Mumbai Media
Mumbai has numerous
newspaper publications and
television and radio stations. Popular English language newspapers
published and sold in Mumbai include the
Times of India,
Mid-day,
DNA,
Hindustan Times,
Mumbai
Mirror,
Asian Age
and
Indian Express.
Marathi
newspapers include
Loksatta,
Sakal,
Lokmat
and
Maharashtra Times. Newspapers
are also printed in other Indian languages with
Navbharat Times
in
Hindi and The Urdu Times Daily
in
Urdu being the popular ones.
Mumbai is home to Asia's oldest newspaper,
Bombay Samachar,
which has been published in Gujarati since 1822. Bombay Durpan -
the first Marathi newspaper - was started by Balshastri Jambhekar in
Mumbai in 1832.Popular magazines are Saaptahik Sakaal, Lokprabha
in
Marathi and
India Today,
Outlook in
English.
Numerous
Indian and foreign channels can
be watched in Mumbai. Mumbai households receive over a hundred television
channels via cable, and a majority of them are produced to cater to the
city's
polyglot populace. The metropolis is also the
hub of many international media corporations, with many news channels and
print publications having a major presence. The national television
broadcaster,
Doordarshan, provides two free terrestrial
channels, while three main cable networks serve most households.
Zee Marathi,
ETV Marathi,
DD Sahyadri, Zee TV,
STAR Plus
and news channels are popular. Popular news channels entirely dedicated to
the city include Sahara Samay Mumbai.
Satellite television (DTH) has
yet to gain mass acceptance, due to high installation costs. Popular
DTH entertainment services in
Mumbai include
Dish TV and
Tata Sky. There are twelve radio
stations in Mumbai, with nine broadcasting on the
FM
band, and three
All India Radio stations
broadcasting on the
AM
band. Mumbai also has access to popular
Commercial radio providers like
WorldSpace,
Sirius and
XM.
The Conditional Access System (CAS) started by the
Union
Government in 2006 has met a very poor response
in Mumbai due to the arduous competition from its sister technology
Direct-to-Home (DTH) transmission
service.
Bollywood, the Hindi film industry that
is the largest
film producer in the world, is
based in Mumbai.
Bollywood produces more than 800 films a year,
twice as many as
Hollywood. It has an audience of
3.6 billion people.Film studios in Goregaon, including Film City, are the
location for many movie sets. The
Marathi Film
Industry is also based in Mumbai.