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| Country | India |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | India, Bangladesh, Asia, Middle East, United States and Thailand |
| Network | Sun TV Network[1] |
| Headquarters | Hyderabad, Telangana, India |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | Telugu |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 576i for the SDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | SUN Group |
| Sister channels | Sun TV Network (Channels) |
| History | |
| Launched | 9 February 1995 |
| Links | |
| Website | Gemini TV |
Gemini TV is an Indian Telugu language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Sun TV Network. It is the first satellite TV channel in Telugu.[2][3] It was launched on 9 February 1995 by the Gemini Group of Hyderabad (run by Akkineni Manohar Prasad, grandson of L. V. Prasad), in association with Sun TV Network.[11] In 1996-97, Sun TV Network acquired a controlling interest in the channel.[15] The channel's programming consists of serials, films, film-based programs and game shows alongside some reality shows. Gemini TV HD was launched on 11 December 2011.[16]
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Gemini TV Telugu channel launched by a grandson of legendary film producer, the late L. V. Prasad.
- ^ Chatterjee, Anshu Nagpal (2003). Global Communication and Television Development: Community Mediation in Multicultural India. University of California, Berkeley. pp. 70, 71.
Gemini TV, also started to broadcast in 1995, is a venture between the Prasad family, a film producer, and Kalanidhi Maran of the very successful Sun TV in Tamil Nadu.
- ^ Agarwal, Amit (28 February 1995). "As TV revolution unfolds, global & Indian players vie with each other promising greater choices". India Today. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
Two platforms where several new regional players are coming up are the Rimsat satellites, G1 and G2. Sun TV has launched two more channels on G1: Gemini TV, a Telugu channel in association with the Gemini group of Hyderabad (run by Ramesh Prasad, grandson of the legendary film personality L.V. Prasad), ...
- ^ Kumar, Shanti (1 October 2010). Gandhi Meets Primetime: Globalization and Nationalism in Indian Television. University of Illinois Press. pp. 10, 11. ISBN 978-0-252-09166-7.
- ^ a b Thomas, Amos Owen (15 September 2005). Imagi-Nations and Borderless Television: Media, Culture and Politics Across Asia. SAGE Publications India. p. 117. ISBN 978-81-321-0359-2.
- ^ Desai, Mira K. (21 November 2021). Regional Language Television in India: Profiles and Perspectives. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-47008-6.
The private satellite channels in Hyderabad began transmission with the launch of Gemini TV in Telugu on February 9, 1994, by a film production family but could not sustain it and later sold it to the media group Sun TV Network.
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.... Gemini TV, a Telugu satellite channel that was acquired by the Sun TV group in 1997.
- ^ Warrier, Shobha (4 November 1998). "Business Special: Sun rises in the west". Rediff.com. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
Now, within 18 months after taking over Gemini, the channel is close to ETV.
- ^ Heitzman, James (2004). Network City: Planning the Information Society in Bangalore. Oxford University Press. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-19-566606-9.
The Sun group also acquired a controlling interest in the Telugu language Gemini TV which competed against Eenadu TV .....
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- ^ "Gemini TV HD launched". BSE India. Retrieved 18 December 2019.