1. Studying Television: New Worlds and Contemporary Debates / David French and Michael Richards -- 2. From Global Development to Global Culture? / Michael Richards and David French -- 3. Television and Change: Comparing National Experiences / Michael Richards and David French -- 4. The Socio-cultural Dynamics of Indian Television: From SITE to Insight to Privatisation / John V. Vilanilam -- 5. Expansion of the Korean Television Industry and Transnational Capitalism / Shin Dong Kim -- 6. Television in Pakistan: An Overview / Seemi Naghmana Tahir -- 7. Structures of Television in Singapore / Mark A. Hukill -- 8. The Impact of the International Marketplace on the Organisation of Malaysian Television / Zaharom Nain -- 9. Television and the Emergence of 'Civil Society' in Thailand / Ubonrat Siriyuvasak -- 10. The Evolution of Prime-time Television Scheduling in HongKong / Terence Lo and Chung-bong Ng -- 11. A Note on Television in Sri Lanka / Sunanda Mahendra.

12. Rip Van Winkle: A Story of Indian Television / Usha Vyasulu Reddi -- 13. Pictured Realities and Pictures of Reality: Cross-cultural Intelligibility of the Visual in Television / Raghavachari Amritavalli -- 14. Aspects of Ethnicity and Gender in Malaysian Television / Mustafa K. Anubr and Wang Lay Kim -- 15. International News on Indian Television: A Critical Analysis of The World This Week / Keval J. Kumar -- 16. Development Dilemmas for Indian Television / Arbind Sinha -- 17. No News is Bad News: 4 June and Individualism in Hong Kong / Terence Lo -- 18. Open Markets and the Future of Television - Fiction and Fact: GATT, GATS and the World Trade Organisation / David French and Michael Richards.