Nuevos retos para la música en la televisión. Ficción y no ficción

For many years the role of musical director for Spanish television has been assumed by stand-in image and sound, self-taught musicians, and not by professional composers for different reasons. Music and sound have been taught as compulsory subjects in the music departments of universities and conservatories, for graduate and postgraduate students for only a couple of decades. From a retrospective view of some of the old jingles and tunes for popular television series, we propose, as a challenge, some interdisciplinary ways for these media professionals to achieve television music of the quality that we deserve.