- Media in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
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Hyderabad, India has a well-developed communication and media infrastructure, and the city is covered by a large network of optical fiber cables. The city's telephone system is serviced by four landline companies: BSNL, Tata Indicom, Reliance and Airtel. There are a number of mobile-phone companies: Aircel, BSNL, Airtel, Hutch, Idea Cellular, Uninor, MTS, Virgin Mobile, Tata Indicom, Tata DoCoMo and Reliance. Several companies offer broadband internet access.
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Radio stations
Broadcast radio
The city has a variety of AM and FM radio stations. Five AM and two FM stations in Hyderabad are operated by All India Radio (AIR), officially known as Akashvani. The first FM radio station to broadcast in the city was AIR's Vividh Bharati in the early 1990s. In 2006, commercial FM radio stations were launched in Hyderabad. These stations are broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week with programming in Telugu and Hindi. The FM radio stations in the city are:
- AIR Vividh Bharati 102.8 MHz
- AIR Rainbow 101.9 MHz
- Radio Mirchi 98.3 MHz
- Radio City 91.1 MHz
- BIG FM 92.7 92.7 MHz
- RED FM 93.5 MHz
- AIR Gyan Vani 105.6 MHz (educational station, on air from 18.00 to 22.00 hours)
Internet radio
- RadioKhushi.com 24/7 Telugu online radio[1]
- Deccan Radio 24/7 South Indian internet radio[2]
Television networks
Doordarshan transmits two terrestrial television channels and one satellite channel from Hyderabad. The Doordarshan Telugu channel Saptagiri was the first TV channel launched in Hyderabad in the early 1970s. Many private regional television channels began broadcasting from Hyderabad.
Telugu television channels broadcast from Hyderabad are:
- Satellite channels
- DD-Saptagiri
- ETV Telugu
- ETV2
- Gemini TV
- Teja TV
- Maa TV
- APtv
- ATV
- Vissa TV
- Raj News
- TV9
- Sakshi TV
- Zee Telugu
- HMTV
- Studio N
- I News
- Gemini Music
- Gemini News
- NTV
- TV5 (India)
- Channel 4 HyTV
- Bhakti TV
- Samskruthi
- Shubhavartha TV
- Jagrutitv News
- ABN Andhrajyothi
- Maa Music
- T news (Telangana news channel)
- Cable channels
Print media
Hyderabad has several print-media groups which publish newspapers and magazines in English, Urdu and hindi. The major English some people used telugu dailies include the Namaste Telangana, Eenadu, Sakshi, Vaartha, Andhra Jyothi, Surya, Prajasakti, Andhra Bhoomi and Andhra Prabha. The major English dailies are The Times of India, The Hindu, The Deccan Chronicle, Business Standard, The Indian Express and The Economic Times. The major Urdu dailies are The Siasat Daily, The Munsif Daily, The Etemaad Urdu Daily, The Rahnuma-i Deccan and The Daily Milap. Besides these major newspapers, there a number of localised neighbourhood newspapers catering to localities. Magazines published in Hyderabad include the Neadu Telugu daily, Swati, Navya, Andhra Prabha, Andhra Jyoti,crime today, Vipula, Chatura, Vanita and Chandamama. Film magazines include Sitara, Siva Ranjani, Santosham and Jyoti Chitra.
Tollywood cinema
Main article: Cinema of Andhra PradeshHyderabad is the homeland of Tollywood, the Telugu movie industry. Apart from being a popular entertainment source and India's largest film producer as measured by the number of films made every year (followed by Bollywood), Tollywood also provides livelihood to thousands of its citizens and contributes a large amount of revenue to the local government. Previously, many Telugu films were produced in Madras. However, improvements in Hyderabad's infrastructure and initiatives such as establishing studios like Ramoji Film City (cited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest film studio), Saradhi Studios, Annapurna Studios, Ramanaidu Studios, Ramakrishna Studios and Padmalaya Studios have changed the situation. Not only Telugu films, but films from Bollywood are made in Hyderabad.
References
- ^ Radio Khushi website Retrieved 2011-09-05.
- ^ Deccan Radio website Retrieved 2011-09-05.
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