Despite the lingering ethno-religious conflict in Southern Kaduna, studies regarding how the media frame the conflict are still at the developing stage. In particular, scholars have not examined how both private and public television stations frame the conflict. The current study attempted to fill this gap by examining how the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and Channels TV frame the conflict. The researchers focused on how ownership influenced the framing of the ethno-religious conflict with particular attention to sources of stories, frame used and language of framing. Content analysis was used to conduct the study. Data gathered were analyzed using a combination of descriptive and inferential statistics. The result of the study showed that a significant relationship exists between ownership and sources of stories on ethno-religious conflict. However, ownership was not found to be associated with frame used. Nonetheless, an association exists between ownership and language of framing. Overall, the TV stations studied mainly made use of official sources, thus giving little or no room for opposing voices. Also, there was the dominance of episodic frame in the reportage of ethno-religious conflict in Southern Kaduna. The theoretical, practical and scholarly contributions of the results have been highlighted.

尽管南卡杜纳的民族宗教冲突挥之不去，但有关媒体如何界定冲突的研究仍处于发展阶段。特别是，学者们没有研究私人和公共电视台是如何界定冲突的。目前的研究试图通过研究尼日利亚电视管理局 (NTA) 和 Channels TV 如何界定冲突来填补这一空白。研究人员专注于所有权如何影响民族宗教冲突的框架，特别关注故事的来源、使用的框架和框架语言。内容分析用于进行研究。使用描述性和推论性统计的组合对收集的数据进行分析。研究结果表明，所有权与民族宗教冲突故事的来源之间存在显着关系。但是，没有发现所有权与使用的框架相关联。尽管如此，所有权和框架语言之间存在关联。总体而言，所研究的电视台主要使用官方资源，因此很少或根本没有反对声音的空间。此外，在南卡杜纳民族宗教冲突的报道中，情节框架占主导地位。突出了研究结果的理论、实践和学术贡献。