Media Consumption and Following the News

SUMMARY

This section includes the periodic follow-up of the KONDA Barometer on Media Consumption and Following the News, and the analysis and evaluation of how media consumption differs across the socio-demographic clusters that make up the society in Turkey:

• Which television channel do you watch the most?
• Which one do you trust the most as a news source?
• When you hear a news story for the first time, which source do you turn to for more information, for confirmation?
• When you watch TV with your household in the evenings, whose hand holds the remote control?
• What kind of programs do you watch on TV?
• What kind of programs do you watch on the Internet?
• On which issues do you support the penalties imposed by RTÜK?

Television viewership rates in Turkey have shown an increase since 2008. Women, the elderly, those with less than a high school education, retired people, housewives, and conservatives place greater trust in television as a news source. Conversely, as education levels rise, the rate of watching news and series on the internet increases, in contrast to television. Although trust in the internet and social media as news sources is rising across society in general, the preference of more than half of society is still television. News remains the most consumed content on both television and the internet.