The doctoral thesis provides a description and analysis of the process of gestation at the late seventies, birth at the beginning of the eighties, and transformation of local television in Catalonia until the autumn 2005, when local Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) is implanted effectively in Catalonia. The thesis approaches to a complex process and provides, for the first time, a complete description of the evolution of the local television since its birth until the establishment of a new broadcasting technology of the television signal, the DTT. The thesis identifies and describes the changes occurred, what actors introduce them, and the vectors guiding the transformation of the local Catalan television. Likewise, the study provides interpretative elements allowing the understanding of these changes, the elements that made them possible and, therefore, why the object of study was gestated, born and evolved. In this sense, the thesis provides new elements, descriptive as well as interpretative, about local television regarding previous research on the phenomenon. The temporal dimension of the research undertaken allows to (re)locate, within the context of its evolution, the different moments and aspects of the object of study that have been previously studied.
La televisió local a Catalunya: gestació, naixement i transformacions (1976-2005)
Guimerà Orts, J. Á. (Author). 27 Nov 2006
Student thesis: Doctoral thesis
Student thesis: Doctoral thesis