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DELHI: Renowned Bhojpuri star Ravi Kishen has joined the recently-launched Hamar
TV as president of its Mumbai Operations. According
to Positive Media Group chairman Matang Sinh, the entry of the star in this channel
will be a big boost as he was known as an actor with a clean image.
Hamar
TV, India’s first Bhojpuri news and current affairs channel, will also carry
news bulletins in other languages and dialects spoken in the region.
Launched earlier
this month, the channel will cater to over 180 million people across the country,
and will also be distributed overseas. Apart from India, the channel will also
focus on Mauritian viewers whose ancestors went from eastern India and were Bhojpuri
speaking. In
addition, Bhojpuri speaking viewers can be found in Bhutan, Fiji, Guyana, Surinam,
Trinidad and Tobago, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, Denmark,
the United Arab Emirates and other countries. The channel will establish full-fledged
bureaus across the continent to cater to Bhojpuri audiences. The
channel is headed by Kumar Sanjoya Singh who is also the Managing Editor for the
NE TV Group. On
entering the channel, Kishen said he would use the opportunity to spread a glimpse
of the culture of the eastern states in the country including Uttar Pradesh and
Bihar. The
channel is being beamed from INSAT 2E for its worldwide distribution. For distribution
in India , Focus TV is also available on cable TV networks and DTH platforms including
Airtel, Big TV, Sun Direct and Dish TV and will shortly be available on Tata Sky
as well. The
North-East TV group also runs Focus TV which is women-centric, NE Bangla and NE
Hi-fi in the North-East and West Bengal, and HY TV in the southern Indian states
showcasing events occurring in the southern states of India in English, Hindi
and Urdu. The group also has four radio stations in the North-East. | 
