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NDTV 24x7
NDTV 24x7
Launched	2003
Owned by	NDTV Ltd.
Picture format	4:3 (576i, SDTV)
Slogan	"Fight for Change. You've Got a Friend."
Country	India
Language	English
Broadcast area	India
Headquarters	New Delhi, India
Sister channel(s)	NDTV India NDTV Profit NDTV Hindu
Website	NDTV.com
Availability
Satellite
Vision Asia (Australia)	Channel ???
Airtel digital TV (India)	Channel 301
Dish TV (India)	Channel 603
Tata Sky (India)	Channel 532
Sky (UK & Ireland)	Channel 511
Dish Network (USA)	Channel 579
Cable
Virgin Media (UK)	Channel 621

NDTV 24x7 is an Indian English language television network that carries news and current affairs in India, it is owned by New Delhi Television Ltd. NDTV 24x7 won the Asian Television Award for Best News Programme in 2005.

NDTV 24x7 is home to a team of award winning journalists who spearhead the news campaign, including Dr. Prannoy Roy, Vikram A Chandra and Barkha Dutt.

NDTV 24x7 is also available outside of India, broadcasting in the UK on the Sky and Virgin Media^[1] platforms, in the USA on the Dish Network platform, in Canada available via a partnership with Asian Television Network, in Australia on the Vision Asia platform, and in Singapore on the mio TV platform.

The channel is noted for its coverage of the Kashmir conflict, Naxalite-Maoist insurgency and rural poverty in India.

Programming[link]

The news channel also has many other extra-news programmes like The Big Fight and We the People, which are highly popular. The channel continues to produce original content such as documentaries and special reports. The channel airs one of India's most successful opinion-based shows: We the People with Barkha Dutt. The show has received critical acclaim and has won several key awards. Another very popular show is hosted on NDTV 24x7 called The Big Fight hosted by Vikram Chandra (the show was earlier hosted by Rajdeep Sardesai, who quit NDTV in 2005 to start CNN-IBN). The Car & Bike Show with Siddharth Vinayak Patankar is also a very avidly watched and followed programme. Gadget Guru, on the other hand, is one of the first and most popular gadget shows on Indian Television hosted by Rajiv Makhni and[sometimes with] Vikram Chandra.

In October 2007, the channel started a new series - Documentary 24x7 that features path-breaking documentaries that explore contemporary issues.

Criticism[link]

Many critics and politicians^[who?] have accused the channel of having a bias towards the political left at the expense of neutrality.

Awards[link]

• Best English News Channel of Asia in 2005 at the Asian Television Awards.
• Best English News Channel in 2005 at the Indian Television Academy Awards ^[2]
• Best English News Channel in 2006 at the Indian Television Academy Awards ^[2]

See also[link]

• NDTV India
• NDTV Profit
• ATN NDTV 24x7

Competitors[link]

• CNN-IBN
• Times Now
• Headlines Today
• ET Now
• CNBC-TV18
• Zee Business
• CNBC Awaaz
• Bloomberg UTV
• NDTV Profit
• NewsX

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website (Mobile)
• A slew of special documentaries only on NDTV 24x7
• NDTV 24x7 on Twitter
• NDTV 24x7 on Facebook

NDTV

Type	Public company
Traded as	(BSE: 532529‎, NSE: NDTV)
Industry	Media
Founded	1988
Founder(s)	Prannoy Roy
Headquarters	New Delhi, India
Area served	India
Key people	Prannoy Roy (Co-Chairperson) Radhika Roy (Co-Chairperson) Vikramaditya Chandra (CEO)
Products	Broadcasting, radio
Revenue	449 crore (US$89.58 million) (2011)[1]
Employees	1,491 (2011)
Website	www.ndtv.com

New Delhi Television Limited (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 is an acronym for the original name of the company, New Delhi Television.^[2]

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 (English), 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[link]

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[link]

• ATN NDTV 24x7
• NDTV Worldwide

Notable personalities[link]

• Vikram A Chandra, Group CEO^[3]
• Barkha Dutt^[4]
• Pankaj Pachauri (former senior editor of NDTV India, left NDTV to join PMO as Media Advisor)^[5]
• Nidhi Kulpati
• Nidhi Razdan
• Sachin Khanna
• Vinod Dua
• Appan Menon
• Vishnu Som
• Ambika Anand
• Mr. Ravish Kumar
• Siddharth Vinayak Patankar
• Kamal Khan
• Rajiv Makhni

Philanthropy and social initiatives[link]

NDTV organises 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 supported 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 resulting in donations of more than 13 crore Rupees. It is also sponsored by automaker Toyota.
• Save Our Tiger Campaign: This campaign was launched on January 30, 2010 by Indian telecom company Aircel in partnership with NDTV and WWF-India. The goal was to create awareness among Indians about the rapidly decreasing tiger population in India. The first year of the NDTV campaign culminated in a 12-hour telethon. During the telethon, people appealed to political leaders and the masses to do whatever they could to help safeguard the Indian tiger. As a result of the campaign, several prominent political leaders came on air and pledged to protect the forests of their respective states.^[6][7] During the telethon 19.9 million rupees were raised through donations. The funds collected were donated to "Rapid Response Units (RRU)" to equip and train forest departments to respond during emergency situations like man-animal conflict, anti-poaching patrolling, fire-fighting among others.^[8]
• Support My School Campaign: On January 24, 2011 NDTV in partnership with Coca-Cola India, CAF and UN-Habitat launched the "Support My School" campaign. ^[9] The motive of this telethon was to create awareness on water and sanitation, environment and healthy active living. Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar was the brand ambassador of this campaign.^[10] On 18 September 2011 an event was organized to support education in rural India. It was supported by Sachin Tendulkar and Bollywood Actor Sanjay Dutt. The event generated more than 7.2 crore Rupees to fund the needs of more than 140 schools.^[11]
• Fit India Movement: On March 16, 2011 NDTV and Nirmal Lifestyle launched a long-term campaign: Fit India Movement. The purpose of this movement is to change the way Indians think about their fitness and make India a healthy nation. The "Mission-1" of this movement was "Marks for Sports".^[12]
• Marks for Sports: This initiative was launched on March 16, 2011 under the "Fit India Movement" of NDTV and Nirmal Lifestyle. The goal of is to push for inclusion of sports in the school curriculum, hoping that this will make parents encourage their children to take up sports. Actor Ranbir Kapoor, Dr. Prannoy Roy, chairman, NDTV and Dharmesh Jain, chairman and managing director of Nirmal Lifestyle launched this initiative in New Delhi.^[12]
• Save India's Coasts: This campaign was an initiative of NDTV and Toyota Etios. NDTV's crew traveled the entire coast of India, starting in western Gujarat and ending in West Bengal in six weeks, reporting on the issues facing the coast along the way.^[13]

Controversies[link]

Allegation of corruption and criminal conspiracy[link]

On 20 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.^{[14][15][16][17][18][19]}

Radia tapes controversy[link]

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.^[20] 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.^[21] 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[link]

NDTV, through its foreign subsidiaries, is alleged to have violated Indian tax and corporate laws.^[22] 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".

Commonwealth Games Contract[link]

On August 5, 2011 Comptroller and Auditor General of India's report on XIX Commonwealth Games was tabled in Parliament of India. In section 14.4.2 of the report, CAG alleged that while awarding contracts worth Rs 3.78 crore for production & broadcasting of commercials for promoting CWG-2010 to NDTV & CNN-IBN, the Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee followed an arbitrary approach. Proposals were considered in an ad hoc manner, as and when a proposal was received; no form of competitive tendering was adopted. The CAG further said in its report that, "We had no assurance about the competitiveness of the rates quoted by these channels and the need and usefulness of these proposals. From March 2010 to June 2010, the entire pre games publicity and sponsorship publicity was done only on NDTV & CNN-IBN." ^[23][24][25]

References[link]

External links[link]

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

Salman Khan
Salman Khan walking the ramp for Sanjana John
Born	Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan (1965-12-27) 27 December 1965 (age 46) Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
Residence	Bandra, Mumbai
Other names	Sallu
Occupation	Film actor, television presenter and philanthropist
Years active	1988–present
Parents	Salim Khan Salma Khan
Relatives	Arbaaz Khan (brother) Sohail Khan (brother) Helen Richardson (step-mother)

Salman Khan (pronunciation : [səlˈmaːn ˈxaːn]; born Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan on 27 December 1965)^[1] is an Indian film actor. He has starred in more than 80 Hindi films.