Roel Puijk

Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences · Department of Television Production and Studies

The article looks at how innovation in the production of TV programs has taken place in a large public organisation,NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation), over the past 35 years. On the basis of three specific factual programseries – Kveldsåpent (1986), Puls (1999–2015) and slow-TV (2009–) – the path of innovative program ideas throughtwo import...

Since 2009, the Norwegian public service broadcaster NRK has produced a number of slow TV shows. Some of the programmes have had a surprisingly big success in terms of public engagement and audience share even though the majority of the audience was from the oldest age groups. These programmes are not only slow, lasting a long time and lacking dram...

This paper traces convergence and innovation processes in five local newspapers in the Inland Norway region. It is an explorative bottom-up study of how local legacy newspapers’ use of digital technology relates to organisational factors and business models, as well as their journalism. Based on interviews with chief editors and video journalists,...

NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) has received a lot of attention over the past few years regarding its focus on slow TV, also called 'minute by minute' TV. Ratings show that several of the programmes have been successful among the viewers, especially travel programs such as Hurtigruten and Sommerbåten. Ratings, however, say little about who...

Production studies have become popular over the past decade. Recent studies have analysed, amongst other things, innovation, management strategies and the effects of convergence on editorial processes. There have only been a few studies that have analysed what happened inside media organisations in the earlier transformative stages (outside the UK...

This paper discusses different ways independent production companies tackle the challenge to produce films they identify with, and the role innovation plays in their production practices. In the Netherlands, as elsewhere, there is an increasing demand for cultural endeavors to be financially self-supporting, following budget cuts in and cuts in cul...

Public-service broadcasters are compelled to seek innovative ways to fulfil their public-service functions in an increasingly competitive environment. The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) has been experimenting with new programme formats and cross-media concepts. The concept of slow television was developed by the regional office in Bergen....

The introduction of a new medium leads to adaptation of the existing media, but the relation between the new and the old changes over time. Following different phases in the development of a health and lifestyle programme (PULS), this article analyses changes that have taken place in the relationship between television and the internet in the past...

In the present article, we compare the models that the management in two leading commercial Norwegian media organizations, one with a foothold in the written press, VerdensGang (VG), and one in television, TV 2, have used in dealing with the disruptive change in news caused by the introduction of rolling news. Both started with an experimental inte...

This study traces the changes of a prime-time health and lifestyle television programme (Puls) on the main channel of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) across the last decade. The overall pattern of change is that as a public-service broadcaster, the NRK continues to broadcast factual programmes in prime time, which incorporate different...

In the present article, we compare the models that the management in two leading commercial Norwegian media organizations, one with a foothold in the written press, Verdens Gang (VG), and one in television, TV 2, have used in dealing with the disruptive change in news caused by the introduction of rolling news. Both started with an experimental int...

This article describes experiments that combined presence technology with multi-camera television production. This technique can unite two people in different spaces in a single visual reality space and provide eye contact; it can also depict them as being in a single room. This study is based on the participants' experiences with this kind of tele...

In an increasingly fragmented media environment, some issues stand out and generate huge publicity for a limited period of time. Using Scannell's categories, event and happening, the article analyses two cases - the 1994 Olympic Winter Games and the death of Princess Diana. It is argued that they, in order to account for audience involvement and th...

The nature of the relations between the agricultural sector and its context has been given much attention lately. Although there has been a shift in focus ‐ from explaining the disappearance of the peasant to explaining the consolidation of the family farm ‐ these theories have often tended to be one‐directional, treating agricultural forms of prod...

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in two production units of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) this chapter looks at the relation between the production for television and the Internet. Different organizational models can be used in cross-media production: separated production, the recycling, added value, and integrated model can be identi...

The article takes as its point of departure the concept of media event and presents some of the main results from an international comparative study of the media coverage of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. Participants from USA, England, Scotland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Lithuania and Norway contributed to the project. The...

This article traces different types of tourism that developed in a municipality on the west coast of Norway and how these types of tourism interact with the local community. For the local community tourism represents both an opportunity, and a source of conflict. The paper shows how structures in the tourist sector changed over time and how two kin...

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