Transnationalization of Television Fiction in Ibero-American Countries Transnationalization of Television Fiction in Ibero-American Countries The present OBITEL Yearbook is the sixth of a series started in the year 2007, and it reflects the maturity of a methodological model that combines quantitative study with the contextual analysis of television fiction, its transmediation into other screens and the sociocultural dynamics that are circumscribed to each of the different member countries. OBITEL is made up of eleven national research groups that throughout a year systematically monitor fiction shows that are broadcast through open television channels in their respective countries. The results of this monitoring are presented through the singularities and tendencies of fiction in each country. In addition, every OBITEL yearbook has a comparative chapter that provides a general panorama of the member countries. Fiction, as industry and format, is one of the most representative cultural and media products of television in Ibero-America. Its cultural, symbolic tradition is a place of agreement and disagreement that is now the setting not only of the main characters’ loves and intimate secrets in the telenovelas and series, but also that of public life, politics, the citizenship, since ever more fiction anchors its narrative on the multiple problems that affect us as a region and at the same time separate us as countries. The Obitel countries decided to make the theme of “transnationalization in the fiction television” the topic of the year for this 2012 Yearbook, with the objective of mapping the characteristics of the transnational flows among and outside the countries participating in this project. OBITEL 2012 reflected on the three spheres where the transnational element makes an impact or is reflected: the industry, the contents and the flows and audiences. Transnationalization of Television Fiction in Ibero-American Countries Guillermo Orozco Gómez Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes Morella Alvarado, Gustavo Aprea, Fernando Aranguren, Alexandra Ayala, Catarina Duff Burnay, Borys Bustamante, Isabel Ferin Cunha, Valerio Fuenzalida, Francisco Hernández, César Herrera, Pablo Julio Pohlhammer, Mónica Kirchheimer, Charo Lacalle, Juan Piñón, Guillermo Orozco Gómez, Rosario Sánchez Vilela and Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes general coordinators national coordinators