La difusión de la prensa diaria en los Países Catalanes entre 1976 y 1996

Abstract

This study analyses generic processes affecting the various tiers of the daily press in relation to the evolution of the political structuring of the Catalanspeaking areas (Catalonia, Balearic Islands and Valencian Community)within the Spanish State, from the beginning of the transition to democracy in 1976 through to 1996. The major movements to be detected in press diffusion are the increase in the "vertebration" of the Spanish state as a whole, evident as much in the increased weight of the centralised statewide press penetrating the Catalanspeaking market as in the process of homogenisation revealed by key data referring to total sales, circulation density and market shares.