NDTV
New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV) is a company registered with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India – the company that owns two prominent news channels – NDTV 24 x 7 in English and NDTV India in Hindi. It is India’s first independent news network, entering the field at a time when the government-run Doordarshan had a monopoly over television content. The company was founded by Dr. Prannoy Roy and his wife Radhika Roy in 1988. Initially, the company was a television software production company with a very popular show “The World This Week’ broadcast on Doordarshan. In February 1998 NDTV signed a contract with a Foreign company Star and launched a 24-hour news channel called Star News. Due to strict Indian regulation, foreign companies could only be a minority partner in a news channel in India (At present 26% FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) is allowed in news channels in India). This allowed NDTV to have total control over editorial content and copyright over programming even though Star paid a big portion of the cost. In 2003 NDTV launched its own independent News channel NDTV 24x7 in English and NDTV India in Hindi. The following year NDTV launched 3 more channels NDTV Prime (information and entertainment), NDTV Profit (business news channel) and NDTV Good times (lifestyle channel). In 2018 NDTV started a channel for smartphone users NDTV HOP in cooperation with Airtel, Indian telecom company.
NDTV has a history of hiring Journalists, reporters, anchors with bureaucratic connections. Some of them are: Vikram Chandra is the son of Yogesh Chandra, a former director general of civil aviation, himself the son-in-law of Govind Narain, a former home and Defense Secretary and former Governor of Karnataka. Arnab Goswami who started his career with NDTV is the son of Manoranjan Goswami, a former Army Offficer and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member; Manoranjan’s brother Dinesh was a Union Law Minister in the Vishwanath Pratap Singh-led United Front government. Vishnu Som is the son of Himachal Som, a former senior diplomat. Chetan Bhattacharji, Managing Editor, is the grandson of Nirmal Mukarji, a former Cabinet secretary and former Governor of Punjab.
Currently, the company has six Directors. 61.45% of shares of the company are held by Dr. Prannoy Roy and his wife Radhika Roy. Apart from the media Business, the Group has business interests in Apparel, Art, Mobile and Electronics, among others.
Business Form
Private
Legal Form
Public Company Limited by shares
Business Sectors
E-commerce; Consultancy; Lifestyle; Promotion of Mobile and other electronic Gadgets; Event management (wedding); Online Art Gallery; Health and Food; Real Estate; Information Technology;
Individual Owner
Public
24.38% of the company is owned by other entities and Individuals with less than 1% share each.
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Other TV Outlets
NDTV Prime (Missing Data)
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NDTV Good times (Missing Data)
NDTV HOP (Missing Data)
Other Online Outlets
https://www.ndtv.com/ (Missing Data)
https://www.youtube.com/user/ndtv (Missing Data)
https://www.ndtv.com/video/list/channel/ndtv-24x7 (Missing Data)
https://www.ndtv.com/topic/ndtv-24x7 (Missing Data)
https://khabar.ndtv.com/videos/live/channel/ndtvindia (Missing Data)
Media Business
Television and Broadcasting
NDTV Limited (100%)
Business
Apparel
IndianRoots Shopping Limited (Formerly NDTV Ethnic Retail Limited) (48.6%)
Consultancy, IT Services
NDTV worldwide Limited (92%)
Car and Bikes
Fifth Gear Ventures Limited through various subsidiaries (100%)
Mobile and other Electronic Gadgets
Red Pixels Ventures Limited (92.61%)
Gadgets 360
Art
OnArt Quest Limited (71.92%)
Events
Special Occasions Limited (95%)
Software publishing & consultancy
Delta softpro Private Limited (100%)
NDTV Labs Limited
Health and Food
SmartCooky Internet Limited (95.7%)
Real Estate
BrickbuyBrick Projects Limited through various subsidiaries (100%)
Other business activities
On Demand Transportation Limited
Redster Digital Limited
Broadcasting
Astro Awani Network Sdn Bhd, (Malaysia) (20% owned by NDTV and its Subsidiaries)
General Information
Founding Year
1988
Affiliated Interests Founder
is the Co-founder of NDTV 24x7, the first 24-hours English news channel of India. He is an Indian journalist and quite a prominent media personality. Prior to founding his own TV channel, he worked for the Government of India as an Economic Advisor with the Ministry of Finance.
is the co-founder of NDTV 24x7 and the wife of Dr. Prannoy Roy. Radhika is an Indian journalist and worked with Indian Express and India Today before launching NDTV. Her sister Mrs. Brinda Karat is a politician with the Communist Party of India – Marxist (CPI-M), elected to the Rajya Sabha on 11 April 2005 for West Bengal. Karat’s husband is also a prominent leader of CPI(M). Radhika Roy is also the Director of NDTV India Plus Limited, NDTV Hindu Media Limited, New Delhi Television Media Limited, NDTV Business Limited, NDTV Delhi Limited, NDTV Studios Limited, NDTV Labs Limited, NDTV Investments Private Limited, RRPR holding private limited, New Delhi Television Limited and holds majority of the shares.
Employees
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Contact
207, Okhla Industrial Estate, Phase-III
New Delhi-110020
Phone+91 11 - 4157 7777, 2644 6666
Fax+91 11 - 49862990
E-mail: corporate@ndtv.com
Web: www.ndtv.com
Editorial Headquarters:
NDTV, Archana Complex, Block B,
Greater Kailash 1,
New Delhi 110048
Tax/ ID Number
CIN: L92111DL1988PLC033099
Financial Information
Revenue (Financial Data/ Optional)
INR 4397.06 Million / USD 67.419 Million
Operating Profit (in Mill. $)
INR. - 843.60 Million/ USD -12.935
Advertising (in % of total funding)
INR. 2,015.78 Million/ USD 30.907 Million / 45.8%
Management
Executive Board
Co-Executive Chairperson
Co-Executive Chairperson
Non-Executive Board
Non-executive Independent Director
Non-executive Independent Director
Non-executive Independent Director
Non-executive Independent Director
Other Influential People
CEO, NDTV Group
is the CEO of New Delhi Television Limited, the company that owns and operates NDTV 24x7, an English news channel. She holds Master’s degree in Television, Radio and Film from Syracuse University. She has been with NDTV since 1994 during which time she served the company as the Head of Convergence at NDTV Convergence Ltd., Director of Strategy at NDTV Group, as Managing Editor of ndtv.com and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of NDTV Convergence Limited until January 13, 2016. She was appointed as the NDTV Group CEO on 4 December 2017 after the demise of Mr. K.V.L. Narayan Rao, who was the Executive Vice-Chairperson and Group CEO. She holds 0.08% share in NDTV Limited
Further Information
Meta Data
Since NDTV is a listed company, most information about the company was available on their Annual Report. However, financial information is available for the holding company but not for individual channels. The company was contacted, via email on 2nd January 2019 and by courier on 1st February 2019, asking for clarification of the data collected, and confirmation of the same. There has been no response from the Company. The foreign exchange rate is based on March 2019.
