Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. is the largest media and entertainment company in India and is a subsidiary of Essel Group. The company's Chairman, Managing Director and Founder is Subhash Chandra and its Chief Executive Officer is Puneet Goenka. It was previously known as Zee Telefims until 2006 when it was renamed and the news and entertainment units were spun off into four smaller divisions. Zee currently operates over 15 different television channels, a cable company SitiCable, a record label Zee Records, a production company and other businesses as well. It was launched in October 1992 and has since grown into a dominant player in Indian television. It has expanded operations abroad, with several of its channels available in the UK and U.S. as well as Africa and Asia.

In 2002 Zee Entertainment Enterprises acquired a majority stake (51%) in ETC Networks. In 2006, they acquired Integrated Subscriber Management Services Limited and in November 2006, Zee acquired an interest (50%) in Asian sports network TEN Sports.

As Zee Telefilms, the company formed part of BSE Sensex from 2000-2005. The news and regional entertainment channel business was spun off into a separate company in 2006 under the corporate banner Zee News Ltd.


Channels

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. currently operates the following TV channels:

1. Zee TV - Hindi General Entertainment Channel and Flagship station
2. Zee Next - New Hindi General Entertainment Channel
3. Zee Cinema - Hindi Movie Channel
4. Zing - Hindi Music Channel
5. Zee Sports - A Sports Channel
6. TEN Sports - 50% in the Sports Channel
7. Zee Premiere - Hindi New Movie Channel
8. Zee Action - Hindi Action Movie Channel
9. Zee Classic - Hindi Old Movie Channel
10. Zee Smile - Hindi Comedy Channel
11. Zee Jagran - Hindi Religious Channel
12. Zee Trendz - A Fashion Channel
13. Zee Café - English General Entertainment Channel
14. Zee Studio - English Movie Channel
15. Zee Aflam - Hindi Movie Channel with Arabic Subtitles



Zee News Limited

Zee News Ltd (ZNL) is a media and entertainment company and a subsidiary of Essel Group. The company was spun off from Zee Telefilms on 31 March 2006 and it currently operates various news and regional entertainment channels.

1. Zee News - Hindi News Channel
2. Zee Business - Hindi Business Channel
3. Zee Telugu - Telugu General Entertainment Channel
4. Zee 24 Ghantalu - Telugu News Channel
5. Zee Bangla - Bengali General Entertainment Channel
6. Zee Kannada - Kannada General Entertainment Channel
7. Zee Marathi - Marathi General Entertainment Channel
8. Zee Tamil - Tamil General Entertainment Channel
9. Zee Gujarati - Gujarati General Entertainment Channel
10. Zee 24 Taas - Marathi news channel
11. 24 Ghanta - Bengali news channel


Movie productions

Zee Networks have launched two banners: Zee Limelight and Zee Motion Pictures