Colombian Television Research Articles

Colombian Television in the 1980S

This article examines the claims that the unique public-private television system of the 1980s provided space for the development of a national sense of community-based on common narratives and decentralization. The sources for the analysis included a revision of its contemporary discussion in printed media coupled with an analysis of TV shows currently available on streaming services and interviews with relevant figures of the time. The television content shot on location was praised for representing the nation, while simultaneously giving rise to debates about decentralization, which was finally addressed by the creation of regional broadcasters. The hybrid system fostered diversity, production quality, and a national representation that was strongly contested from the regions. At the same time, the system unintendedly hampered the creation of an audiovisual archive, and complaints about its tender systems resonate with the plight of contemporary public service broadcasting in Colombia.

Extent and nutritional quality of foods and beverages to which children are exposed in Colombian TV food advertising.

To examine children's exposure to food and beverage advertising across a year of Colombian television based on whether products exceed Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO)-defined nutrient thresholds. Nutritional information was obtained for all foods and beverages advertised and used to categorise each product according to the product category (e.g. beverage, snack food) and nutritional quality based on the PAHO model for identifying products in excess of free sugars, Na or saturated fat or containing non-caloric sweeteners or trans-fat. Television audience ratings data were used to derive the average child audience (unique child viewers) per ad and the number of times ads were seen by children in a single week (weekly impressions) based on product category and nutritional quality. All food and beverage ads on cable and over-the-air TV in Colombia in 2017. N/A. Of all instances of TV ads, 89·3 % were of unhealthy products. A larger proportion of male and female children, as well as children from low (88·01 %), mid (89·10 %) and high (89·10 %) socio-economic status, are exposed to advertising of unhealthy products, but no significant difference was found between these proportions. The majority of foods and beverages advertised to Colombian children are unhealthy. These findings highlight a need to implement statutory measures to reduce children's exposure to unhealthy food advertising in Colombia, as obesity and overweight have been increasing among school-age children in Colombia, and exposure to television advertising of unhealthy foods is a known contributor to children's food intake and obesity.

A ficção televisiva colombiana na memória de seus protagonistas

O artigo procura entender a configuração da ficção televisiva colombiana a partir da memória de personagens que participaram desse cenário e cujas falas aparecem em diferentes produtos. Sem perder de vista que as falas são parte de uma reconstrução seletiva do passado e uma narrativa sobre a ficção, buscamos identificar características, transformações, rupturas e continuidades da teleficção colombiana, considerando as tensões entre a indústria televisiva e a vida social, cultural e política do país. A análise revelou um imaginário de duas televisões nacionais, dadas nos modelos misto e privado, que gerou também dois tipos de teleficção. Este panorama aponta de maneira reflexiva para um conjunto de transformações em relação a um projeto de nação, liderado pelo Estado e sustentado na diversidade, que se enfraqueceu gradualmente diante de interesses de mercado.

El ethos de Néstor Helí, el portero de Quac El Noticiero

El programa de humor político y metaperiodístico Quac el noticero (RTI Televisión, 1995-1997) creó varios personajes que representaron a los sectores populares -con opinión política- en las coyunturas del escándalo de corrupción política conocido como “el proceso ocho mil”. Nuestra tesis es que esos personajes constituyen uno de los mayores aportes de Quac el noticero a la historia de la ficción política en la televisión colombiana ya que estaban hechos no para reír de ellos sino para reír con ellos de la corrupta clase política. Entre estos personajes distinguimos a Dioselina Tibaná, Néstor Helí, Jhon Lenin y al señor Jaramillo. Nuestro propósito en este ensayo es analizar el ethos del portero del Edificio Colombia, Néstor Helí.

Prime-time narcos: the Mafia and gender in Colombian television

Through a content analysis of 532 programs screened on various national television networks in Colombia, this paper examines portrayals of women in the country’s narconovelas, fictional series derived from the telenovela genre that resonate forcefully with the public. We do so in order to gain a better understanding of their role in representing gender in Colombia. Relevant topics include: the widespread violence against women in a traditional, patriarchal country, the ineffectiveness of policies targeting gender discrimination, and ideologies of machismo and Marianismo. These practices are discussed as factors that may prevent women’s social empowerment and participation in the workforce and politics of the country. Our results show that, as per Colombia’s prevailing social relations, narconovelas demonstrate a gendered power imbalance and mestizo heteronormativity via macho plots that glamorize violence against women. Women are rarely key characters in narconovelas, and when they appear, they are dependent on men, and attain status through men or their families. In addition, the genre represents continuous verbal and physical aggression against women, especially if they belong to ethnic or racial minorities.

La nación en la televisión informativa Colombiana: 1960 y 2015. Del infractor inexistente al enemigo omnipresente

El artículo expone un adelanto de los resultados del proyecto Educación mediática y nación en Colombia: la narración y la institucionalización ‘audiovisual’. Se trata de diferenciar entre la manera como se narra la nación en los noticieros televisivos colombianos de los años sesenta (Actualidad panamericana) y la manera como se narra en los de hoy (Noticias rcn). Para ello, se analiza la narración mediática de la nación en los informativos televisivos de los años sesenta y en los actuales, desde cuatro aspectos contemplados por la teoría de los códigos: sustancias expresivas, formas expresivas, formas de contenido y sustancias de contenido. De estos aspectos, solo se expone aquí lo relacionado con la sustancia del contenido. Se establece una comparación entre las formas de representar, pero sobre todo entre lo representado como nación, en la televisión informativa en dos momentos de su desarrollo separados por más de 50 años.

Identification With Characters, Elaboration, and Counterarguing in Entertainment-Education Interventions Through Audiovisual Fiction

The aim of this article is to further knowledge of the explanatory processes of narrative persuasion in the field of health communication, using data obtained in a research study of entertainment-education based on audiovisual fiction. Participating in the study were 208 young persons between the ages of 14 and 20, randomly distributed to three different groups. Each of the groups was exposed to a different episode of the Colombian television series Revelados, desde todas las posiciones. The results showed that greater identification with the main character of the episode transmitting a prevention message was associated with greater cognitive elaboration, which in turn led to more favorable attitudes toward the topics addressed. However, counterarguing was not observed to play a significant mediating role. The findings of this study allow us to conclude that getting people to think and reflect can help persuade them, which suggests that narrative persuasion models and dual models of rhetorical persuasion can be compatible in certain contexts, such as when messages are designed in such a way that characters make explicit arguments that endorse a prosocial message through dialogues.

Die Realitäten der Reality Shows in Honduras

Zusammenfassung Das Meeresschutzgebiet Cayos Cochinos (MNMCC), eine Inselgruppe vor der Karibikküste von Honduras, ist zwischen 2006 und 2014 Kulisse für den Dreh von zwölf Reality Shows des europäischen und kolumbianischen Fernsehens gewesen. Der Honduran Coral Reef Fund (HCRF) gestattet die Dreharbeiten in dieser ökologisch sensiblen Zone aufgrund ihres Potentials, Arbeitsplätze in den lokalen Garífuna-Gemeinden zu schaffen und die Destination touristisch zu vermarkten. Die Verteilung der Einnahmen ist jedoch unausgeglichen und nicht transparent und begünstigt in erster Linie den HCRF. Um seine operative Funktionsfähigkeit zu gewährleisten, sieht sich der HCRF zunehmend gezwungen, Zugangsrechte zu den natürlichen Ressourcen an Drittparteien, insbesondere an Fernsehgesellschaften, zu veräußern. Die selektive Anwendung der etablierten Normen ist Ausdruck einer ambivalenten Politik, die die ohnehin konfliktiven Beziehungen zu den lokalen Garífuna-Gemeinden weiter belastet.

La violencia en la televisión nacional y la percepción de los niños

IntroductionThis paper examines the perception of violence in Colombian television, by school between seven and twelve years of age, socioeconomic stratum two, three and four. Method: The authors made 190 interviews and two focus groups. The analysis sought to understand the most important factors affecting the perception of violence on TV. ResultsChildren spend an average of four hours per day watching television, while leisure activities and dialogue with parents is low, also identified in the TV violence. 61% of children are exposed to the content of programs broadcast by television without the guidance of another person or company during the day after the school. The 62% say don't imitate behaviors or attitudes of the characters presented in television programs, 75% of children reported frequent fights between family members. ConclusionIt is pertinent to note here for the discussion, among the children studied concur a risk factors for the use of patterns of violence: The high number of hours that go alone to the television, along with the high incidence of violence family environment. The parents appear in the study as a major source of aggression towards children, while expression of affection and play activities with them are. This context of TV consumption offers greater risk then to incorporate aggressive scripts.

Aspectos sociales de la introducción del color en la red de televisión colombiana

In this paper, we report some aspects of the process of the introduction of color to the Colombian television network. Our analytical approach is to see lineal comprehensions, typical of progressive histories of technological change, as problematic. Consequently, we try to take into account heterogeneous arrays of the historical, social, economical, cultural, technical and political circumstances involved in the process. This approach allows us to explain the technological alternatives that were considered and the technical and institutional pathways that were effectively implemented. The historical review suggests that an oversimplified comprehension of socio-technical change gives rise to a low capacity to guide it with respect to more ambitious social goals.

Los noticieros de la televisión colombiana “en observación”. Una mirada desde la academia a la estructura, cobertura y contenidos de los teleinformativos de la televisión abierta en Colombia

The article describes the more relevant findings of a study conducted by the Media Observatory at La Sabana University School of Communication and financed by the National Television Commission on the structure, coverage and content of national, regional and local newscasts broadcast on Colombian television. Among other aspects, it notes the disappearance of the major genres of journalism, the limited degree to which information is contextualized, the spread of “single-source” and “no source” reporting, and the predominance of judicial and sports information in televised newscasts

Be Happy Because Your Father Isn't Your Father: An Analysis of Colombian Telenovelas

Critics of mass‐mediated culture have long maintained that media such as television, radio, and newspapers are instrumental in propagating class values. In his analysis of Colombian telenovelas, Azriel Bibliowicz argues that this apparently harmless form of entertainment also has a political and ideological base whose implicit messages serve to make its viewers forget reality. Just as Levi Strauss believes that mythsplay a central role in society, Bibliowicz claims that the purpose of myths in telenovelas is to have us lose sight o f the origins of the eristingsocial order and to exonerate the dominant class which controls society's means of production. He gives us an overview of the Colombian television industry, describes how a telenovela is made, and analyzes one‐“Manuela”‐which contains a social message. Readers will find some interesting similarities and differences between this study of a Colombian popular art form and the articles by Flora and Bonilla de Ramos which focus on the fotonovela and radio in the same country.

Factores que facilitan la generación de ‘engagement’ con programas de televisión: exploración cualitativa desde la identidad del canal, las características del producto y la valoración de las audiencias

La presente investigación principalmente cualitativa buscó conocer qué elementos de la identidad del Canal RCN afectan la exposición y por consiguiente la generación de compromiso por parte de las audiencias. Para el desarrollo del proyecto se establecieron tres ejes de investigación separados: La identidad corporativa del canal, el análisis de sus productos y los elementos generales del proceso de recepción que resultan relevantes para la generación del engagement en las audiencias. Posteriormente se desarrolló un cruce de información que permitió generar conclusiones específicas para el canal y generales para comprender el fenómeno del engagement en las audiencias colombianas. Cada uno de los ejes de investigación se abordó a través de una técnica específica (entrevista en profundidad, análisis de contenido/discurso narrativo y grupos focales). Los resultados muestran que en las audiencias consultadas los elementos más destacados en el proceso de generación de compromiso con los productos televisivos están relacionados con la identidad del canal que transmite el producto, las expectativas de los televidentes (especialmente centradas en el aprendizaje), la temática abordada, la presencia de publicidad y los criterios de programación.