This paper focuses on television, and not on science. It basically draws on my own experience as a director of a science program (Tres14) in the Spanish Public Television Corporation (Televisión Española). To start with, I will look into the fact that television professionals do not have to undergo scientific training in order to become science broadcasters. The consequences of this concerning the production processes as well as the structure and content of the final products will be discussed.

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... Indeed , broadcasters learn science while producing science for television. Yet, it is essential for television professionals to understand or, significantly, like the subjects they cover. This paper discusses how these elements make science broadcasting a quite particular journey. In the end, a program about science is just, and no less thau, a television program, and most comply with the same estrategies and rules that are common to other television genres.