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Making News in India: Star News and Star Ananda

By Somnath Batabyal

Book information

Publisher
Routledge India
Year
2012
ISBN
0415501636, 9780415501637
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1211918 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
250\250
Time added
2022-03-30 01:31:22

Description

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 in India today. It offers insightful glimpses into the workings of one of the mightiest news corporations in the world and its ability to manufacture everyday reality for its audiences. Based on fieldwork in Mumbai and Kolkata, this study not only provides a detailed description of the television newsroom, its rituals and rhythms, but ventures beyond it to investigate how editorial and corporate strategies converge increasingly in an industry driven by profit. Through analysing how TRPs work to produce a non-inclusive idea of the ‘audience’ and examining hundreds of hours of news content, the book explores how news channels construct a vision of nationhood and of a successful and vibrant economy that caters primarily to the needs of the resurgent Indian middle class. While it will be of particular interest to media and cultural studies scholars and students, and to journalists and media professionals in general, this lively, engaging book also aims to give the general reader the wherewithal to analyse and critique the continuous barrage of 24-hour news television today. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: India in the News, the News in India 1. Methods and madness: The mechanisms behind this research 2. From state control to corporate hegemony: A brief history of Indian television 3. Corporate incursions: Branding programmes, selling myths 4. Newsworthy? Rating news for a constructed audience 5. Collaboration and critique: Editorial responses to corporate incursions 6. Optimistic news: What makes the screens Conclusion: Understanding news through ethnography Appendices Appendix 1: The World According to TAM Appendix 2: MCCS Analysis of TAM Ratings, Star News and Star Ananda, Week 23, 2006 Appendix 3: News Content, Star News and Star Ananda, 14–16 June 2006 References About the Author Index

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