TOP 10 ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION IN WORLD

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1) CBS

2) NBC (National Broadcasting Company)

3) ABC (American Broadcasting Company)

4) Fox

5) Fox News Channel

6) ESPN (Entertainment and Sports Programming Network)

7) Univision

8) USA Network

9) MSNBC (Microsoft News Broadcasting Company)

10) The CW

11) HGTV (Home and Garden TV)

12) TBS

13) Telemundo

14) Discovery

15) History

Conclusion

The role of entertainment television in development communication has recently attracted several communication scholars and policy planners. Historically this subject has received little attention; most research on television for development focuses on the effects of educational programs designed to disseminate knowledge and information. Audience exposure to entertainment television programs worldwide is rapidly increasing, and several nations are infusing prosocial messages within the content of entertainment television programs to promote development. The present article provides a succinct history of the prosocial uses of entertainment television programs. It discusses eight important implications regarding the use of entertainment television programs for development in the Third World. Television channels are a major source of entertainment nowadays. Besides mobies, they can be an idea or a task but areare more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically to keep an audience's attention.

Although people's attention is held by different things, because individuals have different preferences in entertainment, most forms are recognizable and familiar.

Storytelling, music, drama, dance, and different kinds of performance exist in all cultures, were supported in royal courts, developed into sophisticated forms, and over time became available to all citizens.

The process has been accelerated in modern times by an entertainment industry that records and sells entertainment products.

Entertainment evolves and can be adapted to suit any scale, ranging from an individual who chooses a private entertainment from a now enormous array of pre-recorded products; to a banquet adapted for two; to any size or type of party, with appropriate music and dance; to performances intended for thousands; and even for a global audience.

The experience of being entertained has come to be strongly associated with amusement so that one common understanding of the idea is fun and laughter. However, many entertainments have a serious purpose.

For example, this may be the case in the various forms of ceremony, celebration, religious festival, or satire.

Hence, there is the possibility that what appears as entertainment may also be a means of achieving insight or intellectual growth.

An important entertainment aspect is an audience, which turns a private recreation or leisure activity into entertainment.

The audience may have a passive role, as in the case of persons watching a play, opera, television show, or film, or the audience role may be active, as in games, where the participant/audience roles may be routinely reversed.

Entertainment can be public or private, involving formal, scripted performances, as in the tre or concerts, or unscripted and spontaneous, as in the dren's games.

Most forms of entertainment have persisted over many centuries, evolving due to changes in culture, technology, and fashion.

For example, although they use newer media, Films and video games, Films and video games continue to tell stories, present drama and play music.

Festivals devoted to music, film, or dance allow audiences to be entertained over several consecutive days.

Some activities that once were considered entertaining, particularly public punishments, have been removed from the public arena.

Others, such as fencing or archery, once necessary skills for some, have become serious sports and even professions for the participants, at the same time developing into entertainment with wider appeal for bigger audiences.

In the same way, other necessary skills, such as cooking, have developed into performances among professionals, staged as global competitions, and then broadcast for entertainment.

What is entertainment for one group or individual may be regarded as work by another?

The familiar forms of entertainment have the capacity to cross over different media and h known to be the most viewed form of entertainment on television. Each tv channel is different and targets a different type of crowd. They have their own segmentation, targeting, and positioning.