Television 18 - Global Broadcast News launch 24-hour English news channel
19 Dec 2005
Mumbai: Global Broadcast News, a Television Eighteen group company has launched its fully owned and operated general news channel, CNN-IBN. The channel will be available for cable satellite television viewers across India starting on December 17, 2005.
Commenting
on the launch, the minister for information and broadcasting
Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi said, "I think that in the
days to come, months to come and years to come, CNN-IBN
shall make a mark in the history of India's electronic
media as well as provide a new light, a new direction,
a new goal in the centre of
the fourth estate which will strengthen this pillar
of Indian democracy. I wish CNN-IBN's new venture good
luck."