Broadcast News Research Articles

Stranding reports of the Antillean manatee in the middle Magdalena Basin, Colombia 2011 to 2023

The aim of this study was to conduct an analysis of reported events concerning Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus) strandings in the middle Magdalena Basin region of Colombia from January 2011 to December 2023. To achieve this, a literature search was conducted in newspapers, news broadcasts, as well as gray and published reports, complemented by interviews and workshops with various governmental and non-governmental organizations. This search resulted in reliable information regarding past experiences involving stranded manatees over the years. Cases attended to by the environmental authority and its partners were also considered. Forty-four stranding events were recorded, with 34 deaths and 10 live manatees. Of the cases discovered, 79.5% of the reported cases were addressed. This effort highlighted the current lack of an official database that would provide firsthand knowledge of Antillean manatee stranding events in Colombia, thereby hindering timely and appropriate territorial management during response to the challenges faced by this species in the region. Furthermore, it underscores the need to implement a standardized response pathway for manatee cases, following appropriate protocols, and promoting the coordination of stakeholders within the regional stranding network in the middle Magdalena Basin. This approach, in addition to supporting the capacity building of communities, institutions, and organizations for improving response knowledge, conservation, and manatee recovery, is of paramount importance for the long-term sustainability of manatee populations in the region.

Social Dynamics, Internet and the Survival of Broadcast Journalism in the 21st Century

This study looks at how broadcast news on TV and radio is changing in the 21st century because of the internet. The study used a theory that says technology shapes how we use media to see how social things affect how people consume news. Social media is changing how news is spread, and this paper is studying how regular people's content, online groups, and the quick spread of information play a big role. The paper looks at how the internet is changing traditional TV and radio news. The study is checking out challenges and chances that come with everything going digital, from online streaming to regular people reporting news. The paper looks at how old media and new online platforms work together and how they need to be flexible to survive. The study also looks at how people trust and believe in the news, especially with so much information online. Understanding how social things mix with online stories helps us get a better idea of what influences how the public sees and interacts with broadcast news. The study found that broadcast news needs to use social things and the internet to reach more people, but it also needs to keep its integrity and trustworthiness, especially in a time where false information can spread quickly. The study suggests that TV and radio stations should use online platforms to connect with people.

Интонационните паузи в речта на телевизионните водещи. Прагматични аспекти

The functions of intonation depend on the simultaneous action of its components (along with their overlay on the segmental language system). The desired effect in speech is achieved by following rules that are, in most cases, unconscious to native speakers. If communicators do not manage to follow the rules in terms of intonation, the optimal result of their communication cannot be reached. The present study marks and analyses violations of the regularities in the use of pauses, as a component of into-nation, in the Bulgarian media discourse, and more specifically – in the speech of tele-vision presenters. The object of the study are video materials broadcasted on bTV and NOVA. The conclusions highlight the specific features of media discourse that are typical for interviews and news broadcasts.

Television News Broadcasting: Conformance to News Standards and Emotional Expression

With the progress of the era and the development of society, China's broadcast television industry has entered the era of all media. The industry level and technology have achieved a qualitative leap, which has placed higher demands on the professional capabilities of broadcasters and hosts. Language communication ability and emotional expression skills are an important part of the professional capabilities of frontline news broadcasters and hosts. Only by aligning news standards with emotional expression can news broadcasters and hosts convey the connotation and viewpoints of news accurately and vividly to the audience on the basis of standard news reporting, thereby achieving the optimal efficiency of news broadcasting.This study first clarifies the basic principles that television news broadcasting emotional expression should follow and the influencing factors of emotional expression in news television broadcasting language. Then, it explores specific pathways to enhance the ability of emotional expression in television news broadcasting language from aspects such as making good use of language and culture, switching to appropriate rhythms, revealing personal emotions, and enhancing details of life. This aims to provide references for research and practice related to news anchor reporting, discourse expression, and the teaching of broadcasting and hosting disciplines.

Interviewing Didier Raoult: The scientist who breaks the frame

This paper examines how normative roles of interaction in broadcast news interviews are disrupted during interviews with French expert immunologist and scientist Didier Raoult. The analysis is based on the organisation of the news interview as a particular form of institutional talk, and on the discursive features of expertise. There are three key aspects to the construction of Raoult as a central figure of the pandemic scene in France. The first is his prominent media presence online, the second is his regular appeal to historical events, in relation to France and to his family, and the third is his own status as director of a team of epidemiology experts at the IHU (Institut Hospitalier Universitaire) in Marseille. In the three interviews in the data set, these three aspects emerge as legitimate discursive grounding for his stance regarding the pandemic, and relevant treatment for the virus. The paper is organised as follows: the first part is a presentation of Didier Raoult and the mediated context from which the corpus of interviews is selected. In the second, the discussion focuses on the discourse of scientific expertise, and how Raoult constructs his expert status in the interviews. The final part will analyse how he puts this expert status to work as a discursive resource for disrupting the interactional norms that generally hold between journalists on the one hand, and interviewees on the other.

Whisper-based spoken term detection systems for search on speech ALBAYZIN evaluation challenge

The vast amount of information stored in audio repositories makes necessary the development of efficient and automatic methods to search on audio content. In that direction, search on speech (SoS) has received much attention in the last decades. To motivate the development of automatic systems, ALBAYZIN evaluations include a search on speech challenge since 2012. This challenge releases several databases that cover different acoustic domains (i.e., spontaneous speech from TV shows, conference talks, parliament sessions, to name a few) aiming to build automatic systems that retrieve a set of terms from those databases. This paper presents a baseline system based on the Whisper automatic speech recognizer for the spoken term detection task in the search on speech challenge held in 2022 within the ALBAYZIN evaluations. This baseline system will be released with this publication and will be given to participants in the upcoming SoS ALBAYZIN evaluation in 2024. Additionally, several analyses based on some term properties (i.e., in-language and foreign terms, and single-word and multi-word terms) are carried out to show the Whisper capability at retrieving terms that convey specific properties. Although the results obtained for some databases are far from being perfect (e.g., for broadcast news domain), this Whisper-based approach has obtained the best results on the challenge databases so far so that it presents a strong baseline system for the upcoming challenge, encouraging participants to improve it.

DIGITAL CONVERGENCE AND VALUE CREATION: TVONE’S STRATEGIC ADAPTATION TO THE DIGITAL LANDSCAPE

In the wake of the Analog Switch Off (ASO) in Indonesia since November 2022, the traditional television industry faces significant challenges, including a decline in viewership and a fiercely competitive advertising market. With over 40 digital channels available in Jakarta alone, compared to just 11 national television stations previously, and the growing dominance of digital media, traditional broadcasters are compelled to adapt. This study focuses on tvOne, a conventional television broadcaster, and its strategic responses to these challenges. Our research methodology employs a qualitative approach in order to extract valuable and insightful information from highly knowledgeable sources. To achieve this, we have conducted interviews with seasoned policymakers in tvOne's business strategy, as well as with professionals working in the digital division. By doing so, we aim to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the subject matter at hand. This will enable us to present a comprehensive and accurate report that will benefit the industry as a whole. The analysis reveals how tvOne leverages media convergence to transform digital threats into opportunities for value creation. Specifically, it explores tvOne's use of news broadcast footage and digital platforms like YouTube to carve out new economic niches. This case study contributes to the understanding of how television stations can utilize technology advancements to enhance the value of their offerings. It offers valuable strategies and recommendations for broadcasters navigating the rapid technological evolution in the digital era, underscoring the importance of adaptation and innovation in sustaining relevance and competitiveness

Going meta: Interaction at the normative boundaries of the news interview

In the modern hybrid media landscape, the relations between journalists and politicians in arenas such as the broadcast news interview can seem less stable. Politicians and their advisors seem increasingly confident in identifying when and how to engage with political interviewers while journalists, in response, feel under pressure to intensify their role as scrutineering tribunes of the people. In such an environment, the normative interactional boundaries of the news interview itself can come under pressure from both sides, and even be breached. This article discusses the phenomenon of ‘going meta’ – occasions in which participants break out of the interview’s interactionally managed frame, and render topical the very practices that, ordinarily, constitute and reproduce the rules of that frame. Going meta is a practice that simultaneously breaches the ‘rules’ of the interview, and invokes the same rules in the construction of complaints about the behaviour of a coparticipant. The analysis shows how interview participants use going meta to raise questions of objectivity, truth, and the interests of ‘the people’, often in moments of heightened conflict talk.

Radio News in the Slovak Republic in the 21st Century

The present scientific study focuses on the issue of radio news in the 21st century. The ambition is to evaluate, at the time of writing this study, the current situation concerning news coverage in the most listened radio entities in the Slovak Republic. In this context, the basic characteristics of a public radio broadcaster and a private radio entity are also described. The results focus on the current state of radio news and its diverse interpretation in selected radio entities in Slovakia based on quantitative content analysis. The study details information on the nature of broadcast news in our research sample of the main news programmes of a public and a private radio broadcaster in Slovakia. It also sets out research questions and hypotheses focusing on the representation of news with a domestic and foreign focus, as well as which foreign countries dominate the foreign news coverage, and the themes in the foreign news coverage. The study summarizes the results of the research, generalizes the data, and also formulates conclusions that define radio news in the 21st century. The research section also includes interviews with executives from two selected media entities to support the results of the quantitative content analysis.

Retracted: Consumption Reduction Solution of TV News Broadcast System Based on Wireless Communication Network

Retracted: Consumption Reduction Solution of TV News Broadcast System Based on Wireless Communication Network

Suitcase of Soundscapes: The London Transcription Service and the Packaging of Wartime Sounds for the BBC’s Global Radio Audience

The wartime work of the BBC is widely remembered, but the focus on the live broadcasting of news across Britain and occupied Europe which characterises most previous studies overlooks the extensive production of transcription recordings for both allied and neutral countries during the conflict. Transcription programmes, along with other neglected fields such as library music, have left more robust archival traces than the more celebrated and ‘ephemeral’ live programming, thereby challenging the continued centrality of ‘liveness’ to scholarly understandings of radio as a medium. This article looks at the programmes produced by the BBC’s London Transcription Service (LTS) through the case study of an unstudied collection of wartime discs which are preserved at the Czech Radio Archive in Prague. These programmes, produced by international teams for a truly global audience, offer further insights into the wartime ‘projection of Britain’ and show how the specificities of transcription were used to ensure audiences received an impression of Britain and the Allied cause that was carefully tailored to them.

‘This is what happens to people who don't spank their kids’: An analysis of YouTube comments to news reports of child to parent violence

AbstractChild to parent violence (CPV) is a form of family violence that has seen a growth in research attention over the past decade. However, little research has examined how this problem is understood by those outside of academia. This is despite recognition that public understandings of a particular social problem shape the landscape in which that problem plays out. To address this research gap, we analysed data from 463 public comments posted on YouTube in response to four UK news broadcasts that reported on the problem. Using a discourse analytic approach, we examined how posted comments framed the cause of, and solutions to, CPV. While a range of causes were identified, the posts predominantly blamed the parents, mobilizing child development discourses to attribute the cause of CPV to either parental use of violence, or to a lack of parental violence, towards children. The solutions offered reflect a penal populism that supports extremely punitive sanctions against children who engage in CPV. This study suggests that public campaign and education initiatives need to do more than raise public awareness about CPV—they must also inform the public about how broader social policy operates in relation to children, families and the state.

Mediatisation Dynamics and Broadcast News Selection Approaches in Nigeria During the Covid-19 Era

This study examines how the dynamics surrounding mediatisation of COVID-19 narratives significantly impacted broadcast news selection among broadcast media professionals in Nigeria. It conceptually expounds on certain influences that mediatisation dynamics exert on broadcast news stories especially on how they were chosen, framed, and presented to the public. The theoretical foundation of this paper is provided by the Media System Dependency and Mediatisation theories. The study employs Hjarvard, Mortensen, and Eskjaer’s (2015) typologies of media dynamics: amplification, framing, performance avenues, and co-structuring to relate how mediatisation influences broadcast news selection. The study revealed that amplification entails the media’s power to magnify event, focusing predominantly on the negative aspects of the pandemic, such as death tolls and infection rates, which aligns with the typical newsworthiness criteria favouring the extraordinary and negative. Conversely, framing and performance avenues align with the broadcast media’s ability to shape how the pandemic was perceived by selecting terminology and emphasising specific issues. This includes sensitising the public on preventive measures and providing a platform for various stakeholders to communicate their actions. Co-structuring explores how the broadcast media, often controlled by the elite, influence the public agenda and prompt actions from authorities. The paper concludes that broadcast media not only influence society but are also influenced by the concept of mеdiatisation, acknowledging the vital role they play in providing information for societal well-being.

House Members on the News: Local Television News Coverage of Incumbents

AbstractThe accountability relationship between voters and elected members of Congress (MCs) hinges on the potential for citizens to learn about legislator behaviour. In an era of declining local newspapers, local television coverage of MCs potentially fulfils this important role. However, few studies have comprehensively examined the determinants of contemporary MC coverage by local television news broadcasts. In this paper, we leverage a vast database of local television news broadcast transcripts spanning two years to identify which factors explain MC coverage. We find that MCs receive little coverage outside the general election campaign season. Media market and campaign-specific factors are associated with more exposure when coverage occurs. Finally, we find that within competitive elections, incumbents receive only a marginal advantage in coverage. These findings provide a springboard to explore further questions regarding Congress, local media, and political accountability.

Exploring the Bob Ross effect: A psychophysiological investigation

Watching news broadcasts is known to elicit psychological stress. Conversely, the iconic painter Bob Ross (BR) has risen to pop culture status and amassed a following, as many find the messages and sounds of BR to be soothing and relaxing. Though, it has yet to be directly tested if such exposure can confer psychological or physiological benefit. The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of watching BR versus streaming news on markers of cardiovascular health and profile of mood states (POMS). It was hypothesized that watching BR would increase POMS scores and heart rate variability (HRV). It was also hypothesized that watching the news would increase blood pressure (BP), vascular stiffness (VS), and heart rate (HR). MethodsIn a randomized, controlled, crossover design, 18 young (21 ± 1 yrs, 9 female, 9 male) healthy participants (172.6 ± 9.9 cm, 69 ± 18 kg) were assessed for BP, VS, HR, HRV, and POMS before and after watching an episode of BR or the News matched for time (∼27 mins). Results: A significant interaction effect on POMS scores were observed for, anxiety (p = 0.01), anger (p = 0.008), depression (p = 0.003), fatigue (p = 0.001), and confusion (p = 0.01) domains after watching BR. The LF/HF ratio, an HRV marker of sympathovagal balance, was significantly lower after watching BR (p = 0.04). There were no significant time, condition, or interaction effects on systolic BP, mean arterial pressure, and diastolic BP. ConclusionThe “Bob Ross Effect” reduces overall mood disturbance, though appears to exert little influence on the cardiovascular system in this acute paradigm.

Mass Media with Positive Impact on Personal Behavior and Ethical Judgments

The advent of the internet has prompted more scrutiny of individual conduct and generated many moral appraisals thereof. Nevertheless, the moral assessments have had both beneficial and detrimental effects on society. Hence, the subject matter explored in this article pertains to the influence exerted by mass media via positive attention and assessment on individual behaviour. The research methodology used in this work is outlined as follows: Firstly, this study focuses on the selection of news broadcasts that highlight persons that possess substantial social power in contemporary society. Secondly, a comprehensive behavioural analysis is performed to examine the moral appraisal of these individuals by the general public. Numerous studies have shown that the scrutiny of individual conduct by the public may provide positive outcomes for both the collective and society at large, provided that both journalists and consumers of news engage in appropriate behaviours. This research proposes that individuals, when confronted with individual behaviour, need to impartially assess its morality in accordance with actuality, using a composed and unbiased judgement.

Базова структура верстки телевізійних новин: стандартизований підхід до виробництва новин

This research introduces an original definition of the «news layout model,» emphasizing its significance as a conventional approach in crafting news broadcasts. The study reveals that the architecture of this model encompasses the principles of selection and ranking of topics, methodologies for information presentation, and on-air techniques. These components are inherently linked to strategic approaches in topic selection and ranking, which are grounded in the foundational principles of news creation. The presentation methods relate to the overarching strategies for assembling a news broadcast, employing a system of techniques that enable the creation of a comprehensive information segment. Meanwhile, the layout techniques are aligned with strategic approaches that ensure the news program is structured and visually organized. In the rapidly evolving landscape of television production, the meticulously developed news layout model stands as a cornerstone for swift and coordinated preparation of news segments, thereby facilitating channel discourse management.

Optimization and Dilemmas of “AI Anchor” in News Broadcasting

Optimization and Dilemmas of “AI Anchor” in News Broadcasting

Cameroon Pidgin English as a Language of the Media.

The stigmatisation of Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE) has contributed immensely to its slow recognition and acceptance in the media. Contrary to the situation in the 50s and 60s which limited the use of CPE to occasional slots in local newspaper columns (Schneider 1966: 111), it has been gaining grounds in its function as the language of the media from the 80s till date. CPE is now confidently used in newspapers, television, and radio broadcasts, advertisements etc. As such, CPE has been given the name ‘a crowd pulling’ language especially when used in the media. This paper substantiates Kelly’s (1978: 293) statement that “popular language is used to popularise a supposedly popular medium.” It describes the extent to which CPE is used as a tool for spreading publicity information over the radio and Television in Cameroon. This paper shows that five media structures were used for the study, namely: CRTV Buea, FM Mount Cameroon, CBS Radio and Equinox TV in Douala. The results revealed that CPE is used in a wide range of media programmes: news broadcasts, advertisements, Public announcements and talk shows. So, Neba, Chibaka, and Atindogbe have a point when they say that “This language, then, may not be the curse that it has been made to appear in the past, but rather a blessing in disguise”, 2006: 58.

South African Sign Language (SASL) Interpreter Portrayal on SABC 1 News Bulletin: What Do Viewers Think?

Television Sign Language (SL) Interpreters play a vital role in providing the Deaf community with access to information and knowledge in their primary language, Sign Language. This helps the Deaf community stay informed regarding events in their local and global environment, contributing to their development. However, a lack of research exists on SL interpreters on television. With on-screen placement of SL interpreters during news broadcasts being the primary focus in previous studies, this paper attempts to offer a unique contribution from an audience perception examination of South African Sign Language (SASL) interpreter portrayal in newscasts and its impact. The research, conducted on the SABC 1 news bulletin, employed a qualitative method and purposive sampling. Twelve participants, divided into four categories – Deaf, Hard of hearing, hearing, and SASL interpreters participated in the study through virtual interviews as data collection method. The study findings indicate the portrayal of SASL interpreters on television reflects the discrimination, inequality, and disrespect faced by the Deaf community.