ABSTRACT
The purpose of this paper is to review the role of broadcasting in Iranian national development as well as to report some of the findings of a national survey concerning that role. Iran, like other rapidly developing societies, has been going through a fourfold revolutionary process that involves economic, political, communication and cultural transformations. The evolution from a quasi-feudal to a modern industrial economy, from an absolutist monarchy (before the Constitutional Revolution) to political participation, from oral traditions to multi-media communications systems, and from a closed belief-system to an open and regenerative one is taking place simultaneously.
