Akash Bangla

Akash Bangla

Logo of Akash Bangla
Launched 1999
Owned by Channel Eight Group
Country India
Headquarters Kolkata, West Bengal, India,
Sister channel(s) 24 Ghanta
Zee News
Website www.aakaash-bangla.com
Streaming media
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Akash Bangla is a Bengali television station.[1] Its most popular program is the Bengali Travel Show "Chalo Jaai" airing at 11:30 pm every night.

The channel started as 24-hour Bengali entertainment channel with soap operas like Kurukhetro, Shanai, Prabahini, Dotta, and Choritroheen but could not survive and changed its format to a 24-hour current affair and news channel in early 2012.

GRP/TRP The channel fetches a grp of 20+ to 40 and its popular show Kurukhetro in its last stage (2009) fetched trp of 0.3-0.6 which was bad as the show use to fetch 1.0-1.6+. The channel averaged a gec of 21 before it changed to a 24-hour news channel gaining 26. it is available on Airtel TV.

References

  1. "The Telegraph". Telegraphindia.com. 2005-03-12. Retrieved 2012-09-13.
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