Asianet Communications Limited (ACL) is an 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...

n media conglomerate jointly owned by STAR TV

STAR TV

Satellite Television Asia Region is an Asian TV service owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. It is headquartered in Hong Kong, with regional offices in mainland China, Taiwan....

 and Jupiter Entertainment

Jupiter Entertainment

Jupiter Entertainment is a TV production company in the U.S., actively engaged in creating and producing television programming for American cable networks. Established in 1996 by Stephen Land, Jupiter Entertainment provides programming to a variety of networks including Discovery, History, A&E,...

. Formed in 1991 and headquartered in the city of Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram , formerly known as Trivandrum, is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala and the headquarters of the Thiruvananthapuram District. It is located on the west coast of India near the extreme south of the mainland...

 in the south Indian state of Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

, the company owns several television channels including Asianet

Asianet

Asianet Communications Limited is an Indian media conglomerate jointly owned by STAR TV and Jupiter Entertainment. Formed in 1991 and headquartered in the city of Thiruvananthapuram in the south Indian state of Kerala, the company owns several television channels including Asianet, the first...

, the first privately owned satellite channel broadcasting in the south Indian language of Malayalam.

The current joint venture company was formed in 2008, when the News Corporation

News Corporation

News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...

-owned STAR TV

STAR TV

Satellite Television Asia Region is an Asian TV service owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. It is headquartered in Hong Kong, with regional offices in mainland China, Taiwan....

 became a majority shareholder in ACL.