SNN

SNN (Subcontinental News Network) is an Hindi FTA news channel that premiered in 1995 and is owned by Subcontinental. It's the first private-owned news channel in India.

History
Subcontinental started planning a news channel in 1988, four years after the launch of NDTV. Their main pros were the fact their generalist channel INC (India's National Channel) was pretty popular on its country (specially on bigger cities like Bombaim, Delhi and Calcutta) and Subcontinental already owned a newspaper named "Breaking News India", originally, SNN would've been called BNI TV.

The channel was launched for free-to-air television in January 19 1995 with the name of SNN.

As years gone by, the channel grew a lot in audience, which made Subcontinental invest more on it and increase its quality.

There once was a purposal of moving SNN to Pay television back in 2010, the project was analised and nearly happened, but Subcontinental allowed its watched to vote if they wanted the channel to move to PAY TV and 79% of the votes were against this migration.

SNN was launched in 17 countries at Pay Television back in 2014 under the name of Subcontinental TV, all these nations were either from the Subcontinent of India (Which makes sense because its owned is named after it) and Southeastern Asia.

One year later, SNN was almost shutdown (just like INC, INC2, PLAS, Breaking News India, Subcontinental TV and SubMovies) because of a corruption scandal involving their owner, fourtenally, these enterprises survived.

Nowadays, SNN is the most watched news channel in India.

Content
SNN is separates its content between Regional, National and Global news. Regional news air between 10 AM and 1 PM, National news air between 1 PM and 9 PM and Global news air between 9 PM and 9 AM, with only some exceptions and also mixed programs.

Regional Programming
Regional Programming of SNN is separated by its affiliates in each state or union territory. Each affiliate airs with the most speaken languange from its territory, its also notable that some certain stations of SNN are more low budgetish that the other ones.

National and Global Programming
Both the National and Global programming of SNN are made by SNN itself, with futuristic visuals (For Hindi standards, of course) and a detailed coverage of the news they pass.

Partnerships
SNN is partner of NBC, TV5, Russia24 and Africanews.