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MEASURE THE DIVERSITY OF NEWS IN PRIME-TIME NEWS- BULLETINS OF HINDI NEWS CHANNELS Sunil Kumar Assistant Professor UIMS, Chandigarh University, Punjab, India
Sunil Kumar, Measure The Diversity Of News In Prime-Time News-Bulletins Of Hindi News Channels– Palarch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology 17(6) (2020), ISSN 1567-214X.
KEYWORDS DD news, News18, ABP News, NDTV India, News bulletin, Prime-time, News stories, Broadcasting, Coverage, News Beat, TRP.
ABSTRACT
This research paper is about the content analysis of prime time news bulletins of four national Hindi language television news channels. The study is only focus on quantitative analysis of news bulletins. This research is the comparative study of broadcast of news between Hindi news channels. All the news channels gave more importance to political news. The news stories related to the education and health get least coverage on all the news channels. In this study, researcher use DU screen recorder to record the news bulletins for analyse. The recorded forms of these programs are necessary because broadcast time of news bulletins on all the channels is same.
INTRODUCTION
The prime-time news bulletins are face of all news channels. We can say that evening news bulletin is the essence of day news stories. The prime-time news bulletins have same value in Television news channel that editorial page in the newspaper. In today’s world news become an essential commodity. This time it’s become necessary to cover each and every issue of all fields. In the race of TRP (Television rating points), every news channels want to cover more and more news.
Doordarshan News, usually referred to by its abbreviation as DD News, is India's only 24 hour terrestrial TV news channel broadcasting in English and Hindi. The PrasarBharati board approved the proposal to start a 24-hour news channel in place of DD Metro, which was closed. This was subsequently approved by the Union Cabinet in a 3 October 2003 meeting.
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News18 India is an Indian Television channel owned by Network 18. It was launched in 2005 as Channel 7 by DainikJagaran and acquired in 2006 by Network 18 and rebranded IBN7. In 2016 it took its current name.
The ABP news is an Indian Hindi news channel owned by ABP group. It was formerly known as star news before being acquired by ABP group.
The Star News was launched on 18 February 1998. From 2003 Star News became a complete channel. It was the first bi-lingual (English – Hindi) news service and was initially run by Star India on its own with NDTV doing the production until 2003. When the agreement with the NDTV expired in 2003, the Star News was transformed into a complete Hindi language news channel, part of the Star and ABP tie-up.
NDTV - New Delhi Television is a pioneer in India’s news television and digital journalism. The NDTV was founded in 1988 by Radhika Roy and Prannoy Roy. The NDTV is today the most watched, credible and respected news network in India and a leader in internet. From the path-breaking “the world this week” the first private news on Doordarshan “the news tonight”, producing India’s first 24-hour news channel “star news” and the country’s first ever 2-in-1 channel profit-prime, NDTV has been at the forefront of every single news revolution. NDTV is now primarily an internet company with the flagship website - ndtv.com - India’s number one destination for general news.
A DU screen recorderis a digital recording of computer screen and mobile phone output, also known as a videoscreen capture, often containing audio narration. The researchers use this application to record the news bulletins to analyse them.
OBJECTIVES
1. To analysis of prime time news bulletin’s national Hindi news channels. 2. The study aims to measures number of news stories broadcast by private and government news channel. 3. To find which types of news stories are broadcast by all the TV news channels. 4. This study focuses on which types issue get more coverage by Hindi news channels.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
In this study, researcher uses the quantitative content analysis method. This research is only based on quantitative data. This study based on the comparative analysis of fifteen days analysis of prime-time news bulletins of two televisions national Hindi language news channels.
SAMPLING TECHNIQUES
This research focus on prime time news bulletins of television news channels. In our sample four Hindi news channels are taken; that are DD news, ABP News, NDTV and News18. The researcher analyses only prime time news bulletins. These channels are selected as sample on the weekly TRPs given by BARC. The full form of BARC is broadcast audience research council.
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In this study researcher analyse the sample of the fifteen days news bulletins of prime time of all the four national news channels. The duration of one news bulletin is one hour each day. This means the duration of both news bulletins are four bulletins. So this research is based on the analysis of the 60 hours data.
DATA COLLECTION AND INTERPRETATION
The data collected in this study with the help of DU screen recorder application. By using this application, researcher record the news bulletins broadcast by selected sample of television news channels. The researcher gives categories to news stories on the basis of their beat. The one news stories further sub-divided on basis of national, international and local.
This table shows that total numbers of news story broadcast by all Television news channel. The news story run by News18 channel is much more than the news story runs by other news channels. The total numbers of news stories broadcast by all TV news channels are 1239. The numbers of news stories broadcast by DD news channel is almost less than half of numbers of news stories broadcast by News18 channels. The numbers of news stories broadcast on DD news are 302. The numbers of news stories broadcast by News18 are 502. The NDTV news channel broadcast 197 news stories in the sample taken.
S. SUBJECT DD NEWS NDTV ABP NEWS18 TOTAL NO 1 POLITICAL 92 67 81 123 363 2 CRIME 16 9 29 78 132 3 HEALTH 4 0 4 9 17 4 SPORTS 18 22 22 52 114 5 COURT 28 16 12 20 76 6 BUSINESS 23 18 17 21 79 7 ENTERTAINMENT 8 6 4 29 47 8 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 13 16 6 29 64 9 ENVIRONMENT 27 7 15 17 66 10 EDUCATION 2 0 0 9 11 11 PARLIAMENTRY 20 6 8 21 55 12 OTHERS 51 30 40 94 215 TOTAL 302 197 238 502 1239 The ABP news broadcast 238 news stories.
Table shows data of all categories of news stories
In this study researcher found that the numbers of news stories broadcast by private news channel (News18) is much more than government news channel (DD news).
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Chart Title 140 120 100 80 60
40 DD NEWS 20 Numberofnews stories NDTV 0 ABP NEWS18
News catgory
This bar chart shows the number of news stories run by all the channels in sample period that is taken by this study.
The researcher finds that the news related to health and educations issues are get minimum coverage by all the channels. The number of news story related to health and education are 17 and 11 respectively. The news story related to health are 17 out of which 9 news story are broadcast by News18 and only 8 news story broadcast by other news channels taken for study. In the case of news related to education is only 11 news stories are broadcast in the period of study. The number of stories related to education is more than four times in News18 as compared to DD news. The DD News broadcast only 2 news stories related to education. The ABP News and NDTV not broadcast any news stories related to education.
DD News
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DD NEWS
OTHERS; 17% POLITICAL ; 30%
PARLIAMENTRY; 7% EDUCATION; 1% ENVIRONMENT; 9%
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; 4% CRIME; 5% HEALTH ; 1% ENTERTAINMENT; 3% SPORTS; 6% BUSINESS; 8% COURT; 9%
Pie chart shows percentage of news story in DD news
In this research period sample is taken DD news broadcast total 302 news stories in news bulletin that is 24.50% of total number of news stories broadcast by all four channel. In all the categories of news broadcast by DD news, the number of political news is more that is 92. We can say that is 30percent of total number of news story broadcast by DD news. Further the division of political news stories are broadcast by DD news in national, international and local. The 49percent of news stories are national level and 39percent are local level. The only 12percent news stories are in the category of international political.
DD news broadcast 16 news stories related to crime that is 5percent of total number of news stories is broadcast by DD news. The 60percent news stories are national level and 40percent are local level. DD news did not broadcast any international news story related to crime.
DD news broadcast least number of news stories related to health and education. The number of news stories related to health and education are 4 and 2 respectively. Both are 6 percent of total number of news stories broadcast by DD news channel. In education both the stories are national level. DD news not broadcast any international and local news story related to education. In health category one story is national, one is international and two stories are local level.
The next category is sport. DD news broadcast 18 news stories related to sports that 6 percent of total news stories broadcast. The 15 sports news stories are international and 3 are local level. DD news not broadcast any national news related to sports.
Furthermore, the number of court news stories broadcast by DD news channel is 28 that is equal to 37percent of total number of court news stories broadcast by all the channels. The out of 28 news stories, 15 news stories is local and 13 news stories are national. The number of international court news stories is
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zero. The 9percent of news stories are court news stories broadcast by DD news of the total of news stories broadcast by DD news.
The number of business news story is 23 broadcast by DD news. That is almost 29percent of total business news stories broadcast by the entire news channel in period sample that is taken in this study. The 17 news stories of business are national level and 4 are international level. The number of local level business news stories is 2. The percentage share of business news stories of total news stories broadcast by DD news is 8percent.
NDTV OTHERS PARLIAMENTRY 15% 3% EDUCATION 0% ENVIRONMENT POLITICAL 4% 34% SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 8% CRIME ENTERTAINME 5% NT BUSINESS HEALTH 3% 9% COURT 0% SPORTS 8% 11%
Pie chart shows percentage of news story broadcast by News18
The NDTV broadcast 197 news stories in the time period of sample taken. The numbers of political news stories are higher than the other beats. The percentages of political news stories are 34percent of total news stories are broadcast by NDTV. The total 67 political news stories are broadcast. The 52 news stories are related to the national politics that is almost 78percent. The NDTV broadcast only 4 news stories related to international politics that is 6percent. The 16percent of political news stories are related to local level.
The sample taken in the study NDTV broadcast only 5percent of news related to crime. The NDTV broadcast only 9 crime news stories. The 33percent of crime news stories are national level and 22percent of international level. The percentages of local level crime news stories are 40percent. The NDTV broadcast least number of crime news stories as compare to other three channels taken in this study.
There is no news story broadcast by NDTV related to health and education in sample research. The NDTV broadcast 22 news stories of sports that are 11percent of total news stories broadcast by this channel in sample taken. The 8 news stories are national and 2 news stories are local sports. Approximately 55percent of sports news stories broadcast are international.
The NDTV broadcast 16 news stories of court that are nearly 21percent of total court news stories broadcast by all the TV channel taken in sample. The percentage shares of national court news stories are 75percent of total court news stories broadcast by NDTV channel. The 4 court news stories are
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broadcast are local level. In the sample taken, The NDTV not broadcast any international court news stories.
In the category of business news, The NDTV broadcast the 18 news stories. Approximately 23percent of total business news broadcast by the all the TV channels taken in sample. The 14 business news stories are national level. The NDTV not broadcast any local level business news in this period. The 4 international business news stories are broadcast.
In addition to that, The NDTV broadcast 6 news stories related to entertainment that is nearly equal to 13percent of total entertainment news broadcast by the all the TV channels taken in sample. The 4 entertainment news stories are national level. The numbers of international and local entertainment news stories are equal.
Furthermore, the NDTV broadcast 16 science and technology news stories. This is 25percent of the total number of science and technology news stories are broadcast by all channels taken in the study. The numbers of national science and technology news stories are 10. There is no local level science and technology news story broadcast by NDTV in the sample taken. The 6 international science and technology news stories are broadcast by NDTV.
Moreover, the NDTV broadcast 7 news stories related to environment. The 4 news stories are national level and 2 are local level environment news. The NDTV broadcast one international news storey related to environment.
Additionally, the NDTV broadcast 6 news stories related to parliament. All the 6 news stories are national level. The 30 news stories are belongs to other news category. The two news stories are international level and six are local level. In this category,
ABP NEWS
ABP NEWS
PARLIAMENTRY OTHERS 3% 17% EDUCATION POLITICAL 0% 34% ENVIRONMENT 6% SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 3% ENTERTAINMENT CRIME BUSINESS 2% 12% 7% COURT 5% SPORTS HEALTH 9% 2%
Pie chart depicts the data of ABP News
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The ABP NEWS TV broadcast 238 news stories in the period, researcher taken sample. The percentages of ABP NEWS TV are nearly equal to 20percent of total number of news stories broadcast by all the channels in the sample taken for study. The ABP NEWS TV broadcast maximum number of news stories related to politics. The percentage shares of political news stories are 34percent of total number of news stories are broadcast by ABP NEWS TV. The ABP NEWS broadcast almost 50percent of national political news stories. The ABP NEWS broadcast 45 national and 15 international political news stories and rest 21 news stories are cover the local politics.
The ABP NEWS broadcast 29 news stories related to crime. Those are equal to 12percent of the total news broadcast by ABP NEWS in the period sample taken. The 14 news stories are cover the national level crime and 4 news stories are international. The 46percent news stories are national level. The 11 news stories are local crime news stories that are equal to 31percent of total crime news stories broadcast by ABP NEWS.
In addition to ABP NEWS broadcast 4 news stories related to health. The percentage of health news stories are nearly equal to 24percent of total number of news stories broadcast by all the TV channel in sample taken for study. The 3 news stories are national and 1 news story is local level. The ABP NEWS no broadcast any international health news story in the sample taken.
Moreover, the ABP NEWS broadcast 22 news stories related to sports beat. The ABP NEWS broadcast more than 25percent of news stories related to sports of total news stories related to sports broadcast by all the channels in the sample taken. The 3 sports news stories are national and 2 are local sports. Almost 77percent of sports news stories are international level broadcast by ABP NEWS.
In the category of court news ABP NEWS broadcast 12 news stories that are equal to 16percent of total court news stories are broadcast by all the four channels taken as a sample. The percentage of court news stories in ABP NEWS broadcast are 5percent. The ABP NEWS broadcast nil number of international court stories. The numbers of national level court news stories are 10 that are almost 83percent of total court news stories broadcast by ABP NEWS. The 2 stories are local court news stories.
Furthermore researcher studies the category of business news. The ABP NEWS broadcast 17 business news stories. All the 17 news stories are national business. The ABP NEWS not broadcast any single business story of international and local level.
Besides this ABP NEWS not broadcast any news stories related to education. In other words we can say that ABP NEWS not cover any news stories related to education. The ABP NEWS broadcast 4 news stories related to entertainment in the sample taken. All 4 entertainment news stories are national. The share of entertainment news stories broadcast by ABP NEWS are 8.5percent in total number of entertainment news stories broadcast by all the channels.
Over and above ABP NEWS broadcast 15 news stories related to environment. These 15 environmental news stories have a share of approximately 23percent of total environment news broadcast by all the four channels. The 6 news stories are national and 4 news stories are international. The 5 news stories are covering the local environmental news that is 33percent of environmental news stories are broadcast by ABP NEWS.
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The ABP NEWS broadcast 6 news stories related to science and technology that are nearly 2.5percent of total news stories broadcast by ABP NEWS. The number of national news stories related to science and technology are 5. The ABP NEWS broadcast one news story of international level.
Similarly, ABP NEWS broadcast 8 news stories related to parliamentary. The parliamentary news have share of nearly 3.40percent of total news broadcast by ABP NEWS in sample taken. One parliamentary news story is related international level.
In the end, ABP NEWS broadcast some others news stories that not fit in the particular categories that discuss above. The 40 news stories broadcast to others category that almost 17percent of total news stories broadcast by ABP NEWS. The 27 news stories are national level and 5 news stories are international. The 8 news stories belong to local level.
NEWS18 TELEVISION CHANNEL
NEWS18
OTHERS; 19% POLITICAL ; 25%
PARLIAMENTRY; 4% EDUCATION; 2% ENVIRONMENT; 3% SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; 6% CRIME; 16% ENTERTAINMENT; 6% HEALTH ; 2% BUSINESS; 4% COURT; 4% SPORTS; 10%
Pie chart depict data of coverage of news stories by NEWS18
The number of news stories broadcast by NEWS18 in the sample taken in this study is largest as compared to other three Television channels. The total number of news story broadcast by NEWS 18 is 502. The percentage of NEWS18 news stories is 40.50% of total number of news stories broadcast by the entire channel taken in this study.
The total 123 political news stories are broadcast by NEWS18. The percentage share of political news stories are nearly equal to 25 per cent of all the news stories broadcast by NEWS18 television channel in the research period. The out of 123 news stories 58 news stories are national and 19 news stories are international level. The NEWS18 broadcast 46 news stories are local politics. The numbers of international political news stories are one third of national news stories broadcast by NEWS18 in the sample taken in this study.
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The NEWS18 broadcast 78 news stories in the category of crime. The 16percent of news story are related to crime broadcast by NEWS18 in the sample taken for the study. The 54 crime news stories are local level that is approximately 70percent. This shows that crime is more on local level. The number of international news stories is 9 that are 11.50percent. The nearly 19percent of the crime stories broadcast by NEWS18 is national level.
The next category is health, total 17 news stories related to health broadcast by the entire four channels. The NEWS18 broadcast 9 news stories related to health that is almost 50percent of all the health news stories broadcast in the sample taken. The number of national health news stories is three and international health news stories are two. The NEWS18 broadcast 4 local news stories of health.
The NEWS18 channel broadcast total 52 news stories of sports category in the sample taken for study. The 16 and 31 sports news stories are national and international respectively. The international sports news stories are almost 60percent of all sports news broadcast by the NEWS18. The only 5 news stories are local sports.
The news related to court is also broadcast by NEWS18 in the study period that is 20. The percentage of national court stories is 55 of total court stories broadcast by NEWS18. The numbers of international and local court stories are 3 and 6 respectively.
The numbers of business news are 21 that are broadcast by NEWS18. The shares of national business news stories are two-third of total business news stories broadcast by NEWS18. The 14percent of news stories are local business stories.
The NEWS18 TV channel broadcast same number of entertainment and science and technology news stories that are 29. The shares of national entertainment news stories are two-third of total entertainment news stories broadcast by NEWS18. The 4 news stories are international. The 20percent of entertainment news stories are local level. In the category of science and technology, NEWS18 broadcast 8 national and 8 local news stories. The number international of news stories are 13.
The category of environment gets 4th least coverage by NEWS18. The NEWS18 broadcast 17 environment news stories in the sample taken for study. The out of 17 environment news stories, 4 stories are national and 8 stories are international. The numbers of local environment news stories are 5 that are 29percent.
The news stories related to education get least coverage on NEWS18 channel. Only 9 news stories related to education are broadcast by NEWS18. The 5 news stories are international and 2 are national. The 2 local news stories are broadcast.
In the sample taken for study, the numbers of parliamentary news are 21. The out of 21 news stories 11 stories are national parliamentary. The numbers of international parliamentary news are 6. The 4 numbers of parliamentary news cover only local issue.
In the last, 94 news stories are belongs to other category of news that is 19percent of total news broadcast by NEWS18 TV channel. The 19 news stories are related to national issue and 35 are international. In this category 40 news stories are cover the local issue/news.
RESULTS AND FINDINGS
After, data analysed in this study researcher get various forms of diversity in results.Firstly, the number of news stories are broadcast by news18 (private news channel) is more than DD news (government channel) in prime time news bulletins. All the news channels broadcast 1239 news stories of all beats. The DD news broadcast only total 302 news stories of sample taken for this study. The News18 broadcast 502 news stories out of total 1239 news stories broadcast by all the channels. The news stories related to education and health beats broadcast least numbers of stories by all the channels. The only 5.16% of total news stories related to science and technology are
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broadcast by all the channels. In the category of science and technology beat News18 broadcast more number of news stories than the other three news channel. All the news channels give approximately equalcoverage to the court news stories.
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