Print Media Industry

The print media industry, comprising of newspaper and magazine publishing, is projected to grow from the present size of Rs 12,800 crore to Rs 23,200 crore by 2011, implying a 13% cumulative annual growth over the next five years. A booming Indian economy, growing need for content and government initiatives that have opened up the sector to foreign investment are driving growth in print media. With the literate population on the rise, more people in rural and urban areas are reading newspapers and magazines today. Also, there is more interest in India amongst the global investor community. This leads to the demand for more Indian content from India.

India has one of the largest television networks in the world,
with over 300 channels and 500 million TV viewers.

Television

The Indian television market continues to boom. New channels are being launched and new content formats are emerging, including reality shows and niche channels. Overall, the television segment is projected to grow at 18% to reach Rs. 30,000 crores (US$6.98 billion) by 2009. Growth in television advertising is expected to outperform Indian GDP growth by at least five% in the coming years.

Direct to Home -DTH
DTH growth will accelerate, driven by Zee’s Dish TV and Tata Sky, a joint venture of the Tata group and Star, followed by Reliance Infocomm’s Blue Magic and Sun TV. Broadband penetration will also expand on cheaper personal computers and broadband rates and greater consolidation among cable operators, MPA said, estimating that the number of subscribers will grow from 0.9 million to 7.7 million by 2010.
On DTH, Indian cable TV advertising is poised to generate $2.3 billion per annum by 2015, DTH $120 million (about 9 per cent of total DTH industry revenue by 2015) and IPTV $21 million. Driven by DTH pay TV competition and potential deregulation, MPA expects cable to gradually consolidate last mile ownership, ramp-up deployment of bundled digital video and broadband Internet, and corporatise industry practices.

This is a list of English language television channels in India. All of them are 24-hour channels.

• Animal Planet - educational
• Discovery Channel - educational
• National Geographic - educational
• The History Channel - educational
• Channel V - music
• MTV - music
• Fashion TV - Fashion Channel
• Trendz - Fashion Channel
• Hallmark - movies/entertainment
• AXN - entertainment
• Australian Network - entertainment
• Zee Cafe - entertainment
• Star World - entertainment
• Zee Studio - movies
• HBO - movies
• STAR MOVIES - movies
• CNN - news
• BBC World - news
• NDTV 24x7 - news
• CNN IBN - news
• TIMES NOW - news
• ESPN - sports
• STAR SPORTS - sports
• TEN SPORTS - sports
• DD SPORTS - sports
• Tracetv - music(Dish TV India)
• MGM - movies(Dish TV India)
• TCM - movies(Dish TV India)
• SET PIX - movies

        KIDS CHANNELS

• Cartoon Network
• Disney
  Channel
• Toon Disney
• HungamaTV
• Nickelodeon
• Pogo