Mass Communication
- Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867
- First press council was set up in 1966
- Official Secrets Act 1923
- The Drugs and Magic Remedies (objectionable advertisement) Act, 1954
- The copy right act, 1957
- The press council act 1978
- Empolyees (conditions of service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1995
- In 1936, the Indian radio was designated as All India Radio
- Foreign Direct Investment in non-News Sector limit enhanced to 100 per cent from 74%
- The first programme was broadcast in 1923 by the radio club of Bombay
- AIR today has 223 broadcasting centres covering 99.13% population in the country.
- Doordarshan: 15 September, 1959
- Colour Television in India in 1982 on the occassion of 9th Asian Games
- DD Saptagiri - Telugu
- DD Chandana - Kannada
- DD Sahyadri - Marathi
- DD Podhigal - Tamil
- The office of the Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI) came into existence on 1st July, 1956
- PTI founded on 27 August, 1947
- UNI - 19 December, 1959
- Kurukshetra published on behalf of Ministry of Rural Development.
- VSAT - Very Small Aperture Terminal
- CUG - Closed User Group
- GSO - Geostationary Satellite Orbit
- ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
- NGN - next generation Network
- Formation of Prasar Bharati - 23 November, 1997
- DD Sports Channel - 18 March, 1999
- Launch of 24 hours news channel DD News - 3 November, 2002
- PIB - Press Information Bureau
- AFP - Agency France Presse
- Reuters the London based news agency agrees to 8.7 bn pound takeover by Thomson Corporation
- Press Council of India total 28 members. 20- newspaper world, 5 MPs, 1 each from Sahitya Academy, Bar Council of India and University Grants Commission
- The decisions of the press council are final and cannot be questioned in any court of law
- Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) set up under the Cinematograph Act, 1952 - headquarters at Mumbai
- Children's Film Society of India (CFSI) was established in 1955
- DAVP - Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity
- October 2, 1957 Vividh Bharati launched
- The first radio broadcasting station in AP was started from Vijayawada on Dec 1, 1948
- Verghese committe - Janata regime
- 1978 - Hyderabad Doordarshan Kendra was launched
- ETV (Eenadu Television) - 27 August, 1995
- Maa TV - April 10, 2002
- Typology of communication – interpersonal, intra personal, group, mass communication.
- Roger’s theory of Diffusion of innovation.
- Different types of copy – Agency copy, Bureau copy, Mofussil Copy
