TV format

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(For the many other formats besides television, see Format .)

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Also called broadcast format.

In short: the concept of a series of television productions / programs.

In media studies, television format is understood to mean “the specific commercial design and license-based definition” of television productions. Colloquially, the term “format” is equated with genre or genre .

While the genre, such as crime fiction, is open to change, the format focuses on strict adherence to the contractually agreed concept. A well-known example of a television format is the game show Wheel of Fortune, taken over from the USA . The Guess Show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? is marketed worldwide as a television format and its processes and details are largely defined so that - similar to marketing chains - it is recognizable everywhere. This was an excellent study in the box office hit Slumdog Millionaire .

Since the beginning of the 1980s, format television series such as Dallas and The Denver Clan, with their ratings success, served as models for corresponding German television productions. A narrative dramaturgy was characteristic , according to which "something happens all the time without anything ever changing".

Despite their success, the criticism of such concepts continued and had an impact on broadcasters like Arte .

See also

  • Radio format
  • Colloquially, television format is also understood to mean the different aspect ratios of television sets, see screen diagonal

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knut Hickethier : Introduction to Media Studies . Stuttgart: Metzler, 2003. p. 152 f.
  2. ↑ The "Herzkino" on ZDF concretes an outdated gender image, Barbara Sichermann in Der Tagesspiegel from June 1, 2013, accessed January 29, 2015
  3. ↑ Arte wants to win more viewers with format television , Hamburger Abendblatt from November 15, 2011, accessed January 29, 2015