Spatial Organization of Television Broadcasting in the Context of Regional Development

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Yuri M. Ershov

PhD in Philology, Dean of the Faculty of Journalism, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia

e-mail: ershov@newsman.tsu.ru

Section: Television and Radio

The author examines the role of television in the construction areas and other imagined communities, offers a new typological approaches to the television channels definitions. The article analyzes the existing and possible classification of media coverage areas. This material may be of interest to journalists, researchers of the federal, regional and local television stations.

Keywords: television, territory, broadcaster, region, typology