NDTV

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

NDTV

Type	Broadcast, television and online
Country	India
Availability	National
Founded	by Prannoy Roy in 1988
Key people	Prannoy Roy Radhika Roy Vikram A Chandra Barkha Dutt
Launch date	1988
Picture format	480i (16:9 SDTV) 720p (HDTV)
Official website	ndtv.com

NDTV (BSE: 532529‎, NSE: NDTV) is an Indian commercial broadcasting television network founded in 1988. 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]

On July 30, 2011, Vikram A Chandra was elevated to the position of group CEO replacing KVL Narayan Rao who is now Executive Vice Chairman of the company.

New Delhi Television 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

Channels of NDTV Group are:

• NDTV 24x7 - English News channel.
• NDTV India - Hindi News channel.
• NDTV Profit - Business News channel.
• NDTV Good Times - Lifestyle channel; JV between NDTV Group and United Breweries Group
• NDTV Hindu- English Chennai Based News Channel, with The Hindu Group

International

• ATN NDTV 24x7
• NDTV Worldwide

Notable personalities

• Vikram A Chandra, Group CEO
• Barkha Dutt
• Pankaj Pachauri
• Nidhi Kulpati
• Siddharth Vinayak Patankar
• Nidhi Razdan
• Prannoy Roy
• Kamal Khan
• Vinod Dua
• Vishnu Som
• Ambika Anand

Philanthropy

NDTV keeps on organising various campaigns through their channels to support Education, Rural Electrification, Awareness on Climate Change. Some of their campaigns are as follows:

• Greenathon - It's an event to generate money to spread awareness on climate change and Rural Electrification. It was suppoported by many actors such as Priyanka Chopra, Shah Rukh Khan, Karan Johar. There have been two successful seasons of Greenathon campaign in 2010 and 2011 resuling in donations of more than 5 crore of Rupees. It is also sponsored by Auto major Toyota.

• Telethon - Support My School Campaign - On 18 September, 2011 an event was organized to support education in Rural India. It was supported by Cricket Legend Sachin Tendulkar and Bollywood Actor Sanjay Dutt. The event was successful in generating more than 7 crore Rupees to fund the needs of more than 140 schools.

Controversy

Allegation of Corruption and Criminal conspiracy

On 20th January, 1998 Central Bureau of Investigation filed 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 CBI charge-sheet, Doordarshan suffered a loss of over Rs 3.52 crore 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.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]}

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.^[8] NDTV's reports on Naxalite Violence in Dantewada have been found to be factually incorrect and naive by some observers.^[9]

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.^[10] 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.^[11] She always denied her role in this episode with stating her role as simply error of judgment. None 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.

Allegation of tax fraud

NDTV, through its foreign subsidiaries, is alleged to have violated Indian tax and corporate laws.^[12] NDTV has denied these allegations.

The Sunday Guardian 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".This is also pro- congress channel ,this channel always shows topic related to either sonia or rahul . All the anctors do understand ,as they are above all barkha dutt is worst among all , pro congress ,always make pro congress news ,and always tries to defame specially BJP , and other parties . This is the worst channel i ever watched.

References

1. ^ "News Delhi TV". Forbes.com. http://members.forbes.com/global/2006/0918/034.html. Retrieved 2006-09-18. 
2. ^ http://zoomindianmedia.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/ndtv-and-prannoy-roy-once-upon-a-time/
3. ^ http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?204285
4. ^ http://www.expressindia.com/fe/daily/19980709/19055094.html
5. ^ http://www.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/19980120/02051164.html
6. ^ http://www.outlookindia.com/printarticle.aspx?204285
7. ^ http://www.outlookindia.com/printarticle.aspx?204133
8. ^ "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. 
9. ^ "More Pages From Dantewada". www.outlookindia.com. http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?265019. Retrieved 2010-08-30. 
10. ^ http://www.deccanherald.com/content/116306/radia-tapes-scandal-media.html
11. ^ http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?268068 The Barkha Dutt & Other Tapes
12. ^ "NDTV juggles funds, shares abroad, avoids tax". The Sunday Guardian. 2010-12-05. http://www.sunday-guardian.com/a/1088. Retrieved 2010-12-06. 

External links

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