Indian television

Indian television is the broadcasting and distribution of television programming for audiences in India. It spans public and private services, multiple languages, and terrestrial, cable, satellite, and streaming platforms.

Doordarshan: India's public television broadcaster, established in 1959 and expanded nationally in the decades that followed. Its early national broadcasts shaped television's public-service role before private channels arrived.
Prasar Bharati: India's statutory public broadcasting corporation, which oversees Doordarshan and All India Radio. It governs the public broadcaster within India's mixed television system.
Indian soap opera: A serialized Indian television drama, often centered on family relationships and released in recurring episodes. Family serials became a defining format of prime-time entertainment.
Rukmini Devi Arundale: An Indian classical dancer and cultural institution founder who helped revive Bharatanatyam. Doordarshan broadcasts helped bring her classical dance tradition to television audiences.
Ramayan (1987 TV series): A Hindi television adaptation of the Ramayana, produced by Ramanand Sagar and broadcast on Doordarshan from 1987 to 1988. Its enormous audience showed television's power to create shared national viewing rituals.
SITE: The Satellite Instructional Television Experiment, an Indian educational broadcasting project conducted from 1975 to 1976. The experiment used satellite broadcasts to bring educational television to rural communities.
Television in India: The broader system of television reception, broadcasting, regulation, and viewing in India. Indian television programming is one part of the country's wider television system.
Indian television news: News programming produced for television audiences in India. News channels turned television into a major arena for political reporting and debate.
Salma Sultan: An Indian television news presenter known for her work on Doordarshan. Her distinctive presentation became part of Doordarshan's early national news identity.
Malgudi Days: An Indian television series based on stories by R. K. Narayan, broadcast from 1986 to 1988. The series brought literary fiction and a small-town setting to a broad television audience.

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