NDTV Arabia was a premier English language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 news channel that is owned by New Delhi Television Ltd

NDTV

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 currently has more than 1,000 employees producing news from over twenty locations in India...

. It is the largest private producer of news and current affairs programming 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...

. NDTV Arabia was the localized version of NDTV 24x7 which is widely considered the best 24-hour English news channel in India. It won the Asian Television Award

Asian Television Awards

The Asian Television Awards is an appreciation to recognize and reward programming and production excellence in the Asian television industry. Held every December, the Awards draws about 1,400 entries each year from a wide range of broadcasters, including free-to-air TV stations and pay-TV...

for Best News Channel in 2005. The channel has ceased operations since the middle of June 2009 due to financial crisis.

NDTV Arabia targets the Indian expatriates living in the Middle East and broadcasts most of the programs from its sister channel NDTV 24x7. However there are difference in the schedule.