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NDTV

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New Delhi Television Limited ( NDTV ) is an Indian television media company founded in 1988 by Radhika Roy, a journalist. NDTV started off as a content provider for Doordarshan, producing the show The World This Week in November 1988. In 1998, NDTV started its own 24×7 news channel with STAR and later shifted to its own venture in 2003, launching both the English and Hindi versions of the channel. NDTV's slogan is "Experience. Truth First".

History

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NDTV started out as a content provider company for the public broadcaster Doordarshan. It started off in November 1988 by producing the 30-minute weekly news show The World This Week for Doordarshan. In 1989, NDTV created India's first live coverage and analysis of the general elections. In 1995 NDTV produced a national news show, " Tonight ", which was telecast on Doordarshan. In 1998 NDTV started India's first 24x7 news show in collaboration with Rupert Murdoch's STAR News Channel. Interestingly, during the initial years there was always a delay of 10 minutes which later shifted to five minutes between telecast and production of live news due to government restrictions. In 1999, NDTV launched its website.

Channels operating

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Channels of NDTV Group are: NDTV 24x7 – 24-hour English news channel. NDTV India – 24-hour Hindi news channel. NDTV Profit – Business news channel. NDTV HOP - In October 2018, NDTV and Airtel announced the launch of NDTV HOP, a live channel for mobile devices which carries its content in the vertical/portrait aspect ratio rather than the traditional horizontal viewing mode.

Notable personalities

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Prannoy Roy, co-founder and one of India's earliest psephologists Sonia Singh, Editorial Director Sreenivasan Jain, Editor of NDTV 24x7 Ravish Kumar, Editor of NDTV India (Hindi channel) Sarah Jacob, Host of We the People Notable former associates edit Vikram Chandra, CEO in 2016 (Left NDTV in 2016, and stopped presenting shows as a guest anchor in April 2019) Barkha Dutt (1995–2017, Group Editor in 2015) Rajdeep Sardesai Suparna Singh (1994–2019, CEO 2017–2019) Noopur Tiwari Arnab Goswami Nidhi Razdan

Controversies

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Corruption and criminal conspiracy edit On 20 January 1998, Central Bureau of Investigation filed various cases against New Delhi Television (NDTV) managing director Prannoy Roy, former director general of Doordarshan R. Basu and five other top officials of Doordarshan under Section 120-B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for criminal conspiracy and under the Prevention of Corruption Act. According to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) charge-sheet, Doordarshan suffered a loss of over ₹ 35.2 million (equivalent to ₹ 130 million or US$1.8 million in 2019) due to the "undue favours" shown to NDTV as its programme The World This Week ( TWTW ) was put in 'A' category instead of 'special A' category. Radia tapes controversy edit In November 2010, OPEN magazine carried a story which reported transcripts of some of the telephone conversations of Nira Radia with senior journalists, politicians, and corporate houses, many of whom have denied the allegations. The