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Orissa TV or OTV is a regional Oriya language

Oriya language

Oriya , officially Odia from November, 2011, is an Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family. It is mainly spoken in the Indian states of Orissa and West Bengal...

India

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n cable television

Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...

station. It is the flagship channel of the Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar is the capital of the Indian state of Orissa, officially Odisha. The city has a long history of over 2000 years starting with Chedi dynasty who had Sisupalgarh near present-day Bhubaneswar as their capital...

-based Orissa Television Network.It was started and promoted by Mrs Jagi mangat Panda. Orissa Television (OTV) is the first private electronic Media

Electronic media

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in the state of Orissa

Orissa

Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...

. Launched in 1997 in the twin cities of Bhubaneshwar and Cuttack

Cuttack

Cuttack is the former capital of the state of Orissa, India. It is the headquarters of Cuttack district and is located about 20 km to the north east of Bhubaneswar, the capital of Orissa. The name of the city is an anglicised form of Kataka that literally means The Fort, a reference to the...

& slowly spread to all major towns of the state.Then it became the premier source of news, current affairs

Current affairs (news format)

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and entertainment

Entertainment

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for the people of Orissa

Orissa

. It is most viewed Oriya

Oriya language

TV channel in the world

World

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Programming

Apart from a large viewership in Orissa

Orissa

, OTV has a following in other regions of India

India

with large Oriya

Oriya language

speaking population, including the Bangalore

Bangalore

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, Vizag, Surat

Surat

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, New Delhi

New Delhi

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, Mumbai

Mumbai

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, Chennai

Chennai

Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

& Hyderabad.
The key people are Jagi Mangat Panda and her husband and BJD MP Baijayant Panda. Initially four journalism students from IIMC Dhenkanal were selected from the campus by to Panda couple to start OTV. They are jajati karan, Sarada Lahangir, Sriparna Nayak and Sonali Rath. Jajati Karan who was appointed as a trainee reporter and after five years he went on to head the news division of the channel. He is now the chief of bureau of national English news channel CNN-IBN. Now OTV has over 300 staff and the company is worth more than Rs 200 crore. Great vision by the Panda couple to initiate cable and TV network revolution in Orissa.

List of programmes

Most programmes of OTV are news based. It also have programmes related to art and culture,tourism,Business and Festivals.
Here are some programmes.
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Sakalara Khabara
Ranabhumi
Agyanamaskar
Oltapalta
Jhalak
JanaMancha
Indradhanu
Pratidin
Gapasapa
The great Orissa political circus
News Fuse

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Programming

List of programmes

See also

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