New Delhi, January 8, 2016: If you follow popular shows on the NDTV network such as The Big Fight, Power Lunch, Prime Time and Chakhle India Kachcha Raasta, there is good news for you! YuppTV, the world’s largest Over-The-Top (OTT) provider for Indian content, has announced its partnership with the NDTV Group. Under the move, YuppTV subscribers will be able to view the four channels - NDTV India (Hindi), NDTV 24x7 (English) and NDTV Profit /Prime (Business) and NDTV Good Times anytime, anywhere
The four channels of NDTV can be accessed by users on www.yupptv.com
from outside India and www.yupptv.in from India, or by downloading the YuppTV
app on their smart phones, smart TVs, smart Blu-ray players, streaming media
players, tablets and gaming consoles. The move took the number of channels on YuppTV’s
platform to 16, adding to its current repository of 200+ Indian TV Channels in
13 languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi,
Bengali, Punjabi, Oriya, Gujarati, Sinhala, Urdu and Bangla.
Speaking on the announcement, Uday
Reddy, Founder & CEO, YuppTV, commented, “We are the largest OTT
provider for Indian content in the world, while the NDTV group is the preferred
news channel for Indian expats worldwide. The association will allow us to add
NDTV’s popular news and lifestyle programmes to our offerings and will improve
the selection choices for our users. We are confident of satisfying all India-centric
news-related requirements of our subscribers with this partnership.”
Rahul Sood, Head, Network
Distribution & Affiliate Sales, NDTV, added, “We
are pleased to partner with YuppTV, a leading digital content destination for
Indian expats and this association will serve to add even more options for the
YuppTV users and allow its users with anytime, anywhere access to our channels.”
New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV) is an Indian commercial
broadcasting television network owning three national news channels – NDTV
India (Hindi), NDTV 24X7 (English) and NDTV Profit (Business) – as well as a
lifestyle channel, NDTV Good Times. YuppTV’s partnership with the group
underlines its position as the premium digital TV content platform for news
channels. YuppTV will also make the channels’ programmes available for view for
up to seven days on its platform, allowing users to go back and view their favorite shows in case they miss the original schedule.
Since its India launch in October 2015, YuppTV has been creating
ripples across the digital entertainment industry owing to its unique approach
and extensive network. It is today the world’s largest internet TV and video on
demand (VOD) streaming provider with more than 5 million mobile app downloads
and an audience base reaching 400+ million households through Smart TVs. YuppTV
is also the 2nd most popular app in Google Play Store and the most popular TV
app on LG and Samsung Smart TVs in India.
About YuppTV
YuppTV is one of the world’s largest internet based TV service
provider, offering 200+ Indian TV channels in 12 languages. YuppTV offers Live
TV and Catch-Up TV technology, whereby viewers can watch TV content from past 7
days and never miss their favorite Shows. In addition viewers can also watch
5000+ movies and 100+ TV shows at the click of a button.
YuppTV is currently ranked #1 Internet Pay TV platform for Indians
living abroad and also the largest Internet TV platform from premium content
availability in India and reach to Internet enabled devices.
