NDTV

Type	Broadcast television network
Country	India
Availability	National
Founded	1988 by Prannoy Roy
Key people	Radhika Roy, Narayan Rao
Official website	www.ndtv.com

NDTV (New Delhi Television Limited), founded in 1988, is a private television company in India. It was founded by its current chairman and director, Prannoy Roy, an eminent journalist. NDTV currently has more than 1,000 employees producing news from over twenty plus locations in India.^{[citation needed]} As of 2006, NDTV 24x7 held one of the largest market share, at 31%, among English news channels in the country.

NDTV is called New Delhi TeleVision.^[1]

[edit] Corporate Profile

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NDTV is among India's top broadcasters and has twenty-three offices and studios across the country. Its three national news channels NDTV 24/7, NDTV India and NDTV Profit form the core of the company.

Popular talk shows include 'Big Fight', 'India 60 Minutes', 'Walk The Talk', 'We The People'. It launched the 'United for Justice' campaign seeking support from the citizens to demand justice in three high-profile unsolved murder cases Jessica Lal, Priyadarshini Mattoo, Nitish Katara leading to the conviction of the accused. Its campaigns like the '7 Wonders of India' and 'Toyota Telethon' have garnered public support and are a commendable attempt at preserving the environment and India's natural heritage.Its coverage of starvation-deaths, malnutrition and other human rights violations has forced the government into action.

With its foray into infotainment channels like NDTV Imagine and NDTV Goodtimes, the company has become a full fledged media player and has seen a transformation from the days when it used to produce a solitary but pioneering show 'The World This Week'. NDTV has set-up NDTV Worldwide (Media Consulting), NDTV Convergence (Digital Media), NGEN (Media Process Outsourcing) and NDTV Labs (Media Software & Technology).

[edit] Controversies

NDTV's infotainment channel NDTV imagine had been criticised by children's rights groups accusing it of "exploitation of infants" in its Reality Show "Pati, Patni aur Woh"(Husband, Wife and the other one), a program inspired by The Baby Borrowers of BBC. National Commission for Protection of Child Rights(NCPCR) and the Women and Child Development ministry (WCD) has asked NDTV Imagine to stop the telecast of this reality show ^[2].

[edit] NDTV Channels

• NDTV 24x7
• NDTV India
• NDTV Profit
• NDTV Imagine
• NDTV Hindu
• NDTV Imagine Showbiz
• NDTV Lumiere
• NDTV Good Times
• NDTV MetroNation
• NDTV Arabia
• ACTVE Cooking

[edit] Latest Awards

• NAB 2008 International Broadcasting Excellence Award - NDTV Labs^[3]
• CBA-Thomson Foundation Journalist of the Year Award - Sutapa Deb^[4]
• CBA-IBC Award for Innovative Engineering - NDTV Labs^[4][5]

[edit] Notable personalities

• Deepti Sachdeva
• Monideepa Banerjee
• Barkha Dutt
• Natasha Jog
• Sonia Singh
• Nidhi Kulpati
• Nidhi Razdan
• Pankaj Pachauri
• Prannoy Roy
• Siddharth Vinayak Patankar
• Vinod Dua
• Vikram A Chandra
• Vishnu Som
• Sonali Chander
• Kismet Singh

[edit] References

1. ^ "News Delhi TV". Forbes.com. http://members.forbes.com/global/2006/0918/034.html. Retrieved on 2006-09-18. 2. ^ http://www.nabshow.com/2008/press/ibeawards2.asp 3. ^ http://www.cba.org.uk/awards_and_competitions/2008CBABroadcastingAwards.php 4. ^ http://www.cba.org.uk/awards_and_competitions/2008CBABroadcastingAwards.php 5. ^ http://www.ndtvlabs.com/ 6. ^ http://www.ndtvworldwide.com/ Media Consulting

[edit] External links

• Official site
• NDTV Twitter

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