More Tamil TV Channels for the Idiot Box

Chances are you've never seen or even heard of some of these: Sun TV, Sun News, Sun's K TV, Raj TV, Raj Digital Plus, Star's Vijay TV, Doordarshan's Podhigai, Jaya TV, Tamilan TV, Tamil Thirai TV, Imayam TV, Win TV, Makkal TV. That's 13 Tamil Channels in all, unlucky number and over crowded you think? Well there are more on the way!

In spite of claims of political neutrality we had two channels which were virtual mouth pieces of the two major parties in the state. While the Jaya TV remains very much pro AIADMK, Sun TV having fallen out of favour with the DMK party is all set to be replaced by Kalaignar TV.

Launched a few month back PMK's Makkal TV takes their party's Tamil language ideas seriously. Yesterday night in their news bulletin they were actually referring to the ball-point pen in Tamil, I better not make a fool of myself trying to spell out the word I've never heard before.

There's so much news doing the rounds about Kalaignar TV, it's difficult to separate the rumours from the truth but the channel's launch on September 15 will answer all the questions. It's probably the most anticipated TV channel right now and is expected to give Sun TV a run for it's money.

The Congress like in Politics is going to be divided in the media space too :P A Congress MP's 'Mega TV' is all set to start beaming into your home on August 20, the channel which will have it's symbol as a Hand claims it will not explicitly support any political party (Yeah, we fell for that!), In another 1-2 months another Congress legislator's ' Vasanth TV' which is also expected to adopt a pro-Congress line will also be launched.

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