NDTV India
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NDTV India also called Nagari , is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal...
: NDTV इंडिया) is a premier Hindi language news channel in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
that is owned by New Delhi Television Ltd
NDTV
NDTV is an Indian commercial broadcasting television network founded in 1988. It was founded by Prannoy Roy, an eminent journalist and current chairman and director of NDTV Group. NDTV currently has more than 1,000 employees producing news from over twenty locations in India...
. Noted journalist Vinod Dua
Vinod Dua
Vinod Dua is one of the best known names of the Indian media. He has been the face of Indian television since 1974. He has seen and been associated withIndian television’s transition from a government controlled, black and white,...
has been associated with this channel.
History
NDTV was the brainchild of its Chairman, Prannoy RoyPrannoy Roy
Prannoy L Roy, Ph.D is an Indian journalist and media journalist. He is the founder and Executive Chairperson of New Delhi Television .-Early life:...
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
DoorDarshan
Doordarshan is an Indian public service broadcaster, a division of Prasar Bharati. It is one of the largest broadcasting organizations in India in terms of the infrastructure of studios and transmitters. Recently, it has also started Digital Terrestrial Transmitters. On September 15, 2009,...
. 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
NDTV 24x7
NDTV 24x7 is a premier English language television network that carries news and current affairs in India, it is owned by New Delhi Television Ltd. NDTV 24x7 won the Asian Television Award for Best News Programme in 2005....
in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
and NDTV India in Hindi
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
. Later they also launched NDTV Profit
NDTV Profit
NDTV Profit is a business news channel started by New Delhi Television in January 2005. Started to provide competition to the monopoly enjoyed by CNBC-TV18, the channel has managed to garner a decent market share....
, 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.
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