 Timeliness; Chapter 3 Liveness as synchronicity and liveness as aesthetic; Part 2 The semiotics of space in the third age of broadcasting; Chapter 4 Constructing Europe; Chapter 5 Narrowcasting; Chapter 6 Spatial relations and sociability; Part 3 Trash and quality; Chapter 7 Bad television?; Chapter 8 European high culture—arts discourse in the new regime; Chapter 9 Worlds in common? Conclusions;