The Indian Television Academy Awards, also known as the (ITA Awards) is an annual event organised by the Indian Television Academy. The awards are presented in various categories, including popular programming (music, news, entertainment, sports, travel, lifestyle and fashion), best television channel in various categories, technical awards, and best performance awards.

History

The 1st Indian Television Academy Awards were held in Mumbai on 30 November 2001 while the ITA was flagged off on 18 July 2001 and the 11th Awards took place on the 25th of Sep at YRF Studios..
The ITA was founded by Anu Ranjan -The President of The ITA and Shashi Ranjan-The Convenor of The ITA..
The ITA is the only TV Award in India which is cross all channels and has now completed its 11th year..They have been annually telecast in all GEC channels namely Star Plus..Zee..Sony TV..They are the highest rated awards on Indian Television..
The ITA launced The ITA School of Performing Arts in Mumbai and Del NCR-Noida in Oct 2011.. It is the only one of its kind in India to have all faculties under one roof-singing.dancing.singing.personality enhancement and modelling.. The ITA plans to open such schools all over the country in the coming years.,For information log on to www.itaspa.in
The ITA also has the only TV magazine in the country GR8! TV mag..which is now in it's 8th year.

Records

Record	Show	No. of Awards
Most Awards to A Single Serial	Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi was an Indian Soap Opera that aired on STAR Plus. This is ranked at top, number 1, on the list of STAR Plus top 10 shows of all time.This show was Asia's #1 most watched and awarded show...	22
Most Awards for Television Show of the year	Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi was an Indian Soap Opera that aired on STAR Plus. This is ranked at top, number 1, on the list of STAR Plus top 10 shows of all time.This show was Asia's #1 most watched and awarded show...	5
Most Awards for Television Actor of the year(Female)	Smriti Irani	6
Most Awards for Television Actor of the year(Male)	Ronit Roy Ronit Roy Ronit Roy is an Indian television and Bollywood actor, known for the roles of Dharamraj Mahiyavanshi, Rishabh Bajaj, Mihir Virani and Aparajit Deb. He is now in the serial Adaalat as KD Pathak. Roy has been referred to as the Amitabh Bachchan of small screen...	4

Jury system

Most of the awards are decided by a jury of eminent personalities from the Indian television industry. There are separate juries for different categories, with members drawn from the respective professional areas associated with each category.

Jury Programming Awards

• Best Serial
  Serial (radio and television)
  Serials are series of television programs and radio programs that rely on a continuing plot that unfolds in a sequential episode by episode fashion. Serials typically follow main story arcs that span entire television seasons or even the full run of the series, which distinguishes them from...
  
  
• Best Comedy
  Television comedy
  Television comedy had a presence from the earliest days of broadcasting. Among the earliest BBC television programmes in the 1930s was Starlight, which offered a series of guests from the music hall era — singers and comedians amongst them...
  
  
• Best Thriller / Horror Serial
• Best Historical / Mythological Serial
• Best Talk/Chat Show
• Best Game Show/Quiz Show
  Game show
  A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes...
  
  
• Best Reality Show
  Reality television
  Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...
  
  
• Best Music & Film-based Show
• Best News/Current Affairs Show
  Current affairs (news format)
  Current Affairs is a genre of broadcast journalism where the emphasis is on detailed analysis and discussion of news stories that have recently occurred or are ongoing at the time of broadcast....
  
  

• Best Children’s Programme
  Children's television series
  Children's television series, are commercial television programs designed for, and marketed to children, normally scheduled for broadcast during the morning and afternoon when children are awake. They can sometimes run in the early evening, for the children that go to school...
  
  
• Best Cookery show
• Best Interstitial/Filler
• Best Lifestyle Show
• Best Mini Series
• Best Television
• Best Travel-based Show
  Travel documentary
  A travel documentary is a documentary film or television program that describes travel in general or tourist attractions in a non-commercial way....
  
  
• Best TV documentary

• Best Actor, and Best Actress awards are given in Drama, Comedy, Negative Role and Supporting Role
  Supporting actor
  A supporting actor is an actor who performs roles in a play or film other than that of the leads.These roles range from bit parts to secondary leads. They are sometimes but not necessarily character roles. A supporting actor must also use restraint not to upstage the main actor/actress in the...
  
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• Best Anchor awards are given in Talk/Chat Show, Music/Films-based Show, News/Current Affairs Show and Game/Quiz Show categories.
• Best Child Artiste
  Child actor
  The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion, the latter is also called a former child actor...
  
  

Jury Technical Awards

• Best Title Music/Song Track
• Best Singer
• Best Art Direction
  Art director
  The art director is a person who supervise the creative process of a design.The term 'art director' is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games....
  
  
• Best Audiography
  Audiography
  Audiography in the context of filmmaking is a term commonly used in India to mean the audio engineering performed by the sound department of a film or TV production; this includes sound recording, editing, mixing and sound design but excludes musical composition, songwriting and choreography.An...
  
  
• Best Costumes
  Costume design
  Costume design is the fabrication of apparel for the overall appearance of a character or performer. This usually involves researching, designing and building the actual items from conception. Costumes may be for a theater or cinema performance but may not be limited to such...
  
  
• Best Dialogue
  Dialogue
  Dialogue is a literary and theatrical form consisting of a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people....
  
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• Best Editing
  Film editing
  Film editing is part of the creative post-production process of filmmaking. It involves the selection and combining of shots into sequences, and ultimately creating a finished motion picture. It is an art of storytelling...
  
  
• Best Lyricist
  Lyricist
  A lyricist is a songwriter who specializes in lyrics. A singer who writes the lyrics to songs is a singer-lyricist. This differentiates from a singer-composer, who composes the song's melody.-Collaboration:...
  
  
• Best Teleplay
  Teleplay
  A teleplay is a television play, a comedy or drama written or adapted for television. The term surfaced during the 1950s with wide usage to distinguish a television plays from stage plays for the theater and screenplays written for films...
  
  
• Best Videography
  Videography
  Videography refers to the process of capturing moving images on electronic media even streaming media). The term includes methods of video production and post-production...
  
  
• Best Visual Effects
  Visual effects
  Visual effects are the various processes by which imagery is created and/or manipulated outside the context of a live action shoot. Visual effects involve the integration of live-action footage and generated imagery to create environments which look realistic, but would be dangerous, costly, or...
  
  

Popular Awards

These awards are presented following a public vote:

• Best Serial - Drama
• Best Actor - Drama
• Best Actress - Drama
• Best Serial - Comedy
• GR8! Face of the Year - Male
• GR8! Face of the Year - Female

• Best Entertainment Channel
• Best Hindi News Channel
• Best English News Channel
• Best Fashion & Lifestyle Channel
• Best Business News Channel

Special Awards

• The ITA Special Achiever
• The ITA Special Mention ‘2010’
• The GR8! Laurel for Ensemble Acting
  Ensemble cast
  An ensemble cast is made up of cast members in which the principal actors and performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance and screen time in a dramatic production. This kind of casting became more popular in television series because it allows flexibility for writers to focus on...
  
  
• The ITA Scroll of Honour(Entertainment)
• The ITA Scroll of Honour(News & Current Affairs)