Tele-revista y la Transición

An Audio-Visual Approach to the Spanish Transition

“…Folklore was conferred a political character with nationalist claiming too. 27 In 1975 a Catalan choir appeared for the first time singing the Catalan national anthem Els Segadors and reappeared several times until the end of the seventies. Likewise the autonomic spirit becomes palpable by means of the Galician association A Nosa Galiza with a poetry recital in Galego.…”

“…35 The risk of a politicisation of the Spanish immigrant community was a constant challenge for Swiss authorities. 36 The Spanish regime was afraid their fellow citizens abroad could be exposed to Marxist influence due to the liberal lifestyle in Switzerland. Furthermore, since the beginning of Spanish migration to Switzerland in the early sixties, leftist and progressive sectors of Swiss society began to resolutely criticise the regime.…”

“…In doing so, the broadcast performed a personification of politics as a narrative told by means of focuses on protagonists of the Spanish democratisation process. 44 Strictly Spanish political matters were not dealt with until February, starting with the intervention of Salvador de Madariaga (1886-1978), writer, historian and diplomat, who had set his residence in Ticino in 1972. He stated before the cameras of Tele-revista:…”

“…Tele-revista was suppressed in the early 2000s, at a time when Spaniards could receive their national network in Switzerland and Tele-revista had become thus no longer necessary. 3 The present paper pursues a short introduction of this broadcast history with a particular focus on the Spanish democratisation process whose beginning coincides more or less with the first airing of the magazine. Within this frame, a special interest will be set on social and cultural issues first and then on the way the transition process was represented by the broadcast.…”