'Excellent…an incisive and much needed study of how television is changing
India.' – Rajdeep Sardesai, Managing Editor, CNN-IBN and IBN-7
More than fifty 24-hour news networks, operating in eleven different languages,
emerged in India between 1992 and 2006. This book traces the evolution of
satellite television and how it effected major changes in political culture, the
state, and expressions of Indian nationhood. Explaining how television, a medium
that developed in the industrial West, was adapted to suit Indian conditions,
the book focuses specifically on the emergence of satellite news channels. It
shows how live television used new forms of technology to plug into existing
nodes of communication,