NDTV MetroNation
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NDTV
launched MetroNation at the end of September 2007 and is India
's first English city channel. It gives Delhi
and the National Capital Region
a high-end 24-hour channel that covers breaking news, national-international and city specific and also gives user-friendly information on where to shop, what to eat, and how to work out.
NDTV MetroNation pioneers yet another broadcasting benchmark. With its USP of 'Starring Delhi, Every Second, Every Day', the channel will be interactive with the MetroNation Bus & the MetroNation Taxi-'MetroNation Di Gaddi' to enable citywide coverage.
The channel offers four broader genres of programming- News and Current Affairs, Lifestyle, Entertainment and Youth with a team of reporters, anchors and production team covering Delhi. The language of the channel is predominantly English.
Daily programming includes: "Let's Go, Delhi", A three hours news bulletins in the morning and two and a half hour of bulletin in evenings, sprinkled with traffic reports on routes to avoid during rush hour; shows on Delhi's school and colleges like We Speak LIke This and U Special Uspecial
and programs on parenting (Bringing up Baby) and food (Feeding Frenzy, The Great Aunty Cookoff)
Also a half hour of entertainment is provided by Mouse Potato, which compiles videos from the internet.
For the first time, a channel will operate not out of a studio but out on a bus - "The MetroNation Bus." The customized all-glass MetroNation Bus will move across Delhi, as the anchors will bring in the latest news from different locations with guests hopping on for some brainstorming sessions.
A fleet of "MetroNation Taxis" will move around the city to interact with people to gather their thoughts, opinions and confessions to be broadcast live on the channel. The channel will provide live feeds of traffic reports.
Designed as a highly interactive channel, NDTV MetroNation will partner the top schools of Delhi for the weekly show titled 'I Spy with My Digital Eye'. The show will feature students from different schools with NDTV cameras reporting stories for NDTV.
The channel will offer four broader genres of programming- News and Current Affairs, Lifestyle, Entertainment and Youth with a team of reporters and anchors covering Delhi.
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...
launched MetroNation at the end of September 2007 and is 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...
's first English city channel. It gives Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
and the National Capital Region
National Capital Region (India)
The National Capital Region in India is a name for the conurbation or metropolitan area which encompasses the entire National Capital Territory of Delhi as well as urban areas ringing it in neighbouring states of Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan...
a high-end 24-hour channel that covers breaking news, national-international and city specific and also gives user-friendly information on where to shop, what to eat, and how to work out.
NDTV MetroNation pioneers yet another broadcasting benchmark. With its USP of 'Starring Delhi, Every Second, Every Day', the channel will be interactive with the MetroNation Bus & the MetroNation Taxi-'MetroNation Di Gaddi' to enable citywide coverage.
The channel offers four broader genres of programming- News and Current Affairs, Lifestyle, Entertainment and Youth with a team of reporters, anchors and production team covering Delhi. The language of the channel is predominantly English.
Daily programming includes: "Let's Go, Delhi", A three hours news bulletins in the morning and two and a half hour of bulletin in evenings, sprinkled with traffic reports on routes to avoid during rush hour; shows on Delhi's school and colleges like We Speak LIke This and U Special Uspecial
Uspecial
U-special is a half hour television talk show that first aired on Indian television in 2007 in New Delhi. It was created by New Delhi Television...
and programs on parenting (Bringing up Baby) and food (Feeding Frenzy, The Great Aunty Cookoff)
Also a half hour of entertainment is provided by Mouse Potato, which compiles videos from the internet.
For the first time, a channel will operate not out of a studio but out on a bus - "The MetroNation Bus." The customized all-glass MetroNation Bus will move across Delhi, as the anchors will bring in the latest news from different locations with guests hopping on for some brainstorming sessions.
A fleet of "MetroNation Taxis" will move around the city to interact with people to gather their thoughts, opinions and confessions to be broadcast live on the channel. The channel will provide live feeds of traffic reports.
Designed as a highly interactive channel, NDTV MetroNation will partner the top schools of Delhi for the weekly show titled 'I Spy with My Digital Eye'. The show will feature students from different schools with NDTV cameras reporting stories for NDTV.
The channel will offer four broader genres of programming- News and Current Affairs, Lifestyle, Entertainment and Youth with a team of reporters and anchors covering Delhi.