This article discusses live two-way interviews between television presenters in the studio and programme participants at outside broadcast locations. It concerns itself in particular with the relationship between the television event and the event-in-itself, outlining the way in which one programme, Election 97, brings spatially dispersed individuals and places together in a dialectical relationship and suggesting that the television event in such instances is generated not by the reconstruction of events at some discrete remote location but rather via the penetration of a multiplicity of remote sites into one another in the live space of the broadcast. It concludes by arguing for a view of the event as complex, self-referential and multiply-mediated when seen from the perspective of its spatio-temporal dynamics.
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Stephanie Marriott (2000) studied this question.