Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO 15919, ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reor ...

has been a leading state in electronic communications, in

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, since the start of first private radio station in

Mysore Mysore (), officially Mysuru (), is a city in the southern part of the state of Karnataka, India. Mysore city is geographically located between 12° 18′ 26″ north latitude and 76° 38′ 59″ east longitude. It is located at an altitude o ...

, in 1935.

Newspapers

The era of

Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...

newspapers in Karnataka started in 1843 when

Hermann Mögling Hermann Friedrich Mögling (1811–1881), also spelt Herrmann Friedrich Moegling, was a German missionary from the Basel Mission who spent most of his career in the western regions of the state of Karnataka, India. He is credited as the publishe ...

, a

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from Basel Mission, published the first

newspaper, ''

Mangalooru Samachara ''Mangaluru Samachara'' or ''Mangalooru Samachara'' which literally means ''"The news of Mangalore"'' is the first newspaper published in Kannada. It was produced by a German, Rev. Hermann Friedrich Mögling of the Basel Mission beginning in ...

'', from

Mangalore Mangalore (), officially known as Mangaluru, is a major port city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is located between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats about west of Bangalore, the state capital, 20 km north of Karnataka– ...

. The first Kannada magazine, ''Mysuru Vrittanta Bodhini'', was started by Bhashyam Bhashyacharya in

. Shortly after Indian Independence in 1948, K.N. Guruswamy started the company ''The Printers, Mysore Pvt. Ltd.'' publishing two newspapers

Deccan Herald ''Deccan Herald'' is an Indian English language daily newspaper published from the Indian state of Karnataka. It was founded by K. N. Guruswamy, a liquor businessman from Ballari and was launched on 17 June 1948. It is published by The Print ...

(in English) and Prajavani (in

). '' Times of India'' is the largest selling English newspaper in Karnataka. Tabloids including ''

Lankesh Patrike ''Lankesh Patrike'' is an Indian vernacular weekly published in Kannada language from Bangalore, Karnataka. The weekly newspaper was started by P. Lankesh in 1980 on the lines of ''Harijan'', a newspaper published by Mahatma Gandhi. The week ...

'' and ''

Hai Bangalore ''Hai Bangalore'' is a mass circulation weekly Kannada language tabloid published in Bangalore. It was founded by Ravi Belagere along with R. T. Vittalamurthy, MaSuri, & Jogi in 1995 which he published from his Padmanabhanagar office in Beng ...

Adi Jambava Jagruti'' emphasize controversial topics. '' Sudharma'', the only daily newspaper published in

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in India, is printed and distributed from Mysore.

Television

Udaya TV was the first satellite channel to broadcast in Kannada.

Radio

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started in

, and has been functional in Bangalore since 1955. Radio City FM was the first private radio station in Karnataka, beginning broadcasting in 2001.

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