"The main purposes of the survey, conducted from July to October, 2002, were to acquire updated information on the penetration of television broadcasting in the Pacific islands region, the status of the television broadcasting organizations in the island countries and to assess the development of lo ... cal television programme production by Pacific islanders for Pacific island television organizations and viewers. The required information would have been more efficiently acquired by travelling to each of the island countries in which television exists but as this was not possible at the time, the survey was conducted by questionnaire. A two page document entitled 'UNESCO Pacific Island Television Survey Questionnaire' was dispatched by email and facsimile to 24 television broadcasting organizations in 19 Pacific island countries. Questionnaires were returned (at very slow pace) by 16 countries and information from two countries was obtained by telephone and reference texts. This means that basic information on 18 countries was acquired." (Introduction) more