Editing Mass media in Venezuela (section)

===Democratic period===
Venezuela was the ninth country in the world to have television, introduced in 1952 by [[Marcos Pérez Jiménez]]. By 1963 a quarter of Venezuelan households had television; a figure rising to 45% by 1969 and 85% by 1982.<ref name=Swanson>Swanson, David and Mancini, Paolo (1996), ''Politics, media, and modern democracy: an international study of innovations in electoral campaigning and their consequences'', Greenwood Publishing, p240</ref>

By 1970s, Venezuela surpassed Argentina as the most urbanized of South America nations. The benefits that urbanization has brought in terms of ease of communication were offset by social problems.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.milbank.org/wp-content/uploads/mq/volume-24/issue-02/24-2-Urbanization-in-Latin-America.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.milbank.org/wp-content/uploads/mq/volume-24/issue-02/24-2-Urbanization-in-Latin-America.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|format=PDF|title=URBANIZATION IN LATIN AMERICA|author1=Kingsley Davis|author2=Ana Casis|website=Milbank.org|access-date=4 February 2022}}</ref>