The Marathi-language television industry was started in India in 1984. Although earlier confined to a half an hour slot in the national television

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, the industry has now expanded with many commercial TV channels currently on air. Various dedicated categories like news and movies have been added and have considerably expanded the horizon of Marathi TV Entertainment.

Marathi News Channels

The Marathi Television got its first round-the-clock news channel in the form of

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in the year 2008 leading marathi News channel in the state. Nilesh Khare is the Channel Head and Editor of the channel since 2018. Zee 24 Taas was launched in year 2007.

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launched its Marathi news channel Star Majha in June 2007, which was later named as

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from 1 June 2012.

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and

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together formed a joint venture to launch IBN Lokmat in 2008 and which was later renamed as

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. In 2008, Sakal media Groups launched its first venture in Television with

. Firstly it was info entertainment, but from 1 January 2018 it become a leading Marathi News Channel. In 2009,

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launched. On 1 May 2013 another channel launched, namely

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, by Mumbai-based media group Sahana Films. Lokshahi News channel was launched on 26 January 2020 by Swaraj Marathi Broadcasting LLP.

List of Channels

Government Owned Channel

General Entertainment Channels (GEC)

Movies

Music

News

Shutdown Channels

* Chitrapat Marathi *

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* Maharashtra1 *

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* Prabhat TV * Star Sports 1 Marathi * Tara Marathi *

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