INFOTAINMENT IN THE EVENING NEWS OF RUSSIAN TV CHANNELS
Journal: The Art and Science of Television
Year: 2023

This article studies the presence of infotainment style in the evening news programs of the Big Three Russian TV channels: Channel One, Russia-1, and NTV. Infotainment is not only understood as a focus on specific topics such as scandals and show business, but also as an effort to make information programs more engaging and visually dynamic. First, we establish conceptual definitions for infotainment and infotainment topics. Subsequently, we analyze the evening news broadcasts of the three chann