<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> Media of India consist of several different types of Indian communications media: television, radio, cinema, newspapers, magazines, and Internet - based Web sites . Many of the media are controlled by large, for - profit corporations which reap revenue from advertising, subscriptions, and sale of copyrighted material . India also has a strong music and film industry . India has more than 70,000 newspapers and over 1600 satellite channels (more than 400 are news channels) and is the biggest newspaper market in the world - over 100 million copies sold each day . </P> <P> The first Indian media were established in the late 19th century with the newspaper Hicky's Bengal Gazette, founded in 1780 . Auguste and Louis Lumière moving pictures were screened in Bombay during July 1895; and radio broadcasting began in 1927 . Indian media--private media in particular--have been "free and independent" throughout most of their history . The period of emergency (1975--1977), declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was the brief period when India's media were faced with potential government retribution . </P> <P> The French NGO Reporters Without Borders compiles and publishes an annual ranking of countries based upon the organisation's assessment of its Press Freedom Index . In 2011 - 12 India was ranked 131st out of 179 countries, which was a setback from the preceding year, while Freedom house, a U.S. based NGO rates India, in its latest report, as "Partly Free". </P>

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