Abstract
The emergence of television news programs in the late 1940s in the US marked a major historical development in the history of journalism (→ news; Television News; Journalism, History of). Combining the broadcast auditory flow of radio (→ Radio Technology) with the moving images (→ Film Theory) of the movie → newsreels shown in the → cinema, television news was able to provide the public with a new experience in journalism. In the context of American commercial broadcasting, television journalism – more than any previous form of news – was shaped by the economic demands of entertainment and advertising (→ Advertising, Economics of), not least on account of the compelling visual dimension (→ Commercialization: Impact on Media Content). The American model of television news was quickly exported, and has become the global norm for how it is done. The visual elements are a part of the taken‐for‐granted professional routines, yet continue to evolve as the genre develops, and they remain of important analytic concern (→ News Routines).
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