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I heard a story that the Czechoslovakia government launched "The Beatles" in the 80s as a new hot band (ie. some 25 years late), to pacify the citizens. They would show 60s videos as if they were made yesterday. I strongly presume its fiction, or at best a modification of another story involving another Communist country and another band. I have not been able to find any mention of it on the net. Does anyone know about this or some similar manipulating tactic of their government in this time? --Jens Schriver 11:57, 5 January 2006 (UTC)Reply
The article states The relatively attractive TV programmes from Austria and West Germany had a sizable influence on the population. TV was not jammed by the authorities. While TV signals were not jammed surely there were difficulties recieving them since along with the fairly obvious language barrier television broadcasts (and the sets to recieve them) in most Eastern bloc countries used very different technical standards to those used in Western Europe. Frequency ranges, Sound/Vision spacing and Colour encoding were all incompatable (meaning if the broadcasts could be tuned in at all they would probably have appeared in black and white with no sound). It is possible (for a price) to obtain "multi-standard" TV's but in a command economy where most production is controlled by the state how widely available would such sets have been in Czechslovakia ? 213.40.103.77 (talk) 13:26, 22 August 2008 (UTC)Reply
The usage of term "communist" is misleading. While the governing party of Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia was identified as communist, it was beyond the point of being communist so it was primarily identified as socialist. Its better to call page Mass Media in Socialist Czechoslovakia, as it was identified as a socialist republic from their part. --Comrade-yutyo (talk) 08:52, 29 September 2020 (UTC)Reply