ABP Group

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ABP Group
Company type Private
Industry Mass media
Founded13 March 1922;102 years ago (1922-03-13)
FoundersPrafulla Kumar Sarkar
Headquarters,
India
Key people
Dhruba Mukherjee
(CEO)
Revenue500 crore (US$63 million) (2022) [1]
Website www.abp.in OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

ABP Group (Ananda Bazar Patrika) is an Indian media conglomerate headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal. It was established in 1922.

Contents

History

The company in recent years did mass layoff at various times. [2] [3] [4] [5]

Current assets

Newspapers

Magazines

TV Channels

Television News channels

ChannelLanguageCategoryNotes
ABP News Hindi NewsFormerly Star News
ABP Ananda Bengali Formerly Star Ananda
ABP Majha Marathi Formerly Star Majha
ABP Asmita Gujarati

Entertainment channel

ChannelLanguageLaunchDefunct
Sananda TV Bengali 25 July 20117 November 2012

Digital news channels

ChannelLanguageCategory
ABP Sanjha Punjabi News
ABP Ganga Hindi
ABP Live Hindi
ABP Nadu [7] Tamil
ABP Desam [8] Telugu

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