NDTV

NDTV (New Delhi Television Limited) (founded in 1988) is one of India's largest television production houses. After producing numerous news and current affairs programmes including the highly successful "The World This Week", NDTV inked a production agreement with Rupert Murdoch's STAR to set up India's first 24-hour news channel (STAR News, English/Hindi News) launched in February 1998. The parties parted ways after 5 years and NDTV launched its own channels, NDTV 24x7 (English News) and NDTV India (Hindi News). STAR retained the STAR News brand but the channel continued in Hindi. NDTV subsequently launched NDTV Profit which focuses on business news. NDTV currently has more than 1,000 employees producing news from 20 plus locations in India and abroad. The company is owned (54%) by Dr Prannoy Roy and Mrs Radhika Roy and has a market capitalisation of about Rs 1500 crore.

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NDTV, will open a branch of its networks in Canada, to be known as NDTV Canada, to be owned and operated by Asian Television Network.

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