JioTV is an Indian

streaming television Streaming television is the digital distribution of television content, such as TV shows, as streaming media delivered over the Internet. Streaming television stands in contrast to dedicated terrestrial television delivered by over-the-air aer ...

service, owned by

Jio Platforms Jio Platforms is an Indian multinational technology company, headquartered in Mumbai. It is a subsidiary of Reliance Industries. Established in 2019, it acts as a holding company for India's largest mobile network operator Jio and other di ...

, a subsidiary of

Reliance Industries Limited Reliance Industries Limited is an Indian multinational conglomerate company, headquartered in Mumbai. It has diverse businesses including energy, petrochemicals, natural gas, retail, telecommunications, mass media, and textiles. Reliance is o ...

. JioTV is a

live TV Live television is a television production broadcast in real-time, as events happen, in the present. In a secondary meaning, it may refer to streaming television over the Internet when content or programming is played continuously (not on demand) ...

channel streaming platform. JioTV has over 950+ channels.

History

JioTV, launched in 2016, from the digital arm of

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(

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), LYF Digital Convergence Limited. JioTV, an

service offering LIVE TV and Catch Up Content to end consumers on their

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, tablets,

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, desktops, entertainment boxes and connected TVs. JioT
web version
was launched on Dec 2017 but it was taken down after two days because of some technical litigation issues.

Content Partners

JioTV has partnered with different broadcasting companies such as

Viacom18 Viacom18 Media Private Limited is an Indian media and entertainment joint venture between TV18 and Paramount Global based in Mumbai. It was founded in 2007 and owns various channels, as well as content production studios in India. History In ...

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, Zee,

NDTV New Delhi Television Ltd is an Indian news media company focusing on broadcast and digital news publication. The company is considered to be a legacy brand that pioneered independent news broadcasting in India, and is credited for launching t ...

Times Now Times Now is an English news channel in India owned and operated by The Times Group. The channel launched on 23 January 2006 in partnership with Reuters. It is a pay television throughout India. Until 2016, it was India's most popular and the m ...

TV Today Network The TV Today Network is an English-Hindi Indian news television network based in India. It is listed on the BSE and the NSE and consists of the several news channels namely, Aaj Tak (Hindi), India Today Television (English), Good News Today (H ...

, Turner, ABP News Network, and

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to provide content in different categories such as Business, Devotional, Education, Entertainment, Infotainment, Kids, News and Sports. JioTV has 17 'Jio Darshan' channels which telecast proceedings from a few Indian temples 32 government education channels on JioTV are hosted by the Ministry of Human Resources Development under Swayam Prabha. In June 2020, JioTV tied up with the Assam government to host educational channel "Gyan Brikshya".. In July 2020, JioTV has partnered with

Manipur Manipur () ( mni, Kangleipak) is a state in Northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital. It is bounded by the Indian states of Nagaland to the north, Mizoram to the south and Assam to the west. It also borders two regions of Myanm ...

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...

Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ar ...

and

Telangana Telangana (; , ) is a States and union territories of India, state in India situated on the south-central stretch of the Indian subcontinent, Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India b ...

state governments to telecast education channels for e-classes.

Strategic Partnership

Nov 2020 - Partnered with Rewind Network to distribute HITS content through JioTV platform

Viewership

Reliance's JioTV was one of the most popular streaming apps across India, recorded a staggering 84 million unique visitors in March 2020, an increase from 74 million unique visitors in March of the previous year. The company is owned by

, the digital service business of the multinational Reliance Industires Limited conglomerate. According to a Kalagato report on OTT space, in 2018, JioTV saw around 18% of active users after

Hotstar Disney+ Hotstar (also known as Hotstar) is an Indian brand of subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Novi Digital Entertainment of Disney Star and operated by Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution, both di ...

which has 40% active users. In terms of national reach, Hotstar and JioTV both had 30% and 24% respectively market share. JioTV recorded 74.5 million unique visitors in March 2019, which was an increase from 31.2 million unique visitors in March of the previous year.{{ cite web, url=https://www.statista.com/statistics/1028124/india-jiotv-unique-visitors-number/, title=Number of unique visitors on Jio TV in India 2017-2019, publisher=Statista , date=16 Oct 2020

References

Internet television streaming services

History

Content Partners

Strategic Partnership

Viewership

See also

References