Production process and globalization of global scale reality television program formats in Turkish television channels

Television, which is of great importance in mass media, is one of the most powerful characters of traditional media. It has become an indispensable part of the communication and advertising (marketing) sector since the 1950s. In this context, television, which is progressing day by day and incorporating hundreds of channels by expanding its broad range of broadcasting, has become a communication hero whose influence is still continuing by creating psychological interactions in sociological structures with the programs it offers to its target audience. This power of television has led to the desire and obligation to present new broadcast formats to the audience. Subsequently, many domestic and foreign generation program formats were implemented and presented to the public. The formats which have proved themselves in the international media and communication sector market and provided quantitative satisfaction in the countries where they are published in line with the appreciation of the audience (highly rated) have been tried in our country and are still being adapted and implemented. According to the broadcasting planning of the television, there are generation slices such as Off Prime Time, Prime Time and Late Prime Time. Formats are prepared by taking into consideration the criteria such as age, gender, educational status and financial status of the audience that are expected to be on the screen during the time span of broadcasting of these generation segments. Global scale TV program formats that can be shaped according to the demographic structures of the countries are prepared on the basis of certain schematic formations. These formats, in which many structural and design balances are prepared by nesting, can be served to countries and broadcast on television all over the world. The traditionalization of formats and their adaptation to the sociological structure of social form in content requires professional teamwork. The teams formed by production, technical and editorial staff carry out television programs in line with many devoted works in written and visual synchronously. Implementation of a television program; media and target audience research, format design and creation, procurement, team building, planning, adaptation, budget studies, visual design procedures, directional and technical institutions, content production, positioning and publishing character figures, etc. It involves a challenging process that requires real planning in terms of its internal dynamics. The process of adaptation and transformation of global formats to cultures is called ''glaucalization''. Key Words: TV program formats, reality show programs, program generations, glocalization, media researchs.