The Mysterious Existence of NaMo TV - Ad Sales or Hindi News Channel!

The Mysterious Existence Of NaMo TV: Ad Sales Or Hindi News Channel?

The channel which only airs speeches by PM Narendra Modi and borrows his name, does not appear in the list of channels permitted to air.

The Mysterious Existence Of NaMo TV: Ad Sales Or Hindi News Channel? on BoomLive. The channel which only airs speeches by PM Narendra Modi and borrows his name, does not appear in the list of channels permitted to air.

Fake News » A new channel NaMo TV which went on air early last week as a free-to-air channel has already generated a lot of interest and some intense scrutiny. The channel which airs rallies and speeches of Narendra Modi does not feature in the list of licensed private satellite television channels in the country and details of its ownership remain shrouded in mystery.

NaMo TV went on air on March 26 on major direct-to-home (DTH) services providers – Videocon, Tata Sky and DishTV. Five days after its launch on the said DTH providers, the official handle of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) tweeted about its launch and said, “Capture the colours of elections… Watch the dance of democracy… Say NaMo again with NaMo TV. Tune in to get real time coverage of PM Modi’s election campaign and a lot more fascinating content.”

The channel has Narendra Modi’s photo on its logo with NaMo TV written below. NaMo TV has to date aired old rallies of PM Modi, his recent rally in Arunachal Pradesh and has also shown a movie on Subhash Chandra Bose, ‘Bose: The Forgotten Hero’. The channel also has a continuous ticker with lines from Modi’s speeches scrolling on the screen.

In between Modi’s rallies and speeches, the channel has a special broadcast of Arun Jaitley, Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs speaking about the achievements of the BJP. The channel also airs advertisements between broadcasting rallies. All the advertisements are related to the BJP including a recent advertisement on ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’.

A search for ‘NaMo TV’, ‘Narendra Modi TV’, ‘NaMo’ yields no details for the said channel.

The website has the list of all permitted satellite channels updated till March 31, 2019.