ETV Bal Bharat

**ETV Bal Bharat** is an Indian children's television channel owned by ETV Network, a subsidiary of Ramoji Group. The channel broadcasts in 12 languages, 11 local Indian ones, and English. The channel airs all cartoons dubbed in all languages, mainly not acquiring other existing dubs, on 2 occassions, even commissioning new Indian English dubs. The channel has 6 subfeeds.

## Names

Due to a lot of languages, the channel has a few names in different languages. The official English/Latin name is ETV Bal Bharat, lit. ETV Child India, however, other romanized names include ETV Bala Bharat, ETV Bala Bharata, and ETV Balya Bharat.

Here are the names of the channel in the Indian languages:

* **Assamese**: ETV বাল ভাৰত
* **Bengali**: ETV বাল্যভারত
* **Gujarati**: ETV બાલ ભારત
* **Hindi**: ETV बाल भारत
* **Kannada**: ETV ಬಾಲ ಭಾರತ್
* **Malayalam**: ETV ബാൽ ഭാരത്
* **Marathi**: ETV बाल भारत
* **Odia**: ETV ବାଲ ଭାରତ
* **Punjabi**: ETV ਬਾਲ ਭਾਰਤ
* **Tamil**: ETV பால் பாரத்
* **Telugu**: ETV బాల్ భారత్

## History

### 2021-present

The channel launched on April 27th, 2021. It launched with shows such as Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures, Kitty is not a Cat, The Sisters, Kong: King of the Apes, Tin and Tan and Abhimanyu The Young Yodha.

The channel originally launched with 12 regional channels, one for each language, however, after less then a year, on April 1st, 2022, 6 of them were shut down; the Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Odia and Punjabi ones; instead getting audio tracks on the main feed. On the channel's first anniversary, on April 27th, 2022 Dora the Explorer premiered, starting the channel's history of airing Nickelodeon shows. Avatar: The Last Airbender premiered on May 16th, 2022.

On January 1st, 2023, the channel aired Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and premiered The Legend of Korra. As it was expected, the channel finally started airing the biggest Nickelodeon production, SpongeBob SquarePants on April 3, 2023. On May 15th, Detective Conan premiered with a new English dub.

## Logos

### 2021-present

#### Variations

Bengali variationHindi variationGujarati variationKannada variationMalayalam variationMarathi variationOdia variationPunjabi variationTamil variationTelugu variation

## Providers

###  India

* Airtel Digital TV (Satellite)
* Dish TV (Satellite)
* Tata Play (Satellite)
* Hathway (Cable, Odisha province)
* Tata Play (IPTV)

## Subfeeds

* **ETV Bal Bharat** (English, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Odia and Punjabi)
* **ETV Bal Bharat Hindi**
* **ETV Bal Bharat Kannada**
* **ETV Bal Bharat Malayalam**
* **ETV Bal Bharat Tamil**
* **ETV Bal Bharat Telugu**

## External links

* Official website
* Official Facebook account
* Official Twitter account
* Official YouTube channel
* Official YouTube channel (Kannada)
* Official YouTube channel (Malayalam)
* Official YouTube channel (Tamil)
* Official YouTube channel (Telugu)

## See also

* ETV (India)
* ETV Abhiruchi
* ETV Andhra Pradesh
* ETV Cinema
* ETV Life
* ETV Network
* ETV Plus
* ETV Telangana

## References

1. ↑ https://www.afaqs.com/companies/etv-network-to-launch-multi-lingual-childrens-channels-etv-bal-bharat
2. ↑ https://dreamdth.com/six-etv-bal-bharat-regional-channels-to-close-down-in-april/