Index Comunicación (Jun 2019)
Comparative Analysis of Podcasts and Tv Fiction Series. Case Studies in Spain and the United States
Abstract
Sound fiction genre takes a relevant position after the irruption of American productions such as Serial in the year 2014, whose success boosted its emission in other media as a series with the same title offered by HBO. In Spain, the conversion from podcast to television series hasn´t been produced yet, but we do have on stream podcasts that derive from television series, specifically, on RTVE platform. The objective of this work is to perform a formal comparative analysis and content of podcasts and series of television platforms in Spain and the United States applied to the first season of the following fictions: Homecoming and Dirty John podcasts, both of them broadcasted as series on Amazon and Netflix in the USA. In Spain, we analyze the podcast Carlos de Gante podcast comparing it with the series Carlos, el Emperador, and the podcast Bienvenido a la pasarela with the TV series Estoy Vivo, on RTVE web platform. In the US, the sound acquires a new dimension both in its adaptation to the television format as an independent unit while in Spain, although it is a complement to the transmedia universe, it enjoys a quality and a projection that announces a rediscovery of the sound format.
