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Post-liberalisation India has witnessed a dramatic growth of the television industry as well as on-screen images of the glitz and glamour of a vibrant, ‘shining’ India. Through a detailed ethnographic study of Star News and Star Ananda involving interviews, observations and content analysis, this book explores the milieu of 24-hour private news channels today. It offers insightful glimpses into the workings of one of the mightiest news corporations ...
A television program or television show is a segment of content broadcast on television. It may be a one-off broadcast or part of a periodically recurring television series. A television series that is intended to be broadcast a finite number of episodes is usually called a miniseries or serial (although the latter term also has other meanings). A short run lasting less than a year is known in the United States and Canada as a season and in the United Kingdom and ...
The three focus segments of this paper: Animation, Gaming and Broadcasting all have the potential to see near future as inflection points in their growth.Animation and Gaming reminds us of the transformation the IT-ITES Industry brought to the Indian economy and populace some years back. The Indian animation industry is well-geared to start grabbing a larger share of the increasing outsourcing pie. As the economy moves out of tough times, there is hope that ...
Success, money and fame require grooming. This book is dedicated to all the zealous viewers and aspiring contestants of India’s most popular quiz programme Kaun Banega Crorepati. This concise yet very useful kit of knowledge contains great food for your grey cells and will make you all geared up for the upcoming fourth season of KBC. We know you desire to leave no stone unturned for reaching the pedestal of victory. The key is to practice as ‘practice ...
Television its viewers and the ways it functions in society, are so multifarious that no tightly focused theoretical perspective can provide us with adequate insight. The theoretical and methodological roots of this book lie in that loosely delineated area known as "cultural studies" which derives from particular inflections of Marxism, semiotics post-structuralism, and ethnography. This area encompasses both textually inflected an socially inflected ...
The current popularity of the compelling and dominating phenomenon called Reality Television has drawn interest from all corners. Reality TV entered a new phase around the turn of the present century and has rapidly come to the forefront of international television today. It is a staple for most of the networks’ primetime line-ups. The shift to this genre in television has a lot of implications – economical, technological, social and cultural. The book ...
The book provides attention-grabbing reading content to the readers since it deals with a very contemporary issue. Radio has characteristically been an important mass medium, however, the popularity of television and advent of Internet have somewhat devalued the importance and reach of radio. But quite interestingly, the era of globalization also created ripples in the radio industry, deregulation in the radio broadcast industry has thrown open the ramparts for ...