Pandemic and Regional Media – Correlations and Impact of Covid-19 on Television Financing and Programming in the Stara Zagora Region Cover Image

Пандемия и регионални медии – корелации и въздействие на COVID-19 върху финансирането и програмирането на телевизиите в област Стара Загора
Pandemic and Regional Media – Correlations and Impact of Covid-19 on Television Financing and Programming in the Stara Zagora Region

Author(s): Blagovest Iliev
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Media studies, Communication studies, Sociology, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Университет за национално и световно стопанство (УНСС)
Keywords: pandemic; television; regionalization; financing; media
Summary/Abstract: This report examines the role of the media and the transformations occurring in them as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although falling outside the scope of the National Plan for Recovery and Sustainability of the Republic of Bulgaria and the National Development Program "Bulgaria 2030", the main sources of information are undergoing a number of changes in their funding and programming. The challenges faced by the teams of the regional television stations in the Stara Zagora region are analyzed. Emphasis is also placed on the extent to which the contingency hinders the development of the creative industry at the local level.