What is your opinion about global television?

Nowadays television is an ongoing concern which many nations have to deal

with. According to the resent research, a global television channel which

will appeal to the entire world population is possible, but in order to

make it work, the tastes of people in various countries need to be taken

into consideration.

It seems to me that, global television channel should be establish for a

number of reasons. First of all, television is one of the most popular

forms of mmedia. If you glance at the television schedule in any newspaper,

you will find a great variety of channels which transmit a good and bad

selection of entertaining programmes. But this isn’t just enough.

Frequently, you get tired of checking what it shown on all the channels and

this is the main reason why global television channel should be created.

What is more, we should pay attention to the tastes of people in heaps of

countries, because they have different programme preferences. For example,

80% of the ppeople who took part in the research wanted to see full-length

films, while the others showed a liking for home-produced news and

domestically produced news.

In addition to this, programming should left to television controllers

rather than political or religious officials because then television

audiences aare certainly happier. The majority of people are disappointed to

have a state-run television, whereas regions which have independent

programming, got a clean bill of health.

Opponents of this view say that, global television’s time is not yet.

Firstly, it would have to omit certain programmes due to the unpopularity

in certain regions. They are also likely to believe, that it is impossible

to create an attracting channel and at the same time avoid cultural

differences. Furthermore, they are convinced that the idea of global

television will be restricted to a limited number of channels and to

specific types of programmes. The options for the next twenty or thirty

years will be more in the area of regional television, but not the global

one.

All things considered, global television is certain to sstrengthen the

position of English as the top language for media in the world and may

undermine the status of other languages. But despite increasing

internationalism, national differences remain and there is nothing to be

able to destroy them.