A Study of the Career Developments of Hosts in TV News Discussion Programs

• Main Author: 陳彥伯
• Other Authors: 楊美雪
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/bzaw9d

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 圖文傳播學系在職進修碩士班 === 96 === After the Taiwanese cable television has been legalized in 1993, TV news discussion programs have become a fad of TV production as in the west countries. In the consideration of cost, the low-budget discussion programs have already become the mainstream of cable television in Taiwan. And both the influence of the host, who represents the style of the program, and the program itself are necessarily under the evaluation and scrutiny of the society in terms of choosing the topic and controlling the rundown of the program. In order to comprehend the career developments of discussion program hosts, this research uses intensive interviews with the hosts to understand the progress, various factors, developing pattern and mode of their career developments. Research shows, before they began to host news discussion programs, most of these hosts started their careers as news reporters. Being invited as guests in similar sort of programs and experienced in news report, they then hosted programs of their own; the internal factor contributed to such a phenomenon is their rich experiences of news reporting, and the external one the change of political and social climate. As for the production, a host is often deeply involved in the process and manipulates the development of the program.