This book explores how emerging forms of communication have engendered new television genres and discourses, such as 24-hour news broadcasting, 'culture' channels and talk shows.

Acknowledgements

vii

Introduction

1

(1)

Context

1

(5)

Rationale

6

(7)

Methodology

13

(5)

History

18

(5)

PART I The semiotics of time in the third age of broadcasting

23

(42)

Regularity and change in 24-hour news

27

(12)

Television and temporal order

28

(1)

Flow

29

(2)

The flow of news discourse

31

(3)

Modularity and meaning on Sky News and n.tv

34

(2)

Form and content

36

(2)

Assessment

38

(1)

Timeliness: textual form and the beef crisis story

39

(11)

Where's the beef? - the story according to Sky

39

(3)

The story according to n.tv

42

(1)

Capturing the moment: British and German histories compared

43

(7)

Liveness as synchronicity and liveness as aesthetic

50

(15)

Synchronicity

50

(3)

Television and history

53

(2)

Aesthetics

55

(10)

PART II The semiotics of space in the third age of broadcasting

65

(52)

Constructing Europe

69

(18)

Satellite television and the new cultural geography

69

(1)

The European TV experience

70

(2)

The European public sphere

72

(1)

European culture and identities

73

(2)

European culture and community: a case study

75

(12)

Narrowcasting

87

(16)

TV's local audiences

88

(2)

The new local television

90

(13)

Spatial relations and sociability

103

(14)

Television's spatial relations in the era of satellite and cable channels

105

(12)

PART III Trash and quality

117

(51)

Bad television?

121

(22)

Bad television: the problem of judgement

122

(2)

Schedule and genre - characterising the new talk shows

124

(19)

European high culture - arts discourse in the new regime

143

(25)

ARTE about ARTE

146

(2)

ARTE scheduling

148

(18)

In conclusion

166

(2)

Worlds in common? Conclusions

168

(8)

Industry, texts and experience

168

(3)

Novelty and familiarity

171

(2)

Television in a changing Europe

173

(3)

Notes

176

(6)

References

182

(7)

Index

189

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