Akash Bangla
Launched:
1999
Owned by:
Zee Group
Country:
India
Headquarters:
Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Sister channels:
24 Ghanta, Zee News.
Website:
www.aakaash-bangla.com
Akash Bangla is a Bengali television
station. Its most popular program is the Bengali Travel Show "Chalo
Jaai" airing at 11:30 pm every night.
The
channel started as 24 hour Bengali entertainment channel with soap operas like
Kurukhetro, Shanai, Prabahini, Dotta, and Choritroheen but could not survive
and changed its format to a 24 hour current affair and news channel in early
2012.
GRP/TRP
The channel fetches a grp of 20+ to 40 and its popular show Kurukhetro in its
last stage (2009) fetched trp of 0.3-0.6 which was bad as the show use to fetch
1.0-1.6+. The channel averaged a gec of 21 before it changed to a 24 hour news
channel gaining 26.....More
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