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At the beginning of broadcasting, distribution was an essential part of what broadcasting companies had to deal with. There were no independent network operators and hence broadcasters started to build and operate their own terrestrial broadcasting networks to get their radio and television programmes to their listeners and viewers.
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CTN was the name of the mother group and stands for “Cooperative Terrestrial Networks.” The appendix “Mobile” is to indicate that the scope of this project team lies on mobile networks.
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Beutler, R. (2017). Strategic Considerations. In: Evolution of Broadcast Content Distribution. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45973-8_8
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