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Zee Marathi is an Indian general entertainment channel which carries programming in Marathi. The channel was launched on 15 August 1999 and was known as Alpha TV Marathi until 27 March 2005, then it was renamed as Zee Marathi. It is the first Marathi GEC channel. Zee Marathi is part of Zee Entertainment Enterprises (ZEEL).
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Zee Tamil is an Indian Tamil language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. The channel started broadcasting on 2008 and is available internationally. The channel broadcasts from Guindy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Now this is one of the Most TRP rated Channels of India surpassing major Hindi GECs.
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