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The India Today Group began with a single magazine in 1975. Today it is India’s most diversified media group with its presence and dominance across media formats including Print, Television, Radio, Web and Mobile portals, Social Media, and Book publishing. Through its subscribers, readers, viewers, surfers and listeners, the group reached out to over 550 million+ individuals. Underlying all these channels of communication is an ethos of editorial excellence and credibility. It believes in journalism, which thrives on telling it the way it is without fear or favor. In the last 49 years, the group has evolved with its namesake. It has recorded history as well as made it. It has reflected public opinion as well as shaped it. It has shared the triumphs as well as tribulations. It has been India’s strongest supporter as well as its harshest critic. It has delivered India to the world and the world to India.

Sony Pictures Networks India Private Limited (SPNI) is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, Japan. A leading media and entertainment conglomerate, SPNI comprises 28 Premium Channels in both SD and HD formats, including leading Hindi General Entertainment Television Channels - Sony Entertainment Television; Sony SAB and Sony PAL; Marathi General Entertainment Channel - Sony Marathi; Bangla General Entertainment Channel - Sony AATH; Hindi Movie Channels - Sony MAX, Sony MAX 1, Sony MAX 2 and Sony WAH; renowned destination for sports fans - Sony Sports Network comprising Sony Sports Ten 1, Sony Sports Ten 2, Sony Sports Ten 3, Sony Sports Ten 4, Sony Sports Ten 5; Kids Entertainment Channel - Sony YAY!; English Movie Channel - Sony PIX; Factual Entertainment Channel - Sony BBC Earth; Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television (FAST) channel in the US and Canada – Sony KAL; Digital entertainment OTT platform - Sony LIV and the independent production venture for original content and IPs for TV and digital media - Studio NEXT. This Network reaches out to over 700 million viewers in India and is available in over 150 countries. Recognised as an employer of choice within and outside the media industry, SPNI is a recipient of several awards, including India’s Best Companies to Work For 2021 by the Great Place to Work® Institute, India, Exemplars of Inclusion in AVTAR & Seramount’s Most Inclusive Companies Index 2024 and listed as one of the 100 Best Companies for Women in India for eight consecutive years by AVTAR & Seramount. In recognition of the company’s unique workplace culture and exceptional people practices SPNI won the ET Future Skills 2024 for Best Learning Program Supporting Change Transformation Business Strategy, and the TISS LeapVault CLO Awards 2024 for Best Employee Engagement Program and Best Games Based Learning Program. SPNI is in its 31st year of operations in India.

Back in 1991, government was the only national broadcaster and people across India only had one or two local TV channels to choose from. They deserved more. So that year, Star launched in India to bring every family TV that is true to their lives, celebrates their values, and raises the quality of entertainment. Today, Star TV is India's favourite TV network, with 33 channels in seven languages, touching the lives of the rural and urban, young and old, in every region of India. Star TV reaches nearly 400 million people every week through its network. That's one in three Indians.