Turkish Prime Time Television: Mass Culture and Tabloidization

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Akkor Gül A.

İstanbul Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Hakemli Dergisi,, ss.33-55, 2006 (Hakemli Dergi)

• Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
• Basım Tarihi: 2006
• Dergi Adı: İstanbul Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Hakemli Dergisi,
• Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Other Indexes
• Sayfa Sayıları: ss.33-55
• İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The main objective of this study is to observe the new tendencies on prime time Turkish television.

Especially the main news bulletins of TRT1 and three private channels, namely ATV, Kanal D and

Samanyolu TV will be analysed in order to trace tabloidization in the news bulletins. Moreover, a

comparison of the rest of prime time television programmes will be drawn in order to see the changes in

Turkish television, especially the effects of mass culture. Some of our findings can be given as follows:

It was detected that news about celebrities, mostly female, was the most frequent news both on Kanal

D and ATV. We had repetitions of the same or similar pictures one after the other with less text and

information. During the week of analysis, it was observed that news on politics was the most frequent

on TRT1 and Samanyolu TV. And political news generally appreciated the government’s actions. As a

contrast to the other channels, Samanyolu TV broadcasted news with religious content. The rest of

prime time programmes on the private channels were generally Turkish dramas. Most of them were the

products of mass culture. On the other hand, programme distribution of TRT1 was quite balanced