In a recent bout of insomnia, I turned on the TV (I don’t remember what channel it was) and was amazed to see a frozen image from a film on the screen \u2014 for about 15 consecutive minutes. I had the impression that either the person responsible for nighttime programming was asleep or what was happening on the screening didn’t really interest him that much. <\/p>\n
I decided to monitor the nighttime programming of local TV stations broadcasting in Yerevan. This is what I saw after midnight on Oct. 19:<\/p>\n
00:45 <\/span><\/strong>Armenia TV: a program dedicated to satirist Vardan Petrosyan <\/p>\n 00:55<\/span><\/strong> Yerevan TV: feature film<\/p>\n 01:00<\/strong><\/span> Shoghakat: Yekeghetsakan Kyanq (“Life in the Church”) program <\/p>\n 01:15<\/strong><\/span> Dar 21: music videos<\/p>\n 01:20<\/strong><\/span> Shant TV: Astghik (“Little Star”) children’s song contest <\/p>\n 01:25<\/strong><\/span> AR TV: a program about a race of off-road vehicles<\/p>\n 01:30<\/strong><\/span> ArmNews: a repeat of the program Banadzev (“Resolution”) with singer Artavazd Tunjboyajyan<\/p>\n 01:35<\/strong><\/span> H1 (Armenia’s Public Broadcaster): repeat of the program Azat Goti (“Free Zone”)<\/p>\n 01:35<\/strong><\/span> ATV: feature film<\/p>\n 02:00<\/strong><\/span> Yerkir Media: Mamuli Akumb (“Press Club”) broadcast<\/p>\n 02:05<\/strong><\/span> Kentron TV: a repeat of Epikentron (“Epicenter”) news program’s evening broadcast<\/p>\n 02:15<\/strong><\/span> Armenia TV: The soap opera Dzhvar Aprust (“A Hard Life”)<\/p>\n 02:00<\/strong><\/span> Lime TV: <\/span>Hot L<\/span>ime<\/p>\n 02:30<\/strong><\/span> Yerkir Media: a repeat of the Uerkirn Aysor (“The Country Today”) news program’s evening broadcast<\/p>\n 02:35<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>\u05702 (Armenia’s Public Broadcaster’s second channel): a repeat of the Lraber (“The Messenger”) news program’s evening broadcast<\/p>\n 02:40<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>Yerevan: a repeat of the program Kartsiqneri Khachmeruk (“Intersection of Opinions”)<\/p>\n 02:50<\/strong><\/span> Yerkir Media: a repeat of the program Araratyan Khohanots (“Ararat Cuisine”)<\/p>\n 02:55<\/strong><\/span> Shant TV: a repeat of the program Kankhik Humur (“Net Humor”)<\/p>\n Especially incomprehensible to me in nighttime programming was Shant TV broadcasting a children’s song contest in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n During the two hours I observed the nighttime airwaves, I saw, according to genre:<\/p>\n On Yerkir Media, Vardan Onanyan’s historical TV program was on, while Kentron TV again ran the evening broadcast of its Epikentron news program. After 4 am, h2, Yerevan TV, and Shoghakat completed the broadcast of their programs. The nighttime programming was nearly the same on Oct. 20. <\/p>\n For example, at 4:10 am, Armenia TV was broadcasting VIA Gra’s concert, there was a soap opera on Shant TV, a program about actor Boris Pepanyan on AR TV, a foreign film on ATV, an Armenian feature film with actor Mikael Poghosyan on H1, Sting’s concert on Lime TV, and a documentary film about the “7 signs signalling the end of the world” on ArmNews. <\/p>\n I arrived at a few conclusions based on my nighttime research:<\/p>\n And also there’s a lack of a new format. Nighttime TV viewers are more demanding: the constant repetition of daytime programs cannot satisfy TV viewers who stay up at night.<\/p>\n Tigran Hovhannisyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a recent bout of insomnia, I turned on the TV (I don’t remember what channel it was) and was amazed to see a frozen image from a film on the screen \u2014 for about 15 consecutive minutes. I had the impression that either the person responsible for nighttime programming was asleep or what was happening on the screening didn’t really interest him that much. <\/p>\n I decided to monitor the nighttime programming of local TV stations broadcasting in Yerevan. This is what I saw after midnight on Oct. 19:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-critique"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
\n Quantity<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n Genre<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n TV Company<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 5<\/td>\n interview, debate<\/td>\n Armenia TV, ArmNews, H1, Yerkir Media, Yerevan TV<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 3<\/td>\n music program<\/td>\n Dar 21, Shant TV, Lime TV<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 3<\/td>\n news program<\/td>\n Kentron TV, Yerkir Media, h2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2<\/td>\n feature film<\/td>\n Yerevan TV, ATV<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1<\/td>\n sports program<\/td>\n AR TV<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1<\/td>\n entertainment program<\/td>\n Shant TV<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1<\/td>\n study program<\/td>\n Yerkir Media<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \n