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The Changing Face of Television and Public Policy Implications in India

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This chapter presents the changing face of television in India at the historical and cultural levels, and the change in ownership, content, and viewership in an overview of four different periods. After the summary in the first section, the second part introduces the four phases in Indian television history. The last section looks critically at developments in Indian television and offers a blueprint for a more equitable and egalitarian development of community-based television stations in the country.

Among Srinivas Panthukala’s research interests are television journalism and journalism studies. In this chapter, he calls for a more equitable and egalitarian development of television stations in India.

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Panthukala, S. (2017). The Changing Face of Television and Public Policy Implications in India. In: Ngwainmbi, E. (eds) Citizenship, Democracies, and Media Engagement among Emerging Economies and Marginalized Communities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56215-5_5

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