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TV18 Broadcast
Formerly	Global Broadcast News; IBN18 Broadcast Limited;
Company type	Public
Traded as	BSE: 532800; NSE: TV18BRDCST
Industry	Television
Founded	6 June 2005; 19 years ago
Founder	Ritu Kapur ; Raghav Bahl
Defunct	3 October 2024; 2 months ago
Successor	Network18 Group
Headquarters	Mumbai, India
Owner	Reliance Industries (56.89%)
Divisions	Viacom18 (84.03%)
Website	nw18.com

TV18 Broadcast Limited (formerly Global Broadcast News and IBN18 Broadcast Limited)^[1] was an Indian television company based in Mumbai and owned by Network18 Group. TV18 owned and operates various national channels in separate partnerships with NBCUniversal (CNBC TV18, CNBC Awaaz and CNBC-TV18 Prime HD) and Warner Bros. Discovery (CNN-News18). In October 2024, it merged with its parent company Network18 Group.^[2]

In the regional space, the group operated a Gujarati business news channel – CNBC Bajar, a Marathi general news channel – News18 Lokmat and operated ten regional news channels under the News18 umbrella and 3 regional entertainment channels under the News18 brand. The group also operated a 24-hour Indian news channel in English – News18 India, targeting global audiences.

TV18 and Viacom18 had formed a strategic joint venture called IndiaCast, a multi-platform 'content asset monetisation' entity that drove domestic and international channel distribution, placement services and content syndication for the bouquet of channels from the group and third parties.

On 31 January 2018, TV18 increased its stake in the Viacom18 joint venture to 51% taking operational control.^[3]

Owned Channels

Channel	Launched	Language	Category	SD/HD availability	Notes
News18 India	2005	Hindi	News	SD	Previously Known as IBN7, founded as Channel 7
CNBC Awaaz	2005
News18 Rajasthan	2000				Previously known as ETV Rajasthan
News18 Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand	2002				Previously known as ETV Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand
News18 Madhya Pradesh Chhattisgarh					Previously known as ETV Madhya Pradesh/Chhattisgarh
News18 Bihar Jharkhand					Previously known as ETV Bihar/Jharkhand
News18 Punjab	2014	Hindi, Punjabi			Previously known as ETV Haryana/Himachal Pradesh
CNN News18	2005	English			Previously known as CNN-IBN
CNBC TV18	1999	English		SD+HD
News18 Assam North East	2016	Assamese		SD
News18 Bangla	2014	Bengali			Previously known as ETV News Bangla
News18 Gujarati	2014	Gujarati			Previously known as ETV News Gujarati
News18 Lokmat	2008	Marathi
News18 Odia	2015	Odia			Previously known as ETV News Odia
News18 Urdu	2001	Urdu			Previously known as ETV Urdu
News18 Kannada	2014	Kannada			Previously known as ETV News Kannada
News18 Kerala	2015	Malayalam
News18 Tamil Nadu	2015	Tamil
News18 Jammu Kashmir Ladakh Himachal Haryana	2022	Kashmiri, Ladakhi

References

^ Bansal, Shuchi (29 June 2015). "CNN, IBN unlikely to renew deal on branding; Zee could step in". Livemint. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
^ Teresa Britto, Tandon, Ashna, Kashish (6 December 2023). "India's TV18 Broadcast to merge with Network18 in $1.2 bln deal". Reuters. Retrieved 13 July 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ "TV18 to increase stake to 51% in Viacom18, the JV with Viacom Inc". Viacom 18. 31 January 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2018.

[1] Bansal, Shuchi (29 June 2015). "CNN, IBN unlikely to renew deal on branding; Zee could step in". Livemint. Retrieved 15 January 2021.

[2] Teresa Britto, Tandon, Ashna, Kashish (6 December 2023). "India's TV18 Broadcast to merge with Network18 in $1.2 bln deal". Reuters. Retrieved 13 July 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[3] "TV18 to increase stake to 51% in Viacom18, the JV with Viacom Inc". Viacom 18. 31 January 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2018.

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