This is a list of English language television channels aired in India.

General Entertainment

Colors Infinity Colors Infinity is an Indian pay television channel owned by Viacom18. It primarily airs popular shows from the United States and the United Kingdom along with a few original shows to appeal to the English-speaking population of India and a f ...

* Comedy Central * Disney International HD *

Star World Star World (formerly known as Star Plus) is an English language entertainment television channel originally launched on 15 December 1991 as Star Entertainment () by STAR TV in Hong Kong as the old iteration of Star Plus. On 30 March 1996, th ...

Star World Premiere HD Star World Premiere HD was a 24-hour English language television channel, launched on 24 September 2013. It is owned by Disney Star and Disney Networks Group Asia Pacific, two subsidiaries of The Walt Disney Company. The channel primarily airs p ...

Zee Café Zee Café is an Indian pay television channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. The channel mainly syndicates popular American and British television shows to appeal to the English-speaking population of India. History Zee English was ...

Movies

* MN+ * MNX *

Movies Now Movies Now is an Indian high-definition television channel featuring Hollywood films. It was launched on 19 December 2010 with a picture quality of 1080i and 5.1 surround sound. It is also available in Tamil feed for specific movies. The chan ...

* Romedy Now * Sony Pix *

Star Movies Star Movies is an Asian pay television network originally owned by The Walt Disney Company (Southeast Asia) Pte. Ltd., Fox Networks Group Middle East and Disney Star. In March 2019, The Walt Disney Company acquired Star TV for $71 billion with ...

Star Movies Select HD Star Movies India is an Indian English-language movie channel pay television channel owned by Disney Star (formerly ''Star India''), a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company India. This is the Indian version of Star Movies which mainly broadcast ...

&flix &flix is an Indian English-language movie channel from Zee Entertainment Enterprises. It launched on 3 June 2018, replacing Zee Studio. History Due to poor ratings of Zee Studio, Zee Entertainment Enterprises rebranded the channel as &Flix. ...

* & Privé HD

Music

VH1 India VH1 India is an Indian subscription music television and pop culture channel. It was launched in 2005 as a result of a joint venture between MTV India and Zee-Turner, based on the American channel of the same name. It broadcasts shows like VH1 ...

Kids

Disney Channel Disney Channel, sometimes known as simply Disney, is an American pay television channel that serves as the flagship property of Disney Branded Television, a unit of the Disney General Entertainment Content division of The Walt Disney Comp ...

Disney Junior Disney Junior is an American pay television network owned by the Walt Disney Television (part of Disney General Entertainment Content) unit of The Walt Disney Company through Disney Branded Television. Aimed mainly at children two to seven ...

ETV Bal Bharat ETV Bal Bharat is a children's pay television channel owned by the Hyderabad-based ETV Network airing animated programming. The channel was launched on 27 April 2021, initially with twelve language audio tracks. Bal Bharat is the network's fi ...

Nick HD+ Nickelodeon (abbreviated as Nick) is an Indian children's pay television network based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is the Indian equivalent to the original American Network and is owned by Viacom18, a joint venture between Paramount G ...

* Nick Jr. *

Cbeebies CBeebies is a British free-to-air public broadcast children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is also the brand used for all BBC content for children aged 6 years and under. Its sister channel CBBC is aimed at older childr ...

* Gubbare * Super Hungama

Infotainment & Lifestyle

Animal Planet Animal Planet (stylized in all lowercase since 2018) is an American multinational pay television channel owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery Networks unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. First established on June 1, 1996, the network is primarily ...

Discovery Channel Discovery Channel (known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery) is an American cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav. , Discovery Chan ...

* Discovery Science *

Discovery Turbo Discovery Turbo (previously known as Discovery Turbo MAX in Australia) is a pay television channel devoted to programming about transport. It is similar to Discovery Velocity and Motor Trend (TV network), Motor Trend. It was also briefly availab ...

FashionTV FashionTV is an international fashion and lifestyle broadcasting television channel. Founded in France in 1997, by its Polish-born president Michel Adam Lisowski, FashionTV is a widely distributed satellite channels in the world with 31 satelli ...

Fox Life Fox Life is an international pay television network, launched by the Fox Networks Group in 2004. The network has been discontinued in several markets over time, except for the Middle East, Bulgaria, Portugal, the Balkans, India and Greece. The ...

History TV18 History TV18 (formerly known as The History Channel) is a television channel in India. It broadcasts infotainment and documentry shows. It is owned by a joint venture between A+E Networks, owner of the American History channel, and TV18, an Ind ...

Investigation Discovery Investigation Discovery (stylized and branded on-air as ID since 2008) is an American multinational pay television network dedicated to true crime documentaries owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. As of February 2015, approximately 86 million Amer ...

National Geographic ''National Geographic'' (formerly the ''National Geographic Magazine'', sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is a popular American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners. Known for its photojournalism, it is one of the most widel ...

Nat Geo Wild National Geographic Wild (shortened as Nat Geo Wild and abbreviated NGW) is a global pay television network owned by National Geographic Partners, a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (73%) and the National Geographic Society (27%) ...

NDTV Good Times ''Goodtimes'' is the flagship channel of Lifestyle & Media Broadcasting Ltd. It was launched in September 2007. Rebranding Goodtimes underwent a makeover in November 2013 to redefine the lifestyle entertainment category codes once again. Fro ...

Sony BBC Earth Sony BBC Earth is an Indian pay television channel owned by BBC Studios and Culver Max Entertainment. The channel broadcasts BBC programming in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu through its four audio tracks available. The BBC entered into a join ...

TLC India TLC India is an Indian television channel, previously known as Discovery Travel & Living. It focuses on lifestyle programmes, with topics such health, cooking and travel. The channel launched in October 2004 and was the first international cha ...

* Travelxp *

Zee Zest Zee Zest, formerly Living Foodz, is an international, 24-hour food and lifestyle television channel based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is a part of the Living Entertainment brand of channels, which is owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises ...

News

National Channels

CNN-News18 CNN-News18 (originally CNN-IBN) is an Indian English-language news television channel founded by Raghav Bahl based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is currently co-owned by Network18 Group and Warner Bros. Discovery. CNN provides internation ...

* DD India *

India Ahead India Ahead is a nationwide English News Channel. It is promoted by Andhra Prabha Media Group and was launched in June of 2018. The Channel carries news, current affairs, entertainment, sports, and business programming from an Indian, as well a ...

India Today ''India Today'' is a weekly Indian English-language news magazine published by Living Media India Limited. It is the most widely circulated magazine in India, with a readership of close to 8 million. In 2014, ''India Today'' launched a new on ...

Mirror Now Mirror Now is an Indian, English-language news channel owned by The Times Group. It first launched in 2015 as MagicBricks Now, a news channel with a focus on real estate Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on i ...

NDTV 24x7 NDTV 24x7 is a 24-hour English-language television news channel based in New Delhi, India.Louis Brawley ''Remote Control: Indian Television in the New Millennium'' Penguin UK (2012) History Until about the end of the 1980s, like most of the w ...

NewsX ITV Network, (also Information TV Pvt Ltd), is a media group founded, owned and promoted by Kartikeya Sharma, the son of Venod Sharma, a politician. Presently, it owns 12 news channels, a Hindi daily, '' Aaj Samaj, daily newspaper, The Dail ...

* Republic TV *

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 ...

WION WION (World is One News) is an Indian multinational English language news channel headquartered in New Delhi. It is owned by the Essel Group and is part of the Zee Media network of channels. The channel covers global news and current affairs. ...

Domestic Channels

* News9 * North East Live *

Independence Day (United States) Independence Day (colloquially the Fourth of July) is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the Declaration of Independence, which was ratified by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United State ...

International Channels

ABC Australia The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-owne ...

BBC World News BBC World News is an international English-language pay television network, operated under the ''BBC Global News Limited'' division of the BBC, which is a public corporation of the UK government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media an ...

Bloomberg Television Bloomberg Television (on-air as Bloomberg) is an American-based pay television network focusing on business and capital market programming, owned by Bloomberg L.P. It is distributed globally, reaching over 310 million homes worldwide. It is hea ...

CGTN China Global Television Network (CGTN) is the international division of state media outlet China Central Television (CCTV), headquartered in Beijing, China. CGTN broadcasts six news and general interest channels in five languages. CGTN is re ...

* CNA * CNN *

Deutsche Welle Deutsche Welle (; "German Wave" in English), abbreviated to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget. The service is available in 32 languages. DW's satellite television service cons ...

France 24 France 24 ( in French) is a French state-owned international news television network based in Paris. Its channels broadcast in French, English, Arabic, and Spanish and are aimed at the overseas market. Based in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Mo ...

NHK World NHK World-Japan (formerly and also known simply as NHK World) is the international arm of the Japanese state-controlled public broadcaster NHK. Its services are aimed at the overseas market, similar to those offered by other national public-ser ...

Press TV Press TV (stylised as PRESSTV) is an Iranian state-owned news network that broadcasts in the English and French languages owned by Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), the only organization legally able to transmit radio and TV broadc ...

* RT

Business Channels

CNBC-TV18 CNBC TV18 is an Indian pay television business and financial news channel owned by NBCUniversal and TV18. CNBC TV18 Prime HD Having launched on 26 October 2011, this is CNBC TV18's premium service and the first business channel in India t ...

ET Now ET Now is an English-language business and finance news channel in India, owned and operated by Bennett Coleman & Company Limited. It has evolved to also encompass the areas of Politics, Governance, Environment, Technology under its domain of ...

Religious

* GOD TV

Sports

* 1Sports *

Eurosport Eurosport is a group of pay television networks in Europe and parts of Asia. Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery through its international sports unit, it operates two main channels— Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2—across most of its territorie ...

* DD Sports * Sony Sports Ten 1 * Sony Sports Ten 2 * Sony Sports Ten 5 * Sports18 1 * Star Sports 1 * Star Sports 2 * Star Sports 3 * Star Sports First * Star Sports Select 1 * Star Sports Select 2

References

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