Ql - ITO

46 İSTANBUL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
As one can see on the comparative graphs, dramas are clearly roling all the
generalİst TV channels except one. Together with this, we observe a trend to
specialization on different TV formats. SHOW TV, especially since a few
years, has the leadership as far as television game shows are concemed. In this
matter, the part of some imported programs like 'Fear Factor', 'Survivor',
'Wipe out' which are intemationally popular formats has to be noticed. The
most important difference of the public channel (TRT 1) from the others is,
apart from the dominant position of dramas, the fact that the different program
categories are almost equally represented. The fact that TR T 1 has the largest
part of documentary/reportage and cultural-educational programs obviously
shows that it works inaccordance with this channel's mission of obeying to the
principles of public broadcasting. W e can als o notice that three of the
commercial and liberal channels that were analyzed had nearly neither
documentary-reportage nor any cultural-educational program.
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• Kanal D
• Show TV
• FoxTV