Agricultural News in BTV Versus ATN in Bangladesh: A Comparative Study
Title of the project:
“Agricultural News in BTV & ATN Bangla: A Comparative Study”
INTRODUCTION
Bangladesh is country of 160 million people (bbs.gov.bd). It is a developing country got its freedom in 1971 from the anarchism of Pakistan. After passing 41 years of independence as ensuring the other sector’s development, Bangladesh now established itself as a country of free flow of information and a country of pluralistic media. For that reason Bangladesh now have 557 daily newspapers, almost 25 television channels, 7 radios and 14 community radios to ensure the right to information of the people. Among television channels we have 4, 24hour news based television channels (moi.gov.bd). Once upon a time Bangladesh needs to depend on foreign media to know the information. But after 1997 with the permission of first satellite private television station ATN Bangle these rights explore its wings, and in 2000 with the hands of Ekushe Television the information sector got an energetic change in the country (Akhter, 2003). Following this continuity, the media now enjoying the freedom of press as well as the people are enjoying the free flow of information. But it is found that the sampled television channels are confined only in the capital city of Bangladesh. But we should remember that almost 66 percent of our people are still living in rural area and economy mostly depends on our agriculture. So Media has a huge responsibility to develop the agriculture for better contribution in our economy. But media of our country do not telecast proper and sufficient content for the development of our agriculture. In the contrary, they produce the programs and content which only urban based. Even this tendency is also noticed in the content of their prime time news. That is why, the report would be on this issue that the channels are not telecast the agricultural news sufficiently during prime time news.
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The reality of today’s television
“Agricultural News in BTV & ATN Bangla: A Comparative Study”
INTRODUCTION
Bangladesh is country of 160 million people (bbs.gov.bd). It is a developing country got its freedom in 1971 from the anarchism of Pakistan. After passing 41 years of independence as ensuring the other sector’s development, Bangladesh now established itself as a country of free flow of information and a country of pluralistic media. For that reason Bangladesh now have 557 daily newspapers, almost 25 television channels, 7 radios and 14 community radios to ensure the right to information of the people. Among television channels we have 4, 24hour news based television channels (moi.gov.bd). Once upon a time Bangladesh needs to depend on foreign media to know the information. But after 1997 with the permission of first satellite private television station ATN Bangle these rights explore its wings, and in 2000 with the hands of Ekushe Television the information sector got an energetic change in the country (Akhter, 2003). Following this continuity, the media now enjoying the freedom of press as well as the people are enjoying the free flow of information. But it is found that the sampled television channels are confined only in the capital city of Bangladesh. But we should remember that almost 66 percent of our people are still living in rural area and economy mostly depends on our agriculture. So Media has a huge responsibility to develop the agriculture for better contribution in our economy. But media of our country do not telecast proper and sufficient content for the development of our agriculture. In the contrary, they produce the programs and content which only urban based. Even this tendency is also noticed in the content of their prime time news. That is why, the report would be on this issue that the channels are not telecast the agricultural news sufficiently during prime time news.
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The reality of today’s television
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