Television
Doordarshan (DD) is the broadcaster of the Government of India and its channel DD Chandana (previously called DD 9) is dedicated to Kannada. The first Kannada serial 'Sihikahi' (meaning bittersweet in Kannada) was produced and directed by H N K Murthy and transmitted by DD Bangalore in 1983. Udaya TV was the first private channel to broadcast in Kannada. Other Kannada channels that broadcast in Kannada include Ushe TV, Zee Kannada, U 2 and most recent recently Asianet Suvarna (June 17, 2007), but these were the channels started from non Kannadigas.
Kasthuri (www.kasthuritv.com) is the first Kannadiga owned TV channel. The channel has been started by Kasturi Media Private Limited which is managed by Anitha Kumaraswamy, wife of the ex-chief minister of Karnataka, H D Kumaraswamy son of H. D. Deve Gowda, Kalyan Nandy & Clint Francis are handling promotions for Kasthuri Delhi & NCR.
SAMAYA first kannada language 24 hours news channel launched in June 2010.Among the news channels samaya is the first kannadiga owned channel by Satish Sugars Limitd(Electronic Media Division),the Chairman and Managing Director is Satish Jarkiholi.Prominent enterpreneur and politician from north karnataka.
Janasri News (ಜನಶ್ರೀ) is a 24x7 Kannada News Channel. It was launched on 18 February 2011. The positioning line for the channel is Jana Mana Dhani(People, Mind, Voice). It is the fifth Kannada news channel. It was launched by Sanjeev V. Betageri & BKBN Murthy. The channel is famous for its variety of programmes. It is a free to air channel.
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy’s edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create “one world.” Instead of one world, we have “star wars,” and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet’s dead.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember. All other history defeats itself.
In Beverly Hills ... they don’t throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.”
—Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876)