Communication
and Media
Post
Offices
The
District has fairly well developed net work of Post
Offices.
Division
wise & category wise distribution of post offices:-
| Divisions |
Kozhikode |
| Head
Post Offices |
2 |
| Sub
Offices/ED Sub Offices/Branch |
189 |
| Divisions |
Kozhikode |
| Head
Post Offices |
2 |
| Sub
Offices/ED Sub Offices/Branch |
220 |
| Total
number of post offices into district |
413 |
| Population
served by each post offices in the District |
11204 |
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, 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.
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