Indian Telly Awards
annual award
The Indian Telly Awards is an annual awards ceremony that honors excellence of Hindi-language television. It was conceptualised and created by Anil Wanvari.
History
For the first three years, The Indian Telly Awards were aired on Indian Hindi general entertainment channel Star Plus (2001–2003).
From 2004 to 2009, Sony Entertainment Television was the home of The Indian Telly Awards with the channel commissioning Indiantelevision.com to produce it and acquiring the content to air on its channel Sony. Since its 10th edition, the awards ceremony moved to Viacom 18 Hindi general entertainment channel Colors TV. &TV took over the broadcasting rights, starting the fourteenth edition.
The Indian Telly Awards were first presented on 6 July 2001.
TV and film actor Alyy Khan hosted the first awards, held at the Oberoi Trident hotel in Mumbai. Actors Bhakti Barve and Jatin Kanakia received posthumous awards. In 2001 and 2003, the awards were hosted by television Actor Ram Kapoor & his wife Gautami Kapoor.
Television actors Ram Kapoor and Roshni Chopra hosted the 2007 awards.
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