India witnessed a revolution in the television communication landscape following the
shift in the economic policies in 1991. This analytical study looks into the changes and
additions in the functions performed by mass communication using television medium
before and after the implementation of liberalization policies in India. Tables are
included to provide overviews of the historical developments at different periods and to
distinguish the functions performed by television communication. In addition to
information, education, entertainment, correlation and mobilization functions,
empowerment and need satisfaction are also accounted as functions added in the due
course of mass communication progression in the transnational and digitized era.