News18 Kannada

News18 Kannada is a Kannada-language news channel from Network18 in India, which went live on 20 March 2014 as ETV News Kannada. It was rebranded as News18 Kannada on 29 September 2017.



2014–2017	2017–present

ETV News Kannada[]

2014–2017[]

News18 Kannada[]

2017–present[]

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TV18

Part of Network18 (Reliance Industries Limited)

Subsidiaries: Viacom18 (Viacom18 Studios)

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JioStar

Joint venture of Reliance Industries Limited and Disney India

Predecessors: Disney Star (UTV Software Communications) | Viacom18

Content and studios:
Hotstar Specials | Star Studio18 | Tipping Point Viacom18 | Viacom18 Motion Pictures | Viacom18 Studios

Streaming platform:
JioHotstar

Regional networks:
Bengali: Colors Bangla (Cinema) · Star Jalsha (Movies) | Gujarati: Colors Gujarati (Cinema) | Kannada: Colors Kannada (Cinema) · Colors Super · Star Suvarna (Plus) | Malayalam: Asianet (Plus · Movies) | Marathi: Colors Marathi · Star Pravah (Picture) | Odia: Star Kiran | Tamil: Colors Tamil · Star Vijay (Super · Takkar) | Telugu: Star Maa (Gold · Movies · Music)

Other assets:
Viacom18 Consumer Products | Viacom18 Integrated Network Solutions

Notes

¹	Under license from Paramount Skydance, former shareholder of its predecessor Viacom18.
²	Formerly direct unit of The Walt Disney Company India before the merger with Star India.
³	Formerly part of the larger Star TV Network before the split.

News18 network:
National news channels: Hindi: News18 India | English: CNN-News18¹
Business news channels²: Hindi: CNBC Awaaz | English: CNBC-TV18 ^HD | Gujarati: CNBC Bajar

AETN18 network³:
History TV18 ^HD

Other channels: Topper TV | Shop CJ

Defunct channels: FYI TV18 ^HD

Divested channels: Home Shop 18

Unlaunched channels: News18 Bharat | News18 Goa

⁺Not formerly owned by ETV Network; these channels have always been owned by TV18.
¹Joint venture with Warner Bros. Discovery.
²Joint venture with NBCUniversal (Comcast).
³Joint venture with A&E Networks.

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ETV Network

Current channels:

Children’s channels: ETV Bal Bharat ^HD (English | Tamil | Telugu | Kannada | Malayalam)

Online portals: Video-on-demand app: ETV Win | News portal: ETV Bharat

Divested channels: (sold to Reliance Industries Limited)

Generalist (all Colors-branded): ETV Kannada | ETV Marathi | ETV Bangla | ETV Odia | ETV Gujarati

News: ETV News Haryana/Himachal Pradesh (Hindi), Kannada, Bangla, Odia and Gujarati
Urdu/Hindi: ETV Urdu | Hindi: ETV Uttar Pradesh/Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh/Chhattisgarh, Bihar/Jharkhand and Rajasthan

Other regional-language News18 channels which were not part of ETV: News18 Assam/Northeast, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Lokmat (Marathi)