underdevelopment gave rise among other things, imbalances a instabilities in communications systems, as reflected for example the level d of excessive concentrations of media, non-rationalization, dispersion of effort wrong use of technology, etc. The whole of this group of factors in turn gave rise to exaggerations and deficiencies which only made worse the situation of underdevelopment.
This reality is illustrated with absolute clarity by the citation of very simple and suggestive facts such as the existence in Lima of thirty-five radio stations with a mean power varying between 0.1 and 50 Kw and an average of nineteen hours of broadcasting per day, which not only means extreme saturation of the radio spectrum but also makes it virtually impossible to produce sufficient programmes of even tolerable technical quality.