This paper deals with the existence of positive doubly periodic solutions for the nonlinear telegraph equation with delays $\mathcal{L}u=f( t, x, u(t-\tau_{1}, x),\ldots,u(t-\tau_{n}, x) )$ , $(t, x)\in\mathbb{R}^{2}$ , where $\mathcal{L}u:=u_{tt}-u_{xx}+c u_{t}+a(t, x) u $ is a linear telegraph operator acting on function $u: \mathbb{R}^{2}\to \mathbb{R}$ , $c>0$ is a constant, $a\in C(\mathbb{R}^{2}, (0, \infty))$ is 2π-periodic in t and x, $f\in C(\mathbb{R}^{2}\times[0, \infty)^{n}, [0, \infty))$ is 2π-periodic in t and x, and $\tau_{1}, \ldots, \tau_{n}\in[0, \infty)$ are constants. Some existence results of positive doubly 2π-periodic weak solutions are obtained under that $f(t, x, \eta_{1}, \ldots, \eta_{n})$ satisfies some superlinear or sublinear growth conditions on $\eta_{1}, \ldots, \eta_{n}$ . The discussion is based on the fixed point index theory in cones.