Media inHyderabad is well-developed, and the city is covered by a large network ofoptical fiber cables. The city's telephone system is serviced by four landline companies: BSNL, Tata Indicom, Reliance and Airtel. There are a number of mobile-phone companies:Aircel,BSNL,Airtel,Hutch Idea Cellular,Uninor, MTS,Virgin Mobile, Tata Indicom, Tata DoCoMo, andReliance. Several companies offer broadband internet access.
The city has a variety of AM and FM radio stations. Two AM broadcasting|AM and two FM broadcasting FM stations in Hyderabad are operated byAll India Radio (AIR), officially known asAkashvani. The first FM radio station to broadcast in the city was AIR's Vividh Bharati in the early 1990s. In 2006, Commercial broadcasting|commercial FM radio stations were launched in Hyderabad. These stations are broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week with programming in Telugu language, English andHindi.
The FM radio stations in the city are:
AM radio stations in the city are:
The firstsatellite television relay in Hyderabad was started in 1974, with the launch of the state-owned Doordarshan Kendra Hyderabad, which initially telecast throughATS-6 Satellite in collaboration withNASA. It was officially inaugurated on 23 October 1977.[2] The private satellite channels in Hyderabad were started in July 1992, with the launch ofStar TV.[3] Today there are numerous satellite TV channels available in Hyderabad.[4] An estimated 2.5 million households use cable TV in Hyderabad.[5]
Doordarshan transmits two terrestrial television channels and one satellite channel from Hyderabad. TheDoordarshan Telugu channel, Saptagiri, was the first TV channel launched in Hyderabad in the year 1974. Many private regional television channels began broadcasting from Hyderabad in the following decades. Doordarshan Kendra Hyderabad’s Regional Network in Telugu took on a new identity of "DD Saptagiri" on 2 April 2003.[6] After bifurcation ofAndhra Pradesh state,DD Saptagiri was relegated to being telecast from Doordarshan Kendra Vijayawada for Andhra Pradesh while the existing network, renamedDD Yadagiri, was aimed at the Telangana populace. DD Yadagiri's operations have been continued from its current Ramanthapur office, Hyderabad. The channel highlights the Telangana culture and dialect.[7][8] In 2018, Andhra Prabha Publication entered into broadcasting space by launching India Ahead News, which was the first national English News channel from Southern India.[9]
Telugu television channels broadcast from Hyderabad are:
Hyderabad has several newspapers in Telugu, English, Urdu and Hindi.
The major Telugu dailies includeEenadu,Sakshi,Maa Aksharam Mee Ayudham,Vaartha,Andhra Jyothi,Surya,Prajasakti,Andhra Bhoomi,Andhra Prabha,Janamsakshi, andNamaste Telangana. The major English dailies areThe Times of India,The Hindu,The Deccan Chronicle,Hans India,Telangana Today,Business Standard andThe Economic Times.
The major Urdu dailies are Siasat, Munsif,TheEtemaad, andThe Rahnuma-i Deccan, withThe Daily Milap being in Hindi. Besides these major newspapers, there a number of localised neighbourhood newspapers catering to localities.
There are a handful of weekly newspapers in Urdu that enjoy good readership.Gawah Urdu Weekly, published by veteran journalist[16]Dr. Syed Fazil Hussain Parvez is one of the oldest Urdu news weeklies published from Hyderabad and popularly recognized for its honest and critical editorials[17] and continues to be in incessant publication since its inception in 1999. It is also the only weekly publication from Hyderabad with two doctorates[18] on board and producing a professional dailynews bulletin that is published on the web, through social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube.
Hyderabad has several magazines in Telugu, English, Urdu and Hindi languages. The industry is well highlighted as a few of these Magazines host a couple of Hyderabad.
Magazines published in Hyderabad include theNeadu Telugu daily,Swati,Navya,Andhra Prabha,Andhra Jyoti,Crime Today,Vipula,Chatura,Vanita andChandamama."Great andhra"
Film magazines includeTollywood,Sitara,Siva Ranjani,Santosham andJyoti Chitra.
A National Magazine produced in Hyderabad isYou & I Magazine
Local Magazines published in Hyderabad areWOW,BPOSITIVE, etc...
Hyderabad is the homeland of Tollywood, theTelugu movie industry. Apart from being a popular entertainment source and India's largest film producer as measured by the number of films made every year (followed byBollywood), Tollywood also provides livelihood to thousands of its citizens and contributes a large amount of revenue to the local government. Previously, many Telugu films were produced inMadras. However, improvements in Hyderabad's infrastructure and initiatives such as establishing studios likeRamoji Film City (cited by theGuinness Book of World Records as the world's largest film studio),Saradhi Studios,Annapurna Studios,Ramanaidu Studios,Ramakrishna Studios andPadmalaya Studios have changed the situation. Not only Telugu films, but films from Bollywood are made in Hyderabad.
