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Total
Programmes
2007
Total
Programmes
2009
Devolution
Programme
Related to
Devolved
Irrelevant Focus Powers
2007 2009 2007 2009 2007 2009
File on
Four
29 30 24 26 0 0 5 4
Analysis 26 21 21 17 4 1 1 3
Panorama 50 53 47 42 0 2 3 9
Total 105 104 92 85 4 3 9 16
Total
Airtime
(mins) 3440 3420 3000 2780 120 90 320 550
For the programmes relevant to (but not about) devolved issues, we applied a
further subdivision (Table 6.2 below). This is a slight departure from our 2007
study, since in 2009 we aimed to make these subdivisions as close as possible
to the categories in our main content analysis. We analysed all 16
programmes and allocated them into two categories in accordance with the
focus of the content analysis outlined in Sections 2 and 3. These were:
• Those programmes that referred to the existence of devolved powers
in a given policy area, either with a passing mention or through a
substantive comparison (‘Relevant Powers Compared’ in Table 6.2).
• Those programmes in which no reference was made to devolved
powers despite covering a policy area in which they exist, thus
implying that the focus of the programme applied uniformly across the
UK, and programmes which, although related to a devolved issue, were
based in England and/or dealt with English cases, but were not
described as such (‘Relevant Powers Not Compared’ in Table 6.2).
Table 6.2: Current affairs programmes relevant to devolution
Total
Relevant Powers
Compared
Relevant Powers Not
Compared
File on 4 4 1 3
Analysis 3 1 2
Panorama 9 4 5
Total 16 6 10
Table 6.2 shows that, in addition to the three programmes explicitly devoted
to devolved issues, there were six programmes that acknowledged the
presence of devolved powers in a given policy area and ten that could have
done so but did not. This gives us three types of programme: those focused
on devolution related issues; those that referenced devolved powers, where
devolution was relevant but not the main focus; and those where devolution
was relevant but not referenced. We explore all three types of programme
below.
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