Kozhikode District
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Communication
and Media
Post
Offices-
The District has fairly well developed net work of
Post Offices.
Print
Media-
 Kozhikode
district occupies a prominent place in the history
of Malayalam Journalism. The origin of journalism
in this district can be traced back to 1880. The ‘Kerala
Pathrika’ is likely to be the earliest newspaper
published from Kozhikode. Keralam, Kerala Sanchari
and Bharath Vilasm were among the other news papers
published from Kozhikode before 1893. Some denominational
newspapers devoted to the cause of the advancement
of the Muslims and the Thiyyas we also published from
Kozhikode. But most of them ceased publication.
Kozhikode
has the unique distinction of being the production
centre of all major Malayalam Newspapers. Eight Malayalam
dailies. – Mathrubhumi, Malayala Manorama, Kerala
Kaumudi, Desabhimani, Chandrika, Madhyama, Mangalam,
Siraj and one English daily, New Indian Express and
four evening dailies – Pradeepam, Rashtra deepika,
News Kerala and Calicut Times are published from Kozhikode
city. Nearly all news agencies and other major news
papers published from outside the district are represented
in Kozhikode. A considerable number of weeklies, fortnightlies
and monthlies are from here.
 The
Kozhikode Station of All India Radio
was commissioned on 14th May, 1950 and it has two
transmitters-Kozhikode A of 100 kilowatt power and
Kozhikode B (Vividh Bharathi) of 1 Kilowatt power.
Calicut
Press Club came into existence in 1970. The
Institute of Communication and Journalism (ICJ) is
one of the prestigious of the Calicut Press Club.
The ICJ started in 1997 is conducting one year full
time post Graduate Diploma Course in Communication
and Journalism. The course aims to produce talented
and professionally trained personnel who can straight
away handle work competently in every Media Institutions.(more)
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