Mediating time - The temporal mix of television

Television is the medium of time. Television news continually recontextuali zes tunes as it remediates the past in the present. What has yet to be more fully implicated, however, is the modulation - the variance in pace - of t he temporal features of the televisual environment. I consider some of the sites of the temporization of war by television news through the interplay of sound and vision, temporal references in television news talk, and in th e recombination of previously 'used' news fragments into new (immediate) co ntexts. In this way, television can be said to intersect with the event it is purportedly covering, as it tracks it in time and across tune. I draw on data predominantly from the beginning of the 1991 Gulf War-perhaps the mos t mediated television news events of modern times - when CNN was already ge ared to consume and celebrate these, the 'most live', moments of the war in different times and spaces.