Founded in 1999, Indian Television Dot Com is India's first comprehensive television services and marketing solutions company that owns and runs the specialized television and media portal, Indiantelevision.com. Started by eminent television and media analyst Anil Wanvari (CEO), Indiantelevision.com (ITV) has developed a reputation of being the most credible and leading source of information on the television, advertising and media business. The site delivers in excess of 1 million page views per day with visitors walking in from across the industry. These include the broadcasting and cable fraternity, TV content & distribution companies, advertising & media agencies and also finance, government and academic communities.
Targeted at the broadcasting and cable TV cluster along with the media and advertising community, the company also delivers two daily newsletters the TV Linx and Ad Linx Reporter across industry via email that compile news and information from major Indian and international publications to over 80,000 trade subscribers across India and worldwide. ITV also runs Radioandmusic.com, India's first portal addressing the news and info needs for the radio and music sectors. Additionally, ITV also runs TellyChakkar.com, a consumer-oriented site that deals with TV programing and its stars. The other property that the company has developed is Animation Xpress.com, India's leading resource on animation business. AnimationXpress.com has a very strong focus on the Indian Animation VFX Gaming ecosystem and the service currently boasts of over 75,000 users and readers from all over the globe.
ITV has many pioneering acts to its credit, including the first ever awards exclusively designed for the television industry. In its ninth year now, The Indian Telly Awards is the country's first television industry award which honours successful achievers amongst India's cable and satellite companies and covers a whole range of professions ranging from broadcasters and marketers to artistes, television actors and technicians.
In 2007, ITV instituted The News Television Conference & NT Awards, the first ever awards for the Indian News Television Industry. In its third year ,the award is supported and attended by professionals from across TV News channels and news business. In 2008, ITV instituted Tellychakkar.com's New Talent Awards to recognize those newcomers in the television industry who have risen above the rest of their peers.
Since the past five years, ITV has also been responsible for hosting the semi final judging round for some of the categories of the International Emmy awards. Additionally, ITV has organized various seminars and events too. These include Ad-Wise, the first ever TV Airtime planning, buying and selling forum, Sports Biz, India's first ever forum on the business of sports marketing, and Qalam (industry's first ever TV writers workshop and forum) and National CAS Summit .
ITV and MPA organise the annual India Digital Networks Summit. which is in its fifth edition this year. ITV's Radioandmusic.com along with Music Matters, Hong Kong, organises Music Connects. Additionally, the company has also organized several events and seminars focusing on the domestic media space. ITV is widely referred to and respected by the movers and shakers of the Indian Cable and Satellite Television industry. Today, the rapidly growing Indiantelevision.com community consists of the heads and senior professionals from every television channel, major production houses and media and advertising agencies across India as well as abroad.. ITV is also associated with major industry organizations including Ficci Frames, Convergence India, Promax India, CASBAA (Hong Kong), Broadcast Asia, Hong Kong Film Art, Tokyo Broadcasting Systems Digicon 6 and the International Emmys (USA). ITV also partners leading regional information services company Media Partners Asia in key strategic areas to provide value-added services to its clients.
Through a sister concern, the company also undertakes research assignments for advertising and media companies, broadcasters, satellite firms, hardware & manufacturers and media companies with an interest in India. Additionally, Mr Wanvari and ITV are the India agents for three of the biggest TV and Music content marketplaces in the world - MipTV, Mipcom and Midem . The company also represents Reed Exhibitions and Asia Television Forum, Asia's biggest TV content marketplace, as its India agent.
