NDTV News
About The NDTV Channel
New Delhi Television Ltd. (NDTV Ltd.), founded in 1988, is India’s first and largest private producer of news, current affairs and entertainment television. NDTV is home to the country’s best and brightest reporters, anchors and producers; 23 offices and studios across the country host India’s most modern and sophisticated production and newsgathering facilities.
As an organization, NDTV is totally committed to one cause: to use its extensive expertise, experience, technology and reach to create unparalleled coverage of the latest in domestic and international news and entertainment for viewers at home and around the world.
On April 14th, 2003, NDTV simultaneously launched two 24-hour news channels, NDTV 24×7 in English, and NDTV India in Hindi, which targets the Indian diaspora across the world.
On January 17th, 2005, NDTV launched NDTV Profit - a 24 hour business plus channel.
About The Programs of Star News
Pehli Khabar
Time : 5:00 am to 8:00 am, Daily
Hosted by Charul Malik and Veathika Jain
STAR News brings you news from across the world as early as 5:00 am on Pehli Khabar. So wake up connected and get the first glimpse of all those events that occured while you were asleep.
Star Report
Time : 9:00 pm, Mon-Fri
Hosted by Siddharth Sharma
This slickly produced zippy primetime news bulletin looks at the day’s news afresh from India and abroad. Fashioned along the lines of America’s most successful news format on prime time, its unique, fast-paced presentation style brings news in a stunning, internation- ally acclaimed format like never seen before on Indian screens.
Khaas Baat
Time : 9:30 pm, Mon-Fri 9:30 am (R), Tue-Sat
Khaas Baat showcases an incisive, in-depth look at a single important topic of the nation. The show reports on the particular issue from all the angles and gauges the possible impact on the lives of the people of this country. The show features key opinion leaders and experts from the relevant field.
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Indian Idol 2005
Show Time: Mon - Tue, 8.30pm
About the Show
Indian Idol – A show so entertaining you’ll forget everything else. When ‘Idols’, the hugely popular worldwide phenomenon, was brought to India last year as ‘Indian Idol’, Sony Entertainment Television promised the nation that it would forget everything else and it surely did! In a span of merely nine months, ‘Indian Idol’ took millions of Indians to towering heights of sheer frenzy, propelling them to live their dreams and becoming ‘water cooler conversation’ across the nation. ‘Indian Idol’ experienced viewer engagement as never before, truly cutting across all boundaries of caste, creed, social status and geographies to witness people from every walk of life turn up in full strength, not only to participate and make their dreams come true but also religiously vote to choose their ‘Indian Idol’. In keeping with its philosophy of offering innovative and distinct content, Sony Entertainment Television, is now all set to launch the second series of its groundbreaking phenomenon, ‘Indian Idol’.
Watch Indian Idol, Every Monday & Tuesday at 8.30pm on Sony Entertainment Television.
Lets get set to choose our Idol…Agla Kaun?
And, how does one become an ‘Indian Idol’? It’s simple…
1. This September, young aspirants across India can register themselves by dialing 646 from their Airtel phone or register via their landlines. The ‘Indian Idol’ crew will travel to 13 cities including Jaipur, Ajmer, Jodhpur, Baroda, Ahmedabad, Indore, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Karnal, Mumbai, Delhi, Lucknow and Kolkata, inviting registrations and those eligible will receive registration numbers for the auditions.
2. In October 2005, auditions will be held in Mumbai, Delhi, Lucknow and Kolkata where the show producers will first shortlist contestants. These contestants will then be auditioned by the panel of judges who will undertake the challenging task of choosing 150 ‘ Indian Idol’ aspirants from the thousands who may have registered.
3. In November 2005, the judges will further trim them down to 28 contestants. Hereon, the nation aids the process by voting for the 12 finalists. The entire nation will follow the journey of these 12 finalists and finally vote and choose their second ‘Indian Idol’.
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