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Table 9.2 Percentage of EVN stories used on different numbers of national
news services

Eurovision News Exchange on national news coverage. Viewed
collectively, at least, the behavior of the national television news
services does not appear to reflect a system in which Eurovision plays a
strongly dominant role.
However, if one shifts the level of analysis away from collectivities
or systems and focuses instead on individual national services, a
significantly different picture emerges. Table 3 examines the degree to
which five national broadcast services depend on EVN materials for
their main evening news bulletins. Data presented in the table were
derived by comparing videotapes of those bulletins with videotapes of
EVN feeds for the June week. The bulletins were chosen from a
geographically diverse group of large and small countries.
The percentages reported in Table 3 represent two types of ‘EVN
Dependency’: ‘EVN Dependency 1’, defined as the ratio of EVN-
generated stories used in the main evening bulletin to the total number of
stories appearing in the bulletin, and ‘EVN Dependency 2’, defined as
the ratio of EVN-transmitted stories used in the bulletin to the total