Abstract:
In today’s information-driven world, there are many ways of getting information to empower
oneself. Television is one such platform that has still maintained its popularity as an
infotainment medium even in this modern era with the rise of digital and web-based
technologies. As television has the ability to cover news events live in real life with the aid of
appropriate audiovisuals and graphics, it can quickly garner public attention and also reach to
the masses using developed and advanced broadcasting technologies. Newscasts have since
become a staple of many television channels’ regular programming lineup. Considering the
widespread nature of newscasts on television channels with the power to influence the
masses, this thesis paper is an attempt to analyze newscasts of some public and private
television channels in Bangladesh in terms of their content to have a better look at the trends
of what makes the news on Bangladeshi television channels. This thesis paper also makes an
effort to draw up comparisons between Bangladeshi public and private TV channels’
newscasts to shed some light on the difference in their content styles. A total of 140 news
stories of daytime newscasts from 4 different television channels have been taken into
account for the content analysis study presented in this thesis paper. The study found that the
nature and dynamics of television news in Bangladesh in the present age still go with what
has been said by previous scholars. The author of this thesis paper hopes that this study will
help Bangladeshi television channels to better understand how to make their newscasts more
diverse instead of following certain age-old news structures and will also enlighten any
general reader about what makes the news in Bangladesh through the eyes of daytime TV
newscasts that can give an idea of the overall condition of broadcast journalism in the
country in terms of what topics are covered and to what extent they are covered.
