NETWORK18

Network 18 or Network18 Media & Investments is the holding company of the TV18 group, which is one of the country's leading full-play media corporations with interests in the internet, television, print, film entertainment, mobile content, and several allied businesses. It is also formerly known as Network 18 Fincap, which is engaged in both investments and media business. On February 16, 1996, the company was being incorporated as a private limited company and was soon converted into a public limited company as on October 20, 2006. Soon, the company got its present name with effect from December 1, 2007.

It operates in a joint venture with Viacom, known as Viacom18 that houses the MTV, VH1 and Nickelodeon channels in India and via a business transfer agreement, it also manages Studio18, which is the group's filmed entertainment operations including the recently launched Colors, which is a Hindi general entertainment channel.

So through its holding in Television Eighteen India (or TV18), the company also operates India's leading business news television channels named CNBC-TV18 and CNBC Awaaz. It also runs Web18, which is one of the leading internet players, and Newswire, which is one of India's leading real-time financial information as well as news terminals.

The company soon acquired Infomedia, which is a leading player in the special interest publishing and printing operations space, and it also marked its entry into the print media that was followed by the collaboration with the Forbes media for the launch of a business magazine in India.

It also operates in the general news as well as entertainment space via its holding in IBN 18 Broadcast, along with the leading general news channels CNN–IBN and IBN7 and it has also launched IBN Lokmat, which is a Marathi news channel in partnership with the Lokmat group.

Besides, the company also holds the group's online and on-air home shopping venture named as Homeshop18 and its complete spectrum events management venture named as E18.