Regional segment in the news content of the central television of Ukraine

Abstract

The article reviews the news content of all-Ukrainian television media. It was found out that the news information on Ukrainian television is represented by the following thematic segments: socio-political / military, criminal, social, cultural and artistic, emergency materials. In consideration of the significant number of materials with the negative contextual connotation (socio-political, social, criminal) television media potentially form both negative internal and external images of the country as a whole and the local image of its regions. The general trends in the formation of the media image of a particular region are determined on the example of the coverage of Sumy events by rating TV channels. It was established that information about the region is presented in the vast majority of materials of criminal subjects and negative news from the socio-political and social spheres, which results in the formation of an image of the territory with a «minus» sign.