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TV18 or Television Eighteen India Limited is India's #1 Business News Medium. It broadcasts two news channels across India:

CNBC-TV18 (English) - Business & Markets News

CNBC Awaaz (Hindi) - Consumer & Markets News

NewsWire 18 (formerly 'CRISIL Market Wire') - News & Financial Data including trading terminals.

52622 Mobile Service - Business News & Alerts for mobile phones

51% of TV18 is owned by holding company Network 18 while the rest of the stock is held by Foreign and Domestic Institutional Investors and the Indian public. The company is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India. Raghav Bahl is the company's co-founder and Managing Director.

TV18 is also the majority stake holder in Global Broadcast News (GBN), that runs CNN-IBN, a general English news channel and also IBN-7, a Hindi news channel.

NSE-TV18 Media Center

TV18 and the National Stock Exchange of India entered into a partership to launch the NSE-TV18 Media Center in the NSE, Mumbai premises.

The Media Center will display CNBC Awaaz and CNBC-TV18 live and will provide NSE investors with up-to-date live information and stock quotes, particulalrly company results.

The Finance Miniter P Chidambaram and industry leaders Mr. Nandan Nilekani, Adi Godrej and Uday Kotak were present during the inauguration, which was simulcasted on the Tv-18 channels: CNBC Awaaz, CNBC-TV18, CNN-IBN and IBN7.