In my second year as a teaching assistant in History and Culture of Communication, led by Fernando Javier Ruiz, I prepared, along with three classmates, an academic file on the theory of Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz based on their book Live History to give a class on the topic. The text explains the concepts proposed by the authors and relates their proposal to the current framework of the digital age, based on the consultation of the article by Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp The continuing lure of the mediated centre in times of deep mediatization: “Media events” and its enduring legacy.