摘要：This ar ti cle pro vides an anal y sis of the open tele vi sions pro gram ming in Mex ico. This is part of a re search pro gram con ducted un der the aus pices of Cátedra Televisa. The sam ple tries to be rep re sen ta tive of the first se mes ter of 1999. The main vari ables were: source of pro gram ming, macrogenre and genre. We ar gue that di ver sity in the pro gram of fer ing is an im por tant de sir able fac tor in a com mu ni ca tion sys tem dur ing a pe riod of tran si tion to wards de moc racy. We find sig nif i cant ac cu mu la tion of gen res as well as sources of pro gram ming, par tic u larly dur ing peak view ing hours. We con clude that tele vi sion be haves in a way con - trary to the in ter est of a di verse pop u la tion, skew ing the per cep tion of re al ity and there fore not com ply ing with its func tion.
其他摘要：This ar ti cle pro vides an anal y sis of the open tele vi sions pro gram ming in Mex ico. This is part of a re search pro gram con ducted un der the aus pices of Cátedra Televisa. The sam ple tries to be rep re sen ta tive of the first se mes ter of 1999. The main vari ables were: source of pro gram ming, macrogenre and genre. We ar gue that di ver sity in the pro gram of fer ing is an im por tant de sir able fac tor in a com mu ni ca tion sys tem dur ing a pe riod of tran si tion to wards de moc racy. We find sig nif i cant ac cu mu la tion of gen res as well as sources of pro gram ming, par tic u larly dur ing peak view ing hours. We con clude that tele vi sion be haves in a way con - trary to the in ter est of a di verse pop u la tion, skew ing the per cep tion of re al ity and there fore not com ply ing with its func tion.
关键词：Di ver sity; pro gram ming; ac count abil ity; tele vi sion and sup ply. Diversidad; programación; responsabilidad de los medios; televisión y oferta.
