Zee Entertainment Enterprises

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd.
ZEEL
Public BSE: 505537, NSE: ZEEL
Industry Mass media
Founded October 1992 (1992-10)
Founder Subhash Chandra
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra, India[1]
Key people
Subhash Chandra (Chairman)
Mufaddal Kaizar (MD & CEO)
Products Broadcasting, publishing, cable, movie production
Revenue 5111 crore (US$760 million) (2015)[2]
975 crore (US$140 million) (2015)
Number of employees
1,826 (2014)
Parent Essel Group
Website www.zeetelevision.com

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (ZEEL) is an Indian media and entertainment company based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.[3][4] It is a subsidiary of the Essel Group. The company's founder and managing director is Subhash Chandra and its current CEO, Mufaddal Kaizar. The Company has 35 channels serving Indian content across India and 169 countries, with the latest being World is One News.[5]

History

The company was launched on 15 December 1991 and was previously known as Zee Telefilms until 2006, when it was renamed and the news and entertainment units were spun off into four smaller divisions. ZEEL currently operates over 15 different television channels, a cable company Siti Cable, a record label Zee Music Company, a production company and other businesses as well. It has expanded operations abroad, with several of its channels available in the UK and US as well as Africa and Asia.

In 2002 ZEEL acquired a majority stake (51%) in ETC Networks. In 2006, they acquired Integrated Subscriber Management Services Limited and in November 2006, ZEEL acquired an interest (50%) in Taj television TEN Sports.

In February 2010 ZEEL acquired an additional stake (95%) in TEN Sports.

As of May 2011, Star DEN, (which is 50% owned by 21st Century Fox) brought 50% of Zee, making FOX own 25% of Zee.[6]

As Zee Telefilms, the company formed part of BSE Sensex from 2000-2005. The news and regional entertainment channel business was spun off into a separate company in 2006 under the corporate banner Zee News Ltd (ZNL).

Fox also holds an approximate 30% interest in Tata Sky Limited which owns and operates a DTH platform in India. The Company has a 50/50 joint venture, Star Den, with Den Networks Limited to perform channel placement services in India. In May 2011, Star Den entered into a 50/50 joint venture with Zee Turner Limited and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (“ZEEL”) to distribute and market all channels owned by the Company and ZEEL, their respective affiliated channels and other third party channels in India, Nepal and Bhutan.

It also owns a music label, "Zee Music Company".[7]

Channels

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. currently operates the following TV channels:

Channel Details
ZEE hit English News Channel
Zindagi Hindi general entertainment channel
&TV Hindi general entertainment channel
Zee TV Hindi general entertainment channel
Zee Cinema Hindi movie channel
Zing Hindi music channel
Zee Lamhe Hindi general entertainment channel
Zee Action Hindi action movie channel
Zee Classic Hindi classic movie channel
&Pictures Hindi youth movie channel
Zee Anmol Hindi general entertainment Channel
Zee Smile Hindi general entertainment Channel
Zee Cafe English general entertainment channel
Zee Studio English movie channel
Zee Aflam Hindi movie channel with Arabic subtitles, It also shows the movies Dubbed in Arabic
Zee Alwan Arabic general entertainment with dubbed Hindi serials, dramas and shows
Zee Salaam Urdu (India) infotainment channel
Zee Telugu Telugu general entertainment channel
Zee Bangla Bengali general entertainment channel
Zee Bangla Cinema Bengali movie channel
Zee Kannada Kannada general entertainment channel
Zee Marathi Marathi general entertainment channel
Zee Talkies Marathi movie channel
Zee Punjabi Punjabi general entertainment channel based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom
Zee Tamil Tamil general entertainment channel
Zee ETC Bollywood Hindi music channel
Zee Purvaiya Hindi general entertainment channel
Zee Kalinga 24x7 Odia News Channel
Sarthak TV Odia general entertainment channel [8]
Living Foodz English and Hindi food and lifestyle channel
Zee Q Edutainment channel
Zee Nung Broadcasts Bollywood films and Indian dramas in the Thai language.
Zee Bioskop Broadcasts Bollywood films in the Indonesian language.
Zee Hiburan Broadcasts Indian dramas in the Indonesian language.
Zee Magic Broadcast Indian Drama, TV show and Bollywood Movies in French Language.
Zee Variasi Broadcasts Bollywood films and Indian dramas with Malay and English subtitles in Malaysia.
9X Hindi general entertainment channel
Zee Stand Hindi new movie channel
Zee ETC Punjabi Punjabi general entertainment channel
Zee Jagran Hindi religious channel
Zee Trendz Fashion channel
Zee Gujarati Gujarati Gec Channel
Zee Nepal Nepali Gec Channel
Zee Butan Bhutan Poplar Channel
Zee Live International Channels
Zee Welle German Language Gec Channel
Zee Bhojpuri Bhojpuri Language Gec Channel
Zee Shop Home Shoping channel
Zee Bandhan Hindi general entertainment channel
Zee Learn Education Based Channel
Zee Living Lifestyle based Asian fest channel
Zee World English language Television Based Mumbai
Zee Bollyworld TV Bollywood based News Channel
TEN 1 Sports channel
TEN 2 Sports based channel
TEN 3 Sports channel
TEN 4 Sports channel
TEN 1 HD Sports channel
TEN 2 HD Sports channel
TEN Golf Sports channel
TEN + Sports channel
Wion Tv Gec channel
Zee News News channel
Zee NZ India Community New Zealand besed channel
Zee Documentary News channel
Zee Business Hindi business channel
Zee 24 Hours Business English business channel
Travel Trendz Travel based fist Asian 3D Channel
Zee Russia Russian Gec Channel
Zee Cine Bollywood Based Hits Movies Channel
Zee Sine Philippines Local channel in Bollywood
Zee One Secondly Germany 24 Hours Bollywood based movies channel
Zee Africa it totally Affira based channel in Youth community
&Music Bollywood Music Channel

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Movie productions

In 2008, Zee Networks launched Zee Motion Pictures,[9] an independent subsidiary of Zee Entertainment Enterprises focusing on development, production, distribution and marketing of mainstream films multiple Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil and Malayalam. Zee Motion Pictures also operates Zee Limelight.

References

  1. "Contact Us". zeetelevision.com. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
  2. "FY2011 of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited". moneycontrol.com.
  3. Kohli-Khandekar, Vanita. "Q&A: Punit Goenka, MD, Zee Entertainment Enterprises". Business Standard. BusinessStandard.com. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
  4. "Contact Us". zeetelevision.com. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
  5. http://zeenews.india.com/news/india/zee-media-names-its-global-english-news-channel-wion-world-is-one-news_1865732.html
  6. "Earnings Report". FOX. 2013. p. 6. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  7. "Zee Music Company - Official YouTube Channel". YouTube. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  8. ECONOMIC TIMES (15 July 2015). "Zee Entertainment acquires Odia GEC Sarthak TV for Rs 115 crore". Economictimes.indiatimes.com/. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  9. Hetal Adesara (2 March 2008). "Zee Group launches two motion picture production banners". Businessofcinema.com. Retrieved 28 September 2010.

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