Zee Entertainment Enterprises
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| ZEEL | |
| Public BSE: 505537, NSE: ZEEL | |
| Industry | Mass media |
| Founded | October 1992 |
| Founder | Hannan Chandra |
| Headquarters | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
Key people |
Subhash Chandra (Chairman) Punit Goenka (MD & CEO)[1] |
| Products | Broadcasting, publishing, cable, movie production |
| Revenue |
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Number of employees | 1,826 (2016) |
| Parent | Essel Group |
| Website |
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Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (ZEEL) is an Indian media and entertainment company based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. A subsidiary of the Essel Group the company's founder is Subhash Chandra and its CEO and Managing Director is Punit Goenka.[2] The company has 35 channels serving Indian content across India and 169 countries, with the latest being World is One News.
History
The company was launched on 15 December 1991 and was previously known as Zee Telefilms until 2006, when it was renamed and the news and entertainment units were spun off into four smaller divisions. ZEEL currently operates over 34 different television channels, cable company Siti Cable, record label Zee Music Company, a production company and other businesses as well. It has expanded operations abroad, with several of its channels available in the UK and US as well as Africa and Asia.
In 2002 ZEEL acquired a majority stake (51%) in ETC Networks. In 2006, they acquired Integrated Subscriber Management Services Limited, and in November 2006, ZEEL acquired an interest (50%) in Taj television TEN Sports. In February 2010 ZEEL acquired an additional stake (95%) in TEN Sports.
As Zee Telefilms, the company formed part of BSE Sensex from 2000-2005. The news and regional entertainment channel business was spun off into a separate company in 2006 under the corporate banner Zee News Ltd (ZNL).
Fox also holds an approximate 30% interest in Tata Sky Limited which owns and operates a DTH platform in India. The company has a 50/50 joint venture, Star Den, with Den Networks Limited to perform channel placement services in India. In May 2011, Star Den entered into a 50/50 joint venture with Zee Turner Limited and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) to distribute and market all channels owned by the company and ZEEL, their respective affiliated channels and other third party channels in India, Nepal and Bhutan.
It also owns a music label, Zee Music Company.
Zee Entertainment Enterprises launched the Bollywood movie channel Zee.One dedicated to the German market on 28 July 2016. A Polish version is scheduled to follow in 2017.
In 2016, Zee launched Zee Mundo, the first ever Spanish-language Bollywood movie channel.
Movie productions
In 2008, Zee Networks launched Zee Motion Pictures, an independent subsidiary of Zee Entertainment Enterprises focusing on development, production, distribution and marketing of mainstream films in Indian languages including Hindi, Kannada, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil and Malayalam. Zee Motion Pictures also operates Zee Limelight. Gadar: Ek Prem Katha, Natsamrat, Sairat and Rustom include their successful productions.
Channels
Zee Action
Living Zen
Big Thrill
Zee Madhya Pradesh/Chhattisgarh
Upcoming Channels
Zee Uttar Pradesh/Uttarakhand
& Privé HD
Big Ganga Talkies
Living Foodz HD
Zee Tamil HD
Zee Telugu HD
Zee Kannada HD
References
- ↑ "We want to Transform into an all round media company punit goenka". Business Standard. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
- ↑ "We want to Transform into an all round media company punit goenka". Business Standard. Retrieved 22 July 2017.