Private FM Radio in Bangladesh

Rahman, Atiqur; Rahman, Habiba

doi:10.1080/01296612.2012.11689914

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“…… It is evident that there is a mutual relationship between the ownership of television channels and the ways in which news are produced and commodified within an urban-centric, exploitative, and gendered division of labor (2017, ix). Rahman (2022) completed the third Ph.D. level research on private television in Bangladesh at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. The title of his Ph.D. thesis is Private Television Channels in Bangladesh: A Political Economy Analysis of the Role of the State and How This Impacts News Media.…”

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“…Bangladesh is the first case of "the TV media boom trend " (Rahman, 2009) among South Asian countries. The unprecedented growth of private TV channels has caught the attention of scholars (Abdur Khan, 2009Khan, , 2013Khan, , 2020Khan and Habiba, 2016;Atiqur Rahman and Alam, 2014;Anis, Rahman, 2009, 2022Atiqur Rahman, 2022;Atiqur Rahman and Habiba 2023). This growth of private TV strongly connects with the country's political elites and crony capitalists.…”

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The Political Economy of Emergence and Transformation of Private Television Channels in Bangladesh: A Critique

Khan

2023

NSJPGS

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The emergence of private television channels in Bangladesh was a remarkable chapter in Bangladesh's media democratization process. Three private television channels—ATN Bangla, Channel-I, and ETV— were allowed to air during Sheikh Hasina's first regime (1996-2001). All these three private channels brought a qualitative change in the broadcast history of Bangladesh. Bangladesh's people lost their confidence in the state-controlled only TV channel of the country named Bangladesh Television (BTV) simply because of its enslavement towards the government and the ruling party. Private TV channels emerged as windows for ordinary people to get accurate and unbiased news and views of Bangladesh and the world. Later on, during Begum Khaleda Zia's second regime (2001-2006), vicious and dirty party politics enveloped Bangladesh's private TV channels. As a result, private TV channels have been transformed into the government's mouthpiece and a tool for manufacturing consent in favor of the ruling party. This paper focuses on the political economy of private TV channels' emergence and their transformation in Bangladesh. The contention of this paper is to show how the social relations, i.e., communication relations between the ruling party elites and the crony capitalists, form a vicious nexus that brushes aside all rules and regulations for getting a private television channel with a view to becoming a big tool for manufacturing consent in favor of the ruling elites. The paper concludes that any authoritarian government, like a one-party rule, military regime, or even an elected government when it transforms into an autocratic one, always tries to support and sponsor crony capitalists for their political interest, which is a threat to any democracy and media democratization process of any society. The crony capitalists developed a corporate media culture of their own that doesn't give proper treatment of any national concern or issue that goes against the ruling party's interest. There is no space for objective journalism in this media culture. This corporate journalism culture, devoid of professionalism, has replaced ethical journalism in Bangladesh. It has become stronger day by day. Keywords: Political Economy, Private TV Channels, Emergence, Transformation, Crony Capitalism, Sheikh Hasina, and Begum Khaleda Zia

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The Political Economy of Emergence and Transformation of Private Television Channels in Bangladesh: A Critique

Khan

2023

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“…Partly in response to the advent of the private cassette industry, AIR focused on a stronger definition of folk music as ancient, rural, locally-contained music that should remain free of commercialization. Rahman, A., and Rahman, H. (2012) studied privately-owned FM radio stations in Bangladesh as an entertainment sector-seeking middle class, resulting in the loss of public radio. In fact, the four major radio stations in Bangladesh dedicate their shows entirely to music; more than two-thirds of their air time is devoted to entertainment, particularly music, despite the fact that their presentation style can be questionable at times.…”

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The Role of Private FM Radio Channels in Popularizing Indian Music

Kaur¹

2022

ECS Trans.

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The radio industry has grown impressively as music is the backbone, which caters to 83 percent of the airtime. The present study assesses the intensity of preferring broadcasting music over content by private radio stations in Tricity and how it caught the youth imagination is examined. To keep the objectives in mind, the researcher analysed the data of aired music by two prominent private radio stations in the city. In the present paper, various genres of music, whether they are current or popular, old and latest, station royalty, and dependency on film music, have been analyzed. The study concluded that the majority of commercial radio’s schedule only hit numbers during prime time by keeping in mind their moving listeners. This study adds the peculiar finding that if a station does not make a playlist according to a listener’s preference, and then there is a constant risk of channel swapping by them.

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“…Withregardtogreenbanking,alimitednumberofstudieshavebeenconductedinthecontextof Bangladesh.Forinstance, Rahman(2012)…”

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Can Central Bank Survive the Green Banking Revolution?

Nisha

2020

International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management

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Various eco-friendly services, broadly known as green banking, are now part of most banking activities. These services relate to banking transactions conducted less on paper and more over an electronic platform. This new form of technology is being used with increasing frequency in low carbon-emitting countries like Bangladesh to promote environmental sustainability. Despite the central bank playing a prominent role in this vision development, surprisingly the level of green banking adoption is still low among its employees. This study thus aims to identify factors that affect bank employee use of green banking, by integrating management support, customer and competitor pressure with a technology acceptance model. Findings indicate that the perceived ease of use influences perceived usefulness, whose impact is then observed upon actual use. It is also quite lucid that both management support and customer pressure have substantial impact on green banking adoption for central bank employees.

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Private FM Radio in Bangladesh

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The Political Economy of Emergence and Transformation of Private Television Channels in Bangladesh: A Critique

The Political Economy of Emergence and Transformation of Private Television Channels in Bangladesh: A Critique

The Role of Private FM Radio Channels in Popularizing Indian Music

Can Central Bank Survive the Green Banking Revolution?

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