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guys, i don't watch tv too much.
heh. well, actually, i watch kdmhmd and nothing else. but recently, i've been ill and flipping through channels and ... i'm getting an interesting comparison of the shows that run at any time on hindi-tv in general.
am i mistaken -- or is *+-india the most or one of the most regressive channels on their program content?
i wanted to find out -- and wondered if you could help me out? could you please help me fill this table?
*+-india zee-tv sony colours ndtv
8:00 love/saas-bahu saas-bahu historical saas-bahu lovestory
(rural) (rural) (rural) (rural) (rural)
8:30 love sit-drama sit-drama hist/myth lovestory
(urban) (urban) (rural) (rural) (rural)
9:00 love/saas-bahu love/saas-bahu sit-comedy saas-bahu reality-show
(rural) (urban) (urban) (rural) (urban)
9:30 love/saas-bahu reincarnation sit-drama saas-bahu lovestory
(rural) (rural) (urban) (urban) (rural)
10:00 love/saas-bahu saas/bahu realityshow sit-drama lovestory
(rural) (rural) (urban) (urban) (rural)
10:30 reality show ghoststory!! realityshow lovestory lovestory
(urban) (urban) (urban) (rural) (urban)
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'kay, guys: here's what the little labels mean:
the first is a one/two-word description for the show. like ''reality show'' for that sks thing.
it is difficult differentiating between alovestory and a saas-bahu drama -- but i think it's worth the differentiation. if the focus is mostly on the interrelationships within the family -- which was like kyunki in the 3rd generation set -- there were lovestories but mostly it was just one small part of a whole series of relationships within one house.
sit-dramas are also about inter-relationships -- but they are spread in a community. that could be a building society. or an office. etc.
so baalika vaadu would be a saas-bahu drama. but antara is a sit-drama.
and since this classification is mine, i'm the final judge on what is what. 😃
the second (which is in () in blue) is a one word description of the attitude of the characters in the show. if they behave like they are from the earlier century -- in their attitude towards women, children and stuff -- then they are classified as rural. if their economic setting is in the villages or the smaller towns of india -- they are classified as rural. if their behaviour is something i can think is normal for me 😆 they are urban. if their economic setting is in the metropolitian towns/cities, then they are urban.
so! with that explanation stuff -- what do you think? does this table work as a decent classification of the content and the attitude of the shows in each channel, in ecah time slot?
i'm open to suggestions and corrections. 😃
by tonight, i'm gonna write something on understanding the program choices of the diferent channels and link it up to the grp/trp charts i can find. and then... heh. send it a few people who ought to be interested. 😈
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btw, i thought up one reason why *+-india might be pushing the rural concept so much in picking their shows: in the rural regions people actually may care about old-fashioned concepts like dark-skin/fair-skin etc a whole lot more than people in the urban regions.
so if the companies that are paying them big fat money to run ads for fairness creams during these shows, think that the people in the rural places (who are far away from ready contact with real libraries or good internet information etc.,) can probably be more readily fooled into buying their products and pay a higher price for them than people in urban places. maybe that is a profit-making reason for *+-india to not do more urban shows and do more rural ones?
(btw, a pharmacist friend says that all these fairness creams pretty much all contain the same active chemical ingredient. but apparently different companies and brands charge more and more for exactly the same thing by running these ads on the poor ignorant masses who can't tell the difference. nasty people... 😡)
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heh. well, actually, i watch kdmhmd and nothing else. but recently, i've been ill and flipping through channels and ... i'm getting an interesting comparison of the shows that run at any time on hindi-tv in general.
am i mistaken -- or is *+-india the most or one of the most regressive channels on their program content?
i wanted to find out -- and wondered if you could help me out? could you please help me fill this table?
*+-india zee-tv sony colours ndtv
8:00 love/saas-bahu saas-bahu historical saas-bahu lovestory
(rural) (rural) (rural) (rural) (rural)
8:30 love sit-drama sit-drama hist/myth lovestory
(urban) (urban) (rural) (rural) (rural)
9:00 love/saas-bahu love/saas-bahu sit-comedy saas-bahu reality-show
(rural) (urban) (urban) (rural) (urban)
9:30 love/saas-bahu reincarnation sit-drama saas-bahu lovestory
(rural) (rural) (urban) (urban) (rural)
10:00 love/saas-bahu saas/bahu realityshow sit-drama lovestory
(rural) (rural) (urban) (urban) (rural)
10:30 reality show ghoststory!! realityshow lovestory lovestory
(urban) (urban) (urban) (rural) (urban)
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'kay, guys: here's what the little labels mean:
the first is a one/two-word description for the show. like ''reality show'' for that sks thing.
it is difficult differentiating between alovestory and a saas-bahu drama -- but i think it's worth the differentiation. if the focus is mostly on the interrelationships within the family -- which was like kyunki in the 3rd generation set -- there were lovestories but mostly it was just one small part of a whole series of relationships within one house.
sit-dramas are also about inter-relationships -- but they are spread in a community. that could be a building society. or an office. etc.
so baalika vaadu would be a saas-bahu drama. but antara is a sit-drama.
and since this classification is mine, i'm the final judge on what is what. 😃
the second (which is in () in blue) is a one word description of the attitude of the characters in the show. if they behave like they are from the earlier century -- in their attitude towards women, children and stuff -- then they are classified as rural. if their economic setting is in the villages or the smaller towns of india -- they are classified as rural. if their behaviour is something i can think is normal for me 😆 they are urban. if their economic setting is in the metropolitian towns/cities, then they are urban.
so! with that explanation stuff -- what do you think? does this table work as a decent classification of the content and the attitude of the shows in each channel, in ecah time slot?
i'm open to suggestions and corrections. 😃
by tonight, i'm gonna write something on understanding the program choices of the diferent channels and link it up to the grp/trp charts i can find. and then... heh. send it a few people who ought to be interested. 😈
edit add
btw, i thought up one reason why *+-india might be pushing the rural concept so much in picking their shows: in the rural regions people actually may care about old-fashioned concepts like dark-skin/fair-skin etc a whole lot more than people in the urban regions.
so if the companies that are paying them big fat money to run ads for fairness creams during these shows, think that the people in the rural places (who are far away from ready contact with real libraries or good internet information etc.,) can probably be more readily fooled into buying their products and pay a higher price for them than people in urban places. maybe that is a profit-making reason for *+-india to not do more urban shows and do more rural ones?
(btw, a pharmacist friend says that all these fairness creams pretty much all contain the same active chemical ingredient. but apparently different companies and brands charge more and more for exactly the same thing by running these ads on the poor ignorant masses who can't tell the difference. nasty people... 😡)
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