Indiana

Communications

About 95.0% of all households had telephone service in 2001. The state's first radio station was licensed in 1922 at Purdue University, Lafayette. Indiana had 20 major AM, 123 major FM radio stations, and 30 television stations as of 2003. Powerful radio and television transmissions from Chicago and Cincinnati also blanket the state. In 2000, the Indianapolis area had 963,320 television households, 65% of which received cable. A total of 73,696 Internet domain names were registered in the state in 2000.