The Indian Television Academy Awards, also known as the ITA Awards, is an annual award ceremony organised by the Indian Television Academy to honour excellence in

Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ...

-language television, films and web content. The Indian Television Academy was launched in July 2001 by Anu Ranjan and the first ITA Awards were held in November 2001.

Editions

Jury awards

General

Drama

* ITA Award for Best Actor in a Drama - Jury * ITA Award for Best Actress in a Drama - Jury * ITA Award for Best Drama - Jury * ITA Award for Best Director Drama * ITA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role * ITA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role * ITA Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role * ITA Award for Best Actress in a Negative Role * ITA Award for Best Child Artist

Comedy

* ITA Award for Best Actor - Comedy * ITA Award for Best Actress - Comedy * ITA Award for Best Director Comedy * ITA Award for Best Show - Comedy

Best Reality Show

Best Anchor - Music/Film Based Show

Best Music/Film Based Show

Best Talk Show Anchor

Best Game Show Host

Best Game Show

Best News Anchor

Best News Show

Best Television Event

Best Interstitial/Filler

Best Mini Series

Best TV Documentary

Others

* ITA Award for Best Thriller/Horror Serial * ITA Award for Popular Serial -Special Recognition *Milestone Achievement Award - Crime Patrol (2021)

Technical

Best Art Direction

Best Costumes

Best Dialogues

Best Editing

Edutainment/Science/Knowledge Based Show

Best TV Picture Editor

Best Public Service Shorts

Best Lyricist

Best Singer

Best Story

Best Teleplay

Best Title Music/Song Track

Best Videography

Best Visual Effects

Special awards

The ITA Honorary Award, is given by the Indian Television Academy as part of its annual ITA Awards. The award is usually given to television series, events or personalities that have acquired legendary status through Indian television.

Channel awards

Best Entertainment Channel

*2001 -

DD Metro DD Metro also known as DD 2 was an Indian free-to-air television channel. It was launched in 1984 as DD2 in Delhi as an alternative to DD National. Later, it increased its coverage area by expanding to Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. In 1993, the ...

*2002 -

Star Plus StarPlus is an Indian Hindi-language general entertainment pay television channel owned by JioStar, a joint venture between Viacom18 and Disney India. Its programming consists of family dramas, romantic comedies, youth-oriented reali ...

*2003 - Star Plus *2004 - Star Plus *2005 - Star Plus *2006 - Star Plus *2007 - Star Plus *2008 - Star Plus *2009 -

Colors TV Colors TV is an Indian general entertainment pay television channel owned by JioStar, a joint venture between Viacom18 and Disney India. Its programming consists of Soap opera, family dramas, Comedy, comedies, fantasy shows, youth-oriented Rea ...

*2010 - Star Plus *2011 - Star Plus *2012 - Star Plus *2013 - Star Plus *2014 - Star Plus *2015 - Star Plus *2016 - Star Plus *2017 - Star Plus *2018 -

*2019 - Star Plus *2020 - Star Plus

Best Hindi News Channel

*2001 -

Aaj Tak () is an Indian Hindi-language television news channel owned by the TV Today Network, a part of the New Delhi-based media conglomerate India Today Group. History Aaj Tak was first broadcast on DD Metro of Doordarshan (DD) in 1995. It ...

*2002 - Aaj Tak *2003 - Aaj Tak *2004 - Aaj Tak *2005 - Aaj Tak *2006 - Aaj Tak *2007 - Aaj Tak *2008 - Aaj Tak *2009 - Aaj Tak *2010 - Aaj Tak *2011 - Aaj Tak *2012 - Aaj Tak *2013 - Aaj Tak *2014 - Aaj Tak *2015 - Aaj Tak *2016 -

India TV India TV is a Hindi television news channel based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. The channel was launched on 20 May 2004 by Rajat Sharma and his wife Ritu Dhawan. The channel is a subsidiary of Independent News Service, which was co-founded ...

*2017 - Aaj Tak *2018 - Aaj Tak *2019 - Aaj Tak *2020 - Aaj Tak *2021 -

ABP News ABP News is an Indian Hindi-language free-to-air television news channel owned by ABP Group. Initially launched as Star News in 1998, it was later acquired by the ABP Group (ABP). It won the Best Hindi News Channel award in the 21st editi ...

*2022 - ABP News *2023 - Aaj Tak *2024 - Aaj Tak

Best English News Channel

*2006 -

CNN-News18 CNN News18 is an Indian English-language news television channel founded by Raghav Bahl based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is currently co-owned by Network18 Group and Warner Bros. Discovery. CNN provides international coverage for the ...

*2007 - CNN-News18 *2008 - CNN-News18 *2009 -

NDTV 24x7 NDTV 24x7 is a 24-hour English-language television news channel based in New Delhi, India.Louis Brawley ''Remote Control: Indian Television in the New Millennium'' Penguin UK (2012) History Until about the end of the 1980s, like most of the w ...

*2010 - CNN-News18 *2011 - CNN-News18 *2012 - CNN-News18 *2013 - CNN-News18 * 2014 -

Times Now Times Now is an English-language news channel in India owned and operated by The Times Group. The channel launched on 23 January 2006 in partnership with Reuters. It is a pay television throughout India. Until 2016, it was India's most popula ...

*2015 - CNN-News18 *2016 - CNN-News18 *2017 -

India Today ''India Today'' is a weekly Indian English-language news magazine published by Living Media, Living Media India Limited. It is the most widely circulated magazine in India, with a readership of close to 8 million. In 2014, ''India Today'' laun ...

*2018 - India Today *2019 - India Today *2020 - India Today *2021 - India Today *2022 - India Today *2023 - India Today *2024 - India Today

References

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