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Romania Telecommunications
Although Romania's telecommunications systems had
developed
moderately by the 1980s, they lagged behind those of other
Comecon
members. In 1989 Romania operated thirty-nine AM and
thirty FM
radio stations, thirty-eight television broadcasting
stations, and
one satellite ground station. Television was not
introduced until
the mid-1960s, and, although the number of receivers owned
by the
population rose steadily to about 3.9 million in 1989,
television
did not have the pervasive influence on society that it
did in
other parts of Eastern Europe. Only about twenty-two hours
of
television programming were broadcast each week
(see Mass Media
, ch.4). In 1988 the Bucharest Electronics Enterprise, the
sole
manufacturer of television sets in Romania, expected to
produce
650,000 black-and-white and color television receivers,
about half
of which would be exported. The plant also manufactured
radios.
Much of the local telephone system had been automated by
the late
1980s. In 1985 there were 1,962,681 telephone subscribers
in
Romania.
Data as of July 1989
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