Análisis de los noticieros estelares de Ecuavisa, Teleamazonas, GamaTV, Tc Televisión y Ecuador TV en época de campaña electoral 2017

Abstract

Abstract: The following investigation is about the information broadcast by five television channels: Ecuavisa, Teleamazonas, Gama TV, TC Televisión and Ecuador TV during the 2017 election campaign. The concepts from which the problem was treated were: communication, politics, media agenda and compliance with laws that regulate the electoral process: Constitution, Organic Law of Communication and Democracy Code. The development of the research involved the recording of the news, analyze the information emitted by them, structure it in a statistical way and establish the categories of study and then synthesize it and determine the compliance or not of the laws mentioned. For this purpose, 39 days of news transmission were evaluated quantitatively, from the 45 that extended the electoral campaign. This research also exposes the forms and mechanisms that the national television channels in the electoral information rollout and evidence of their performance are exposed. We consider that this document offers descriptive instruments of reality, which reveal coherence between what is established in the laws and the behavior of communication companies.