John Sinclair is Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Head of the Cultural and Communication Studies Section of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is author of Images incorporated: Advertising as Industry and Ideology and Latin American Television: A Global View, co-editor of New Patterns in Global Television: Peripheral Vision and Floating Lives: The Media of Asian Diasporas, and is on the editorial advisory boards of several journals based both in Australia and overseas. Joseph D. Straubhaar is Amon G. Carter Centennial Professor of Communications at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is author of World Television: From Global to Local, co-editor of Media Now, and is on the editorial boards of several journals, including Latin American Journal of Media Studies.

“It offers a significant contribution to the growing international literature on the continent’s media systems and their relationship to globalization … . this is an important book in the field providing, as it does, probably the most in-depth source of understanding and knowledge of the role and impact that Latin-American broadcasting has had, not only in the politics of the region, but also in the process of nation-building … .” (Carolina Matos, Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, Vol. 1 (2), September, 2017)

• Acknowledgments.- Introduction: Latin American Television Industries.- 1 The Development of Broadcasting in Latin America as a Region.- 2 The Dominant Markets – Mexico.- 3 The Dominant Markets – Brazil.- 4 Emergent Producers and Markets in Latin America.- 5 Iberoamerica and the Lusophone Space as Global Television Markets.- 6 National Television Systems in the Global Era.- Conclusion: Latin American Television – Summary and Prospect.- Bibliography.- Index.