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This article is about New Delhi Television Limited. For Notre Dame Television, see Notre Dame
Television.

NDTV

Broadcast,
Type television and
online

Country India

Availability India

Founded by Prannoy Roy

Prannoy Roy
Key people Radhika Roy
Narayan Rao

Launch date 1988

Official
www.ndtv.com
Website

NDTV (New Delhi Television Limited) (BSE: 532529), founded in 1988, is a private television
company in India. It was founded by Prannoy Roy, an eminent journalist and current chairman
and director of NDTV Group. NDTV currently has more than 1,000 employees producing news
from over twenty locations in India.[citation needed] NDTV is an acronym for the original name of the
company, New Delhi Television.[1]
NDTV is among India's top broadcasters and has twenty-three offices and studios across the
country. Its three national news channels NDTV 24x7, NDTV India (Hindi) and NDTV Profit
(Business news) form the core of the company. Each year the channel also gives the NDTV
Indian of the year awards. Channels of NDTV Group are:
• NDTV 24x7 - English News channel.
• NDTV India - Hindi News channel.
• NDTV Profit - Business News channel.
• NDTV Imagine - Hindi Entertaiment channel.
• NDTV Good Times - Lifestyle channel; JV between NDTV Group and United Breweries
Group
• NDTV Imagine Showbiz - Music channel; sold to Turner Asia Pacific in 2009.
• NDTV Lumiere - Movie channel; sold to Turner Asia Pacific in 2009.

Contents
[hide]
• 1 Latest awards
• 2 Notable personalities
• 3 Controversies and Criticisms
○ 3.1 Legal notices against bloggers
○ 3.2 Radia tapes controversy
○ 3.3 Allegation of tax fraud
• 4 References
• 5 External links

[edit] Latest awards

• NAB 2008 International Broadcasting Excellence Award - NDTV Labs[2]
• CBA-Thomson Foundation Journalist of the Year Award - Sutapa Deb[3]
• CBA-IBC Award for Innovative Engineering - NDTV Labs[3][4]
[edit] Notable personalities
This section does not cite any references or sources.
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be
challenged and removed. (September 2010)

• Barkha Dutt
• Nidhi Kulpati
• Nidhi Razdan
• Prannoy Roy
• Kamal Khan
• Vinod Dua
 • Vikram A Chandra
• Vishnu Som
[edit] Controversies and Criticisms
[edit] Legal notices against bloggers
NDTV Editors (Ms. Barkha Dutt) had served legal notices to a number of bloggers, who
allegedly had come down heavily on NDTV for "breaking every rule of ethical journalism in
reporting the Mumbai mayhem." through one of his blog posts. Many Indian Bloggers have
expressed their sharp dissatisfaction towards NDTV and Barkha Dutt for attempting to censor
their right to Freedom of speech by way of such legal actions.[5] NDTV's reports on Naxalite
Violence in Dantewada have been found to be factually incorrect and naive by some observers.[6]
[edit] Radia tapes controversy
Main article: Radia tapes controversy
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 Central Bureau of Investigation has announced
that they have 5,851 recordings of phone conversations by Radia, some of which outline Radia's
attempts to broker deals in relation to the 2G spectrum sale.[7] The tapes appear to demonstrate
how Radia attempted to use some media persons including NDTV's Barkha Dutt to influence the
decision to appoint A. Raja as telecom minister.[8] She always denied her role in this episode with
stating her role as simply error of judgment. Non of any other news media groups have criticized
it very strongly and this is another precise reason to deteriorate acceptance of Media in Indian
society.Barkha Dutt is also being investigated by CBI.
[edit] Allegation of tax fraud
NDTV, through its foreign subsidiaries, is alleged to have violated Indian tax and corporate laws.
[9]
NDTV has denied these allegations.
The Sunday Gaurdian ran a story which exposed the NDTV's financial misdemeanours and
malpractices in connivance with ICICI Bank. "NDTV-ICICI loan chicanery saved Roys"
provides details of how NDTV's major stake holders raised funds by misdeclaration of the value
of shares in NDTV. NDTV has denied the allegations and the NDTV CEO replied to the Sunday
Guardian along with the threat of "criminal defamation".
[edit] References
1. ^ "News Delhi TV". Forbes.com. http://members.forbes.com/global/2006/0918/034.html.
Retrieved 2006-09-18.
2. ^ http://www.nabshow.com/2008/press/ibeawards2.asp
3. ^ a b http://www.cba.org.uk/awards_and_competitions/2008CBABroadcastingAwards.php
4. ^ http://www.ndtvlabs.com/
5. ^ "Blogspoilers ahead!, Specials - Columnists - Pune Mirror,Pune Mirror". Punemirror.in. 2009-
01-31. http://www.punemirror.in/index.aspx?
page=article&sectid=25&contentid=200901312009013104285348453c037de&sectxslt=.
Retrieved 2010-08-30.
 6. ^ "More Pages From Dantewada". www.outlookindia.com.
http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?265019. Retrieved 2010-08-30.
7. ^ http://www.deccanherald.com/content/116306/radia-tapes-scandal-media.html
8. ^ http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?268068 The Barkha Dutt & Other Tapes
9. ^ "NDTV juggles funds, shares abroad, avoids tax". The Sunday Guardian. 2010-12-05.
http://www.sunday-guardian.com/a/1088. Retrieved 2010-12-06.

[edit] External links

• Official website (Mobile)
• NDTV on Twitter
• NDTV on Facebook
• ndtv channel at YouTube
• NDTV Worldwide
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