CHAPTER 1

1.1 Introduction

We had been given a task which was to do a research in a certain topic and come up with the analysis and findings on the topic that we choose. For the researcher, he chooses the topic on `How TV programmes affect teenager's behaviour'. The reason the researcher chooses this topic is because based on previous facts, the researcher believes that TV is one of the major medium of media that influenced the viewers mind and behaviour. This applies especially to teenagers.

Even nowadays as we see smoking campaign or advertisement on television, it has no effect to the society but on the contrary, each passing day, more teenagers started smoking as a result of being exposed to smoking, through films and drama on TV. Looking into depths of this scenario, I certainly believe that this research is relevant in order to prove that TV really...