New Delhi Television Limited
Headquarters: New Delhi
Founded in: September 8, 1988. Went public on August 31, 1994.
Includes: NDTV 24x7, NDTV India, NDTV Profit, NDTV Good Times, NDTV Imagine, NDTV Arabia, Astro Awani, NDTV Lumiere, NDTV Lifestyle, NDTV Labs, NDTV MetroNation
What it does: NDTV produces news, entertainment, business and current affairs related television content. Its Internet verticals on the web include news, business, health, travel, recipes, gadgets, movies, music, books, jobs and shopping.
Promoters: Dr Prannoy Roy, Radhika Roy
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Did you know? NDTV promoter Dr Prannoy Roy came into the spotlight for his incisive and live coverage of the national budget and the elections. NDTV is India's oldest private news production house and the only Indian news channel that broadcasts in Pakistan.
Its signature tune has been composed at ace musician A R Rahman. NDTV's Barkha Dutt was the first female television journalist to report live on the Kargil War. NDTV Profit succeeded in convincing the reticent Shweta Nanda (nee Bachchan) to host a 12--episode show, NextGen, featuring 12 people under the age of 40.
In the news: NDTV Lumiere, which was launched in January this year, aims to premiere the best of world cinema in Indian theatres immediately after their worldwide release.
These movies will also be made available across multiple platforms such as home video, a 24--hour TV channel pay--per--view across DTH platforms and Internet downloads. NDTV also plans to launch a Bollywood entertainment channel, Imagine Showbiz, later this month and a local English news channel in Chennai by December.
In July, NDTV announced it will form a new company for building infrastructure such as studio and production facilities. Its offshore subsidiaries will invest up to $150 million as Cumulative Convertible Preference Shares or any other instrument deemed appropriate in this project.
Image: Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (right) hands over a signed bat to NDTV chairman Prannoy Roy. | Photograph: Prakash Singh/AFP/Getty Images
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