Entre a regionalização, a semi-nacionalização e a nacionalização: paradigmas e paradoxos, da TV Meio Norte à TV Meio

Abstract

This Final Course Work (TCC) has as its general objective to understand the regionalization of TV Meio (television station of the Meio Norte group, headquartered in Teresina, capital of Piauí - Northeast of Brazil), followed by a prospective study with objectives, justifications and operational planning now as a station with national reach. A field research was carried out, understanding this process within the station. In this work it will be possible to understand, at first, the history of the station, from its foundation in the city of Timon, Maranhão, to its almost 40-year journey. Subsequently, questions and reflections are brought up on what new regional journalism is and, finally, reflections on the new era of TV Meio, which began in April 2024. The idea is to understand what the station actually understands by what is regional, in practice, in theory, in contrasts, and in how this influences journalistic work, both in the state of Piauí and in the country, reaching the conclusion whether regionalism is limited to the geographic region or by identification with the product. Classic works by Cicilia Peruzzo (2003; 2005; 2018), Rogério Bazi (2001), authors with current studies such as Cristiana Alves (2020), Andreia Faria (2020), Thays Reis (2018), and José Tarcísio Oliveira Filho (2019; 2021), who talk about Proximity Journalism and regionalism, and also authors who discuss the internet and social networks, such as Orlando Berti (2024), Leda Barone, Beethoven Costa and Cíntia Queiroga (2016), Vinicius Biazotti, Elaine Colombo and Ulysses Varela (2023), among others, were used to understand the “nationalization” of the broadcaster, which uses digital platforms to put into practice, perhaps, a new model of regional journalism.