Television in India

Television in India
Author: Nalin Mehta
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2008-06-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134062133

Examines the development of television in India since the early 1990s and its implications for Indian society more widely, discussing the rapid expansion in independent satellite channels, and in viewing figures, and the corresponding growth in new ways of imagining identities, conducting politics and engaging with the state.

Regional Language Television in India

Regional Language Television in India
Author: Mira K. Desai
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2021-11-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000470083

This book examines the evolution and journey of regional language television channels in India. The first of its kind, it looks at the coverage, uniqueness, ownership, and audiences of regional channels in 14 different languages across India, covering Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Urdu, Assamese, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Odia, Punjabi, and Malayalam. It brings together researchers, scholars, media professionals, and communication teachers to document and reflect on language as the site of culture, politics, market, and social representation. The volume discusses multiple media histories and their interlinkages from a subcontinental perspective by exploring the trajectories of regional language television through geographical boundaries, state, language, identities, and culture. It offers comparative analyses across regional language television channels and presents interpretive insights on television culture and commerce, contemporary challenges, mass media technology, and future relevance. Rich in empirical data, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of media studies, television studies, communication studies, sociology, political studies, language studies, regional studies, and South Asian studies. It will also be useful to professionals and industry bodies in television media and is broadcasting, journalists, and television channels.

Television in India

Television in India
Author: Nalin Mehta
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2008-06-03
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1134062125

This book examines the development of television in India since the early 1990s, and its implications for Indian society more widely. Until 1991, India possessed only a single state-owned television channel, but since then there has been a rapid expansion in independent satellite channels which came as a complete break from the statist control of the past. This book explores this transformation, explaining how television, a medium that developed in the industrial West, was adapted to suit Indian conditions, and in turn has altered Indian social practices, making possible new ways of imagining identities, conducting politics and engaging with the state. In particular, satellite television initially came to India as the representative of global capitalism but it was appropriated by Indian entrepreneurs and producers who Indianized it. Considering the full gamut of Indian television - from "national" networks in English and Hindi to the state of regional language networks – this book elucidates the transformative impact of television on a range of important social practices, including politics and democracy, sport and identity formation, cinema and popular culture. Overall, it shows how the story of television in India is also the story of India's encounter with the forces of globalisation.

Politics After Television

Politics After Television
Author: Arvind Rajagopal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2001-01-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521648394

An analysis of the use of media by political and religious interest groups in India

India On Television

India On Television
Author: Nalin Mehta
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2009-01-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9351360520

'Excellent...an incisive and much needed study of how television is changing India.' - Rajdeep Sardesai, Managing Editor, CNN-IBN and IBN-7More than fifty 24-hour news networks, operating in eleven different languages, emerged in India between 1992 and 2006. This book traces the evolution of satellite television and how it effected major changes in political culture, the state, and expressions of Indian nationhood. Explaining how television, a medium that developed in the industrial West, was adapted to suit Indian conditions, the book focuses specifically on the emergence of satellite news channels. It shows how live television used new forms of technology to plug into existing nodes of communication, which in turn led to the creation of a new visual language - national, regional and local - that altered politics and forms of identity formation in significant ways. Satellite television came to India as the representative of global capitalism in the early 1990s and crushed the governmental monopoly over broadcasting that had existed since independence. As such, the story of satellite news is also the story of India's encounter with the forces of globalisation. 'Accumulated with an insider's knowledge...a genuine contribution to the literature, bringing together valuable material that deserves a wide audience.' - Prof. Arvind Rajagopal, author of Politics After Television.

Screening Culture, Viewing Politics

Screening Culture, Viewing Politics
Author: Purnima Mankekar
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1999
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780822323907

An ethnography of urban women television viewers in India, and their reception of particular shows, especially in relation to issues of gender and nation.

The Indian Newsroom

The Indian Newsroom
Author: Sandeep Bhushan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Mass media and public opinion
ISBN: 9789387578975

Prime Time Soap Operas on Indian Television

Prime Time Soap Operas on Indian Television
Author: Shoma Munshi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2012-07-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136516190

This book focuses on ‘urban family soaps’ on television and analyses them as an important resource for anthropological insights into contemporary social issues and practices. It studies the ‘popular’ and ‘everyday’ while also concentrating on the middle class.

The TRP Trick

The TRP Trick
Author: N. Bhaskara Rao
Publisher:
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2019
Genre: Television
ISBN: 9789386473417