CNBC-TV18
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CNBC-TV18 is a business news channel
Business channels
Business channels are TV channels that concentrate on business news.-List of channels:*Bloomberg Television .*Business News Network ....

 broadcast in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 based in Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

. The channel was launched in India on December 7, 1999. It was the first business news channel launched in India and still the leads that genre.
The channel has been an integral part of the Indian economic story, spearheading and mirroring India's enterprising times.

The channel's benchmark coverage extends from corporate news, financial markets coverage, expert perspective on investing and management to industry verticals and beyond. CNBC-TV18 has been constantly innovating with new genres of programming that helps make business more relevant to different constituencies across India. India’s most able business audience consumes CNBC-TV18 for their information & investing needs. This audience is highly diversified at one level comprising of key groups such as business leaders, professionals, retail investors, brokers and traders, intermediaries, self employed professionals, High Net Worth individuals, students and even homemakers but shares a distinct commonality in terms of their spirit of enterprise.CNBC-TV18 is available in over 35 million households in India.

Current on-air staff

Name Title
Raghav Bahl
Raghav bahl
Raghav Bahl is an Indian businessman best known for his ownership of several television channels, including TV18 India. Currently he is staying in Sector-30, NOIDA.He received schooling from St...

 
Managing Director, Network18
Senthil Chengalvarayan  Group Editorial President, TV18 Business Media
Udayan Mukherjee
Udayan Mukherjee
Udayan Mukherjee is Indian and editor with CNBC India.Udayan is an economist by training having obtained his B.A in Economics from Presidency College, Kolkata and an MA in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi....

 
Managing Editor
Shereen Bhan
Shereen Bhan
Shereen Bhan is an Indian journalist and news anchor. She is the Delhi Bureau Chief and Executive Editor of CNBC-TV18.Shereen Bhan belongs to a Kashmiri Pandit family and is the daughter of a fighter pilot Air Marshal SK Bhan of the Indian Air Force. She did her schooling at Kendriya Vidyalaya in...

 
Executive Editor
Anuradha Sengupta  Features Editor
Maneka Doshi  Corporate Editor
Latha Venkatesh  Banking Editor
Mitali Mukherjee  News Editor
Anuj Singhal  Research Editor

CNBC-TV18's Key Milestones

  • CNBC-TV18 was the First 24 hr business news channel in the country – Launched in 1999 as CNBC India and was later re-christened CNBC-TV18
  • CNBC-TV18 has maintained a dominant position in market share, despite the emergence of competition in recent years. The channel has consistently delivered more than 50% market share
  • The channel has won Best Business News Channel awards at all major recognized industry events, apart from numerous other accolades across national & international platforms. These include the acclaimed Indian Telly Awards, Indian Television Academy & News Television Awards
  • The Indian marketing & media decision makers have rated CNBC-TV18 India’s No.1 TV Brand in a market that has over 400 TV brands competing for eyeballs (Pitch Brandometer Survey 2009)
  • CNBC-TV18 runs India's largest platform for recognizing & rewarding accomplishments of Indian SME's - The Emerging India Awards. The Awards are listed in the Limca book of records as they received the highest number of entries for any business awards in the country till date.
  • CNBC-TV18 runs India’s most respected and sought after awards for recognizing business & entrepreneurial achievement, the CNBC-TV18 India Business Leader Awards (IBLA). The IBLA re-inforces the prestige of CNBC Asia’s “Asia Business Leader Awards” (ABLA) in the country.
  • CNBC-TV18 was the first channel to deliver beam live INTERNATIONAL business news programming into the country and show live opening of global exchanges, across the world
  • CNBC-TV18’s Storyboard is the longest-running show focused on Advertising and Marketing
  • CNBC-TV18 was the 1st channel to have a dedicated show on corporate law in India, The Firm
  • CNBC-TV18’s Young Turks is one of India’s first dedicated & longest-running shows focusing on young entrepreneurs


CNBC-TV18 taglines

  • "Profit From It" (2000—2008)
  • "The World Leader in Business News" (2004—2008)
  • "First in Business Worldwide" (2008—present)

Publishing

CNBC-TV18 also publishes business and investing books and DVDs through Network18's division BestSellers18. The collection of books and DVDs range a broad spectrum of topics right from economics, stock markets, finance, entrepreneurship, management, business empowerment and philosophy.

2008-01-07 revamp

Started 7 January 2008, CNBC-TV18 had patterned its graphics, some parts of the lower-thirds, title cards to the main network (CNBC
CNBC
CNBC is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers...

) in the United States and unlike the regional channel
CNBC Asia
CNBC Asia is a business news television channel in Asia. A subsidiary of NBC Universal, it is the Asian service of the Consumer News and Business Channel . Its programmes originate from Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney and has bureaus in Tokyo and Seoul....

, its graphics are in 3d
3D computer graphics
3D computer graphics are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering 2D images...

. Although it has retained the old ticker (similar to the CNBC US 2002 graphics) and stock bar (similar to the CNBC US 2003 graphics), which is above the channel DOG, it has moved it to the top of the screen during CNBC Asia, NBC and CNBC US programmes.

2010-03-29 revamp

Started March 29, 2010, CNBC-TV18 made another revamp, to make some of its lower-thirds look like CNBC US.

Competitors

  • ET Now
    ET Now
    ET NOW is a business news channel in India, owned and operated by the Times Group. The news channel has a strategic partnership with Reuters, a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters....

  • NDTV Profit
    NDTV Profit
    NDTV Profit is a business news channel started by New Delhi Television in January 2005. Started to provide competition to the monopoly enjoyed by CNBC-TV18, the channel has managed to garner a decent market share....

  • Zee Business
    Zee Business
    Zee Business is one of the fastest growing Hindi business news channel in India based in Mumbai. The channel has redefined business news, by its innovative programming and path-breaking strategy of making business news a 24/7 activity and not just limited to the stock market...

  • CNBC Awaaz
    CNBC Awaaz
    CNBC Awaaz is a business news TV channel in India. The channel is a joint venture between CNBC and Television Eighteen IndiaLimited based in Mumbai.- Competitors :* ET Now* NDTV Profit* Zee Business* NDTV 24x7* Times Now* Headlines Today...

  • CNN-IBN
  • Bloomberg UTV
  • NDTV 24x7
    NDTV 24x7
    NDTV 24x7 is a premier 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....

  • Times Now
    Times Now
    Times Now is a 24-hour English language news channel based in Mumbai and broadcast primarily in the South Asian region. The channel was launched in 2006 as a joint-venture of Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., the publishers of The Times of India and Reuters. Arnab Goswami is the Editor-in Chief and...

  • Headlines Today
    Headlines Today
    Headlines Today is a popular 24-hour English language television network that carries news, current affairs and business programming in India, the channel is sponsored by TV Today Network Ltd. which is a part of the well-known India Today Group...

  • NewsX
    NewsX
    NewsX is a 24-hour rolling news television channel in India, which was recently rated India's most watched English news channel by TAM.-History:The channel was launched on the 28 March 2008 by the INX Network, which was then headed by Indrani Mukerjea....


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