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The new media landscape is characterized by the fragmentation and disaffection of the audience towards The new media landscape is characterized by the fragmentation and disaffection of the audience towards traditional television. Such a context requires innovative strategies to meet [...]

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The author makes her proposal of a quality TV which means closed to European models designed as a public service and full of politic pluralism. She proposes a less passive TV whith more cultural contens and for away from mercantile devices or getting audience as its main aim. A TV [...]

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In the endless debate about quality television, we should first deal with the definition of quality, with its investigation and evaluation and with the exigible conditions to achieve it. From this point, we think that the key lies in the idea of audiences as a whole of citizens, not [...]

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The majority of the Spanish society is worried about the crisis of traditional values. They make television responsible of this situation and they claim deep changes to transform it in an active agent of social change. The author considers that television can assume that responsibility [...]

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The discussion about the quality of television contents, which has so strongly arisen in recent years, provides both elements for optimism and aspects that foster a sceptical position at the same time. The good intentions of improving programmes and of protecting children and youngsters, [...]

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Since the origins of TV in Spain, the interventionism of Power (in its different forms) has shaped the role of Spanish citizens. Partisan and/or economic interests has lessened the applicability of terms like « general interest » and « public service », terms that were often (and [...]

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In the search of television models wich emit contents of quality, the public local television is a platform inimitable and indispensable since it is the local communication of public character the one that facilitates the access from the civil society to the medias like contribution [...]

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The article analyzes the effectiveness of the audio-visual regulation and assesses the different arguments for and against the existence of the broadcasting authorities at the state level. The debate of the necessity of a Spanish organism of regulation is still active. Most of the [...]

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During some of the most recent years, in Portugal there has been a public debate going on about the different roles of television near some of the youngest sectors of the population, either as a priority medium of entertainment, as a privileged medium of information, as a possible [...]

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At the beginning of 2007 four experts on educational television carried out some research on the relationship between pre-university education and educational television. This research aimed at showing the diverse situations regarding the «didactic progress of television» from the [...]