Over the last 10 years, French television's Institute of Audiovisual Communication (INA) has shifted from modernist to post-modernist practice in broadcasting in a series of innovative audiovisual magazine programs about communication, and in a series of longer "compilation" documentaries. The first of INA's audiovisual magazines, "Hieroglyphes," was produced in 1975. Primarily a visual collage, the one-hour weekly program consisted of a series of 10- to 12-minute self-contained, authored films, each with a brief voice-over explaining its provenance, but no linking of disparate items. "Rue des Archives," which followed two years later, was made on video, with individual directors constructing essays entirely from archival materials. The result was a highly impressionistic series of montages. In the third series, "Juste une Image," INA continued its evolution toward a cultivation of the image for its own sake by emphasizing video effects and dispensing with commentary. Materials used in the series included video art, film-makers' work in progress, archival photographs, television from other countries, animation and other special effects, "hieroglyphic" moments from the television archives, and classic cinematic moments. The evolution of INA's audiovisual magazines manifested various shifts in broadcasting technology, in cultural production, in theory, and in aesthetics. Thirty-two end notes/references are listed. (CGD)