TV channels in a period of turbulence: content strategies in social media

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The results of the examination of six Russian TV channels (Channel One, Rossiya 1, NTV, STS, TNT, Friday!) are presented, the peculiarities of their work with social media VKontakte and Odnoklassniki are revealed. An attempt was made to identify the changed digital content strategies of TV channels in turbulent conditions. The effectiveness of TV accounts in social media during four weeks of 2022 and 2023 has been studied. The following parameters were analysed: number of posts, user comments, views and likes. Based on audience and channel activity, the Engagement Rate of users in the published content was determined. The most popular publications among the audience were identified, their formats and thematic focus were reviewed. The return of interest to the Odnoklassniki resource was noted. The tendency of the past years when TV channels duplicated content in their accounts of various social networks was also recorded. During the period of changes in the media landscape and social turbulence, the audience demand for news agenda, on the one hand, and entertainment, or rather “distracting” content, on the other hand, was noted.

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Lyudmila A. Kruglova

Lomonosov Moscow State University

Author for correspondence.
Email: abiljo@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5022-4772

Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Associate Professor at the Department of Television and Radio Broadcasting, Faculty of Journalism

9 Mokhovaya St, bldg 1, Moscow, 125009, Russian Federation

Galina G. Shchepilova

Lomonosov Moscow State University

Email: shgg@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0339-1188

Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the Department of Tele- vision and Radio Broadcasting, Faculty of Journalism

9 Mokhovaya St, bldg 1, Moscow, 125009, Russian Federation

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