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Marathi IPTV Channels for Viewers Living Beyond Maharashtra
Moving away from Maharashtra often means leaving behind the familiar rhythm of daily Marathi television. With RisePrimeTV, Marathi viewers living in the USA, UK, UAE, and other regions can continue watching their preferred TV channels just as they would back home. Whether it’s a household favorite serial or a regional broadcast from Mumbai or Pune, IPTV ensures uninterrupted access to Marathi programming without geographical limitations.
Daily Marathi Serials That Keep You Hooked
RisePrimeTV makes it easy to stay consistent with your favorite Marathi serials, no matter where you are. These shows are more than just entertainment—they’re part of a daily routine for many households, built around emotional storytelling, relatable characters, and evolving family narratives.
From prime-time dramas to long-running series that audiences follow for years, Marathi television thrives on continuity. IPTV allows viewers to keep up with every episode, ensuring they never miss key story developments or moments that spark everyday conversations among family and friends.
Marathi IPTV channels — watch live Marathi TV from Maharashtra in the USA, UK and Canada
Twenty-six channels on RisePrime TV — twenty-two of them broadcasting in Marathi, plus the four Hindi devotional channels Marathi households actually watch, because Marathi has no devotional channel of its own. Grouped the way Marathi television is actually built rather than dropped into one long list. Entertainment is not a level contest — Star Pravah runs well ahead of the field, and knowing that changes which channels a household actually needs. News is unusual too: three of Maharashtra's biggest daily newspapers each run their own newsroom on air. Film channels are libraries, and Marathi libraries stratify by era. Devotional programming has no channel of its own and runs on the festival calendar instead. The five tabs below cover each of those tiers, and the last one deals plainly with what Marathi television does not have. Every channel streams live to Firestick, Smart TV, Android, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and any browser.
Marathi entertainment channels
Seven Marathi general entertainment channels, and they are not evenly matched. Star Pravah has led the Marathi market for several years by a margin no other Indian-language GEC tier sustains, Zee Marathi holds a clear second, and the rest compete for what is left. Daily serials run six nights a week through the evening block; the big non-fiction formats — Bigg Boss Marathi, Maharashtrachi Hasyajatra, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Marathi — anchor the weekend. Watch Marathi serials online live from Mumbai, or on catch-up when the broadcast hour lands in the middle of a working day abroad.
Launched in 2008 and now the most-watched channel in the Marathi market by a wide margin. A JioStar channel since the Disney Star and Viacom18 merger. Fiction is its strength — the serial slate carries most of the tier's top-rated shows, and the schedule is built to hold viewers across the whole evening rather than around a single hit.
On air since 1999 and the channel that built the modern Marathi GEC. Zee Marathi invented most of the formats the tier still runs on — Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Marathi, Fu Bai Fu, Home Minister, Eka Peksha Ek — and remains the reference point for Marathi family drama even after losing the top slot.
The oldest Marathi satellite channel still running, on air since 2000 and rebranded to Colors in 2015. Now part of JioStar alongside Star Pravah. The reality channel of the tier: Bigg Boss Marathi is the biggest annual event on Marathi television and pulls the whole weekend schedule around it.
Culver Max Entertainment's Marathi channel, launched in August 2018. It has never chased the fiction leaders and does not need to — Maharashtrachi Hasyajatra made it the comedy destination of Marathi television, and the sketch format has outlasted most of the serials that launched alongside it.
The newest entrant, launched by Sun TV Network in 2021 and the network's first move outside the four southern languages. It added an HD feed in November 2023 and has climbed into the reported Marathi top five, which no new Marathi GEC had managed in two decades.
Zee's second Marathi channel, launched in 2016 and aimed at a younger audience than the main GEC tier. Lighter fiction, youth-oriented non-fiction and a heavy film-based schedule, so it fills the hours when the flagship channels are running repeats.
Maharashtra's public broadcaster and the first channel dedicated to the state, on air since 1994 as DD 10 and renamed DD Sahyadri in 2000. Agriculture, health, education and public debate alongside older Marathi films — the programming the commercial tier does not make, and the channel that carries state occasions live. An HD feed was added in July 2025.
Star Pravah and Colors Marathi now belong to the same company
Star Pravah and Colors Marathi spent fifteen years as direct rivals under Disney Star and Viacom18. Since those businesses combined into JioStar, both channels — plus the film channel Pravah Picture and the news channel News18 Marathi — sit inside one group. Nothing about the channels themselves changed: same feeds, same schedules, same rivalry on screen. It does mean that four of the twenty-seven channels on this page now answer to a single owner, which is worth knowing when comparing lineups.
Marathi is the least even GEC market in India indexed to the leader = 100
Those three are the only Marathi channels inside the reported top five for the Marathi market in recent weeks — the other two slots went to Hindi channels, which tells you something in itself about how Maharashtra watches television. Colors Marathi, Sony Marathi, Zee Yuva and DD Sahyadri sit below that line and are carried here for what they do rather than what they rate: Bigg Boss Marathi, Hasyajatra, the youth slate and the public-service schedule are not interchangeable with a serial. Compare this with Telugu, where four channels fight to a near draw every weeknight. A Marathi package that carries only the leader is missing most of what a household actually switches to.
Frequently asked questions
Can I watch Star Pravah, Zee Marathi and Colors Marathi live outside India?
Yes. All three stream live through RisePrime TV to the USA, UK and Canada, on Firestick, Smart TV, Android, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and in any browser. These are the channels most Marathi households check for first, which is why they open this page rather than sitting further down a list. Sony Marathi, Sun Marathi, Zee Yuva and DD Sahyadri are carried alongside them in the same tab.
How many Marathi channels does RisePrime TV carry?
Twenty-six across four tiers: seven entertainment channels, nine news channels, six movie and music channels, and four devotional and cultural channels. Twenty-two of those broadcast in Marathi. The four in the devotional tier are Hindi-language, and are included because Marathi has no devotional channel in its own language for any provider to carry — that tab explains the position rather than glossing it. A fifth tab covers sport, children's and lifestyle viewing, which Marathi television does not produce in its own language — that programming comes from elsewhere in the lineup and the tab explains exactly where.
Are Marathi channels available in HD?
Several are. Star Pravah, Zee Marathi, Colors Marathi and Sun Marathi all broadcast dedicated HD feeds, as do the film channels Zee Talkies and Pravah Picture, and DD Sahyadri added one in July 2025. It is not universal — Sony Marathi and Zee Yuva are produced in standard definition only, as are most of the news and music channels, and where a broadcaster does not make an HD feed no platform can create one.
Which Marathi news channels are included?
Nine: ABP Majha, TV9 Marathi, News18 Marathi, Zee 24 Taas, Saam TV, Lokshahi Marathi, Pudhari News, Jai Maharashtra and NDTV Marathi. Maharashtra supports around ten Marathi satellite news channels in total — fewer than Telugu, Tamil or Bengali, where fifteen or more is common — so this is close to the whole market rather than a selection from it.
Is there a Marathi devotional channel?
Not a 24-hour one in Marathi, and no lineup anywhere can offer what does not exist. Marathi devotional broadcasting works differently: it is scheduled event television built around the festival calendar, and the biggest occasions — the Pandharpur wari and Ashadhi Ekadashi, Ganeshotsav, Gudi Padwa — are carried live by the Marathi news channels and DD Sahyadri rather than by a dedicated bhakti channel. The Devotional & Cultural tab sets out that calendar and lists the devotional and bhajan channels carried alongside it.
Can I watch Marathi channels on Firestick, Smart TV or my phone?
Yes — every channel on this page streams to Firestick, Smart TV, Android, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and any browser, so a household can watch a serial in the living room and the news in another room without a second subscription.
Is there cricket with Marathi commentary?
Not on a Marathi television channel. Star Sports 1 Marathi launched in 2019 and closed in March 2023, and nothing has replaced it — Marathi is the largest Indian language with no sports channel of its own. Marathi-language commentary now exists mainly as an audio option on streaming coverage rather than as a linear feed. Sport in this package comes from the Hindi and English channels in the wider RisePrime TV lineup; the Sport, Kids & Lifestyle tab explains what that covers.
Who actually owns Marathi television
All twenty-seven channels in the tabs above belong to one of six groups. Knowing which explains why the same handful of names keeps reappearing across entertainment, film, music and news — and why Marathi news looks different from every other tier.
JioStar
Star Pravah, Colors Marathi and moreZee Entertainment
Four channels, every genreNewspaper groups
Lokmat, Sakal and PudhariSony and Sun
One Marathi GEC eachIndependent newsrooms
Where the rest of the news comes fromPrasar Bharati
Public-service broadcastingWhere Marathi viewers stream from
The Marathi diaspora is smaller than the Telugu or Gujarati ones but far more tightly organised. Bruhan Maharashtra Mandal, founded in Chicago in 1981, now brings together more than fifty Maharashtrian associations across North America and runs a biennial convention that draws thousands. Where there is a mandal there is a Marathi-speaking household that wants Marathi television, and those are the cities RisePrime TV's Marathi package is built for.
Marathi news channels live
Maharashtra supports around ten Marathi satellite news channels — fewer than Telugu, Tamil or Bengali, where fifteen or more is normal. That makes the Marathi news tier smaller but far more concentrated, and it is the one tier where a single lineup can realistically carry almost the whole market. What sets it apart is who owns it: Maharashtra has an unusually strong regional press, and several of its biggest daily newspapers put their own newsroom on air rather than licensing the brand out. The nine channels here cover Maharashtra state politics, Mumbai civic affairs, the assembly, agriculture and the district reporting that no national channel carries.
The four largest newsrooms
Launched in June 2007 as Star Majha and renamed ABP Majha in 2012 when the ABP Group took the channel over. Consistently the most-watched Marathi news channel, and the one that pulls furthest ahead during state election coverage. The reference point for Maharashtra breaking news.
On air since 2009 and ABP Majha's closest rival, trading the top ratings slot with it week to week. Aggressive live reporting with a district bureau network that regularly gets to a story ahead of the Mumbai-based desks.
Launched on Gudi Padwa in April 2008 as IBN Lokmat, a joint venture between Network18 and the Lokmat newspaper group, and branded News18 Lokmat from 2017 until January 2026, when it became News18 Marathi. An extensive state bureau presence and one of the longest-running newsrooms in the tier.
Zee Media's Marathi newsroom, running since 2007 and the news arm of the group that also owns Zee Marathi and Zee Talkies. A steadier studio format than its rivals, heavier on scheduled bulletins and panel debate than on rolling live coverage.
Newspaper newsrooms
Marathi television's first round-the-clock news channel, launched in 2008 by the Sakal Media Group, publisher of the Pune daily Sakal. It began as an infotainment channel and converted to a full news format in January 2018. Strong on Pune and western Maharashtra, where its parent newspaper is strongest.
The newest newspaper newsroom in the tier, launched in August 2023 by Pudhari Publications. The Pudhari daily is the dominant paper in Kolhapur and the southern districts, and the channel reports from there in a way the Mumbai-headquartered channels do not.
Independent and newer entrants
Launched on Republic Day 2020 by Swaraj Marathi Broadcasting, and one of the few genuinely independent newsrooms in the tier — no newspaper parent and no national network behind it. Politics and current affairs across the state.
On air since Maharashtra Day 2013, run by the Mumbai-based Sahana Group. Best known operationally for keeping a live newsroom running remotely through the pandemic from its Andheri studios, which drew coverage well beyond Maharashtra.
The most recent arrival, launched on Maharashtra Day 2024 and NDTV's first channel in a language other than Hindi or English. A national newsroom's resources applied to Maharashtra state reporting, which gives it a different register from the channels that grew up inside the state.
The newspaper behind the newsroom
This is the structural difference between Marathi news and most other Indian-language news markets, and it shows on screen. A newspaper-owned channel inherits a district reporting network that a broadcast-only newsroom has to build from nothing, which is why Saam TV is strongest in and around Pune and Pudhari News in the southern districts. It also explains the odd one out above: Lokmat and Network18 ran their channel jointly for eighteen years until Network18 bought the newspaper group out, and the channel dropped the Lokmat name in January 2026. Older channel guides and lineups still list it as News18 Lokmat, so both names are given on the card.
Marathi movie and music channels
Marathi cinema is the oldest film industry in India and one of the few regional industries whose libraries stretch back nearly a century, so a Marathi movie channel is not a rotation of recent releases the way a Punjabi or Gujarati one is. It is a library with real depth, and each of the four film channels here draws from a different part of it — new-release premieres at one end, 1970s comedy and the Prabhat-era classics at the other. Two music channels sit alongside them carrying film songs, abhangs, lavani and the retro Marathi bhavgeet catalogue.
Marathi film channels
The flagship Marathi movie channel, on air since 2007 with a dedicated HD feed since 2016. Zee's own studio arm produces a large share of Marathi commercial cinema, so the channel gets first call on much of what it broadcasts — which is why its world television premieres tend to be the ones households wait for.
Star Pravah's film channel, launched in 2022 with an HD feed from the start. The newest Marathi movie channel and the direct challenger to Zee Talkies, using the same promotional muscle that made its parent channel the market leader to build premiere events of its own.
Enterr10's free-to-air Marathi channel, launched in 2016 as Aapla Talkies. It began as a film channel and broadened to a mixed schedule in 2019, so it now runs serials — including a large block rebroadcast from the closed Mi Marathi library — alongside the middle and back film catalogue: the 1980s and 1990s commercial titles, the Dada Kondke run and the comedies the premiere channels rarely schedule.
Shemaroo's Marathi channel, launched in 2019 and built on one of the largest licensed film libraries in the country. Films alongside Marathi music, devotional programming and theatre-derived content — closer to a general Marathi library channel than a pure movie service.
Which Marathi cinema you are actually watching
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1930s–1960s
The Prabhat and studio era
Marathi cinema began before most Indian film industries existed. The Prabhat Film Company, founded in Kolhapur and later moved to Pune, made mythologicals and social dramas that travelled internationally — Sant Tukaram was screened at Venice in 1937. These titles surface mainly on the library channels and on DD Sahyadri, usually around festival weekends.
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1970s–1980s
Tamasha, lavani and the Dada Kondke run
The mass-market decades: rural comedies, tamasha musicals and the double-meaning comedy that Dada Kondke built an unbroken run of hits on. This is the deepest and most-scheduled part of every Marathi film library, and it is what Fakt Marathi and the library channels programme most of the day.
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2004–2015
The critical revival
Shwaas in 2004 and Harishchandrachi Factory in 2009 were both sent forward as India's Academy Award entries, and the run that followed — Natarang, Deool, Balgandharva, Duniyadari — rebuilt Marathi cinema's reputation and brought urban audiences back to it. These are the titles the premiere channels return to most often.
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2016 onward
The commercial era
Sairat in 2016 became the highest-grossing Marathi film ever made and proved the industry could produce a genuine blockbuster. Studio money followed, and the biggest Marathi releases now open at a scale that would have been unimaginable a decade earlier. This is the tier Zee Talkies and Pravah Picture compete over, and where a world television premiere still functions as an event.
A note on dubbed films
Marathi film channels dub far less than the southern-language tiers do — the domestic library is deep enough that they do not need to fill schedules with imports, which is one of the real differences between a Marathi movie package and a Telugu or Kannada one. Where a Hindi title is wanted in its original language it sits in the Hindi channel lineup rather than here.
Music
The first Marathi music channel and still the longest-running, on air since October 2011. Film songs, lavani and contemporary Marathi pop, programmed in blocks rather than as a continuous shuffle — which is why it works as background television through the day in a way a playlist app does not.
Launched in 2015 by Media Worldwide, which runs the same format in Bengali and Bhojpuri. The broader of the two: retro and contemporary film music alongside devotional and romantic catalogues, so it doubles as the channel most households leave on during morning puja.
Marathi devotional and cultural programming
Marathi has no 24-hour devotional channel in its own language, and no lineup anywhere can offer one, because none exists. Telugu has SVBC, run by a temple trust; Tamil and Kannada have their own equivalents; the big pan-Indian devotional networks broadcast in Hindi and have added Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Gujarati feeds but never a Marathi one. That is a real gap and it is worth stating plainly rather than working around. What Marathi has instead is a devotional tradition that lives as event television: the warkari calendar, Ganeshotsav and the festival broadcasts are carried live by the Marathi news channels and DD Sahyadri, at a scale no dedicated channel in any other language attempts. The four channels below cover the everyday devotional viewing; the calendar underneath is where the Marathi content actually sits.
Devotional channels
Broadcasting since 2000 and one of the two largest devotional networks in India. Scriptural discourse, bhajan and festival coverage, with dedicated UK and US feeds that have carried it into diaspora homes for two decades. Hindi-language, and the discourse tradition it broadcasts is shared across northern and western India rather than specific to Maharashtra.
The other major devotional network, also on air since 2000 and reaching well over a hundred countries. Discourses from the best-known Indian spiritual teachers, pilgrimage documentaries, meditation and yoga programming. Hindi-language; the network runs Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Gujarati feeds but has never launched a Marathi one.
Aastha's music channel: continuous bhajan, aarti and devotional song rather than discourse. This is the one most households actually leave running during morning puja, and it is the closest thing on television to the abhang and kirtan listening that Marathi devotional practice is built on.
Part of the Sanskar group alongside Satsang TV. Devotional music, live temple broadcasts and festival programming, with a lighter and more music-led schedule than its parent channel. Hindi-language.
Marathi devotional television runs on a calendar, not a clock
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Mar–Apr
Gudi Padwa
The Marathi new year, and the one festival where the television coverage is genuinely of the streets — the dawn shobha yatras through Girgaon, Thane and Dombivli are carried live by every Marathi news channel, with the GECs running special programming the same evening.
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Jun–Jul
Ashadhi Wari and Ekadashi
The largest live outside broadcast of the Marathi year. Palkhis carrying the padukas of Sant Dnyaneshwar from Alandi and Sant Tukaram from Dehu walk to Pandharpur over roughly three weeks, and the news channels follow the route day by day. It culminates on Ashadhi Ekadashi with the mahapuja of Vitthal and Rukmini, performed in the small hours and broadcast live — a fixture the Chief Minister of Maharashtra attends every year by long-standing tradition.
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Aug–Sep
Ganeshotsav
Ten days that reorganise the entire Marathi schedule. Live darshan from the major Mumbai and Pune mandals, aarti broadcasts, and continuous coverage of the visarjan processions on the final day. For households abroad this is the single most-watched stretch of the Marathi television year.
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Sep–Oct
Navratri
Ghatasthapana through to Dussehra, with live coverage from Maharashtra's own devi shrines — Tuljapur, Mahalakshmi at Kolhapur, Saptashrungi at Vani — rather than the Gujarat-centred garba coverage the national channels default to.
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Oct–Nov
Diwali and Diwali Pahat
Maharashtra's own Diwali tradition: the dawn concerts of classical and semi-classical music held across Mumbai and Pune, broadcast and repeated through the festival week. Nothing equivalent exists in any other Indian language's Diwali programming.
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Dec
Datta Jayanti and the kirtan season
The Gurucharitra readings and the winter kirtan circuit, which is when the devotional music channels shift their schedules furthest away from film music and towards abhang and bhajan.
No date is given for any of these because none of them is fixed — every one moves with the Hindu lunar calendar, and the Gregorian months above are the range they fall within rather than a schedule. For households abroad this is the tier where catch-up matters most: the Ashadhi Ekadashi mahapuja and the Ganeshotsav morning aartis are broadcast at hours that land overnight in North America.
Sport, children's and lifestyle viewing
There are no Marathi-language sport, children's or lifestyle channels, and this tab does not pretend otherwise. Marathi is the largest Indian language with no sports channel of its own — Star Sports 1 Marathi launched in 2019 and closed in March 2023, and nothing replaced it. Four separate attempts at a Marathi children's channel have been made since 2004 and none survived more than about a year. That is a genuine gap in Marathi broadcasting rather than a gap in any particular lineup, and a household still needs the programming. Here is where each of those needs is actually met on a RisePrime TV subscription.
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Cricket, kabaddi and league sportNo Marathi feed since 2023
Every fixture a Marathi household wants — international cricket, the domestic T20 season, the professional kabaddi league, Indian football — is carried on the Hindi and English sport channels in the wider lineup, with the same pictures and a Hindi or English commentary team rather than a Marathi one. Broadcast rights to individual tournaments move between networks from season to season, so the current programme guide is always the reliable source. See the sports channel page for what those feeds cover.
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Children's programmingFour attempts, none survived
Marathi feeds of Pogo, Discovery Kids, Sony YAY! and ETV Bal Bharat were each launched and each withdrawn within about a year — the audience for Marathi-dubbed animation has never been large enough to sustain a dedicated channel. Children's viewing on this subscription comes from the kids channels in the wider lineup, which carry Hindi and English audio. See the kids channel page.
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Cookery, lifestyle and women's programmingInside the GECs
Marathi never built a separate lifestyle channel because it never needed one — the cookery strands, home and health formats and the long-running women's programming all live inside the general entertainment channels, mostly in the morning and afternoon blocks. That programming is already covered by the seven channels in the Entertainment tab; there is nothing extra to add for it.
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Hindi general entertainmentGenuinely watched alongside
Worth saying because most Marathi channel pages avoid it: Hindi channels regularly appear inside the top five for the Marathi television market itself. Marathi households in Maharashtra watch both, and households abroad do the same. A Marathi-only package tends to get returned for that reason. See the Hindi channel lineup for what sits alongside these twenty-seven.
No tournament, league or fixture is named as included anywhere on this page, and that is deliberate. Sport rights in India are re-tendered every few years and move between broadcasters, so a channel carrying a competition this season may not next season. What is fixed is which channels are in the lineup; what they are showing in a given week is answered by the current programme guide.
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Celebrate Marathi Festivals and Cultural Programming on IPTV
Festivals are at the heart of Marathi culture, bringing communities together through traditions, rituals, and celebrations. Ganesh Chaturthi processions, Gudi Padwa specials, and devotional broadcasts create a unique festive atmosphere that many viewers deeply miss when living abroad.
By offering dedicated cultural programming and festival coverage, RisePrimeTV allows audiences to experience these moments through their screens. From live telecasts of celebrations to special event-based shows, IPTV becomes a bridge that keeps cultural traditions alive regardless of location.
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