The document discusses different types of television programming formats in India, including news, news programs, documentaries, live shows, epic serials, countdown shows, telefilms, cartoon shows, advertisements, and top-rated current shows based on TRP ratings. It provides descriptions of each format's characteristics and examples. The main points are that television in India offers a wide variety of programming formats from news and discussions to dramas, documentaries, cartoons and live events. Popular current shows based on TRP ratings include Naagin 6, Anupamaa, Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta Chashma, Imlie and Bhagyalakshmi.

1. Submitted by:
Simardeep Kaur
BJMC 2nd year
Roll No.: 21031115
Submitted to: Mrs.
Ravneet Kaur

2. NEWS
 These days news
channels are showing
lots of content that is
recreted with the help of
drama.
 For e.g. crime news
originally narrates any
real life event.
 The main news channels
are:DD News, Zee News,
Star News, Aaj Tak, NDTV

3. NEWS PROGRAM
 News channel presents these kind
of programmes.
 Programmes based on discussion
and debate.
 All types of current affair
programmes.
 Nowadays news channels are
experimenting with mixed formats
which are difficult to put into
single category.
 For example, Aap ki Adalat, Hum
log, The Big Fight are the
programs having unique identity of
their own.

4. DOCUMENTARY
 All documentaries depict reality.
 Documentary may be related to
tourism, environment, history,
science , technology etc.
 Nowadays there are channels
dedicated to documentaries only
 Like Discoveries, National
Geographic, History Channel,
Animal Planet.
 There may be many kinds of
documentaries based on the topic
and treatment.
 All tourism documentaries have a
travelouge format.
 History documentaries have to
depend upon drama.

5. LIVE SHOWS
 Television channels telecast sports and some important events live.
 Like Live News, Live cricket match, live independence day parade
in India.

6. EPIC SERIAL
 Serials based upon epics are epic serials.
 Ramayan and Mahabharata is classic example of epic.

7. COUNTDOWN SHOW
 These were very
popular during early
nineties.
 Superhit muqabala is
one of the popular
names.
 In this format, popular
film songs are shown
one by one according
to their popularity just
and in between the
anchor entertain the
audience.

8. TELE FILM
 Films specially
made in
television.
 Usually the
duration of video
films are of 90
minutes.
 Doordarshan
telecast and
finance tele films
based upon

9. CARTOON SHOW
 Nowadays cartoon shows are very
 Popular among childen. All cartoons show are based on
stories and basic difference is in terms of style of
presentation only.

10. ADVERTISEMENT
Most of the ads are fictonal in
nature as every ad has a story and
fictional characters.
Some ads i.e. tourism ad is made of
real life footage without any drama
in life of documentary format does
not come under this category.

11. TRP Of Indian Shows 2023 The List
Of Top Serials In This Week TRP
Rating
 1st Place in TRP Naagin 6 TOP
 2 Ranking Anupamaa
 TRP 3 Position Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta
Chashma
 TRP 4 Place Imlie
 TRP 5 Rank Bhagyalakshmi

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