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:
“What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.”
—Salvador Dali (1904–1989)
“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)
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)