Colors Kannada

Banna Hosadagide Bandha Bigiyagide
Country	India
Headquarters	Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Programming
Language(s)	Kannada
Picture format	576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Ownership
Owner	Viacom18
Sister channels	List Colors Kannada Cinema Colors Super Colors TV Colors Cineplex Colors Cineplex Bollywood Rishtey Cineplex MTV MTV Indies VH1 Comedy Central Colors Marathi Colors Gujarati Colors Gujarati Cinema Colors Bangla Colors Rishtey Colors Odia News18 Odia News18 India News18 Bihar-Jharkhand News18 Bangla Nick Nick Jr Sports18 Sonic-Nickelodeon CNN-News18 Colors Infinity Colors Tamil News18 Kannada
History
Launched	December 10, 2000; 23 years ago (2000-12-10)
Replaced	ETV Kannada
Links
Website	Official website
Availability
Streaming media
Sling TV	Internet Protocol television

Colors Kannada (previously known as ETV Kannada), is an Indian general entertainment channel, owned by Viacom18 that primarily broadcasts Kannada language entertainment shows.^[1] This channel is currently available in India and the United States. On the success of this channel, another channel named Colors Super, which is also a general entertainment channel, was launched on 24 July 2016. In December 2020, Colors Kannada celebrated its 20th anniversary.

History

The channel was originally launched on 10 December 2000 as ETV Kannada and was promoted by Hyderabad's Ramoji Rao. It later became a part of Viacom 18, owned by Network 18, officially re-branding under the Colors franchise on 26 April 2015. Colors Kannada was the first GEC to start an HD channel in Karnataka.

Sister channels

Colors Super

Colors Super is an Indian general entertainment channel, owned by Viacom18, that primarily broadcasts Kannada-language entertainment shows. This channel was launched on 24 July 2016, after the success of Kannada's leading entertainment channel, Colors Kannada, the primary Kannada entertainment channel of Viacom18.^[2] The voice over for the channel is given by Manoj Sharma^[3]

Colors Kannada Cinema

Colors Kannada Cinema is an Indian pay television movie channel broadcasting in Kannada language, owned by Viacom18. It was launched on 24 September 2018.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]} The voice over for the channel is given by Manoj Sharma^[3]