Orissa TV

Orissa TV
OTV
Type Private
Industry Pay TV
Founded 1997
Headquarters Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India
Key people Mrs Jagi mangat Panda
Products Direct broadcast satellite
Website [1]

Orissa TV or OTV is a regional Oriya language Indian cable television station. It is the flagship channel of the Bhubaneswar-based Orissa Television Network.It was started and promoted by Mrs Jagi mangat Panda. Orissa Television (OTV) is the first private electronic Media in the state of Orissa. Launched in 1997 in the twin cities of Bhubaneshwar and Cuttack & slowly spread to all major towns of the state.Then it became the premier source of news, current affairs and entertainment for the people of Orissa. It is most viewed Oriya TV channel in the world.

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The logo of OrissaTV.

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Programming

Apart from a large viewership in Orissa, OTV has a following in other regions of India with large oriya speaking population, including the Bangalore, Vizag, Surat, New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai & Hyderabad. The key people are Jagi Mangat Panda and her husband and BJD MP Baijayant Panda. Initially four journalism students from IIMC Dhenkanal were selected from the campus by to Panda couple to start OTV. They are jajati karan, Sarada Lahangir, Sriparna Nayak and Sonali Rath. Jajati Karan who was appointed as a trainee reporter and after five years he went on to head the news division of the channel. He is now the chief of bureau of national English news channel CNN-IBN. Now OTV has over 300 staff and the company is worth more than Rs 200 crore. Great vision by the Panda couple to initiate cable and TV network revolution in Orissa.

List of programmes

Most programmes of OTV are news based. It also have programmes related to art and culture,tourism,Business and Festivals. Here are some programmes. .[original research?]

  • Sakalara Khabara
  • Ranabhumi
  • Agyanamaskar
  • Oltapalta
  • Jhalak
  • JanaMancha
  • Indradhanu
  • Pratidin
  • Gapasapa
  • The great Orissa political circus
  • News Fuse

See also

  • Tarang TV
  • Tarang Music
  • Naxatra News
  • ETV Oriya
  • List of Oriya language television channels

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External links


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