Post-Lockdown Metamorphoses Of Television Culture

The first twenty years of the 21st century have been marked by intense internalization and digitization, which have significantly influenced the communication processes throughout society and work in many professions. Communication has accelerated significantly, the amount of information we need to perceive, select and process has increased several times, and its credibility has become questionable. These and other technological changes, as well as other factors associated with political or social processes, have also marked the culture of society. Journalists are required to have much more skills and an immediate ability to deal dynamically and flexibly with the demands of these times. The set processes of media production and stereotypes of its perception were significantly changed by another relevant milestone of the 21st century, the Covid-19 pandemic. It closed people in their households, prevented direct contacts, restricted work and changed communication processes. It also significantly marked the work of television creators, their media outlets, as well as the entire television culture. In this paper, the authors analyse the situation that the creators of the main news programs had to deal with during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, formulate what changes in their work have occurred due to the pandemic, how the media content has changed and, finally, define how it all has affected the methods of media creation and the media product that we see on TV screens today.