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April 14, 2009 at 4:35 am · Filed under Group discussions, International or National, News and Views, Serious programming, Social, Social/Political Debate, Trends, Tv Influences
Most probably this is among, THE most known and longer running programmes @ our private TV channels……… Host is famous” Suhail Wariach”….. He got really popular first for his unique style of asking questions… (He was interesting since the start)…. But he got more known as “Hum sab Umeed sey “kept making his parodies… they are hilarious.
“Aik Din Geo Key Satth “brought out some very diverse personalities in front of our TV screens, from actress Reema to Naseem Wali Khan, and Wasi Zafar….. and list goes on…. he will go to their homes and interview them in His very Casual way…… His style of interviewing did set a new trend for other anchors…
April 14, 2009 at 4:23 am · Filed under Educational, Group discussions, International or National, Morning shows, News and Views, Serious programming, Social, Social/Political Debate, Tv Influences and tagged: Morning shows, News analysis, Paras, Pehla safha, Sama TV, serious, social discussions
Every morning most of our TV channels will show some News analysis done by their experts,…. and why not …… our land is such a breeding ground for News, even entertainment channels can not avoid getting involved in serious programming …
Pehla Safha is a good presentation and “Paras” as an anchor conducted well…. “Sama TV” has earned a good name regarding social and serious programming in a very short time.
April 5, 2009 at 11:07 am · Filed under Group discussions, International or National, News and Views, Serious programming, Social, Social/Political Debate, Trends, Tv Influences and tagged: AAG, Azfar, Host, Mani, Show, talk show, tv
We like new Azfar and Mani , show on AAG TV…. these guys always had interesting perspective… how ever most of their efforts were not much in tune with masses… their recent effort seems like broad based , and they are not too self involved like their female competitors…. and most of all they are better understandable…. Mani got control over his speech…. and amazingly most of us can get it…
Their guests are from different back grounds which keeps it interesting …they seem grown up without being too serious… good show altogether they should keep it up!
March 19, 2009 at 3:16 am · Filed under Group discussions, International or National, News and Views, Serious programming, Social, Social/Political Debate, Tv Influences, Uncategorized and tagged: Aaj, CJ, Din, GEO, Lawyers, Longmarch, Muslim league N, Pakistani media, Royal, Sama
Our “Young Enthusiastic Media ” grew maturer as we saw them dealing with pressure on CJ issue .
For a fact there were only three major components for this Long March success.
First we had Lawyers who were at it for 2years …. then Muslim league- N and its courageous leadership… and then the most impacting and unstop-able was our Media…. News channels which did not let pressure get to them.
Geo News was most forceful and they only took sides with truth. Aaj,Dunya, Royal, Sama, and even Din News all did a great job … they kept the Nation informed not only by reporting…..they transmitted constant debates and views from opposing Political parties to Civil society,…. Former rulers to current ones,…. Lawyers to former Generals… they did not leave any one out and kept the facts straight during this historic Long March.
WE sure hope to see our Media stay as independent and non bias!
March 3, 2009 at 7:30 am · Filed under International or National, News and Views and tagged: channel, channels, crawler, Cricket, footage, lahore, Lahore attack, media, News and Views, news channels, pakistan, reporting, Sri Lankan Team, ticker, tv media
Its been three hours or more since we are watching the same footage, and similar kind of reporting from all our National TV Channels.It is a big News for sure that the Sri Lankan team was attacked in broad daylight in Lahore.It is shocking and is raising questions in everyones mind…
However at times our media becomes so impulsive, and rather reflexive.Nothing comes out of it–other than the same repeated transmission from all eight or more channels.One big news gets their attention and then they go all day with stale News and” live” header. Actual feeling is that our TV media is still very raw , it has enthusiasm of a young mind , but it needs experience and maturity–which will come with time.
Meanwhile they should practice caution and keep the balance… and not be driven by one thing to another ,without reporting updates to older news, or keeping any live transmission on constantly.
Running crawlers(ticker) for any big News, It is sad but true that it is a routine thing that we hear about explosions or attacks in Pakistan, but keeping the same footage , or crawlers up without time and date does affect our state of mind.
Our popular TV media should practice more caution in that regard.
January 16, 2009 at 8:37 pm · Filed under International or National, News and Views
Our new found abundance of news channels is making us more aware of our surrounding than ever before.
As we are getting satisfaction that , first time after sixty years important people are being questioned on live TV. Even when we know at the end they will make all investigations and questions go hush hush , it still gives a commoner some sense of control.
At the same time too many News Channels are kind of over emphasising every thing, and making a NEWS when there is not any.
Lets try to be more creative , ” makhi per makhi marna ” is not good idea in a long run.
Try more productive side of media about problem solving not only talking about it.
In a country like ours having a platform is a big opportunity, but at the same time it is a bigger responsibility as well.
