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BBC invites viewers to vote for their favourite TV moments
MUMBAI: With a little over two months left for 2005 to get over, UK pubcaster The BBC has announced that its new and improved show 2005 TV Moments returns at the end of the year. For the first time in the show’s history, all the winners are to be voted for solely by the television viewing public.
By logging on to bbc.co.uk/tvmoments from today 24 October 2005 British viewers will able to vote for their favourite television moments of the past ten months. From y 21 November 2005 viewers will be able to start voting for November through to December programmes.
From comedy to sport, and from entertainment to news, this annual retrospective celebrates those small screen moments which have become the talking point of an entire nation. There are six categories in all and viewers will be given four TV Moments to choose between in each.
The categories are: January– February; March–April; May–June; July–August; September-October; and November–December. Viewers will also be given the choice of voting for their ultimate Golden TV Moment for the past year.
The nominations so far include Celebrity Big Brother on Channel 4 and Dad on BBC Two. This took a look at the discomfort of growing old, the burden of having parents staying in one’s house, and the diminishing dignity from one generation to the next. Perhaps the most famous moment happened on BBC News when Prince Charles called media reporters “those bloody people” and rounds on anchor Nicholas Witchell during a photocall. What he doesn’t realise is that he can be overheard.
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Times Network to air JVC Exit Poll across 5 regions on April 29
Four-hour broadcast spans states and Puducherry with data-led analysis
MUMBAI: Times Network is set to roll out what it calls one of its most expansive election programming efforts yet, culminating in the JVC Exit Poll on 29 April, with a multi-hour broadcast spanning key poll-bound regions.
The exit poll will air across Times Now and Times Now Navbharat, beginning at 5pm and 4pm respectively. Co-powered by Vedanta and Jindal Stainless, the programming aims to combine on-ground reportage with data-driven projections across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry.
The network has deployed over 50 journalists across these regions, gathering voter sentiment and local insights in the run-up to polling. The effort builds on its ongoing election formats such as Election Yatra and Election Premier League, which have tracked campaign narratives and community-level issues.
In parallel, Times Now Navbharat has focused on constituency-level reporting in West Bengal through its Jan Gan ka Mann series, capturing voter opinions across diverse segments.
The coverage has also featured interviews with prominent political leaders. Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Congress leaders Ramesh Chennithala and V D Satheesan have appeared on the network’s election specials. From Tamil Nadu, voices including deputy chief minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran, BJP leader K Annamalai and NTK’s Seeman have also featured in discussions.
On the day of the exit poll, the network’s primetime anchors, including Navika Kumar, Zakka Jacob and Sumit Awasthi, will lead the coverage. They will be joined by a panel of political analysts, psephologists and senior journalists offering real-time insights and interpretation of trends.
The programming will integrate grassroots reportage with analytics from the JVC Exit Poll, aiming to give viewers an early sense of electoral outcomes ahead of the official results on 4 May.
With its combined English and Hindi broadcast reach, Times Network is positioning this effort as a comprehensive look at voter sentiment, blending field reporting, data and debate to decode what could lie ahead when the final mandate is revealed.
