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February 16, 2025
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The TV-Production Shift During the COVID-19 Health Crisis: How TV Language Changed As a State of Alarm Was Enforced in Spain

Publicated to:Trípodos.Com. Revista Digital De Comunicació. (47): 161-172 - 2020-01-01 (47), DOI:

Authors: Andueza-Lopez, Belen; Lopez-Plaza, Maria

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European Univ Atlantic, Santander, Cantabria, Spain - Author
Nebrija Univ, Madrid, Spain - Author

Abstract

TV consumption has broken records in Spain during the COVID-19 lockdown period enforced in the country subject to State-of-Alarm provisions. Audience data have shown unprecedented consumption rates. Specifically, over 335 minutes of consumption per citizen per day; and a 2.1-million news-bulletin viewer growth in March (Barlovento, 2020a). TV script writers, camera operators, directors, editors and producers alike have been working under the strictest rules to comply with all the health and labour standards. The production team-specifically, its director-makes important decisions as regards pre-production, recordings, actual production and post-production. Upon going live, a director relies on their team's professionalism, being ultimately responsible for deciding what-and how and when- is seen on screen, as well as for its visual quality. A director is the person at the heart and core of a program broadcast on TV (Bernad, 2016). This paper aims at bringing to public notice a change of method in live TV production team work during the first month of lockdown, as well as in the workplace shift. It also aims to reveal the increase in the use of video conferencing signals, Skype or WhatsApp, which have replaced the traditional satellite and radio frequency signals, a process entailing visible quality losses. The analysis system is based on questions posed to those professionals involved in TV broadcasts during the first month of State-of-Alarm enforcement by means of video calls, online surveys and WhatsApp messages.

Keywords

CoronavirusProductionQualitSkypeTv

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Trípodos.Com. Revista Digital De Comunicació due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Dialnet (Dialnet Métricas). In the year of publication of the work, 2020, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil).

Notably, the journal is positioned in the Quartile Q3 for the agency Scopus (SJR), in the category Communication, classified as D by the agency AGUAR.

Desde una perspectiva relativa, los impactos normalizados en entornos vinculados a las áreas de humanidades y ciencias sociales dentro del contexto nacional, este trabajo consigue un valor de citación normalizada, calculado a partir de los datos proporcionados por Dialnet Métricas, de: 1.56, lo que indica que, de manera comparada con trabajos en la misma disciplina y en el mismo año de publicación, lo ubica como trabajo citado por encima de la media al menos en el contexto nacional. (source consulted: Dialnet Metrics Dec 2023)

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-08-02:

  • Dialnet Métricas: 1
  • WoS: 2

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Andueza López, María Belén) .

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Andueza López, María Belén.