Kite Victers

KITE VICTERS
Country	India
Broadcast area	India
Headquarters	Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Programming
Picture format	576i SDTV
Timeshift service	KITE VICTERS Plus
Ownership
Owner	Government of Kerala
History
Launched	July 28, 2005; 16 years ago
Links
Website	victers.kite.kerala.gov.in

KITE VICTERS (an acronym for "Versatile ICT Enabled Resource for Students") is an edutainment television channel in the Malayalam language operated by KITE under the Department of General and Higher Education (Kerala) and is wholly owned by the Government of Kerala. The channel is headquartered in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, and broadcast on the GSAT-18 satellite.

Establishment[]

KITE is the nodal agency for implementing the EDUSAT network and runs KITE VICTERS, the exclusive channel for education which is aired from 6 am to 11 pm. India's epoch making first broadband network on EDUSAT for schools, KITE VICTERS inaugurated by A P J Abdul Kalam, the president of India, on 28 July 2005 in Thiruvananthapuram.^[1]

The telecast of programs started in August 2006 through the assistance of EDUSAT network. The channel is telecasted for 17 hours a day from 6 am to 11 pm. KITE VICTERS offers interactive virtual classrooms that enable the school students as well as the teachers to directly communicate with the subject experts and educationists. It also ensures the dissemination of high-quality education to the students and teachers from the original source.