The Maharashtra-based Lokmat Group of Newspapers, which owns the Marathi newspaper Lokmat, is in talks with TV 18 Group to launch a Marathi news channel.
The Marathi news channel will be called ‘IBN Lokmat’ and is likely to go on air by the year-end. Sources in the know confirmed the development and added that the news content would be provided by IBN.
With the launch of IBN-Lokmat, the TV 18 Group would further strengthen its foothold in the news space. The group last year forayed in to Hindi news broadcasting by acquiring Channel 7 from Jagaran Group, through CNN-IBN.
At present, in the non-English news space the group operates channels two channels - CNBC Awaaz, a Hindi business news channel and Hindi news channel IBN 7.
Read more in The Business Standard article.
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Thursday, June 14, 2007
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