TY - JOUR
T1 - Pluralism and political parallelism in Spanish television news programmes
AU - Humanes, M. L.
AU - Montero Sánchez, M. D.
AU - de Dios, R. Molina
AU - López-Berini, A.
PY - 2013/12/1
Y1 - 2013/12/1
N2 - Introduction: This article has two main objectives. Firstly, it attempts to determine whether the news content of the mainstream Spanish television channels is governed by external pluralism which is a distinguishing feature of the polarised-pluralist media system, as exposed by Hallin and Mancini. The second objective is to address the relation that exists between pluralism and political parallelism. Methods: The study is based on the content analysis of a sample of 3,134 news items broadcast by the prime time news programmes of six national television networks: TVE1, Antena 3, Telecinco, La Sexta, Cuatro and Intereconomía. Results: The Spanish model of television is hybrid and combines different degrees of internal and external pluralism depending on the network's profile and the media group's business strategy. The news programmes produced by the public television channels exhibit the highest levels of internal pluralism.
AB - Introduction: This article has two main objectives. Firstly, it attempts to determine whether the news content of the mainstream Spanish television channels is governed by external pluralism which is a distinguishing feature of the polarised-pluralist media system, as exposed by Hallin and Mancini. The second objective is to address the relation that exists between pluralism and political parallelism. Methods: The study is based on the content analysis of a sample of 3,134 news items broadcast by the prime time news programmes of six national television networks: TVE1, Antena 3, Telecinco, La Sexta, Cuatro and Intereconomía. Results: The Spanish model of television is hybrid and combines different degrees of internal and external pluralism depending on the network's profile and the media group's business strategy. The news programmes produced by the public television channels exhibit the highest levels of internal pluralism.
KW - España
KW - Noticias
KW - Paralelismo político
KW - Pluralismo
KW - Televisión digital terrestre
U2 - https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2013-990en
DO - https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2013-990en
M3 - Article
VL - 68
SP - 566
EP - 581
JO - Revista Latina de Comunicacion Social
JF - Revista Latina de Comunicacion Social
SN - 1138-5820
ER -