NDTV India

NDTV India
NDTV India logo
Launched	2003
Owned by	NDTV (50%) IBC Corporation (50%)
Picture format	4:3 (576i, SDTV)
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Broadcast area	India and International
Headquarters	New Delhi
Sister channel(s)	NDTV 24x7 NDTV Good Times NDTV Profit
Website	Official Website

NDTV India (Devanagari: NDTV इंडिया) is a premier Hindi language news channel in India that is owned by New Delhi Television Ltd. Noted journalist Vinod Dua has been associated with this channel.

History

NDTV was the brainchild of its Chairman, Prannoy Roy and his wife and Managing Director, Radhika Roy.

In 1988, NDTV's producers produced a news and current affairs show ‘The World This Week’ for Doordarshan. The show proved to be immensely popular and NDTV established its image as a credible private news producer. It moved on to become the sole news content provider and producer for India’s first 24-hour news channel, Star News. Then in 2003, they launched two 24-hour news channels— NDTV 24x7 in English and NDTV India in Hindi. Later they also launched NDTV Profit, a 24-hour business news channel in 2005, which became a leading business news channel in a short period of time.

As per the CEO of NDTV India Sameer Kapoor the channel was "...a laggard and loss making Hindi News channel..". Sameer goes on to say that "Driving the channel with a new team and greater focus on processes and systems, improved its rank from No: 6 to No 4 in less than 10 months." These 10-months should be considered from July 2008. ^[1]

See also

• NDTV 24x7
• NDTV Profit
• Nidhi Kulpati, a news anchor at NDTV India

Competitors

• Azad News^[2]

• Zee News^[2]

• Aaj Tak^[2]

• DD News

• Sadhna news

• India TV

• India News

• P-7 News

• STAR News^[2]

• Live India

• CNEB

• News 24

• A to z News

• Focus TV

• IBN-7

• Total TV

• Aindianews^[2]

• sadhna news

References

1. ^ http://in.linkedin.com/pub/sameer-kapoor/5/603/708
2. ^ ^{a b c d e} http://www.globescan.com/news_archives/bbcreut_country.html

External links

• Official Site
• About NDTV India