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US
: Study Finds More Latinos, Fewer Asians on Prime-time TV
A new study on race and gender diversity on television has
found that, despite a significant increase in Latino characters
on this season’s prime-time TV, Latinos are twice as
visible in real life than on television.
The study
also found that representations of Asian and Pacific Islander
characters declined, Latino and Middle Eastern characters
often were typecast and Native American characters were absent.
In addition, male characters outnumbered their female counterparts
nearly two to one, while females tended to be younger.
The study, “Fall Colors 2003-04: Prime Time Diversity
Report,” is the fourth such report by Children Now, a
child research and action organization. It provides a five-year
progress report of the major TV networks’ stated efforts
to increase diversity in their shows.
Click
here to access the study (
pdf format 1 MB approx download time 2 mins)
Source - www.commondreams.org
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Punjabi
television : All bubble, no soap
Punjabi channels hold much promise and potential. Far from being regional,
they are beamed to several countries. Yet, the
fare is lacking in verve and variety. Pop music is the prop on
which the channels thrive. There is little else by way of serials,
chat shows and current affairs.
Randeep
Wadhera -
The Tribune |
It is not about TRPs, not really!
Its
like accidents. Or cancer. You never think it is going to happen to
you. Until one day your two and a half year old son stops your shopping
cart in the swanky grocery store and with an urgency quite beyond
his age says, “Mama, STOP!!!” You think he desperately wants
to go to the loo, so you start looking around for your husband to
accompany the little angel to the Men’s (he wouldn’t dream
of going where all the aunties go!), when you are arrested by the
look of rapt wonder on that little face. “Mama”, he says
again,
“I want Chocos!”
Leela
Saldhana -
MSN India |
Kyunki...
there’s something about K
A Tele Express calculation found 25
serials begin with K on the top four entertainment channels —
Sahara, Sony, Star Plus, and Zee. Interestingly, Sab TV has no
serial K, while Star Plus has the most. Amongst producers Ekta Kapoor’s
Balaji Telefilms is the leader everyone has followed. (See Box: Kountdown).
Sonia
Wahengbam -
Express Newsline |
The
poll so(a)p opera
A question: should Irani be allowed to advertise herself
on Kyunki and talk show Kuch Diil Se during the elections? Well, since
opponent Kapil Sibal is on TV as often, maybe
it will be a fair contest.
Shailaja
Bajpai
- Indian
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Is
it time for commercial TV to let PSB programming die?
As Ofcom reviews public service
broadcasting requirements, the question arises:
is it fair that commercial players continue to shoulder part of
the load?
Deborah Bonello - Media Week (UK) |
TV
on Steroids
Since the dawn of television, almost six decades ago, every
TV station in America has had the capacity to beam out just one program
at a time – Gunsmoke or The Huntley-Brinkley Report or Survivor
or 60 Minutes. That was then; welcome
to now: the Digital Era of broadcasting. The so-called analog,
one-channel version of television will soon be as archaic as a 1950
Studebaker. Since the passage in 1996 of a new Telecommunications
Act, all
of the country's television stations are allowed to reach their viewers
on as many as six channels – simultaneously!
Neal
Hickey - Columbia Journalism Review VIA www.alternet.org |
MTV's
'Sunday Stew'
MTV’s rowdy
and raunchy Sunday night lineup has captured the elusive teen
viewer
m.
Diane Werts - www.newsday.com |
It's
So Easy to be Wrong
Critics aren't
supposed to be ratings predictors, so jeering
at a TV critic because a show he hated did well in the Nielsens is
pointless. And yet (yes, there's always an "and yet"),
beats there a critic's heart so cold that he doesn't like to think,
at least on occasion, that he's got his finger on the pulse of the
public?
Tom Shales - TV
Week |
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