Tratamiento informativo en las elecciones de Ecuador 2019, en los noticieros de radios públicas y privadas. Caso de estudio: Radio Municipal y Radio Pública; y privadas: Radio FM Mundo y Radio Luz y Vida.

Abstract

Abstract:This study is developed with the purpose of knowing how and under what parameters the radio media in Ecuador address political information, taking into consideration the existence of legal bodies such as: The Organic Law of Communication and Democracy Code, which guarantee the equal and equitable participation of each candidate. For this purpose, four public and private radio media of local and national geography were considered in their central broadcasts. Based on the composite week figure, 20 days of information were analyzed, of the extended term of 45 days of campaign ¬ established by the National Electoral Council. The results of the investigation were achieved after the application of a data collection form and the conduct of semi-structured interviews, instruments with which it was detected that the presence of electoral political information in the radio news of Ecuador is low in relation to other informative topics.