Changes in Television News Broadcasting in Britain in 1990s

Abstract

The electronic media explosion of the 1990s with e-mail, Internet chatrooms, the World Wide Web, and the digital revolution, all within the framework of globalisation, has spurred an enormous growth of media studies that are further divided into ever more specialized sub-fields. Not only have researchers been motivated to study completely new media and modes of communication, but they have acknowledged the need to re-visit ‘old’ media as well if only to compare them with their new digital equivalents. News is a commercial product, the result of a professional approach, thinking, writing, and recording. The economic factors affect the content and form of news. In the context of television program structure, television news bulletins not only provide a news service but also keep audiences watching subsequent programs. This work examines the changing status, functions, and discourse of British television news in the 1990s.