Influence of Trust and Affect on Brand Loyalty and Brand Performance: The Case of Indian Television News Channels

Influence of Trust and Affect on Brand Loyalty and Brand Performance: The Case of Indian Television News Channels

Madhupa Bakshi, Prashant Mishra
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5187-4.ch078
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Abstract

Television channels in India are multiplying every day, and there is intense competition to garner viewers. In this tussle, brand building becomes essential, and garnering customer loyalty is essential to stay in the market. In this context, this chapter explores the role of trust and affect in creating loyalty and influencing brand performance of television channels in the Indian context. The conceptual model is an adaptation of Chaudhuri and Holbrook's (2001) chain of effects study of trust, affect, purchase loyalty, and attitudinal loyalty. This chapter also reviewed journalism literature, and certain constructs were adapted from such studies so there is an amalgam of both brand building and journalism disciplines to give validity to the application of the conceptual model for television channels. The results indicate that affect creates a strong impact on brand loyalty, and loyalty also has a strong impact on brand performance. The strength of the chapter lies in the fact that it applies brand management principles to the media sector where the industry follows such practices but academic studies are very few in number.
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Television Industry In India And Branding

In a country like India where there are very few entertainment options television with its intrinsic advantage of being a visual medium transcends the barriers of social and economic disparity and appeals to all sections of society. At present there are more than 800 channels and according to KPMG’’s latest report the annual Cumulative Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of television is over 18%. This growth is remarkable as only a decade back there were less than 3 regional news channel but as of March 2013 there are 410 news channels. This growth has evoked questions like whether India is the biggest TV bazaar in the world (Thussu, 2007). It has changed the market of news and today the only objective currency of success is high placing in the rating meters (Mehta, 2008). The battle for ratings has resulted in news channels resorting to hard core marketing moving away from its fourth estate agenda. In this marketing bid the channels as reported by Batabyal (2013) in his interview of a senior member of MCS, attempt branding by image management or creation of a certain perception of the channel amongst the viewing public and the media market in four main ways: influencing content, promos, advertisement placement and public relations exercises. For the purpose of this chapter we focus on the effects these actions create.

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