20 years of creadibility

“Creadibility has many faces…” is what NDTV use the tagline for its channel. And I think yes credibility has many faces and one of its faces is NDTV. This is what I feel at the 20th anniversary of NDTV (New Delhi TeleVision) which was founded in 1988 and is India’s largest private television production house.
For last 20 years, it have felt the news and presented the news in the manner in which it should be। Be it Babri demolition or Kargil war, Godhra riot or Aarushi murder case, it has always tried to show the truth, without being biased.

NDTV is the outcome of Radhika Roy’s dream which she fulfilled with the support of Pranoy Roy. NDTV started in 1988 as a television production house with two journalists--Radhika's former colleagues--three producers and a finance person. "It was a lean, mean, Indian team," laughs Prannoy. They began lobbying for a slot on the state broadcaster, Doordarshan, and their persistence paid off. NDTV debuted with The World This Week, an international news program.
Afterwards NDTV's coverage of Tiananmen Square and the fall of the Berlin Wall was pathbreaking in Indian television reporting and gave it brand recognition. And later on they inked a five year contract with Star news channel. It was proved as the biggest moment for NDTV.

But at the end of contract, Star wants to renew it but don’t want to give Pranoy the full control on editorial। So Pranoy with his team walked off।

In April 2003, Indian media takes a new birth with NDTV 24x7 and NDTV India going on the air. Now it is having its own 24 hrs news channel in both the major language i.e. English and hindi.

NDTV’s team is supposed to be the best, that’s why the experience such perfection in their work. Besides Pranoy, Barkha Dutt, Vinod Dua, Vikram Chandra, Nagma Saraf, Vishnu Som are among the top media person backs the NDTV. Rajdeep Sardesai and Karan Thapar wre also among the NDTV’s editorial strength till some time ago.
For me, NDTV is not merely a news channel whose work is to give the news but it is the name upon every Indian can bank upon. It is simply a name that spells credibility. For any nautanki or tamasha like stuff you can have many options but when there is question of Khabar, I only believe NDTV. Hat’s off to NDTV.

Trivia

• NDTV is the only Indian channel which broadcasts in Pakistan.
• The red dot in NDTV logo, suggested by Radhika Roy, depicts a Bindi.
• It is India's oldest private production house which has produced a news program.
  
• The signature tune of NDTV 24x7 has been composed by David Lowe and the tune for NDTV India has been composed by A.R. Rahman.