Akash Bangla



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Akash Bangla


Launched: 1999
Owned by: Zee Group
Country: India
Headquarters: Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Sister channels: 24 Ghanta, Zee News.
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 >>