TV9 (Gujarati)

TV9 Gujarat (Gujarati: TV9 ગુજરાત) is a Gujarati language 24-hour news channel. It operates from Ahmedabad city of India's Gujarat state .

Its news content is popular being the only Gujarati news channel. It has a daily cookery show called FIVE STAR TADKA which is popular for its Gujarati recipes. The channel's tag line is Garv Che Gujarati Chhun.

TV9 Gujarat is part of Associated Broadcasting Company, which also operates news channels like TV9 (Telugu), Indiavision, TV9 (Kannada) and TV9 Maharashtra.

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External links

Some TV9 Gujarati Shows

Gujarati

Gujarati (ગુજરાતી) may refer to anything of or relating to the western Indian state of Gujarat and may refer directly to the following articles:

Gujarati (Unicode block)

Gujarati is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Gujarati language. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0A81..U+0AD0 were a direct copy of the Gujarati characters A1-F0 from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

References

External Links

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_to_use_Unicode_in_creating_Gujarati_script

Gujarati language

Gujarati /ɡʊdʒəˈrɑːti/ (ગુજરાતી Gujarātī [ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat. It is part of the greater Indo-European language family. Gujarati is descended from Old Gujarati (circa 1100 – 1500 AD). In India, it is the chief language in the state of Gujarat, as well as an official language in the union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. Gujarati is the language of the Gujjars, who had ruled Rajputana and Punjab.

According to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 4.5% of the Indian population (1.21 billion according to the 2011 census) speaks Gujarati, which amounts to 54.6 million speakers in India. There are about 65.5 million speakers of Gujarati worldwide, making it the 26th most spoken native language in the world. Along with Romani and Sindhi, it is among the most western of Indo-Aryan languages. Gujarati was the first language of Mahatma Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

History

Gujarati (also sometimes spelled Gujerati, Gujarathi, Guzratee, Guujaratee, Gujrathi, and Gujerathi) is a modern IA (Indo-Aryan) language evolved from Sanskrit. The traditional practice is to differentiate the IA languages on the basis of three historical stages:

Channel 9

Channel 9 or TV 9 may refer to:

Television channels

Asia and Pacific

Europe and Middle East

World TV

World TV is a New Zealand television, radio and print media company specialising in media for Asian migrants and Asian language communities. It operates eleven specialist television channels and publishes a national-circulation magazine for subscribers of its five Sky TV digital television packages. It also broadcasts two free-to-air television channels on the Freeview platform and three 24-hour radio networks through terrestrial radio and Sky TV.

Programmes on the television channels, branded KTV, JTV and CTV, include local news and current affairs programmes, subtitled 3 News bulletins and content from Chinese, Korean, Taiwanese and Japanese broadcasters and producers. The radio stations, AM936, Chinese Radio FM 99.4 and Chinese Radio FM 104.2, broadcast a combination of Hong Kong and Chinese programmes, and local music, parenting and talkback shows.

In December 2005, the company claimed to have 11,500 subscribers across the country for its seven channels of Chinese, Taiwanese and Hong Kong programmes. In 2009, the company claimed 20,000 people received its World TV subscriber magazine. World TV's largest shareholder is Taiwanese resident Fun-nu Tsai with a 19 percent stake; chief executive Henry Ho owns 15 percent of the company and 11 other investors also have shares. The company's income is now evenly shared between advertising and subscription fees.

TV9 (Telugu)

TV9(టీవీ9) is an Indian cable and satellite television news network that is owned by Associated Broadcasting Company Private Limited (ABCL). TV9 News channel was founded in 2004 by Ravi Prakash. Upon its launch, it was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage in Telugu language in India. TV9 became popular with the Telugu audience for its bold and unbiased presentation of news. It has over 50 million viewers all over India. Its tagline is "For a Better Society".

History

Early history

ABCL was founded as a private media group by an journalist Ravi Prakash in 2003. He was the CEO of ABCL, leading a group of like minded young journalists. The first channel broadcast by the company was TV9, in 2004. It was a 24-hour news channel in Telugu regional language. Following its success in Andhra Pradesh, TV9 expanded its network. Over the years, a few more affiliates to TV9 in different regional languages like Kannada, Marathi, and Gujarati have been setup. From then onwards, TV9 is referred to as TV9 telugu (Telugu: టీవీ9). All these channels are broadcast from ABCL's head office in Hyderabad, Telangana, India.