Una questione locale. Televisioni private, storia della televisione e storia dei media

Since the mid-1970s, local television broadcasters have constituted a significant part of the Italian media system, contributing decisively to the industry’s commercialization processes. Yet, Italian media historiography often reserves for these experiences only a marginal, general if not generic place: a footnote, unable to restore the complexity and variety of the experiences. This contribution investigates the main reasons for this marginality and relates the issues raised by the history of Italian local networks to the other, numerous media histories that intersect with it.