Zee TV is a Hindi language general entertainment channel owned by the Essel Group in India. It is associated with several other sister channels which provide services in Hindi, English and several regional languages of India. Zee TV and its sister channels are operated by Zee Entertainment Enterprises, a subsidiary of the Essel Group. The chairman of the group is Subhash Chandra, who is a Bharatiya Janata Party backed member of the Rajya Sabha. Zee TV was launched on 2 October 1992 as the flagship channel of the Zee Telefirms Ltd. The channel was the first Hindi language subscription channel in India.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. is an American television and media conglomerate, part of AT&T's WarnerMedia. Founded by Ted Turner, and based in Atlanta, Georgia, it merged with Time Warner on October 10, 1996. Among its main properties were its namesake TBS, TNT, CNN, Turner Classic Movies (TCM), Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, and TruTV. It also licensed or had ownership interests in international versions of these properties. The headquarters of Turner's properties are located in both the CNN Center in Downtown Atlanta, and the Turner Broadcasting campus off Techwood Drive in Midtown Atlanta, which also houses Turner Studios.
Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific Limited is a Hong Kong-based commercial broadcasting company which is a part of Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International's Fox Networks Group, operating multiple specialty television channels. It was previously traded as Star TV until 2001, and simply as Star until 2009. Originally established by Hutchison Whampoa and later acquired by the original News Corporation, Star TV was once the prominent satellite television broadcaster in the entire Asia region. On March 20, 2019 Following Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox's entertainment assets, FNG Asia and Star India, became a part of Disney and the FNG Asia Pacific was integrated into Disney’s Direct-to-Consumer and International unit.
Rajdeep Sardesai is an Indian news anchor and author. He is a consulting editor at the India Today group, and hosts the 9:00 p.m prime time show on India Today Television. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Global Broadcast News, that included CNN-IBN, IBN7 and IBN-Lokmat; he resigned in July 2014.
CNN-News18 is an Indian English-language news television channel founded by Rajdeep Sardesai located in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. It is currently owned by Network 18. CNN provides international coverage for the channel, while Indian Broadcasting Network concentrates on Indian and local reports.
TV18 Broadcast Ltd. is an Indian entity belonging to Network 18 Group based in Mumbai. TV18 owns and operates various channels of the NBCUniversal group for the Indian viewers such as CNBC-TV18, CNBC Awaaz & CNBC-TV18 Prime HD as well as WarnerMedia - CNN-News18.
The Marathi language television industry was started in India in 1984. Although earlier confined to a half an hour slot in the national television Doordarshan, the industry has now expanded with many commercial TV channels currently on air. Various dedicated categories like news and movies have been added and have considerably expanded the horizon of Marathi TV entertainment.
Network18 Media & Investments Limited, informally referred to as the Network18 Group, is an Indian media and entertainment group. The group was founded and majority owned by Raghav Bahl in 1993, after India liberalised its economy and media ownership laws in early 1990s. In the 2000s, the Group grew into one of the largest collection of media properties in India through debt financing and international licensing deals with global media brands. By late 2011, according to a LiveMint article, the Network18 group had amassed a large debt, was running in loss and banks were unwilling to lend the group additional capital. Bahl's Network18 group sought capital from the Reliance Industries Ltd in 2012, then closed loss-making ventures, laid off employees, and trimmed the size of the Group over the next two years. On May 29, 2014, under the terms of its 2012 financing, the Reliance Industries Limited group took over the Network18 empire to integrate it with its 4G, Jio wireless content-distribution strategy. The Group's leadership team is headed by chairperson Adil Zainulbhai and managing director Rahul Joshi in 2019.
Imagine TV was a popular Hindi general entertainment channel, owned by Turner Broadcasting System based in New Delhi.
News18Lokmat is a 24-hour Marathi-language news channel based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is a joint venture between Network 18 and Lokmat Group the publisher of the newspaper Lokmat.
Lokmat is a Marathi language newspaper published in Maharashtra state. Founded in 1971 by Jawaharlal Darda, it is the largest read regional language newspaper in India with more than 18 million readers and the No. 1 Marathi newspaper in Maharashtra & Goa states. It is also available in E-Paper format.
UTV Software Communications is an Indian mass media conglomerate owned by The Walt Disney Company India. UTV was incorporated as United Television Software Communications on 22 June 1990 by Ronnie and Zarina Screwvala.
ViacomCBS Networks International (VCNI) is the international division of ViacomCBS. The division oversees the production, broadcasting and promotion of key ViacomCBS' brands outside of the United States. These brands include MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, BET, Colors and Game One, as well as CBS-branded channels.
Viacom 18 Media Pvt. Limited is an Indian joint venture operation between ViacomCBS and TV18 based in Mumbai. It was founded in November 2007 and owns various channels of ViacomCBS, as well as various consumer products in India.
Raghav Bahl is an Indian businessman, a serial entrepreneur, and an investor best known for his past ownership of several television channels, including TV18 India. He was the Founding/Controlling shareholder & Managing Director of Network18 Group, a media group that he started in 1993 and grew into one of the largest collection of media properties in India. At its peak, the group controlled by Raghav Bahl included media and internet-based media outlets such as in.com, IBNlive.com, Moneycontrol.com, Firstpost.com, Cricketnext, Homeshop18, bookmyshow.com, Forbes India, TV channels such as Colors and some in partnership with international media groups such as NBC TV18, CNN-IBN, IBN7, MTV, and CNBC Awaaz. By late 2011, according to a LiveMint article, Bahl's media group had a large debt, was running in loss and banks were unwilling to lend the group additional capital. Bahl's group sought capital from the Reliance Industries Ltd in 2012, and two years later Reliance took over the media empire and Bahl left the Network18 group on May 29 2014. After departing from the Network18 group, Bahl co-founded Quintillion Media Pvt Ltd with his wife Ritu Kapur. This media group controls Thequint.com. Bahl's new venture entered a joint venture agreement with Bloomberg L.P. to launch BloombergQuint in 2016.
Essel Group is an Indian conglomerate holding company and corporate promoter headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It was founded in 1926 as the Messrs Ramgopal Indraprasad by Jagannath Goenka. The company was expanded and converted into the Essel Group of Industries by the chairman Subhash Chandra. The company has business enterprises in mass media, infrastructure and packaging industry. Notable subsidiaries of the company include Zee Media Corporation, Zee Entertainment Enterprises, Dish TV, Siti Networks and Essel Propack.
Sony Pictures Networks India is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation, Japan. It has a subsidiary, MSM-Worldwide Factual Media Private Limited and an affiliate, Bangla Entertainment Private Limited in India.
Star India Private Limited is an Indian media conglomerate and a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company India. It is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It has a network of 60 channels in eight different languages, reaching out to 9 out of 10 cable and satellite TV homes in India. The network reaches approximately 790 million viewers a month across India and more than 100 countries. Star India generates more than 30,000 hours of content every year.
B. Sai Kumar was a board member of News Broadcasters Association for the year 2011-2012 and the CEO of TV18 Group. Earlier he was its COO According to Ajita Shashidhar "(at 35) he was regarded as the most promising young leader of the Indian media industry when he was elevated to the position of COO of media company Network 18 in 2005."
