Control the Differences: The Market Logic of TV Format

SHE Wenbin

Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2015, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (2) : 18-28.

Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2015, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (2) : 18-28.

Control the Differences: The Market Logic of TV Format

  • She Wenbin is an assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Anhui University. This paper is supported by the Doctoral Research Start-up Funds of Anhui University. E-mail: shwbin@126.com.
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Abstract

As a kind of TV program production knowledge, TV format can be applied to the TV program production in different countries and regions through the localization process combining with the social culture of target market, and the global flow and market development of TV format also is the process of localization. The rise of TV format reflects an adjustment of the transnational media in the era of globalization that is absorbing the particularity and difference of various local cultures through localization of production to open up global television market and realize the goal of capital proliferation.

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TV?format / globalization / localization / cultural differences / market

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