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:
“All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)
“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)
“There was a girl who was running the traffic desk, and there was a woman who was on the overnight for radio as a producer, and my desk assistant was a woman. So when the world came to an end, we took over.”
—Marya McLaughlin, U.S. television newswoman. As quoted in Women in Television News, ch. 3, by Judith S. Gelfman (1976)