STAR News is the Hindi

Hindi

Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...

 language news channel of STAR TV

STAR (India)

Satellite Television Asian Region is an Asian TV service owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. It is headquartered in Mumbai, with regional offices in cities Delhi and Chennai....

 based in Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

. The channel is a co-production of STAR Group (subsidiary of 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...

) and ABP Pvt. Ltd. It presents a mix of rolling entertainment bulletins and specialized shows covering topics from crime to Cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

.

History

STAR News launched on November 15, 1991, it was at first a Bilingual English

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...

/Hindi News Service, and was initially run in partnership with NDTV

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...

. But when the agreement, with the NDTV expired, STAR News was transformed into an English-Hindi entertainment service. The Channel is sometimes accused of being partial towards Party Indian National Congress .

Other STAR News Channels

• STAR Ananda
  STAR Ananda
  STAR Ananda is a Bengali language 24-hour cable and satellite television news channel. The channel is a joint venture between STAR Group and Anandabazar Patrika...
  
   - a Bengali
  Bengali language
  Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...
  
   entertainment channel. For more information about the channel and the new website itself, see under external links.
• STAR Majha
  Star Majha
  STAR Majha is a 24-hour free-to-air Marathi news channel broadcast in India based in Mumbai. It was launched on 22 June 2007 and delivers news in the Marathi language. The channel is a joint venture between STAR Group and ABP Pvt. Ltd, which also runs two other news channels: STAR News and STAR...
  
   - A 24-hour National Marathi entertainment channel. For more information about the channel and the new website itself, see under external links.

Ratings

• STAR News claims that "... attracting a 25% market share in six major metros. (Source: TAM, All Adults, C&S, 15+, 6 metros, Week 34 and 35)... "

Broadcasts outside India

The international feeds of STAR News differ somewhat from the Indian version.

Europe

The old STAR News logo is still used in Europe despite the change in India. The text of the news ticker is in English and also featured is Star News Asia

Star News Asia

Star News Asia is a half hour television newscast broadcast from Hong Kong on STAR World in Asia and STAR News in other parts of the world. The principal anchor is Deborah Kan.It was pre-empted starting from January,2008....

, a 30-minute English language entertainment bulletin that is shown in Asia on STAR World

STAR World

STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

.

Hong Kong

In Hong Kong, the programs are similar to India. The new STAR News logo is used and the news ticker is written in English.

United States

In the United States, the word "India" is incorporated in the logo to denote the Indian origin of the channel and the news ticker

News ticker

A news ticker resides in the lower third of the television screen space on television news networks dedicated to presenting headlines or minor pieces of news. It may also refer to a long, thin scoreboard-style display seen around the front of some offices or public buildings...

 is in English

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...

. The programs are broadcast live from India, excluding Star News Asia

Star News Asia

Star News Asia is a half hour television newscast broadcast from Hong Kong on STAR World in Asia and STAR News in other parts of the world. The principal anchor is Deborah Kan.It was pre-empted starting from January,2008....

, which is telecast in weekdays over repeat programming.

Competitors

• Azad News

• NDTV India
  NDTV India
  NDTV India is a premier Hindi language news channel in India that is owned by New Delhi Television Ltd. Noted journalist Vinod Dua has been associated with this channel.-History:...
  
  

• Zee News
  Zee News
  Zee News, the news and current affairs channel, is the oldest channel of Zee News Ltd, founded in 1992. It was the first 24-hour Hindi current affairs and news channel in India. In spite of being the only pay channel in its genre, it maintains its position among the top three Hindi news channels in...
  
  
• TV9
• Aaj Tak
  Aaj Tak
  Aaj Tak is a 24-hour Hindi news television channel owned by TV Today Network Ltd. Aaj Tak loosely translates as "Till Today" or "Up to the Minute". Watched by some 45 million viewers in India’s cable and satellite universe, Aaj Tak is one of India’s largest privately owned news channels...
  
  

• DD News
  DD News
  The Doordarshan News, usually referred to by its abbreviation as the "DD News", is a state-owned TV news channel telecasting from Doordarshan Kendra Delhi. The Prasar Bharati Board approved the proposal to start a 24-hours news channel in place of DD Metro. This was subsequently approved by the...
  
  

• Sahara Samay

• India TV
  India TV
  India TV is a Hindi news channel based in Film City, Noida, India. It is a news channel that has appealed to the Indian masses for its unique style of presentation that is targeted at the common man and not at the elite unlike most news channels...
  
  

• India News
  India News
  India News is a Hindi language Indian TV news channel. The Channel is run by Kartikeya Sharma. The Indian company ITV Media Group runs the channel.-About:The network broadcasts 24-hour a day, all throughout the year...
  
  

• P-7 News

• Live India
  Live India
  Live India is an Indian Hindi TV channel owned by Broadcast Initiatives Ltd., focusing on news and commentary. It was earlier known as Janmat, when it was focused on "views"; now the channel is sometimes called Live India .In a Rs...
  
  

• CNEB

• News 24
  News 24
  News 24 may refer to:*News 24 , a 24-hour news television channel in Albania*News24, a South Africa-based news website*Rai News 24, a 24-hour news television channel in Italy*BBC News 24, now known as BBC News, a UK 24-hour news television channel...
  
  

• A to z News

• Focus TV

• Total TV

• Aindianews

External links

• Official Corporate Website (India)
• Official Website (Europe)
• Official Website (US)
• STAR Majha Official Website
• STAR Ananda Website
• STAR News Live

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