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A short Introduction Of Indian tv channels by Amrish Singh
There are a number of Indian TV channels. The small screen programming commenced in the early 1980s and since then Indian television channels have grown in leaps and bounds. Initially it was only the Doordarshan , a national channel that served as the source of information and entertainment. However, with the introduction of satellite television the scenario altered. Several TV channels came into existence and these were available in various Indian languages, such as, Hindi language , Bengali language , Tamil language, Kannada language, Oriya language, Telugu language etc. The Indian TV channels broadcast serials, news, sports and several other shows.
Ramayana and Mahabharata were the first major television series that were aired. These two serials notched up the world record in terms of viewer ship. By the end of 1980s, more and more people began to own television sets. Television programming had reached its saturation as there was an only one channel. Hence the government introduced another channel, which partly had national programming and partly regional. This channel was termed as DD 2 later DD Metro. Both channels were broadcast terrestrially. It was in the year 1992 that five new channels belonging to the Hong Kong based STAR TV provided a fresh breath to the Indian television. MTV, Star Plus, BBC, Prime Sports and STAR Chinese Channel were the 5 channels in those days. In south India the first private channel to be introduced was the Sun TV. Today it airs programmes in four different languages: Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam. On the other hand, Zee TV was the first private owned Indian channel to be broadcasted in the country. A few years later CNN, Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel were launched for the audience. Star also introduced other channels like Star World, Star Sports, ESPN and Star Gold. Over the years, several regional Indian TV Channels flourished along with other Hindi channels and some English channels. By 2001, HBO and History Channel were the other international channels that entered India. By 2001-2003, more international channels such as Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, VH1, Disney, etc. came in the country.
The year 2003 marked the boom of authentic news channels in India. Aastha TV is one of the most popular socio-spiritual-cultural television channel broadcasting India
January 10, 2012 11:51 pm 
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