JioTV is an Indian

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service owned by

Jio Platforms Jio Platforms is an Indian Multinational corporation, 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 op ...

, a subsidiary of

Reliance Industries Reliance Industries Limited is an Indian multinational conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai. Its businesses include energy, petrochemicals, natural gas, retail, entertainment, telecommunications, mass media, and textiles. Reliance is the ...

. JioTV offers more than 1000 live channels with 7 days of catch up content, as per the website.

History

JioTV was launched in 2016, from the digital arm of LYF (

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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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s, tablets,

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s, desktops, entertainment boxes and connected TVs. JioTV web version was launched in December 2017 but it was taken down after two days because of some technical litigation issues. As per the FAQs page on website, Jio TV on web allows for content discovery only and the streaming is available only on mobile devices through the app.

Content partners

JioTV has partnered with different broadcasting companies such as

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, Culver Max,

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, Sun Network,

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Viacom18 Viacom18 Media Private Limited is an independent Indian media conglomerate, part of JioStar. It is owned by Reliance Industries and Bodhi Tree Systems. The Organisation had various channels and content production studios in India. Following ...

, Warner Bros. Discovery India and Zee. 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

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and

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state governments to telecast education channels for e-classes. In December 2022, JioTV introduced Games and Music as part of its super-app experience. It also provides multi-audio and subtitle support across its live sports events. In February 2023, KC Global Media launched

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channel on JioTV.

Strategic partnerships

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

Viewership

JioTV recorded a 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

. According to a Kalagato report on OTT space, in 2018, JioTV saw around 18% of active users after

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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. Jio has over 1000+ Channels List that users can watch and enjoy.

References

{{Reliance Industries Limited Internet television streaming services Internet properties established in 2016 2016 establishments in Maharashtra

History

Content partners

Strategic partnerships

Viewership

See also

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