Launched January 2004 Country India Founder Ravi Prakash Headquarters Hyderabad | Network Tv9 Language Telugu Founded 2004 | |
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Owned by Associated Broadcasting Company Private Limited Sister channel(s) Jai Telangana TV
TV9 Kannada
TV9 Gujarati
News9
TV9 Marathi Profiles | ||
TV9 is an Indian satellite television news network that is owned by Associated Broadcasting Company Private Limited (ABCL). TV9 News channel was founded in 2004 by Ravi Prakash. It provides 24-hour news coverage in Telugu language and has 7 TV stations in different languages in India.
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Early history
ABCL was founded as a private media group by a journalist Ravi Prakash in 2003, who served as its CEO. The first channel broadcast by the company was TV9, in 2004. It was a 24-hour news channel in Telugu regional language. Following its success in Andhra Pradesh, TV9 expanded its network. Over the years, a few more affiliates to TV9 in different regional languages like Kannada, Marathi, and Gujarati have been set up. From then onwards, TV9 is referred to as TV9 Telugu (Telugu: టీవీ9). All these channels are broadcast from ABCL's head office in Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
Products and services
ABCL is involved with filmed entertainment, cable network programming, internet services, operating direct broadcast satellite television, and providing content for television in India, the US and Africa. In the US it is associated with Dish Network. In Africa it is the Simba Television network.
Social responsibility
In 2004, TV9 ran a series of programs about residents in Nalgonda and Mahabubnagar districts, who are suffering from fluorosis because of high fluoride in their groundwater. TV9 raised funds for the operations of children with congenital heart disease through their "Saving Little Hearts campaign", a mass awareness program.
TV9 management installed a huge eco-friendly clay Ganesha idol at Hyderabad to raise environmental awareness among the public.