Re-Scheduling Television in the Digital Era

This book explores how the television industry is adapting its production culture and professional practises of scheduling to an increasingly non-linear television paradigm, a testing ground where different communicative tools are tried out in a volatile industry.

List of contents

1 What is the Schedule and Why Study it?
2 The Schedule as a TV Genre: Theoretical Approach
3 The Communicative Characteristics of the On-air Schedule
4 The Implied Viewer of 'Continuity'
5 The Changing Production Culture of Scheduling
6 Dilemmas in Cross-platform Scheduling for Commercial Public Service Television
7 Digital Television: A Third paradigm?

About the author

Hanne Bruun is a Professor of Media Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is the founder and head of the Centre for Media Industries and Production Studies; the author of four books, including Dansk tv-satire. Underholdning med kant; and the co-editor of four books. She has contributed to several books, e.g. Advancing Media Production Studies eds. Paterson, C. et al., and journals, e.g. Nordic Journal of Media Studies (2019), Critical Studies in Television, Nordicom Review, the European Journal of Communication and Media, Culture & Society.

Summary

This book explores how the television industry is adapting its production culture and professional practises of scheduling to an increasingly non-linear television paradigm, a testing ground where different communicative tools are tried out in a volatile industry.

Product details

• Authors: Hanne Bruun
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.08.2022
• EAN: 9781032400891
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3240089-1
• No. of pages: 132
• Series: Routledge Focus on Television Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society, Media, Information & Communication Industries