Infotainment programmes, which are increasing their presence on public and private TV Stations, share an amount of features that make them different from the rest of the audiovisual journalism contents. This paper is focused specifically on the role adopted by the audience, and by the journalists, in the production of this type of programmes. We have used a methodology based on quantitative analyses of content that has been applied to a sample of 4 infotainment programmes: Madrid directo (Telemadrid), Andalucía directo (Canal Sur), España directo (TVE) y En connexió (Canal 9). Main results determine that in the infotainment shows anonymous citizens turn to be the main sources, and journalists become an active part of the news, playing a costar role.
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