TV, not DD

IN Media Watch Briefs | 15/09/2009

The Hindustan Times says in a page one item that Doordarshan is 50 today, September 15, 2009. That is the common misperception. TV came to India on September 15, 1959 as a division of Akashvani. Doordarshan was not born as an organisation until 1976, during the Emergency.