La presencia del infoentretenimiento en los canales generalistas de la TDT española

Salomé  Berrocal Gonzalo; Marta Redondo García; Virginia Martín Jiménez; Eva Campos Domínguez

doi:10.4185/RLCS-2014-1002

Authors

Salomé Berrocal Gonzalo University of Valladolid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0483-0509
Marta Redondo García Valladolid University http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8143-465X
Virginia Martín Jiménez University of Valladolid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7099-1060
Eva Campos Domínguez University of Valladolid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8970-7947

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2014-1002

Keywords:

Infotainment, spectacularisation, television programming, DDT, television genres

Abstract

This article is part of the strand of empirical studies on infotainment and presents a characterisation of the infotainment content broadcast by the Spanish mainstream DTT channels. Method. The study is based on the analysis of the infotainment content included in the programming of the six most important mainstream DTT channels in Spain, and the content analysis of the prime time infotainment content. Results. Infotainment occupies a privileged position in the mainstream television channels but there are significant differences across networks. The main distinctive features that characterise infotainment are humour, drama and the use of technical resources to increase the sensationalism of images. Discussion. Infotainment is consolidated as a relevant macro-genre whose presence ranges from 34.91% (in La Sexta) to 8.12% (in La 2), being the magazine and debate shows the dominant formats. Surprisingly, the presence of infotainment in TVE 1 (18.10%) is higher than in the networks Antena 3 and Cuatro.

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Author Biographies

Salomé Berrocal Gonzalo, University of Valladolid

Doctor by the Complutense University of Madrid. Full Professor of Journalism at the University of Valladolid (Spain). Coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Journalism and Master’s Degree Programme in Communication Research as Socio-Historical Agent at the University of Valladolid. Director of the New Tendencies in Communication Research Group (NUTECO), which is recognised by the Junta of Castile and León). Visiting professor at the University of California San Diego (2010) and the George Washington University (2011).

Author of Análisis básico de la prensa diaria. Manual para aprender a leer periódicos (“Basic analysis of the daily press. Manual to learn to read newspapers”) (1998), in collaboration with C. Rodríguez-Maribona; Comunicación política y televisión. Definición de un marco teórico en la investigación electoral en televisión. Las elecciones legislativas de 1993 (“Political communication and television. Definition of a theoretical framework in the electoral research on television. The legislative elections of 1993”) (2001). Coordinator of Comunicación política en televisión y nuevos medios (“Political communication on television and new media”) (2003), Pasado, presente y futuro de la libertad de expresión (“Past, present and future of the freedom of expression”) (2004) and La investigación en periodismo político en el entorno de los nuevos medios (“Research in political journalism in the new media environment”) (2012). Author of many articles published in indexed and prestigious journals

Her main lines of research are political communication (particularly political infotainment), social participation in political life, communication and public opinion, and sociology of communication.

Marta Redondo García, Valladolid University

Marta Redondo García holds a Doctoral Degree in Journalism by the University of Valladolid, a Master’s Degree in Journalism by the Autonomous University of Madrid and a Bachelor’s Degree in Hispanic Philology. Assistant Professor at the University of Valladolid.

Participant in several R&D projects. Full-time researcher in the project titled El infoentretenimiento político en televisión e Internet. Formatos, audiencias y consecuencias en la comunicación política española - INFOPOLTNET (“Political infotainment on television and the Internet. Formats, audiences and consequences on the Spanish political communication”), which is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports. Member of the New Tendencies in Communication Research Group (NUTECO), which is recognised by the Junta of Castile and León).
Her main lines of research are ethics and journalism, infotainment and journalistic sensationalism, and the effects of the media on young people.

Former journalist and news anchor in different media, including Antena 3, TVE and Vía Digital

Virginia Martín Jiménez, University of Valladolid

Virginia Martín Jiménez holds a Doctoral Degree from the University of Valladolid (with honours) and has academic background in History, Journalism and Sociology. Professor of Journalism at the University of Valladolid.

Her main research lines are Public Opinion and Political communication, Media and creation of identity, and History and the media.

Author of articles published in indexed journals with high impact factor, such as the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, the International Journal of Iberian Studies, Doxa and Historia Actual online.Guest researcher at several prestigious European universities and research centres.

Eva Campos Domínguez, University of Valladolid

Doctor (with Honours) by the Complutense University of Madrid. Professor of Journalism at the University of Valladolid (Spain). Sponsored by the Cortes Generales for the production of doctoral theses (2007 and 2008). Winner of the Premio Joven de Comunicación (Communication Youth Award) of the Complutense Foundation of Madrid (2007).

Participant of various funded research projects on politics and the Internet. Author of several published works on cyber-democracy, including: La ciberdemocracia en el Congreso de los Diputados (“Cyber-democracy in the Congress of Deputies”) (2011) and Digital democracy deliberative (2012).

Her main lines of research are political communication on the Internet, with special and recent interest in the open government system and parliamentary communication.

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