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Ananda Bazar Patrika (ABP) Group is an Indian media company headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal. It was established in 1922. Ananda Publishers is a division of ABP Group.

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ABP News is an Indian Hindi news channel owned by ABP Group. The channel lanuched on 30 May 2002.

ABP's foray into electronic media began with ABP News — the leading 24-hour national news and current affairs television channel in Hindi. ABP News was made an official member of the ABP family in May 2002. It has swiftly come into its own as a leader in the Indian news business — setting the agenda for others to follow.

Positioned as the people's channel, ABP News focuses on relevant news in a cutting-edge format. Since its inception, the 24-hour Hindi news channel has grown to command a significant viewership and is the first and only global Indian news channel. With an accent on reporting news that impacts its viewers, ABP News aims to fulfill its mission of 'Aapko Rakhe Aagey' and represent the realities and aspirations of the people. As a guiding philosophy, ABP News believes in reporting news that is relevant and makes a difference to its viewers' lives.

Novel programming and 'Breaking News' are hallmarks of the channel. Apart from reporting news in India, its links with international news agencies enable the channel to deliver international news as it happens. With top programmes such as ABP Savera, Satyameva Jayate, City 60, National Reporter, Wah! Cricket, Sansani and Pol Khol, ABP News ensures its viewers are fully informed and engaged.

ABP News' network includes its headquarters in Mumbai, its New Delhi 'Super Bureau' and its 16 bureaus across India. Journalists on ABP News are well-known to Indian audiences. They have not only earned a reputation for courage, commitment and credibility, but are also charged with a mission to bring viewers news that counts — first and in-depth.

ABP News has invested considerably in technology to enhance its 'live' broadcast capability and quality of telecast. Supported by a convoy of 'News Mobiles' — the largest and most sophisticated fleet among news channels in India, ABP News can transmit 'live' from any location, any time in its quest to keep its viewer better informed, first.

ABP News' footprints extend across South East Asia, Central Asia, UK, USA and Australia. The channel has set precedents in investigative journalism, lateral programming and unique on-ground properties that have been widely accepted by its viewers and predicated a change in the news business. ABP News Active, India's first television news channel on an interactive platform, is available on the Tata Sky DTH (direct-to-home) service.

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ABP Ananda is a free to air Bengali news channel based in Kolkata, West Bengal. The channel lanuched on 1 June 2005 and is owned by ABP Group.

ABP Ananda was launched as India's first 24-hour national Bengali news channel. Featuring news from Bengal as well as national news from India in fast-paced bulletins, ABP Ananda gathers its national news from the ABP network and ABP News, and its international news from Fox and Sky. That apart, the channel also sources news from its extensive news bureau network. Revolutionising news and news-watching in Bengali, ABP Ananda has been at the top of the charts since its launch.

ABP Ananda features a mix of informative and thought-provoking programmes. Bulletin-format programmes Ekhon Kolkata and Aabar Kolkata focus on the local flavour of the city, civics and lifestyle. ABP Khobor, 11 tai 24 ta deliver a perceptive round-up on affairs of the nation and the world, while Khela Shuru and Hoy Ma Noy Bouma cover the world of sports and TV entertainment news, respectively. The weekend lifestyle show Hello VIP gets up close and personal with influential people.

Other feathers in the channel's cap include landmark coverage of the assembly elections in 2006, the Calcutta Municipal elections, the Durga Pujas in 2007, the Nandigram issue and the Rizwanur case where ABP Ananda ruled the roost.

ABP Ananda maintains its positioning as the expression of the Bengali on the move. It reflects their urges and aspirations and their impatience with the rate of change. ABP Ananda thus mirrors the new vibrancy among the Bengali-speaking people. Crisp news presentations, pacy bulletins and balanced local, national and international news are the channel's USP. In emerging markets that are culturally rooted like Calcutta, it fills in the need for a dedicated channel that can offer high quality local, national and international news coverage along with views and analysis in the language of the viewers. As a result, ABP Ananda scores favourably with its viewers, purely on the quality and relevance of news it delivers.

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ABP Majha is a Marathi news TV channel in Maharashtra, India.  The channel lanuched on 1 June 2007.

ABP Majha is the undisputed leader in the Marathi news genre and has been consistently ranked as India 's No.1 24-hour national Marathi news channel. ABP Majha is headquartered in Mumbai, with innovative and modern production facilities and a first of its kind set, housed in a state-of-the-art newsroom.

The channel has set up an extensive bureau network across the state with added support from the national and international resources and expertise of the ANN, Fox and Sky networks. ABP Majha has an experienced, highly-trained and promising team guided by industry stalwarts, from around the state, to gather and report news, track current affairs and deliver informative programmes.

In a unique format of 20-minute segments in a news wheel, ABP Majha features diverse and versatile programmes spanning politics, sports, entertainment, health, astrology, education, agriculture and religion, among others. With its positioning as a people's channel, ABP Majha aims to live up to its motto of 'Broaden your horizons. Delve deeper', echoing the voice of every proud Maharashtrian and reflecting their aspirations in a rapidly changing environment.

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ABP Sanjha is the Punjabi language news channel, launched in 2014, by Media Content and Communication Services (MCCS), a news broadcasting company, owned by the ABP Group. The channel has 200 employees.

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ABP Asmita is an Indian 24-hour regional news channel broadcasting in Gujarati language. It operates from Ahmedabad, Gujarat and is owned by ABP Group.

Being one of the most viewed 24-hour Gujarati News Channels, ABP Asmita serves as a reliable media house for India’s Gujarati speaking masses.

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ABP Ganga is a 24-hour Indian regional Hindi-language news channel for Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. It is owned by ABP Group. The channel was launched in 15 April 2019.

The channel which has a tagline of ‘Khabar aapki, zubaan aapki’ has 10 hours of original content. This includes debates, election special shows and prime time news bulletins. The channel has 100 employees in editorial with reporters posted in every district besides a senior reporter being stationed in every commissionary.

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Friends 91.9 FM is a Kolkata-based FM radio station operating since 2007 that plays current Hit music and is a 'Contemporary Hit' CHR format. The station is owned and operated by ABP Group.

Friends 91.9 FM, the FM channel is the ABP Group’s newest venture. Positioned as ‘the friend you always had’, the station focuses on the spirit of music its listeners grew up with. Most striking about Friends 91.9 FM is its unique selection of songs and programmes that captures the mood preferences and listening habits of the avid radio consumer in Calcutta.

Friends 91.9 FM has delved deep into listener preferences and listening habits, commissioning extensive research to arrive at its content strategy and music selection. The station’s songs are pre-tested for their popularity quotient.

Once tuned in, listeners encounter a host of vivacious, mature, ‘friends’ who they immediately identify with. The programming includes morning and evening primetime shows as well as late morning, afternoon and late evening shows. These are hosted by an attractive mix of popular Calcutta jockeys and new talent.

Weekends feature shows that revolve around various genres of Indian music as well as relevant social issues. These shows are hosted by celebrities.

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Anandabazar Patrika is an Indian Bengali-language daily newspaper owned by the ABP Group. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 1 million copies as of December 2019.

A Bengali newspaper was published in 1876 in a small village of Magura at Jessore District in British India (now Bangladesh) by Tushar Kanti Ghosh and his father Sisir Kumar Ghosh. They named it Ananda Bazar after Tusharkanti's grandmother's sister Anandomayee. However, soon the newspaper died. In 1886, Ghose published another newspaper, named after his grandmother Amritamoyee: Amrita Bazar Patrika.

Later in 1922 the newspaper Anandabazar Patrika was relaunched by proprietor Suresh Chandra Majumdar and editor Prafulla Kumar Sarkar. It was first printed on 13 March 1922 under their ownership and was against British rule. In 1922 it first published as a four-page evening daily. The first colour printing was the features section. The internet edition of the newspaper was launched in 2001, which publishes news among the community. Also provides advertisement in the printed newspaper. In 2010, Time Inc. entered into a license agreement with ABP Group to publish Fortune India magazine. This magazine publishes the Fortune India 500 list every year.

Anandabazar Patrika first appeared on March 13, 1922 — the day of Holi, as an evening daily, printed in red ink. It was a four-pager, priced at two paise and had a first-day circulation of a thousand copies. The newspaper's red ink led to the contemporary English daily, The Englishman terming it a 'danger signal'. With its unshakeable patriotic stance, it soon became very popular.

Unbiased views, constructive criticism, indomitable courage and an uncompromising attitude were just a few aspects, which went on to make Anandabazar Patrika the 'voice of Bengal'. Its popularity reached new heights when, in 1954, the Press Commission report declared Anandabazar Patrika to be the largest circulated newspaper in the country, published from one location.

The No.1 Bengali daily is published from various locations today. Spawning a veritable legion of journalists, Anandabazar Patrika boasts of dedicated readers, worldwide. It is the only Bengali daily to cross 1.2 million in circulation.

Over the years, Anandabazar Patrika has achieved many milestones along the way — it was the first in the east and one of the first in the country to use offset printing. Anandabazar Patrika's landmark coverage on, among others, Rabindranath Tagore's death, Netaji's miraculous escape from detention, Mahatma Gandhi's death and the Nandaghunti expedition (a project patronised by the ABP Group itself) is legendary.

Other firsts for the daily include mechanising a non-Roman language to create the Bengali-Hindi typewriter. Driven by its commitment to preserve the highest standards in Bengali language and culture, Anandabazar Patrika devised a way to use the complete set of Bengali characters in the word processing software, a decade before Unicode, a more advanced method of computer writing, was introduced. It also published, along with Desh, the first large-scale readership survey in 1963, nine years before the first National Readership Survey (NRS) syndicated research was commissioned. In 2006, Anandabazar Patrika became the only Bengali daily to be declared a Consumer Superbrand in the second edition of Consumer Superbrands India. It was also awarded Gold for the best printed newspaper in Asia Media awards 2017.

In 2017 Anandabazar Patrika had another first in its cap. To connect more with the reader’s life at a district level, Anandabazar Patrika came out with a first time in India, arguably in the world, concept called Paper-within-Paper (PWP) for the district markets of West Bengal. PWP encompasses a full 6 pager newspaper for the district, within the main newspaper. The design replicates that of the main paper with a front page, classifieds page, post-edit page, feature page - but all containing hyper-local news from that particular district.

Currenlty Anandabazar Patrika has 14 editions — Calcutta; North & South 24 Parganas; Howrah & Hooghly; West Midnapore & Jhargram; East Midnapore; Bankura & Purulia; Purba Bardhaman; Paschim Bardhaman; Birbhum; Nadia; Murshidabad; Malda, Uttar & Dakshin Dinajpur; Siliguri & Jalpaiguri town; Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar & Cooch Behar districts. Out of these 11 editions are PWP editions.

Apart from district, city, state, national and world news, Anandabazar Patrika has a wide variety of content across the week specific to different age groups and genres. On Entertainment and lifestyle there is Ananda Plus which comes out every Monday to Saturday. Prastuti which comes out every Tuesday is on Education and career and is targeted towards students. Bishoy Ashoy is a section on Personal Finance and comes out every Thursday. On Saturdays there is a supplement called Patrika which covers a wide range of topics including Travel, Food, Health, Grooming, Fitness and Gadgets. Robibashoriyo is a supplement on Bengali culture and Literature and comes out every Sunday.

Anandabazar Patrika has also two separate editions. One for job seekers – Anandabazar Patrika Karmakshetra edition which is printed every thursday. It has 8 extra pages along with the main Anandabazar Patrika paper and is priced 1 rupee extra. The other is a special paper for students called Anandabazar Patrika school’e which along with news, sports and knowledge customised for the school children, has lot of curriculum related information. It comes out every Monday to Friday (excluding school holidays and vacations).

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The Telegraph is an Indian English daily newspaper founded and continuously published in Kolkata since 7 July 1982. It is published by the ABP Group and the newspaper competes with The Times of India. The newspaper is the eighth most-widely read English newspaper in India as per Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2019.

The Telegraph was born on July 7, 1982. Edwin Taylor, design director of Sunday Times, London designed the newspaper, setting fresh standards in design and editing that acquired many admirers and later, followers.

With features as well as news and an editorial policy that supports, among others, secularism and a free state, The Telegraph today is widely regarded as an emblem of everything a modern newspaper should be. Coupled with a long tradition of talented journalists, The Telegraph has always been in the thick of things — be it breaking news, unearthing scoops or investigating news. It takes up issues, makes the reader think and puts them in touch with the best of minds. Innovation, too, has always been a way of life at The Telegraph.

The Telegraph was the first to put sports news on the front page. It was the first newspaper in post-colonial India to dethrone the existing market leader — a feat that was accomplished within 10 years. It was the first sectionalised newspaper, the first modular designed daily, the first to have pull-outs every day (Metro, Careergraph and other sub brands), the first general interest daily with separate sections on sports and business, the first with a separate leisure section, with crosswords and comics, the first with a 32-page colour magazine on Sundays (much earlier than leading national English dailies), the first to use run-of-press colour and the first in India to win prestigious global print awards like the SNAP and IFRA.

There's always something for everyone with The Telegraph supplements — city news in TT Metro on all days, career opportunities in Jobs on Tuesdays, children's entertainment in Telekids on Wednesdays, education and career guidance in Careergraph on Thursdays, lifestyle, travel and general interest features on weekends with Personal TT on Saturdays, Graphiti, the colour magazine on Sundays. Moreover, the technology and knowledge section, Knowhow, now comes with the main paper.

The Telegraph has five editions: Calcutta edition, South Bengal edition, North Bengal edition, Northeast edition (Guwahati split) and Jharkhand edition (Jamshedpur, Jharkhand and Ranchi splits).