The Culture Of Cities And The City TV Stations

To some extent, the modernization of Chinese society is accompanied with the rapidly process of urbanization. During the process of urbanization, the culture of cities is deeply changed its former appearance due to many factors, such as the politics reformation, economic development, city construction, culture activities, and so on. The culture of cities is gradually disassembled; meanwhile, it is also seeking to restructure the culture, which makes a diversified, active, and coexistent form of the culture of cities. The city TV station, which is the cities' central media, is also changed and developed during the process of urbanization; city TV station is influenced by the culture of cities, while it also adversely take part in developing the culture of cities. Thus the influences between the two parties can also be seen as a complex dynamic process. The background of this dissertation is based on the development of the culture of cities and the city TV stations. To combine these two points as one whole issue is due to the interaction between them.The city of Quanzhou has a great location, which is the hinge between provinces of Fujian and Taiwan, and is the hometown of many Taiwan citizens and overseas Chinese. Since Chinese Economic Reforming and Open-up, the culture of Quanzhou changed a lot. Current culture of Quanzhou is based on Min Nan culture, absorbing with other cultures as well, such as those from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, North of China, and overseas. So the prevailing culture has the characteristics of complexity and diversification. Quanzhou is a great city with long history, and its culture development obtains unique local advantages. In this circumstance, the establishment and development of Quanzhou TV station displays the extreme differences from the national or the provincial TV station. The focus of "close-to-local-citizens" makes Quanzhou TV station act as an indication of friendly local culture, and accelerates the culture development. Quanzhou TV station targets the media market in the area of Quanzhou and services the Quanzhou citizen with the channel of Min Nan culture. The co-development of both the city and TV station proves the interdependence of them. The TV station is fostered, established, and boosted under this culture; meanwhile, it is no longer the mouthpieces of politicians, and forwarding to the direction of constructing the city culture, which implies its movement track of culture conception and contributes its influence for constructing and spreading the culture of cities.Quanzhou, as one typical example, has highly value in the research of interaction between local culture and its TV station, and then makes greater effects on the further development of medium-TV station.