It covers the vital issues facing the industry today in the arts, science and politics of television. The RTS Handbook is the indispensable reference manual for the television industry, containing contact names, addresses and company profiles. Members also benefit from individual and freelance entries. Once, when the BBC and ITV were the only players in town, everyone who worked in broadcasting knew how the parts related to the whole. It's hard for anyone to know that now.
Broadcasting keeps expanding and fragmenting.
It means new opportunities. But a crowded marketplace - where half the people in television production are no longer employed in the traditional organisations. Even those still employed by the large broadcasters can no longer rely on the old certainties. The RTS has always been a unique, freethinking forum where television's politics are influenced, its arts and science debated and its achievements recognised and rewarded. It still is.