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Stat Counter: Indian Television Households

There are roughly 105 million homes with televisions in India, up from 88 million in 2000. The current number of television households is about the same as in the United States, though for India that amounts to only about half of the country’s households, compared with 98 percent in the United States.

[Source: The New York Times, Feb 11, 2007]

August 1, 1981

MTV is launched introducing a concept that fused DIY culture and corporate branding. It is a wholly branded network whose programming and advertising were the same stuff.
[Source: John Leland's book 'Hip: The History']

November 19, 1982

Indian viewers saw life in color for the first time on broadcast television.

[Source: India Today magazine, Oct 2, 2006]