Genre and format in polithematic children’s channels of television

Abstract

Children’s channels is obvious that increase, in the past in generalist television the contents to children were forget but with digital television appear new channels of television specializing in childhood. Nowadays, studies about these channels are limited, more if we focus in study of genre and format where the theory are very diverse and theoretician don’t coincide with these aspects. Like that we give a overview about global reality of these children’s channels, we do revision of genre and format concept about content of Polithematic Children’s Channels. For doing that, we have been designing a study methodology based in the triangulation of scientific methods, where several techniques that allows to get an approximation to the polithematic children´s channels reality converges. In these channels there aren’t variety genres and formats in programmes. Besides, we propose a classification of children’s channels and we contribute new concept in the sphere of television genre.