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Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India is an industry body set up to design, commission, supervise and own an accurate, reliable and timely television audience measurement system for India. It currently measures the TV Viewing habits of 183 million TV households in the country, using 30,000 sample panel homes.
DD Free Dish, the first free DTH service in India, was launched by public broadcaster Prasar Bharati in December 2004. India is the largest DTH market in the world by number of subscribers. As per an industry estimate reported in 2022, pay DTH and cable sector together has a subscriber base of 122 million as in March 2021.
BARC (Broadcast Audience Research Council) India is an industry body set up to design, commission, supervise and own an accurate, reliable and timely television audience measurement system for India. It currently measures TV Viewing habits of 210 million TV households in the country, using 50,000+ sample panel homes.
The first newspaper printed in India was Hicky's Bengal Gazette, started in 1780 under the British Raj by James Augustus Hicky. [12] Other newspapers such as The India Gazette, The Calcutta Gazette, The Madras Courier (1785), and The Bombay Herald (1789) soon followed. [12] These newspapers carried news of the areas under the British rule. [12]
India possesses a diversified communications system, which links all parts of the country by telephone, Internet, radio, television and satellite. [5] The Indian telecom industry underwent a high rate of market liberalisation and growth since the 1990s and has now become the world's most competitive and one of the fastest growing telecom markets.
An ISRO technician next to a working model of the solid-state television set, designed with NASA assistance, for use in SITE. Image courtesy NASA. Satellite Instructional Television Experiment or SITE was an experimental satellite communications project launched in India in 1975, designed jointly by NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
The Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill, 2023 [1] [2] is a proposed law that aims to overhaul the regulatory framework for broadcasting services in India. A draft of the bill was introduced in 2023 and was published for public consultation. [3]
Doordarshan (lit. ' distant vision, television '), abbreviated as DD, is India's state-owned public television broadcaster.Established by the Government of India on 15 September 1959 [1], it is owned by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and constitutes one of Prasar Bharati's two divisions. [2]