Raj Television Network

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Raj Television Network Limited
Company type Public
IndustryMass media
Founded14 October 1994
FounderRaajendhran
Headquarters Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
ProductsBroadcasting
15 crore
35 crore
Website www.rajtvnet.in

Raj Television Network is an Indian satellite television network established on 3 June 1994 and is based in Chennai, India. [1] It owns television channels across four South Indian languages Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. Its flagship channel is Raj TV.

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History

In 1983, four brothers established a video cassette lending company named Raj Video Vision. In 1984, the group started acquiring rights for Tamil films. In 1987, Rajendra an integrated studio was opened by Raj group and were used by independent movie and TV serial producers. The group used the studio to export 35 mm films and teleserials to Singapore, Malaysia, United Kingdom, UAE among others. Raj television network was established on 3 June 1994 with the launch of the Tamil channel Raj TV on 14 October 1994.

Owned Channels

ChannelsLanguageGenreNotes
Raj TV Tamil General Entertainment Channel
Raj Digital Plus Movies
Raj Musix Tamil Music
Raj News Tamil News
Vissa Telugu General Entertainment Channel
Raj Musix Telugu Music Shutdowning Soon
Raj News Telugu News
Raj Musix Kannada Kannada Music
Raj News Kannada News
Raj Musix Malayalam Malayalam Music
Raj News Malayalam News
Shri Raj OTT News

Shut down channel

ChannelsLanguageGenreNotes
Raj Pariwar Hindi General Entertainment Channel25 December 2013 [2]

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References

  1. "Raj TV, Information" . Retrieved 4 July 2015.
  2. Raj Pariwar,a Hindi language General Entertainment was shutdown on 25 December 2013.