What Public TV does

Public TV is a Kannada-language digital news platform headquartered in Bengaluru, India, that delivers regional, national, and international news coverage to Kannada-speaking audiences across the state of Karnataka. The platform operates publictv.in, a WordPress CMS-based website organized into category navigation covering all 31 districts of Karnataka — including Bengaluru City, Bengaluru Rural, Mysuru, Hubballi, Dharwad, and Belagavi — alongside verticals for national news, world news, cinema (Sandalwood, Bollywood, South cinema), crime, court, sports, tech, automobile, and food. The product surface has expanded to include real-time live television streaming and a recurring video bulletin program called 'Big Bulletin' with multi-part daily segments.

The platform is built on a commodity WordPress stack with live streaming capability, and content is freely accessible to consumers without registration or paywalls. Social sharing is enabled across Facebook, WhatsApp, and Telegram, supporting organic distribution. Distribution is exclusively digital and domestic, confined to the Indian market with a geographic focus on Karnataka.

Public TV operates as a private, for-profit media entity with a workforce in the 101–250 employee band. Its business model is ad-supported: the platform generates revenue through digital advertising, including banner ads and data sharing for targeted advertising purposes. No subscription product, named enterprise customers, disclosed funding rounds, or institutional investors are recorded in the source material. Ownership structure, founding date, and management team details are not publicly disclosed in the available data.

Name

Public TV

Legal name

Public TV

Website

https://publictv.in

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Public TV is a Bengaluru-based Kannada-language digital news platform that delivers free, ad-supported coverage of all 31 Karnataka districts plus national, international, cinema, sports, crime, and tech news to Kannada-speaking audiences in India.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online News Media

NAICS

Television Broadcasting Stations (516120)

SIC

Television Broadcasting Stations (4833)

akta.pro primary industry

Local/Regional News Channels (MPABAIAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Local News & Weather Stations (MPABACAJ)

Keywords

• Kannada news platform
• Digital news media
• Regional news broadcasting
• Local news coverage
• Online news portal

Headquarters

HQ city

Bengaluru

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Digital Advertising: The platform generates revenue through digital advertising, displaying banner advertisements throughout the website. The news article mentions data sharing for targeted advertising purposes, indicating an ad-supported business model.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Public TV operates a Kannada-language digital news platform delivering regional, national, and international news coverage focused on Karnataka's 31 districts, including Bengaluru, Mysuru, Hubballi, Dharwad, and Belagavi. The platform offers live streaming of news broadcasts, multi-category content spanning politics, crime, court, sports, cinema, technology, automobiles, and food, along with a daily video news bulletin program called 'Big Bulletin'.

Product overview

Public TV is a unified Kannada-language digital news broadcasting platform that operates as a single core product with sub-product offerings. The primary platform (Public TV) delivers comprehensive news coverage including regional Karnataka news across 31 districts, national and international news, cinema (Sandalwood, Bollywood, South cinema), sports, crime, court, politics, technology, automobiles, food, and travel. It integrates live streaming capabilities and a video bulletin program called 'Big Bulletin' featuring multi-part daily segments. The platform is built on WordPress CMS and delivers content via a website with category-based navigation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Public TV News Platform

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• News18 Kannada: News18 Kannada is Network18's Kannada-language news platform delivering state, national, and entertainment news through both broadcast and digital channels — comparable in language, regional focus, and content verticals.
• Prajavani: Prajavani is a high-circulation Kannada newspaper with growing digital operations covering Karnataka politics, cinema, and district news — directly comparable to Public TV as a Kannada-language Karnataka-focused news brand with daily editorial output.
• Udayavani: Udayavani is one of Karnataka's oldest Kannada newspapers with a substantial digital edition covering state news, districts, cinema, and sports — comparable to Public TV as a Kannada-language digital news destination for Karnataka audiences.
• Vijay Karnataka: Vijay Karnataka is a leading Kannada daily with a large digital audience covering Karnataka state, district, cinema, and sports news — comparable to Public TV in language, geography, and content breadth for Kannada readers.
• Asianet Suvarna News: Suvarna News (Asianet Suvarna News) is a major Kannada news television channel operated by Asianet News Network with a strong digital platform — directly overlapping with Public TV's Kannada news, politics, cinema (Sandalwood), and district coverage offering.
• TV9 Kannada: TV9 Kannada is a leading Kannada-language news broadcaster with both TV broadcast and digital presence covering Karnataka state, national, and entertainment news — directly comparable to Public TV in language, geography, and content verticals (politics, cinema, sports, crime).

Broad incumbents

• DD Chandana: DD Chandana is Doordarshan's Kannada-language public television channel — a broad incumbent comparable to Public TV in Kannada broadcast news delivery, though operating as a state-funded public broadcaster rather than a commercial platform.
• Times of India (Kannada editions / Vijaya Karnataka parent): The Times of India / Bennett Coleman group operates Vijay Karnataka and additional Kannada digital properties — a broad incumbent comparable due to its ownership of major Kannada digital news assets competing for the same Karnataka audience and advertiser base as Public TV.

Emerging players

• IndiaGlitz: IndiaGlitz is a digital-first entertainment news platform with strong Sandalwood (Kannada cinema) coverage — comparable to Public TV's cinema vertical, though narrower in editorial scope focused primarily on entertainment rather than general news.
• OneIndia Kannada: OneIndia's Kannada edition is a digital-native Kannada news platform covering Karnataka and entertainment — comparable to Public TV as a regional-language digital-first news outlet, though serving broader linguistic markets across OneIndia's network.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/publictvnews
• Facebookfacebook.com/publictv
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/public-tv---india

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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