It must further be remarked that according to figures for 1968, there were 222 radio broadcasting stations throughout the country distributed over the national territory in the most unsystematic and arbitrary fashion. As to television, we wish only to remark that in the capital, Lima, a situation developed in which seven television stations were operating simultaneously, of which one was government-operated, one was a cultural broadcast station operated by a private university and five were commercial that, through the virtual non-existence of more than one producer of pr grammes worthy of the name, the proportion of "canned' programmes pur hased on an international market dominated by the hegemonic power over 90 per cent of the total number. We have already seen the situation as concerns the press with a national circulation and we will conside further detail below along with radio and television.