Anti-tragic audiosphere The de-dramatization of television visuals allows the bloodiest news broadcast to enter the homes of billions of people worldwide daily over lunch or dinner without causing anger or alienation and even less stomach pain, despite the cruelty exposed at various moments.  However, de-dramatizing the harsh images of real world events requires the use of specific types and genres of music. Music follows an extensive rhetorical range of sounding resources to dramatize even dull images marked by violence, but this feature is rarely used in the composition of audiovisual and television news programs that provide entertainment. In this sense, dramatic and musical motifs throughout the more sophisticated repertoire of classical music are not used to accompany television productions for a mass audience. But in this context, the virtual audiosphere is not composed exclusively of music and, hence, to detail the concept of Key Measures, we shall describe the components that form simultaneously or at different levels the virtual audiosphere of screen media. © ECUS 2011