We dont give any value to performing arts, only our upper class take it seriously. If you look at shows like AGT BGT and others lot of the contestants are middle class and lower middle class people.
Secondly our media industry is pathetic. Starting from Pemra and Phupy type farigh journalists like ansar burney, to producers of tv channels, the decision makers are freaking stupid. Pemra keeps on banning stuff. And the behaviour of our producers can be encapsulated perfectly as of the fielders in Amirkhans cricket team in Lagan, (all the fielders running towards ball each time ball is hit). There is no freaking diversity, Pakistan has huge and diverse population, but all our tv programs run after single formula that succeeds, All our News shows TV news follow the same pathetic pattern, Dramas follow same trennd across all channels, Same morning shows. it might be succesfull in large segment of the country, but the other segments dont have any thing to watch. Considering the size of Pakistani population, even a targeted show to a population segment as small as 2% of the population, should generate profit.
We dont have a single show directed towards children, teens and preteens, even though they make up more than 30% of the population, We dont have a single Tv channel that shows non political news and events from Pakistan and around the world (Sama had one program but i think it stopped, "shehr shehr sama" which was later renamed to "metro something". No educational documentaries at all. Coming to news talk shows, i havent counted but there should be atleast 20 of them airing in a day. But the number of topics discussed in these shows in any given day , never increases from two, i,e. practically all of them are talking about same things each and every day.
On the contrary, go to youtube, there are number of journalists talking about different issues on their own yt channels, there are a number of YT media outlets that are making high quality short films (10 to 20 min long), and the story telling, acting, direction, dialogues are 1000 times better than the Dramas we see on Satellite channels. Just because they have creative freedom there, no stupid producer forcing their hands for imaginary TRPs, no PEMRA, no Ansar Burney filing case on every second TV show.
I mean the Junaid Akram podcasts are 100 time more interesting and informative than any of the talk shows aired. Wajahads YT talk show (Voice over Man) is hundred time more funnier than the ones aired on tv channel.