电视民生服务类节目出现已经由来已久，中央电视台在1979年设立的《为您服务》栏目，既是是我国第一档主持人栏目，也可以说是我国的第一档民生服务类电视节目。然而伴随着广播电视的不断飞速发展，人民的生活水平不断提高，如今的民生服务类节目早已经摆脱了当年《为您服务》节目的单一性，电视服务类节目也呈现出百花争鸣，百家齐放的形态多样的节目模式。大致有：综合杂志类服务节目、旅游节目、汽车服务节目、科教服务类节目、电视购物节目、医疗保健类节目、气象节目、美食节目、房产家居类服务节目、职场类节目、花样繁多的电视广告等等。如何创新发展成为电视台需要重视的问题。

It has been for a long time since TV civic service program existed. CCTV has set up China's first file host part "at your service" in 1979, which can be said of the first tranche of public services TV program. However, along with the continuous rapid development of radio and television, meanwhile, people's living standards continue to improve. The people's livelihood service program already get rid of singularity, TV service programs show hundreds of burgeons of morphological diversity ,and have many program modes. Generally, there are: the general-interest magazine service programs, travel programs, weather programs, science and education services program, type of programs in the workplace, the cost of healthcare programs, food programs, infomercials, automotive service programs, real estate home service programs, a variety of TV advertisements, and so on.