La hibridació entre els gèneres informatius i l'espectacle a la televisió pública basca (ETB)
ISSN: 2014-2242
Year of publication: 2011
Issue Title: Hibridació de gèneres a la televisió
Issue: 36
Pages: 45-53
Type: Article
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Abstract
Any discourse genre is bound to evolve. Hybridisation between information and spectacle goes back a long way but, in recent years, a new factor has been the spectacularisation of classic TV information genres and the creation of information-based programmes that incorporate spectacle. This article analyses the hybridisation between spectacle and information in four types of programme broadcast by the Basque public television company (ETB): the news, informative magazines, entertainment programmes based on humour and current affairs, and finally TV reality shows. As we can see, stylistic hybridisation can give rise to highly diverse formats which are difficult to categorise and disparate as regards the quality of information.