04 Luxembourg: The Mouse that Roared

Abstract

It is difficult today to look back 25 years and remember what a major shock satellite television was to the established broadcasting status quo across Europe. Public broadcasting, much of it good, had an entrenched position while emerging commercial networks were already shaking up the industry. But satellite would provide the breakthrough, the electric shock to a system that had developed over three decades in a rather slow, stable and state-cont-rolled manner.