Religion and the media When TV started in Britain all TV channels were expected to have some kind of input of religious programmes, usually between the times of 10.30am-12.00noon and 6.00pm-7.00pm. Most of these programmes were church services or hymn singing programmes, these programmes on at these times became known as the ‘God Slot’. Religious issues are now featured in many of these programmes, this religious broadcasting now represents that Britain is a multi cultural society. There are a wide range of religious programmes now appearing on the TV every Sunday and others at special times during the year, for example: Easter and Christmas. Songs of praise is one of the most famous BBC Sunday worship programmes, it is usually broadcast between 6.30 and 7.00pm. This programme is broadcast from a different location each week; a presenter explores the local area of and finds out how village life has been affected by their faith. The local congregation sings around six popular hymns each week, that gathers in a church local to the area. Songs of praise is aimed at older viewers. There are many positive aspects to showing this programme; it is often interesting to the viewer and they get to learn about other religious communities and how they practice their religion, and it is often the only time the family is brought together. There are also some weaknesses to showing these types of programmes, because they are aimed at older viewers, younger viewers do not enjoy these programmes and would prefer them if there was a more ‘modern’ approach taken in the making of these programmes. Documentaries are the best-known way of religious broadcasting because they deal with religious issues in the same way that they would handle other important issues. There were two main documentaries shown on BBC1 ‘Everyman’ and ‘heart of the matter’ these were shown around 10.30pm. ‘Everyman’ used a lot of film footage to explore issues and ‘heart of the matter’ used more discussion to explore these issues, these two programmes contrasted with each other, but got there points across about issues that effected peoples lives. These documentaries were targeted at a wider audience, perhaps young adults, but still not for teenagers or children. The positive aspects of these documentaries is that they explored issues that could not be broad cast earlier on in the day and are targeted at a wider audience as they appeared to be tackling religious issues in a ‘none’ religious way, whilst still managing to get their important points across to the audience.
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