ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the relationship between audiences and the public in modern times when anybody can be audiences just by accessing television content available on social media. Presenting empirical data from Sidha Kura Janata Sanga, a current affairs programme from Nepal, it analyses the everyday cultural practices of audiences focusing on intensities of participation. It suggests that the television public can be understood as meaningful and intense participation of audiences in the forms of committed news sources, critics and fans. It shows that these three kinds of public have emerged in the backdrop of post-conflict Nepal where different state organizations such as police, courts and embassies had not fulfilled their respective responsibilities, properly creating a vacuum, and many of these public seem to have believed that the television programme is filling this vacuum.
