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Hyderabad Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part ...

is well-developed, and the city is covered by a large network of

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s. The city's telephone system is serviced by four landline companies: BSNL, Tata Indicom, Reliance and Airtel. There are a number of mobile-phone companies:

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, BSNL,

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, Hutch Idea Cellular,

Uninor Telenor (India) Communications Private Limited, formerly known as Uninor, was an Indian mobile network operator. The company was a wholly owned subsidiary of Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor Group. In February 2017, Telenor Group a ...

, MTS,

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, Tata Indicom, Tata DoCoMo, and Reliance. Several companies offer broadband internet access.

Broadcast radio

The city has a variety of AM and FM radio stations. Two AM broadcasting, AM and two FM broadcasting FM stations in Hyderabad are operated by

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(AIR), officially known as ''Akashvani''. The first FM radio station to broadcast in the city was AIR's Vividh Bharati in the early 1990s. In 2006, Commercial broadcasting, commercial FM radio stations were launched in Hyderabad. These stations are broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week with programming in Telugu language, English and

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. The FM radio stations in the city are: * Bol Radio 90.4 MHz * Radio City 91.1 MHz *

BIG FM 92.7 BIG FM is one of India’s largest radio networks that broadcasts primarily at 92.7 MHz. It is part of Reliance Broadcast Ltd. with 58 stations reaching about 1.9K towns and covering 1.2 lakh villages in the country. It is accessible to over 3 ...

92.7 MHz * RED FM 93.5 MHz * Fever FM 94.3 MHz Hindi Channel *

Radio Mirchi Radio Mirchi (also known as 98.3 Mirchi) is a nationwide network of private FM radio stations in India. It is owned by the ENIL, EntertainmentNetwork India Ltd (ENIL), which is one of the subsidiaries of The Times Group. ''Mirchi'' is Hindi f ...

95 MHz Hindi Channel, Known as Mirchi95. *

98.3 FM Telugu Channel. * AIR Rainbow 101.9 MHz * AIR Vividh Bharati 102.8 MHz * KOOL 104 MHz – (from the

group) airs both

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and

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– 104 FM * IGNOU Gyan Vani 105.6 MHz (educational station, on air from 18.00 to 22.00 hours) * Magic FM (India) 106.4 MHz * Deccan Radio 107.8 MHz * Radio Charminar 107.8 MHz Urdu Channel AM radio stations in the city are: * Hyderabad-A 737 kHz * Hyderabad-B 1377 kHz (closed from January 2022)

Internet radio

* Radio Tulip (24/7 Non-Stop Telugu live radio
website
Retrieved 2017-04-01. * Deccan Radio (24/7 South Indian internet radio
website
Retrieved 2011-09-05. * Radio Archana (24/7 devotional station: Radio Archana Sravanam Bhakthi Ki Sopanam
website
* Radio Khushi (24/7 Telugu online radio
website
Retrieved 2011-09-05. * Telangana Radio (24/7 Telugu live radio
website
Retrieved 2011-09-05. * TeluguOne Radio (24/7 Telugu live radio
website
Retrieved 2011-09-05. * Tharangamedi
website

Television networks

The first

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relay in Hyderabad was started in 1974, with the launch of the state-owned Doordarshan Kendra Hyderabad, which initially telecast through ATS-6 Satellite in collaboration with

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. It was officially inaugurated on 23 October 1977. The private satellite channels in Hyderabad were started in July 1992, with the launch of

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. Today there are numerous satellite TV channels available in Hyderabad. An estimated 2.5 million households use cable TV in Hyderabad.

Doordarshan Doordarshan (abbreviated as DD; Hindi: , ) is an Indian public service broadcaster founded by the Government of India, owned by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and one of Prasar Bharati's two divisions. One of India's largest bro ...

transmits two terrestrial television channels and one satellite channel from Hyderabad. The

Telugu channel, Saptagiri, was the first TV channel launched in Hyderabad in the year 1974. Many private regional television channels began broadcasting from Hyderabad in the following decades. Doordarshan Kendra Hyderabad’s Regional Network in Telugu took on a new identity of "DD Saptagiri" on 2 April 2003. After bifurcation of

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

state,

DD Saptagiri DD Saptagiri previously known as DD-8 ( Telugu: దూరదర్శన్ సప్తగిరి) is a state-owned television channel telecasting in the Telugu language from a studio at Doordarshan Kendra Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India. ...

was relegated to being telecast from Doordarshan Kendra Vijayawada for Andhra Pradesh while the existing network, renamed

DD Yadagiri DD Yadagiri is a state-owned Telugu language television channel operated by India's national broadcaster Doordarshan. It is one of the 11 Indian language channels operated by Doordarshan and is telecast from Doordarshan Kendra, Hyderabad and ca ...

, was aimed at the Telangana populace. DD Yadagiri's operations have been continued from its current Ramanthapur office, Hyderabad. The channel highlights the Telangana culture and dialect. In 2018, Andhra Prabha Publication entered into broadcasting space by launching India Ahead News, which was the first national English News channel from Southern India. Telugu television channels broadcast from Hyderabad are: ;Satellite channels: * v6 news telugu * 4TV * 99TV * Aalami Samay * ABN Andhrajyothi * APtv * ATV * Ap24x7 (Telugu) *

Bhakti TV Bhakthi TV is the first 24-hour satellite devotional TV channel in Telugu which caters to people of Hinduism. It is one of the most prominent devotional channels of both Telugu speaking States which are Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Narendr ...

* ETV Telugu, ETV * ETV Telangana *

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Gemini Music Sun TV Network is an Indian mass media company headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is a part of Sun Group and is one of Asia's largest TV networks. Established on 14 April 1992 by Kalanithi Maran, it owns a variety of television c ...

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HMTV HMTV is an Indian 24-hour Telugu news channel launched on 12 February 2009. The channel is operated by Hyderabad Media Pvt. Ltd, which also runs the English newspaper ''The Hans India''. HMTV is a part of Kapil Group, promoted by K. Vaman Rao. ...

* I News * Jagrutitv News * Laya News *

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* Maa * Maa movies * Munsif TV * NRI WBN *

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* Prime9 News * Sakshi * TV 1 * Shubhavartha TV * Studio N * T news * TV5 * TV9 * Vissa TV *

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;Cable channels: * Aap Tak TV Network – Charminar * Azaad news TV * CTV * Deccan TV * G24TV NEWS * Metro TV * RK NEWS * S9TV * TVH News Telangana

News Papers

Hyderabad has several newspapers in Telugu, English, Urdu and Hindi. The major Telugu dailies include ''

Eenadu ''Eenadu'' () is the largest circulated Telugu-language daily newspaper of India sold mostly in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.Sakshi'', ''Maa Aksharam Mee Ayudham'', ''

Vaartha ''Vaartha'' is a Telugu newspaper headquartered in Hyderabad, India. ''Vaartha'' means "news" in Telugu. History ''Vaartha'' was launched in 1996 with A.B.K Prasad as its first editor. It claimed to be the first Telugu daily in Tel ...

'', ''

Andhra Jyothi ''Andhra Jyothi'' () is the third largest circulated Telugu language daily newspaper of India sold mostly in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. It was founded by K. L. N. Prasad, an Industrialist on 1 July 1960. It is also one of the ...

'', ''Surya'', ''

Prajasakti ''Prajasakti,'' also spelled as ''Prajashakti,'' is a Telugu newspaper that is published in Andhra Pradesh, India by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) PI (M) It started as a daily newspaper in 1981 with Vijayawada as the centre. Currentl ...

'', ''

Andhra Bhoomi ''Andhra Bhoomi'' (transl. The land of Andhra) is a Telugu-language daily newspaper India covering the whole of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana with editions from Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Rajamahendravaram, Anantapur, Karimnagar, Nel ...

'', ''

Andhra Prabha ''Andhra Prabha'' - ''Journalism first'' is a Telugu language daily newspaper of India sold mostly in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The newspaper is one of the oldest running Telugu-language daily newspapers of India. The newspaper ...

'', Janamsakshi, and ''

Namaste Telangana ''Namasthe Telangana'' Indian Telugu-language daily newspaper published from Hyderabad, Telangana. It was launched on 6 June 2011. The paper aims to mainly focus on politics and developments of Telangana State. The newspaper is published by Tela ...

''. The major English dailies are ''

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'', ''

The Hindu ''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It began as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian newspapers of record and the secon ...

'', ''

The Deccan Chronicle ''Deccan Chronicle'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded by Rajagopal Mudaliar in the 1930s & currently owned by Samagrah Commercial Pvt Limited. It is published in Hyderabad, Telangana, by Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited (D ...

'', ''

Hans India ''The Hans India'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper published in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as well as in New Delhi. The newspaper was started on 15 July 2011 and belongs to Hyderabad Media House Ltd., which also owns ...

'', ''

Telangana Today ''Telangana Today'' is a registered English-language Indian daily newspaper headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. The publication aims to focus mainly on politics and developments of the state of Telangana. The newspaper is published by T ...

'', ''

Business Standard ''Business Standard'' is an Indian English-language daily edition newspaper published by Business Standard Private Limited, also available in Hindi. Founded in 1975, the newspaper covers the Indian economy, infrastructure, international busine ...

'' and ''

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''. The major Urdu dailies are Siasat, Munsif, ''The

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'', and ''The Rahnuma-i Deccan'', with ''The Daily Milap'' being in Hindi. Besides these major newspapers, there a number of localised neighbourhood newspapers catering to localities. There are a handful of weekly newspapers in Urdu that enjoy good readership. '' Gawah Urdu Weekly'', published by veteran journalist
Dr. Syed Fazil Hussain Parvez
' is one of the oldest Urdu news weeklies published from Hyderabad and popularly recognized for its honest and critical editorials and continues to be in incessant publication since its inception in 1999. It is also the only weekly publication from Hyderabad with two doctorates on board and producing a professional dail
news bulletin
that is published on the web, through social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube.

Magazines

Hyderabad has several magazines in Telugu, English, Urdu and Hindi languages. The industry is well highlighted as a few of these Magazines host a couple of Hyderabad. *Telugu: Magazines published in Hyderabad include the ''Neadu Telugu'' daily, '' Swati'', '' Navya'', ''Andhra Prabha'', ''Andhra Jyoti'', ''Crime Today'', ''Vipula'', ''Chatura'', ''Vanita'' and ''

Chandamama ''Chandamama'' was a classic Indian monthly magazine for children, famous for its illustrations. It also published long-running mythological/magical stories that ran for years. Originally, "Chandamama" was started in Telugu by Chakrapani and ...

''."Great andhra" Film magazines include ''Tollywood'', '' Sitara'', ''Siva Ranjani'', ''Santosham'' and ''Jyoti Chitra''. *English: A National Magazine produced in Hyderabad is ''You & I Magazine'' Local Magazines published in Hyderabad are ''WOW'', ''BPOSITIVE'', etc...

Tollywood cinema

Hyderabad is the homeland of Tollywood, the

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movie industry. Apart from being a popular entertainment source and India's largest film producer as measured by the number of films made every year (followed by

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), Tollywood also provides livelihood to thousands of its citizens and contributes a large amount of revenue to the local government. Previously, many Telugu films were produced in

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. However, improvements in Hyderabad's infrastructure and initiatives such as establishing studios like

Ramoji Film City Ramoji Film City is an integrated film studio facility located in Hyderabad, India. Spread over 1,666 acres (674 ha), it is the largest film studio complex in the world and as such has been certified by the Guinness World Records. It was estab ...

(cited by the ''Guinness Book of World Records'' as the world's largest film studio),

Saradhi Studios Sri Sarathi Studios is a film studio facility located in Hyderabad, India. It was established in 1956 and was the first film studio facility built in Hyderabad. It was built by the Raja of Challapalli, Yarlagadda Sivarama Prasad. The first film ...

Annapurna Studios Annapurna Studios is an Indian film production company, founded in 1976 by the actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao (ANR). Located in the heart of Hyderabad, India the studio mainly provides services for films including sound stages for set construc ...

Ramanaidu Studios Suresh Productions (also known as Suresh Movies, Vijaya Suresh Combines) is an Indian film production and distribution company known for its works in Telugu cinema. It is established in 1964 by D. Ramanaidu. It is one of India's largest film p ...

Ramakrishna Studios Ramakrishna Cine Studios (Telugu: రామకృష్ణ సినీ స్టూడియోస్) is a film production house and studio facility located at Nacharam, Hyderabad, India. It was constructed by N. T. Rama Rao in memory of his so ...

and

Padmalaya Studios Padmalaya Studios is an Indian film production and distribution company established by actor Krishna and his brothers. Based in Hyderabad it mainly produces and distributes Telugu and Hindi films. The studio currently operates through its success ...

have changed the situation. Not only Telugu films, but films from Bollywood are made in Hyderabad.

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