International Yearbook
The Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction (Obitel) Yearbooks synthesize the research carried out by the national research groups affiliated with the international network in their efforts to conduct systematic annual monitoring of fiction programs broadcast on free-to-air television in their respective countries. Based on a unified methodological protocol adopted by all local groups within the network, Obitel produces and cross-references both quantitative and qualitative analyses to identify similarities and specificities, adaptations, and appropriations among various national television narratives produced and aired in the region. It constitutes intercultural and comparative studies that allow for the identification and interpretation of issues, such as how different countries represent themselves and others, as well as the cultural indicators through which these countries continuously construct and reconstruct elements of their cultural identity. With a robust historical series of data and analyses, these approaches enable the Observatory to build, simultaneously, a comprehensive and in-depth view of the economic strength that fiction acquires on television and in the lives of the participating countries.
