Another Television network is going to launch a Bengali 24 hour news channel in Calcutta.We only hope that the new news channel would torn up the format of it’s prime time newscast to make it less formal and more interactive.They should show others that look of local news has to be be change to attract young viewers.The news channel should blend information with entertainment.They should experiment with unconventional news casts because as a new entrant,the channel has little to lose.After all,why we follow the same structure that is -male or female anchor delivers the news from behind a desk on a studio set?it is the high time that the local TV stations should use different approaches and overhaul their news casts.
The new news channel should torn up the format of their crime program.Every TV stations of Calcutta has its own Crime based programs.After much success of "Khoj Khabar",all major TV stations promote crime programs in a big way.But,they follow the same pattern.,same kind of anchoring,melodramatic voice over,same style of reporting.Reporters often cross their ‘limit’.Anchors in these crime shows behave like crusaders..Reporters often ‘punish’ low ranking police havildars (constables) but seldom touch senior police officials,Bureaucrats or politicians.On the other hand,I like to mention a daily crime news program telecast on a national TV channel where they expose corruption in high places by using spy cameras but never cross journalistic ethics.They also play the role of community Television.They show us that if we have enough footage,cutaways-follow the LS-MS-CU structure,we can establish a story in a mere 180 seconds or 240 seconds.Over all it’s a very smart production-from visualisation to presentation they try something different.I wonder why every crime program in Bengal drag a single story as long as 22 minutes(after deducting commercial times)!
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