Chris Collins

Religion and the Media

a) i) Describe the variety of specifically religious programmes on the four main television channels.

        

Mass media refers to the different types of media which masses of people can have access to. The types of mass media are Visual (TV, Film), Audio (radio), Press (magazines, newspapers) and electronic (internet, mobiles). The four main channels host such religious programmes as Songs of Praise, Heaven and Earth Show, Everyman, holy Smoke and It’s My Life. A religious programme is a factual programme about religion and religious issues. There is a wide range of religious programmes on television ranging from worship programmes to programmes dealing with religious and moral issues.

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        The four main channels that I will be looking at are the BBC1, BBC2, ITV and Channel 4. In the year 2005/2006, the BBC hosted 139 hours of religious television, 92 hours on BBC1 and 47 hours on BBC2. Sport, however, got 670 hours worth of broadcasting in the same year. The ITV produces only 104 hours religious programming per year, with the majority of television being given to children’s programming. Channel 4 produces 110 hours of religious media. In the past year, religion on the television has increased by 4%.

        The 3 types of programmes are Worship programmes, ...

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