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Radio:
The government-owned All India Radio operates country-wide radio services to about 116 million radio sets (2003 est.). Programs are broadcast in 24 principal languages and many dialects. India has 112.6 radios per 1,000 people (2003 est.). There are 312 Radio Stations in India.

Newspapers:
India is now also a "newspaper power" with the largest circulation of dailies in the democratic world with a free press, a report released on June 2008 said. According to a report by Paris-based World Newspaper Association (WAN), although China remains the topper with 107 million copies sold daily, India with 99 million copies sold daily leads the major democratic powers with a free press, followed by Japan 68 million, the U.S. (51 million copies) and Germany (22.1 million copies). Global sales are at 532 million (figure goes upto 573 million if the free dailies are counted).

India’s oldest newspaper still published is the Gujarati daily, the Mumbai Samachar, which first appeared in 1822. More than 150 million people read a newspaper every day in India — compared with 97 million Americans and 48 million Germans.

The Top ten publications in India are:
Business World, October 2007

Seven of the ten of the world's 100 best selling dailies are now published in Asia. India, China and Japan are home for 62 of them, according to the 700-page report distributed here on Monday at the inauguration of its 59th annual world summit of editors and top media managers. Newspapers sales increased in China and India and declined in Japan, United States and Germany in 2005. Indian newspaper sales increased 7 percent in 2005 and 33 percent in the five-year period.

There are 41 newspapers or periodicals over 100 years old. In 1996 there were 39,149 newspapers (4,453 dailies) published in more than 90 languages, with a combined circulation of over 78.7 million.

The chief English-language dailies: The Times of India, Indian Express, The Hindustan Times, The Hindu, The Statesman, The Economic Times are the influential dailies, maintaining dominance through their appeal to an educated middle-class urban readership.

- The combined circulation of Indian newspapers is over 78 million making it the second largest in the world.

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