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{{short description|Indian media and entertainment company}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited
| logo = Zee entertainment enterprises logo.svg
| logo_size = 200px
| logo_alt = ZEE Entertainment Enterprises Logo
| logo_caption = ''Extraordinary Together''
| native_name =
| type = [[Public company|Public]]
| traded_as = {{ubl|{{BSE|505537}}|{{NSE|ZEEL}}}}
| industry = {{Plainlist|
* [[Mass media]]
* [[Entertainment]]
}}
| products = [[Broadcasting]], [[film]]s, [[music]], [[Streaming media|streaming]], [[web portal]]s
| foundation = {{start date and age|df=yes|1991|12|15}}
| founder = [[Subhash Chandra]]
| location = [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]]
| hq_location_country = [[India]]
| key_people = [[Subhash Chandra]] ([[Chairman]])<br>[[Punit Goenka]] ([[CEO]])<ref name="BS">{{cite web|url=http://wap.business-standard.com/article/companies/we-want-to-transform-into-an-all-round-media-company-punit-goenka-116082300871_1.html|title=We want to Transform into an all round media company punit goenka|work=Business Standard|access-date=22 July 2017}}</ref>
| revenue = {{increase}} {{INRConvert|8413|c}} (2020)<ref name="fy">https://www.moneycontrol.com/india/stockpricequote/mediaentertainment/zeeentertainmententerprises/ZEE</ref>
| operating_income = {{loss}} {{INRConvert|1103|c}} (2020)<ref name="fy"/>
| net_income = {{loss}} {{INRConvert|527|c}} (2020)<ref name="fy"/>
| assets = {{loss}} {{INRConvert|12373|c}} (2020)<ref name="fy"/>
| parent = [[Essel Group]] (22.37%) <br /> [[Invesco Oppenheimer]] (11%)
| num_employees = 3,429 (2020)<ref name="fy"/>
| footnotes = <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fortuneindia.com/enterprise/zees-fy19-earnings-may-aid-better-valuation/103259|title=Zee’s FY19 earnings may aid better valuation|website=www.fortuneindia.com}}</ref>
| homepage = {{URL|https://www.zeeentertainment.com/}}
}}
'''Zee Entertainment Enterprises''' (formerly '''Zee Telefilms''') is an Indian [[media conglomerate]] owned by [[Essel Group]]. Headquartered in [[Mumbai]], it has interests in television, print, internet, film, mobile content and allied businesses.

==History==
The company was launched on 15 December 1991 as Zee Telefilms, brandname that was retained until 2006.
In 2002, the company acquired a majority stake (51%) in ETC Networks. In 2006, they acquired Integrated Subscriber Management Services Limited, and in November 2006, it acquired an 50% stake in Taj television, owner of [[TEN Sports]]. On that same year, the company was rebranded as Zee Entertainment Enterprises.

In February 2010, the business acquired an additional stake (95%) in TEN Sports.

In 2008, Zee Networks launched [[Zee Motion Pictures]] and [[Zee Limelight]] (now [[Zee Studios]]) for the development, production, distribution and marketing of mainstream films in Indian languages, including [[Hindi language|Hindi]], [[Malayalam language|Malayalam]], [[Tamil language|Tamil]], [[Telegu language|Telegu]], [[Kannada language|Kannada]], [[Bengali language|Bengali]] and [[Marathi language|Marathi]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Zee Group launches two motion picture production banners|url=https://businessofcinema.com/bollywood-news/zee-group-launches-two-motion-picture-production-banners/22232|publisher=Business of Cinema|date=2008}}</ref> Some of [[Zee Studios]]'s productions include [[Gadar: Ek Prem Katha]], [[Natsamrat]], [[Sairat]] and [[Rustom (film)|Rustom]].

As Zee Telefilms, the company formed part of [[List of BSE Sensex companies|BSE Sensex]] from 2000 to 2005. The news and regional entertainment channel business was spun off into a separate company in 2006 as [[Zee News]].

In May 2011, Star Den entered into a 50/50 joint venture with Zee Turner and Zee Entertainment Enterprises (ZEEL) to distribute and market all channels owned by the company and ZEEL, their respective affiliated channels and other third-party channels in India, Nepal and Bhutan.

It also owns a music label, [[Zee Music Company]].

In 2015 Zee acquired [[Sarthak TV]], an Odia-language pay-television channel.<ref>[http://www.exchange4media.com/TV/Zee-Entertainment-acquires-Sarthak-Entertainment_60810.html Zee Entertainment Acquires Sarthak Entertainment]</ref> One year later, on 28 July 2016, it launched [[Zee One]], aimed at the German market. A Polish version of the channel was launched in 2017.

In 2016, Zee launched [[Zee Mundo]], a Spanish-language Bollywood movie channel targeting Latin America.

In 2017, the company acquired the majority stake of the Reliance Broadcast Network.<ref>{{cite web|author=Bindu D Menon |url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/zee-group-buys-into-anil-ambanis-tv-and-radio-businesses/article9378020.ece |title=Zee buys Anil Ambani’s TV, radio biz for ₹1,900 cr | Business Line |publisher=Thehindubusinessline.com |access-date=2017-11-23}}</ref> It also planned to acquire [[9X Media]] in October 2017 for the cost of {{INR}}160 [[crore]], however the plan fell through in March 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/zee-entertainment-fully-acquires-9x-media-and-inx-music/article9891227.ece|title=Zee to acquire 9X Media, its arms for ₹160 cr|last=Bureau|first=Our|date=2017-10-06|work=The Hindu Business Line|access-date=2017-11-18|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/media/entertainment/zee-terminates-9x-media-acquisition/articleshow/63334878.cms?from=mdr|title=ZEE terminates 9X Media acquisition|language=en}}</ref>
A partially-owned subsidiary, Diligent Media Corporation, is a publisher of Indian daily newspapers and websites. DMC is a [[joint venture]] between Zee and the [[Dainik Bhaskar]] Group.<ref>{{cite web|title=Indian Newspapers and News Sites|url=http://www.w3newspapers.com/india/|website=w3newspapers.com|access-date=18 October 2014}}</ref>

== Operated channels ==
===Present channels===
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:middle;
!style="width:180pt; background:Yellow;"|Channel
!style="width:180pt; background:SpringGreen;"|Language
!style="width:300pt; background:Yellow;"|Category
!style="width:180pt; background:SpringGreen;"|SD/HD availability
!style="width:300pt; background:Yellow;"|Notes
|-
| [[Zee TV]]
| rowspan="12" | [[Hindi]]
| rowspan="4" | General Entertainment
| rowspan="2" | SD+HD
|
|-
| [[And TV|& TV]]
|
|-
| [[Zee Anmol]]
| rowspan="3" | SD
|
|-
| [[Big Magic]]
| Rebranded soon as ''Zee Josh''
|-
| [[Zing (TV channel)|Zing]]
| Music
| Formerly known as ''Zee Music''
|-
| [[Zee Cinema]]
| rowspan="7" | Movies
| SD+HD
|
|-
| [[Zee Action]]
| rowspan="3" | SD
|
|-
| [[Zee Bollywood]]
|
|-
| [[Zee TV|Zee Classic]]
|
|-
| [[&pictures]]
| SD+HD
|
|-
| &xplor HD
| HD
|
|-
| [[Zee Anmol Cinema]]
| SD
|
|-
| [[Zee Café]]
| rowspan="3" | [[English language|English]]
| General Entertainment
| rowspan="2" | SD+HD
| Formerly known as ''Zee English''
|-
| [[&flix|&Flix]]
| rowspan="2" | Movies
|Formerly known as ''[[Zee Studio]]''
|-
| [[&privé HD]]
| HD
|
|-
| [[Zee Zest]]
| [[Hindi language|Hindi]], [[English language|English]]
| Lifestyle
| rowspan="2" | SD+HD
| Formerly known as ''Living Foodz'' and [[Zee Khana Khazana Channel|''Zee Khana Khazana'']]
|-
| [[Zee Marathi]]
| rowspan="5" | [[Marathi language|Marathi]]
| rowspan="2" | General Entertainment
|
|-
| [[Zee Yuva]]
| SD
|
|-
| [[Zee Talkies]]
| rowspan="2" | Movies
| SD+HD
|
|-
| Zee Chitramandir
| rowspan="2" | SD
|
|-
| [[Zee Vajwa]]
| Music
|
|-
| [[Zee Tamil]]
| rowspan="2" | [[Tamil language|Tamil]]
| General Entertainment
| SD+HD
|
|-
| [[Zee Thirai]]
| Movies
| SD
| HD version coming soon
|-
| [[Zee Telugu]]
| rowspan="2" | [[Telugu language|Telugu]]
| General Entertainment
| rowspan="4" | SD+HD
|
|-
| [[Zee Cinemalu]]
| Movies
|
|-
| [[Zee Keralam]]
| [[Malayalam]]
| rowspan="2" | General Entertainment
|
|-
| [[Zee Kannada]]
| rowspan="2" | [[Kannada language|Kannada]]
|
|-
| [[Zee Picchar]]
|Movies
| SD
| HD version coming soon
|-
| [[Zee Bangla]]
| rowspan="2" | [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
| General Entertainment
| SD+HD
|
|-
| [[Zee Bangla Cinema]]
| Movies
| rowspan="5" | SD
|
|-
| [[Zee Sarthak]]
| [[Odia language|Odia]]
| rowspan="3" | General Entertainment
| Formerly ''Sarthak TV''
|-
| [[Zee Punjabi]]
| [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]
|
|-
| [[Big Ganga|Zee Ganga]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=ZEEL rebrands Big Ganga to Zee Ganga - Exchange4media|url=https://www.exchange4media.com/media-tv-news/gec-zee-ganga-launched-with-exciting-line-up-of-original-bhojpuri-content-115071.html|access-date=2021-08-18|website=Indian Advertising Media & Marketing News – exchange4media|language=en}}</ref>
| rowspan="2" | [[Bhojpuri language|Bhojpuri]]
| Formerly ''Big Ganga''
|-
| [[Zee Biskope]]
| Movies
|
|-
| [[Zee News]]
| rowspan="3" | [[Hindi language|Hindi]]
| rowspan="14" | News
| rowspan="14" | SD
| HD version coming soon
|-
| [[Zee Hindustan]]
|
|-
| [[Zee Business]]
|
|-
| [[WION (TV channel)|WION]]
| [[English language|English]]
| HD version coming soon
|-
| [[Zee 24 Ghanta]]
| [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
|
|-
| [[Zee 24 Taas]]
| [[Marathi language|Marathi]]
|
|-
| [[Zee 24 Kalak]]
| [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]
|
|-
| [[Zee Odisha]]
| [[Odia language|Odia]]
|
|-
| [[Zee Rajasthan]]
| rowspan="5" | [[Hindi language|Hindi]]
|
|-
| Zee Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand
|
|-
| Zee Madhya Pradesh Chhattisgarh
|
|-
| [[Zee Punjab Haryana Himachal]]
|
|-
| [[Zee Bihar Jharkhand]]
|
|-
| [[Zee Salaam]]
| [[Urdu language|Urdu]]
|
|}

===International channels===
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:middle;
!style="width:180pt; background:Turquoise;"|Channel
!style="width:180pt; background:Violet;"|Language
!style="width:300pt; background:Turquoise;"|Category
!style="width:300pt; background:Violet;"|Notes
|-
| [[Zee World]]
| rowspan="4" | [[English language|English]]
| General Entertainment
|
|-
| [[Zee Smile]]
| Comedy
|
|-
| [[Zee Bollynova]]
| General Entertainment
|
|-
| [[Zee Bollymovies]]
| Movies
|
|-
| [[Zee Magic]]
| [[French language|French]]
| rowspan="3" | General Entertainment
|
|-
| [[Zee One]]
| [[German language|German]]
| Defunct
|-
| [[Zee Bioskop]]
| [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]]
|
|-
| [[Zee Mundo]]
| [[Spanish language|Spanish]]
| rowspan="2" | Movies
|
|-
| [[Zee Sine]]
| [[Filipino language|Filipino]]
|
|-
| [[Zee Alwan]]
| rowspan="2" | [[Arabic language|Arabic]]
| General Entertainment
|
|-
| [[Zee Aflam]]
| Movies
|
|-
| Zee Bing
| rowspan="2" | [[Thai language|Thai]]
| General Entertainment
|
|}

===Defunct/Former channels===
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:middle;
!style="width:180pt; background:Red;"|Channel
!style="width:180pt; background:Aqua;"|Language
!style="width:300pt; background:Red;"|Category
!style="width:180pt; background:Aqua;"|SD/HD availability
!style="width:300pt; background:Red;"|Notes
|-
| [[Zee Next]]
| rowspan="9" | [[Hindi language|Hindi]]
| rowspan="3" | General Entertainment
| rowspan="14" | SD
|
|-
| [[Zindagi (TV channel)|Zindagi]]
| Only digitally available now<ref>{{Cite web|last=Delhi|first=BestMediaInfo Bureau|last2=July 17|last3=2020|title=Zee announces return of content brand Zindagi on Zee5|url=https://bestmediainfo.com/2020/07/zee-announces-return-of-content-brand-zindagi-on-zee5/|access-date=2021-05-16|website=www.bestmediaifo.com}}</ref>
|-
| [[Zee Smile]]
| Formerly known as ''Smile TV''
|-
| [[Zee Jagran]]
| Devotional
|
|-
| [[Zee Premier Cinema|Zee Premier]]
| Movies
| Formerly known as ''Premier Cinema''
|-
| [[ZeeQ]]
| Kids
|
|-
|[[Zee Muzic]]
| rowspan="2" |Music
|Repraced with ''[[Zing TV]]''
|-
| [[Zee ETC Bollywood]]
| Formerly known as ''ETC'', then ''ETC Bollywood''
|-
| [[Zee Khana Khazana]]
| Lifestyle
| Replaced with ''Living Foodz''
|-
| [[Zee Studio]]
| rowspan="4" | [[English language|English]]
| rowspan="2" | Movies
| Formerly known as ''Zee MGM'', then ''Zee Movie Zone''
|-
| Zee Select
| Formerly known as ''MX''
|-
| [[Zee Trendz]]
| Lifestyle
| Formerly known as ''Trendz TV''
|-
| [[Zee Sports]]
| Sports
| Replaced with ''[[TEN Action+]]''
|-
| Zee Gujarati
| [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]
| General Entertainment
| Formerly known as ''Alpha TV Gujarati''
|-
| [[Living Foodz]]
| rowspan="2" | [[English language|English]], [[Hindi language|Hindi]]
| rowspan="2" | Lifestyle
| SD+HD
| Replaced with [[Zee Zest]]
|-
| [[Living Travelz]]
| rowspan="4" | SD
|
|-
| Zee ETC Punjabi
| [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]
| General Entertainment
| Formerly known as ''ETC Punjabi''
|-
| [[Zee 24 Gantalu]]
| [[Telugu language|Telugu]]
| News
|
|-
| [[9X (TV channel)|9X]]
| [[Hindi language|Hindi]]
| General Entertainment
| Acquired from [[9X Media]]
|}

==Recent developments (2019–present)==
In February 2019 media reported that [[Essel Group]] was in talks to sell<ref name="economictimes.indiatimes.com">https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/media/entertainment/media/comcast-atairos-sony-shortlisted-for-stake-sale-talks-by-zee-entertainment/articleshow/68056312.cms</ref> their shares from the Zee Entertainment Enterprises to save from the debt.

[[Sony|Sony Corporation]], Comcast-Atairos, a firm lead by American cable giant [[Comcast]] were shortlisted for the bid. However, they were competing with technology giant [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] and [[Reliance Industries]] among others.

Top Sony officials including Mike Hopkins, chairman of Sony Pictures Television,<ref name="economictimes.indiatimes.com"/> and [[Tony Vinciquerra]], chairman of [[Sony Pictures Entertainment]], had visited [[Subhash Chandra]] and his family at his residence shortly after Chandra announced his intent to sell half of the promoter holding in Zee Entertainment Enterprises to a global strategic investor.<br />

On April 2 reports said that<ref>https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/zee-entertainment-shares-wobble-after-share-sale-by-promoters/articleshow/68681842.cms</ref> some other promoters<ref>https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/stocks/zee-entertainment-down-3-after-promoters-sell-stake-3744761.html</ref> were willing to sell their shares worth {{INR}}332 crore.<br />

On April 3 media reported [[Sony]] and Zee Entertainment Enterprises deal off<ref>https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/media/entertainment/sony-zee-deal-off-for-now-amid-valuation-differences/articleshow/68697156.cms</ref> amid valuation differences which opened the door for Comcast-Atairos.

On August 1 media reports [[Invesco]] Oppenheimer Fund to buy 11% stake in Zee Entertainment<ref>https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/invesco-oppenheimer-fund-to-buy-11-in-zeel-for-rs-4-224-crore/amp-1564577772129.html</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Official|http://www.zeeentertainment.com/}}

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