Etv UP
Channel Name: Etv
UP
Launched:
27 August 1995
Owned by:
Network 18
Country:
India
Founded by: Ramoji Rao in 1995
Broadcast area: India and International
Network:
National
Headquarters:
Noida, India
Sister channels:
News 24
Language: Hindi
Website:
http://www.etv.co.in/
ETV Network (Telugu) is one of the
largest networks of satellite television channels in India and is owned by
Network 18, formally owned by Ramoji Group. Based at Hyderabad, this network
runs a group of 12 regional language news and entertainment channels.
When
the satellite TV revolution broke out in India during the late 1990s, the
Telugu daily newspaper Eenadu started with its own channel called ETV.
Initially launching a Telugu channel the network has later diversified into
other Indian languages such as Bengali, Urdu, Kannada, Gujarati, Oriya and
Marathi. With 12 channels in regional languages of India, ETV has the largest
news-reporting network in India, at the grassroot level. Managed by Newstoday
Private Limited, the channels give news in between entertainment programs. 4
Hindi channels for Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan, and
regional entertainment channels in Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Oriya, Marathi,
Urdu, Gujarati - and a 24-hours news channel in Telugu constitute the bunch of
ETV Channels.On January 2012 it was announced that ETV will be bought by
Reliance Industries Limited and TV 18 group of India
From
November 2012, "Global India", a weekly 30-minute magazine style show
by BBC Hindi, started to air on five channels (ETV Bihar/Jharkhand, ETV Uttar
Pradesh/Uttrakhand, ETV Rajasthan, ETV Madhya Pradesh /Chhattisgarh and ETV
Urdu) of the ETV network. The the lead presenter of the show is Rupa Jha, a
senior journalist with the BBC Hindi......More >>
