ETV Network is a network of Telugu language news and entertainment satellite television channels in India. It is based in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It also had some non Telugu language-language satellite television channels. All non-Telugu language satellite television channels were acquired by Reliance Industries-owned TV18 for ₹2,053 crore in FY 2014–15 and later rebranded. Network18 finishes Rs 2,053-cr deal to acquire ETV stakes
The flagship company ETPL launched four new television channels in November 2015 – namely ETV Life – a health and wellness channel, ETV Abhiruchi, a cookery channel, ETV Plus – an entertainment and reality channel, and ETV Cinema – a movie channel in Telugu language. In May 2014, ETV2 and ETV3 were renamed to ETV Andhra Pradesh and ETV Telangana respectively.
On 27 December 2018, the network launched ETV Plus HD, ETV Life HD, ETV Abhiruchi HD, and ETV Cinema HD.
In March 2015, TV18's Viacom18 decided to rebrand all five non-Telugu language ETV regional general entertainment channels. ETV Marathi, ETV Gujarati, ETV Kannada, ETV Bangla and ETV Odia were rebranded into Colors Marathi, Colors Gujarati, Colors Kannada, Colors Bangla and Colors Odia, respectively.
In March 2018, non-Telugu language TV assets of TV18 still using the ETV brand were rebranded as part of the News18 network.
In April 2016, ETV network added three more regional news channels catering to the audience of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Northeast India under the brand name of News18. The channels are named News18 Kerala, News18 Tamil Nadu and News18 Assam-NE.
ETV | 1995 | Telugu language | General entertainment | SD+HD |
ETV Cinema | 2015 | Movies | ||
ETV Plus | Comedy | |||
ETV Life | Devotional & health | SD | ||
ETV Abhiruchi | Food & cookery | |||
ETV Andhra Pradesh | 2014 | News | ||
ETV Telangana | ||||
ETV Bal Bharat | 2021 | Telugu language, English language, Hindi, Tamil language, Kannada & Malayalam | Kids | SD+HD |
ETV Andhra Pradesh HD | center >18 September 2026 | center >Telugu language | center >News | center >HD(16:9) | |
ETV Telangana HD |
ETV Life HD | 2018 | 2020 | Telugu language | Health & well-being | HD | |
ETV Abhiruchi HD | Food & cookery | |||||
ETV2 | 2003 | 2014 | News | SD | Replaced with ETV Andhra Pradesh | |
ETV3 | 2013 | 2014 | Replaced with ETV Telangana |
ETV Rajasthan | 2000 | 2018 | Hindi | News | SD | Acquired by Network18 and rebranded as News18 Rajasthan |
ETV Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand | 2002 | Acquired by Network18 and rebranded as News18 Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand | ||||
ETV Madhya Pradesh Chhattisgarh | Acquired by Network18 and rebranded as News18 Madhya Pradesh Chhattisgarh | |||||
ETV Bihar Jharkhand | Acquired by Network18 and rebranded as News18 Bihar-Jharkhand | |||||
ETV Haryana Himachal Pradesh | 2014 | Acquired by Network18 and rebranded as News18 Punjab | ||||
ETV Urdu | 2001 | Urdu language | Acquired by Network18 and rebranded as News18 Urdu | |||
ETV Bangla | 2000 | 2015 | Bengali language | General entertainment | Acquired by Viacom18 and rebranded as Colors Bangla | |
ETV News Bangla | 2014 | 2018 | News | Acquired by Network18 and rebranded as News18 Bangla | ||
ETV Gujarati | 2002 | 2015 | Gujarati | General entertainment | Acquired by Viacom18 and rebranded as Colors Gujarati | |
ETV News Gujarati | 2014 | 2018 | News | Acquired by Network18 and rebranded as News18 Gujarati | ||
ETV Marathi | 2000 | 2015 | Marathi language | General entertainment | Acquired by Viacom18 and rebranded as Colors Marathi | |
ETV Odia | 2002 | Odia language | Acquired by Viacom18 and rebranded as Colors Odia | |||
ETV News Odia | 2015 | 2018 | News | Acquired by Network18 and rebranded as News18 Odia | ||
ETV Kannada | 2000 | 2015 | Kannada language | General entertainment | Acquired by Viacom18 and rebranded as Colors Kannada | |
ETV News Kannada | 2014 | 2018 | News | Acquired by Network18 and rebranded as News18 Kannada |
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