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50 İSTANBUL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
sa w the place of television in their lives increasing very fast. In accordance with
the interest shown by the audience and the results of fırst surveys, the
production of local series has increased more and more around the mid-90's.
From this moment on, the Turkish audi en ce of television left nearly completely
the foreign series daiming for "universality" and turned to local series. To
watch local series has become the entertainment and recreation of nearly every
evening after diner time for the majority of the population.
In all the researches we have been ab le to fınd from 1998 until now, the
number of local series has regularly increased. Even if sametimes some other
formats have done a success (such as TV game or reality shows, like the
Turkish adaptation of Taxi Orange) or even if sametimes it show ed some
moments of stagnation, those never lasted long.
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Average Number of TV Series Broadcast Weekly
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40
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20
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1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010
There aren't any sources in Turkey on the annual dispersal of broadcast TV series. The
average numbers shown on this graphic are the results of our personal academic researches
that we have been conducting since 1996.