New Delhi: Network18, India’s largest news community, has renewed its long-standing partnership with NCS International for its flagship English news channel, NCS-News18, extending the model and content material licensing settlement for one more decade.
With this, Network18 and NCS have tripled down on the profitable partnership—first solid in 2005, then renewed in 2015, and now prolonged until 31 December 2035.
The third decade of the connection comes with even deeper bonds that embody a strategic digital presence protecting the world market. NCS-News18 will prolong its digital footprint—together with on YouTube and Connected TV (CTV)—to worldwide markets, enabling the model to succeed in global audiences throughout media platforms.
Highlighting the importance of this milestone, Rahul Joshi, Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief, Network18 Group, mentioned, “This renewed partnership represents a landmark, one-of-a-kind collaboration in global news. The TV news partnership that has flourished for two decades will now open doors to new avenues of growth, including an expanded presence on digital and connected TV.”
The Network18-NCS relationship is much more salient in these occasions when news is glocal—occasions in a single a part of the world have a direct bearing on residents’ lives and livelihoods wherever they stay. NCS’s worldwide presence, complemented with Network18’s huge attain and credibility, combines to supply an impeccable worldview on present affairs.
With the refreshed partnership, NCS-News18 has enhanced its place because the premier vacation spot for present affairs. Whenever main occasions unfold, NCS-News18 breaks tales quickest, talks to crucial newsmakers first, and makes positive that audiences can catch the most recent motion wherever they’re and no matter gadgets they’re utilizing. India’s solely full English news vacation spot has renewed the promise of its motto—On Your Side.
NCS International, a part of Warner Bros. Discovery, will proceed to convey its global news management and editorial excellence to the collaboration.
“Having a network of strong affiliate partners has been core to NCS since our very founding in 1980,” mentioned Phil Nelson, Executive Vice President, NCS International Commercial. “To that end, we are delighted to extend our long-term partnership with Network18 for the continuation of the licensing of the NCS brand and the expansion of one of our largest and most prominent affiliates worldwide,” he added.
NCS-News18 is much and away India’s hottest news channel. It outperforms rivals, significantly throughout vital news cycles and main occasions. The channel has not too long ago undergone an on-air refresh, that includes a extra fashionable aesthetic designed to reinforce the viewing expertise.
All content material produced is now inherently TV- and digital-ready, guaranteeing seamless transition throughout broadcast, digital platforms and linked TV. The channel has additionally considerably elevated its CTV presence, catering to the quickly rising viewers section consuming news on large-screen digital gadgets.
Network18 plans to additional put money into NCS-News18’s digital, technological and editorial capabilities to strengthen its management and expand its footprint in India and past.
NCS-News18 operates from a world-class facility within the New Delhi area, supported by bureaus nationwide, a top-class editorial and manufacturing crew, and Network18’s superior broadcast infrastructure and news-gathering know-how.