Raising the curtain: Media industry and the changing landscape

The evolution of the television news is as important a milestone for humankind as was the postal system which offered the first proof of global connectivity. The television news industry has become prominent, expanding its reach to every house through television sets in recent years. In 2020, news channels comprised 43% of the total registered channels in India. Furthermore, in the same year news genre viewership was 10.4%, third after GEC and Movies and it saw an increase of 43% viewership during the first 26 weeks in 2020, compared to the corresponding period in 2019. Yet, the composition and mechanism of the television news industry remain unexplored. Therefore, the article attempts to understand the television news industry and its composition which is a complex intersection of multiple forces, often comprising contesting and concurring with each other.