Reporter Technical Details

After the launching of “Reporter (a channel under “Indo Asian News Channel Private Ltd.”)“, one more news channel started its journey in Malayalam. Reporter is the eighteenth channel and fiftht news channel in Malayalam. MV Nikesh Kumar is the person who is behind this channel. He is the managing director and chief editor of “Reporter”. He is a well known media person in Malayalam television industry and started his career as a news reporter in Asianet. Later he joined Indiavision, a news channel in Malayalam, and worked as the CEO of the channel from 2003 to 2010. He was also anchored "NewsNight" (A one hour news program) on Indiavision at 9PM every day. Nikesh Kumar was awarded the prestigious "Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism" by the president of India.He is the son of the well known political leader of CMP, MV Raghavan.

 MV Nikesh Kumar resigned from Indiavision in Sep 2010 and going to start a news channel in Malayalam.After a hard work of eight months MV Nikesh Kumar got the license for the news channel. It was the first news channel in 2011which got the license from Government of India .The 52% shares of the channel are hold by MV Nikesh Kumar himself. It may be the first news channel in India in which a journalist has holds most of the shares. Reporter is starts  transmission from its HD studio at Kalamassery in Cochin. It is the first High Definition news channel in Malayalam. The channel is not only focuses its eyes on  television media but also focus on the internet and mobile Medias.

Technical Details of the Channel

Satellite: Insat 2E at 83 degree east

LNB Frequency: 5150

TP Frequency: 4050

Symbol Rate: 5084

Polarization: Vertical

Mode: FTA

Format: Mpeg-4