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This article analyzes the strategies followed by the BBC channel to legitimize its role as public television through an approach to the citizens and a diversification of contents in order to face the challenge posed by the current fragmentation of audiences. The study is based on interviews with BBC news professionals about their concept of the public and their gaze on citizens. The aim of this paper is to identify ways to help TVE to face the challenge of its legitimating as public service television.

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This paper analyzes the models of Public Television in Spain (TVE) and Great Britain (BBC), within the different contexts in which both entities are created and developed. We understand that the features adopted by cultural industries do not obey to immovable determinations but are the result of political, economic and cultural circumstances. The discourse of professionals working in these two media -obtained trough in-depth interviews- will allow us to infer the concept of public service inspiring their work.

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Fan communities are increasingly important to television fiction series. The department of time television series (TVE) is examined in relation to this trend, with a focus on social networks. A sample of approximately 3,600 people calling themselves “ministerics” participated in the study. The analysis is carried out in the context of the convergence of media and transmedia, where the Net exerts particular influence on their program strategies and their contents, an it is focused to the production and promotion of audiovisual creations aimed at a general audience. This research is of special interest within the field of fan studies because it confirms the intensity and diversity of fans and shows the relevance that it has in national television, particularly in public television.

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The situation of fiction series produced in Spain by the countrywide broadcasters in the context of the arrival of VOD services such as Netflix is analyzed. The previous situation of Spanish fiction and the challenges generated by the new consumption modalities are presented. Then, a study of the audiences of the fiction series broadcast by Televisión Española, Antena 3, and Telecinco in the three-year period 2015-2017 is carried out. The conclusions put in relation the changes in the consumption of television with a gradual reconfiguration of the fiction produced in Spain.

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Television electoral debates are considered one of the most relevant events during the election period due to their high audience and also because of the power they generate to direct the media agendas. The present research examines the transmission of this format in front the proliferation of screens, diffusion on the social networks, introduction of on demand services, and on the go consumption together with the emergence of new television performers. This quantitative study analyses the debates issued during the parliamentary elections in Spain, which took place on the 28th of April 2019, in order to learn about their impact further than traditional television consumption and the engagement achieved. The methodology employed combined the monitoring of different platforms. The conclusions obtained support that the emission of this kind of debates takes place through new distribution channels, generating a high tracking rate on Twitter. The broadcasting strategies of the television chains differ.