JollyLNB
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This is true in any regional language. To give the example of my mother-language, Bangla, almost everybody watches only ABP Ananda as ABP is a big media brand and book publisher there. Other respectable channels are Zee's 24 Ghanta, and (to some extent) News Time Bangla and Kolkata TV. But every aira-gaira-natthu-khaira (Tom, d*ck and Harry) has a news channel which shows teleshopping most of the time. CTVN AKD Plus and its sister channel Calcutta News is there, as well as Onkar Only Truth (where is the truth? :angry and R Plus, and cable-only channels in Kolkata such as MX5 which are totally unheard of.what is the use of so many news channels? I believe these are just politically aligned channels to broadcast news/events oriented to their parties OR news channels created specifically to blackmail crooked people (corrupt ones in the govt) and extract money. I dont see any value with these news channels, esp with their lousy reporting capabilities. I get frustrated when I watch them repeat the same clip again & again, their reporters & anchors dont know how to pronounce words correctly, reporters talking rubbish but acting as if they are world class reporters... so on... Not sure how other regional news channels are as we never watch any of them.. Frankly, we dont see this behaviour in English news channels.
As for English channels, while they pronounce all the words correctly, the public hates them because of their trademark shouting for little to no reason. The best example is Republic TV, and (previously) Times Now, because of the same man.