Television News Channels and the Tamilnadu Bourgeoisie

Abstract

The programming at all-news TV stations tends to be highly structured and formula oriented, Sports news is broadcast at certain times, as are business news, weather reports, features, commentaries, local news. and network news-all have more or less regular time slots, so that viewers looking for certain kinds of news learn when to tune in to get whatever it is they are interested in. This paper deals with how can we explain the existences of TV stations that broadcast news 24 hours a day? All this news would result in incredible overkill or supersaturation of information, yet in many cities all news channels are quite profitable. In Tamilnadu most of the news TV station are owned by a bourgeoisie with background from political, business and other entities.