It’s first fifteen years, the Indian private broadcasting industry expanded like the American Wild West. Canny local entrepreneurs rode into uncharted territories and planted their stakes…
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Social scientist Nalin Mehta examines the defective paver-blocks of regulations that line the pathways of Indian media, and suggests roadwork. One of the great risks of…
Wait. No one watches the news? Then why are there so many news channels. The writer of a new book on the industry explains the real…
āIndia is Modi. Modi is Indiaā screamed the headline in Indiaās most popular pink paper, The Economic Times, the day after the new Prime Ministerās historic…
Uday Shankar is CEO of Star TV India, which broadcast and backed the Pro-Kabaddi League. Kabaddi surprised India, garnered 2.5 times more viewers in its first…
ABSTRACT Satellite TV has been the greatest social development of the past thirty years in India. With over 800 TV channels in 11 languages, the emergence…
In early 2008, Indiaās Zee News broadcast a āspecial investigationā. With a loud, red banner labelling the inquiry an āexclusiveā, the program made two claims: first,…
Is a successful London 2012 possible for India? Or will a sports culture remain an illusion with India not bothering to look beyond cricket and turning…
Until the early 1980s, cricket was not the most pre-eminent Indian game. It was popular but hockey was the ānational gameā and soccer was equally popular…
Has public service broadcasting returned to Indian television? When Ashok Kumar began appearing with his public service messages at the end of every Hum Log episode…
