UTV Software Communications Limited
Headquarters: Mumbai
Founded in: June 22, 1990. Listed on March 17, 2005.
Includes: Among others, UTV Home Entertainment, UTV Interactive, UTV Communications (UK), UTV Global Broadcasting Limited, Bindass, Bindass Movies, UTV Movies, World Movies, UTVi, Indiagames.com, UTV Motion Pictures, UTV Spotboy Productions, UTV Television, Digi--Guys, Ignition Entertainment, UTV New Media Limited, utvatplay.com
What it does: UTV's business verticals include television content production and services, motion pictures, broadcast, interactive (animation, gaming) and new media (Internet, mobile, digital)
Promoter: Ronnie Screwvala
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Did you know? In its initial avatar, UTV mainly produced television content for Doordarshan and made ad films.
By 1992, Zee TV commissioned around 250 hours of programming from UTV, making it one of the country's largest content providers. UTV expanded into the inflight entertainment division in 1993. In 1995, it launched the long-running soap, Shanti.
In the news: Walt Disney Co picked up 15 per cent stake in UTV Global Broadcasting Ltd for Rs.1.18 billion earlier this month. Disney now has a 32.1 per cent stake in UTV Software Communications and 15 per cent in the broadcast arm of the company, UGBL, on a total investment of Rs 81.83 billion.
Meanwhile, UTV announced it has acquired an 80 per cent stake in the US based online publishing group, True Games Interactive.
Image: (Left to right) Director Anurag Basu, actress Shilpa Shetty and producer Ronnie Screwvala in London, England. | Photograph: Claire Greenway/Getty Images
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