Kathmandu Metropolitan City - Media

Media

Kathmandu is the television hub of Nepal. Nepal Television, established in 1985, is the oldest and most watched television channel in Nepal, as is the government-owned NTV 2 Metro, Channel Nepal, Image Channel, Avenues TV, Kantipur Television, Sagermatha TV, Himalayan Television, and other channels.

The headquarters of many of the country's news outlets are also located in the city including the government owned Gorkhapatra which is the oldest national daily newspaper in Nepal, The Kathmandu Post, Nepali Times, Kantipur Publications and its paper Kantipur which is the largest selling Nepali language paper, The Himalayan Times which is the largest selling English broadsheet in Nepal, Karobar Economic Daily only economic daily in Nepal, and Jana Aastha National Weekly.

Nepal Republic Media, the publisher of MyRepublica, entered into publishing alliance with the International Herald Tribune (IHT), to publish Asia Pacific Edition of IHT from Kathmandu from July 20, 2011. There is a state-run National News Agency (RSS). The Internet address is nepalnews.com, which provides private online news.

Radio service of Radio Nepal, a state-run organization operates national and regional radio stations. The radio stations, which are operational are: Hits FM (Nepal) – commercial; music-based -HBC 94 FM – operated by Himalayan Broadcasting Company, Radio Sagarmatha – FM, public, community station, Kantipur FM – commercial and Image FM. British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has also a FM broadcasting station at Kathmandu.

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