Kerala got another broadcast capital

The television industry of Kerala soon moved from the political capital Thiruvananthapuram to the commercial capital Kochi. Indiavision, the first 24x7 Malayalam news channel, set the trend when it began broadcast from its studio at Padivattom in Kochi in 2003. 

At the helm of the television channel, the then Minister for Public Works M.K. Muneer said, ‘Technology was the main reason his team decided to start the channel in Kochi and not Thiruvananthapuram. There were clear indications that Kochi was going to be the hub for IT in the State. The news may happen in Thiruvananthapuram, but the technology update would first happen in Kochi.” 

Most television channels in the State — Jeevan TV, Manorama News, Reporter, We, Amrita TV, Mathrubhumi, and Doordarshan – are today either based in Kochi or have major studios there.‘With the new cables, the channel could go easily from Kochi to other countries of the world. The challenge for the channel was to bring news from different parts of the State to its studio in Kochi. We accomplished that by bringing the OB (Outdoor Broadcasting) van to Kerala for the first time. We had one in Thiruvananthapuram and another in Kozhikode to bring us the latest developments, he added.

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