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Development and transformation of Czechoslovak and Czech television in 1980s and 1990s
Zemanová, Tereza ; Krátká, Lenka (advisor) ; Hlaváček, Jiří (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to describe, through the oral history method, the development and certain changes of the Czechoslovak and later Czech television in the 1980s and 1990s as observed by ordinary employees of this institution. The work focuses on the everyday lives of technical and administrative workers and it is delimited by the years 1980 and 1998 which was the year the tenure of Ivo Mathé, the first general manager of CT, ended. The main subjects of interest are the basic work conditions such as salaries, working hours and employee care arising from the collective bargaining agreement. Furthermore, the work deals with the workplace atmosphere and relationships, and loyalty of the employees towards the institution. Apart from the description of the respective topics the work aims to cover the changes of everydayness in connection with the So-called transformation of the society, or compare the 1980s with the time following the November of 1989.
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Otka Bednářová and her publishing activity in 1960'
Fabiánová, Nela ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
This master's thesis focuses on the journalistic activity of Otka Bednářová in Czechoslovak Television in the 1960s. Its aim is mapping the activity of the editor in the stated period. Otka Bednářová was one of the first women which started using investigative element. It was new in the Czechoslovak Journalism. The work is divided into two parts. In the first part the reader learns about the life of Otka Bednářová before and after her work in Czechoslovak Television. The second part is the most comprehensive and includes brief information about the history of Czechoslovak Television and about the origin of Television Journalism in this period in Prague, Ostrava and Brno. There is also a history of the broadcast "Zvědavá kamera" including its authors. The author of the work presents individual pieces of work where Otka Bednářová collaborated. The author of the thesis dedicates to the style of Otka Bednářová's work, to the topics she was choosing and to her working procedure in the processing of individual programs. It is based mainly on preserved pieces in the Czech Archive Television as well as on the available scripts. During processing current feedback in periodicals, the author used the home archive of Otka Bednářová where she stored clippings from newspaper articles which were published about...
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Television drama in Czechoslovak specialized discourse of the 1950s and 1960s
Jiřiště, Jakub ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Klimeš, Ivan (referee)
Thesis deals with basic tendencies and preconditions of the aesthetic development of Czechoslovak television drama of the 50s and 60s through its specialist reflection. The method of a discourse analysis which is applied to the area of aesthetics and inspired by the concepts of Michel Foucault and Achim Landwehr maps locally- and time-based field of the discourse about television drama and penetrates surface relations between subdiscourses (television criticism, television theory and influences of institutions) with the aim to capture the formative order of the discourse. A basic axis of the analysis is the evolution of the concept of television specifity which will be tracked through the crucial discussions of the period. They reflects a gradual revision of initial assumptions about the formal emancipation and the legitimacy of art of television. The next step of the analysis is the mutual comparison of solutions at which these discussions arrived via various aspects and methods. This way a second goal of the discourse analysis will be fulfilled - to trace the essential unity of the discourse which is represented by the complex of jointly asserted requirements about the ideal form of the television drama. The complex is possible to consider as an implicit poetics of Czechoslovak television drama...
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The First day of Czechoslovak Television's Channel Two.
Čížkovská, Jana ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Szczepanik, Petr (referee)
The thesis follows the preparation of Czechoslovak TV's Channel Two, covering a period of twelve years from the start of the preparation process in 1958 till the first day of Channel Two's regular broadcast on May 10th 1970. The thesis' area of interest covers the proposals, plans and ensuing organisational measures that resulted in the historical event of launching a multi-channel television broadcast in Czechoslovakia. The period of 1958-1970 is split into sections, according to the stages of preparation for the launch. The introductory part of the thesis deals with the political grounding for the implementation of a multi-channel broadcast in Czechoslovakia, as well as with the initial steps in creating the technological support for Channel Two. The second part introduces the evolution and finalisation of the Channel Two project and its organisation in relation to the majority Channel One. The following chapter(s) focus on the formation of Channel Two's independent head division as well as the department's evolution until the launch of the regular broadcast. This section covers the changes in personnel within the department, an outline of its key creative collaborators and supplies a schema of how Channel Two's production was organised. The final part of the thesis offers an overview of...
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The TV program of the Czechoslovak television from the year 1968 till April of 1970
Pecáková, Andrea ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
The thesis titled "The TV program of the Czechoslovak television from the year 1968 till April of 1970" deals with the program offer from the period of so-called Prague Spring until the end of April 1970 when the second transmitter circuit was ready to start. I chose this time period because of frequent changes in politics and society, which was reflected in the media content, and thus in the TV content. This time segment is divided into four time periods in which I monitor the program offer of the TV. The first period is the period of Prague Spring, the second one is from September 1969 to April 1970 when Gustáv Husák became the first secretary of the ÚV KSČ, the third one is from May 1969 to August 1970 when Jan Zelenka became the director of Czechoslovak television (he was considered as the first normalization director) and the fourth period is from September 1969 to April 1970, when the second transmitter circuit was ready to start. The main aims of this thesis are detailed description and comparison of TV offers in these four periods. To achieve the objectives a comparative analysis is used. I analyze mostly weekly magazines Československá televize of the years 1968, 1969 and 1970. The information gained from these magazines is accompanied by other written sources, pictorial records programs...
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Archive of photography of the czech television Ostrava (photography as a source of information)
Bednář, Marek ; Hrdina, Jiří (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
This thesis focuses on photography in the work of Television studio Ostrava, a part of Czechoslovak television, during a period of 1969-1989, called normalisation, the reflection of this period after the year 1989 and mainly the photography archive of said institution. It may be presumed that communist propaganda and other efforts of normalisation will be apparent in the documentaries and other products concentrating on photography. The region of Ostrava also has its own cultural specificity due to its mainly industrial nature; the region is characterised by coal mining and metallurgy. Thus it may be presumed that communism will be planted in the minds of the people more firmly. The thesis also contains a theoretical framework, describing socialist realism in photography and normalisation in photography as well as in the television studio in question. In order to verify these hypotheses and to discover other important facts of the topic in question, a content analysis of data available in the archive of Television studio Ostrava was carried out. The archive suffered grave losses during major flooding of Moravia and Silesia in 1997. However, some films and many actual photographs were still available for analysis. The findings relevant to each document are stated in their respective parts and are...
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United States-Soviet Union relations and INF treat in the Czechoslovakian newscast in 1985-1987
Bezvodová, Michaela ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
Bachelor's thesis The US-Soviet Relations in the "Television newscast" of Czechoslovak Television on the Example of El Salvador in 1981 analyses the US-Soviet relations in the main news program of Czechoslovak Television (CST) in 1981, on the example of El Salvador's civil war. The thesis describes the early-80's atmosphere and relations between the two "superpowers" during the Cold War. The theoretical part of the thesis describes the legislative measures which were dependent on the totalitarian regime in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR); it introduces the basic terminology of a news service and raises the question of media manipulation. Then the thesis describes secondary the US-Soviet relations from the late 70's until the beginning of the first term of Ronald Reagan as a president, and the change in policy towards to the Soviet Union (SSSR) after the governing of Jimmy Carter in the Office of President. The practical part of this thesis describes the development of US-Soviet relations during the year 1981, as it was reflected in the main news program the "Television newscast" - quarterly introduces the major events, political meetings and using content analysis to interpret the meaning of the totalitarian news service on the examples of El Salvador's civil war and on the other...
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Vladimír Dvořák and Czechoslovak TV's Entertainment Programms Department over 1968 - 1976
Hroncová, Alexandra ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Přádná, Stanislava (referee)
(in English): Vladimír Dvořák (14 May, 1925 - 28 December, 1999) is mainly known to the public as the presenter of Televarieté, a TV entertainment programme, and older generations may also remember him as a music programme presenter and an author of lyrics to pop-music songs of the 1960s. However, this limited perception calls for a correction, as Vladimír Dvořáka was, without exaggeration, a universally talented man. As this text aims to show, Dvořák was strong in fine art and literary disciplines (wrote a number of librettos), as well as on the script-editing, programme presenting and acting sides, and all these artistic talents were sheltered with and maybe even shadowed by his organisational skills (completely unknown to the public) combined with enormous proactivity and high ambitions. During his presence at ČST Vladimír Dvořák created a TV entertainment development strategy that he worked on until his death. He was diplomatic and creative at the same time, and he introduced a number of very successful TV formats to feature many big names, at least those tolerated by the totalitarian regime. Vladimír Dvořák knew how to manoeuvre his way through the clearly demarcated world of communist TV broadcasting without having to make dirty compromises with the regime's officials. Moreover, although he...
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Archive of photography of the czech television Ostrava (photography as a source of information)
Bednář, Marek ; Hrdina, Jiří (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
This thesis focuses on the topic of photography in the work of Television studio Ostrava, a part of Czechoslovak television, during a period of the communist regime, called normalisation, and the reflection of this period after the year 1989. It may be presumed that communist propaganda and other efforts of normalisation will be apparent in the documentaries and other products concentrating on photography. The region of Ostrava also has its own cultural specificity due to its mainly industrial nature; the region is characterised by coal mining and metallurgy. Thus it may be presumed that communism will be planted in the minds of the people more firmly. The thesis also contains a theoretical framework, describing socialist realism in photography and normalisation in photography as well as in the television studio in question. In order to verify these hypotheses and to discover other important facts of the topic in question, a content analysis of data available in the archive of Television studio Ostrava was carried out. The archive suffered grave losses during major flooding of Moravia and Silesia in 1997, some films and actual photographs were however still available for analysis. The findings relevant to each document are stated in their respective parts and are summarised as a whole in the...
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Czech Union of Journalists during The Prague Spring
Suková, Jana ; Cebe, Jan (advisor) ; Končelík, Jakub (referee)
This bachelor thesis describes the Czech Union of Journalists in the Prague Spring. The aim is not only to analyze details of the situation in the Union of Journalists, who in 1968 went trough a major ideological change, but also on the issue of the journalists in the long term. I want to focus on the development of Union in 1968 and attempt to find answers to these questions: When did the Union became the authority that supported the reform ideas of the late 60's? Why there was a break between the members of the journalistic organization? In addition this work should uncover the relationship between the general development of the situation in Czechoslovakia and the Union of Journalists, to explain some of the attitudes of journalistic organization at the time. Finally, the work does not neglect neither media area as Czechoslovak Television, Czechoslovak Radio and all printed materials which were always shaped mainly by journalists. Therefore this work deals with the close relationship between the Union of journalists and media in general. Especially, this relationship in my work is raised during the first days of the occupation that Czechoslovakia affected on 21st August 1968, during which the media, thanks to relentless work of journalists, has become indispensable organizers of social events.
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