     media of india consist of several different types of indian communications media: television, radio, cinema, newspapers, magazines, and internet-based web sites. many of the media are controlled by large, for-profit corporations which reap revenue from advertising, subscriptions, and sale of copyrighted material. india also has a strong music and film industry. india has more than 70,000 newspapers and over 690 satellite channels (more than 80 are news channels) and is the biggest newspaper market in the world - over 100 million copies sold each day. the first indian media were established in the late 18th century with print media started in 1780. auguste and louis lumiÃ¨re moving pictures were screened in bombay during july 1895; and radio broadcasting began in 1927.see thomas 2006 and burra & rao 2006. indian mediaâprivate media in particularâhave been "free and independent" throughout most of their history. the period of emergency (1975â1977), declared by prime minister indira gandhi, was the brief period when india's media were faced with potential government retribution.on the whole, the press functions with little government censorship, and serious controls have been imposed only in matters of national security, in times of emergency, or when it is deemed necessary to avoid inflaming passions (e.g., after communal riots or comparable disturbances) âschwartzberg (2008) the french ngo reporters without borders compiles and publishes an annual ranking of countries based upon the organisation's assessment of its press freedom index. in 2011-12 india was ranked 131st out of 179 countries, which was a setback from the preceding year, while freedom house, a u.s. based ngo rates india, in its latest report, as partly free. ==overview== the traditional print media, but also the television media, are largely family-owned and often partake in self-censorship, primarily due to political ties by the owner and the establishment. however, the [[ne
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