Media in Hyderabad

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.

Radio stations

Broadcast radio

The city has a variety of AM and FM radio stations. Two 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
• IGNOU Gyan Vani 105.6 MHz (educational station, on air from 18.00 to 22.00 hours)

AM radio stations in the city are:

• Hyderabad-A 737 KHz
• Hyderabad-B 1377 KHz

Internet radio

• RadioKhushi.com 24/7 Telugu online radio^[1]
• Deccan Radio 24/7 South Indian internet radio^[2]
• TeluguOne Radio 24/7 Telugu Live Radio^[3]

• Tharangamedia

Television networks

The first satellite television relay in Hyderabad were started in 1974, with the launch of state-owned Doordarshan Kendra Hyderabad, which initially telecast through ATS-6 Satellite in collaboration with NASA, It was officially inaugurated on 23 October 1977.^[4] Today it telecast 2 The private satellite channel in Hyderabad were started in July 1992, with the launch of Star TV.^[5] Today there are number of satellite TV channels available for viewing in Hyderabad.^[6] An estimate of 2.5 million households use cable TV in Hyderabad.^[7]

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 1974. Many private regional television channels began broadcasting from Hyderabad.

Telugu television channels broadcast from Hyderabad are:

Satellite channels

Cable channels

• C7 NEWS(http://www.c7news.in)

Print media

Hyderabad has several print-media groups which publish newspapers and magazines in Telugu, English, Urdu and Hindi. The major Telugu dailies include the Eenadu, Sakshi, maa aksharam mee ayudham, Vaartha, Andhra Jyothi, Surya, Prajasakti, Andhra Bhoomi and Andhra Prabha, Namaste Telangana,. 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 Hindi Daily is 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 TOLLYWOOD, Sitara, Siva Ranjani, Santosham and Jyoti Chitra. Aap Tak Tv Network - charminar

Tollywood cinema

Hyderabad 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.

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