Country India Key people Umesh Upadhyay Owner Network 18 Founded 1995 | Availability National Official website www.pradesh18.com Founder Ramoji Rao Launch date 25 July 1995 | |
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Picture format 480i (16:9 SDTV)
1080i(HDTV) Type of business Broadcast, television and online Profiles | ||
ETV Network is a network of satellite television channels in India, news and entertainment channels. It is based in Hyderabad, India.
History
The Hyderabad daily newspaper Eenadu (Telugu for 'today') started its own channel named Eenadu TV on 27 August 1995 The network later added regional channels in other Indian languages and built a large local news network. Ramoji Group divested its TV asset to TV18 in 2013.
In March 2015 Viacom 18 decided to rebrand five ETV regional general entertainment channels (Previously owned by Prism TV). They are ETV Marathi, ETV Gujarati, ETV Kannada, ETV Bangla and ETV Odia will be rebranded into Colors Marathi, Colors Gujarati, Colors Kannada, Colors Bangla and Colors Odia.
In April 2016 ETV network added three more regional news channels catering to the audience of Kerala, Tamil Nadu Assam and North East under the brand name of News 18. The channels are named News 18 Kerala, News 18 Tamil Nadu, News 18 Assam NE.The flagship company ETPL lanunched four new television channels in November 2014 - namely ETV life - a health and wellness channel, ETV Abhiruchi, a cookery channel, ETV plus - an entertainment and reality channel, ETV cinema - a movie channel all four in telugu language.