Zee News

Zee News
Launched 1999
Network Broadcast television and online
Owned by Zee Media Corporation Ltd.
Picture format (SDTV, HDTV)
Country India
Language Hindi
Broadcast area Asia,
Headquarters Noida
Sister channel(s) Zee Business
Zee 24 Taas
24 Ghanta
Zee Kalinga
WION
Website zeenews.india.com
Availability
Satellite
Airtel digital TV Channel 311
Tata Sky Channel 510
Reliance Digital TV Channel 408
Dish TV Channel 651
Videocon d2h Channel 307
Cable
Siti Cable Channel 303
Cable TV Hong Kong Channel 145
Starhub TV
(Singapore)		 Channel 158
IPTV
now TV
(Hong Kong)		 Channel 785
HyppTV
(Malaysia)		 Channel 310 (Coming Soon)
Streaming media
Ditto TV 23
Zee Media Corporation Ltd.
Public company
Industry Mass media
Founded 1999
Headquarters Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India[1]
Key people
 Subhash Chandra (Chairman)
Sudhir Chaudhary (CEO)
RK Arora (COO)[2]
Products Broadcasting, cable
Revenue
  • Increase ₹551 crore (US$86 million) (2015)

[3]

  • Increase ₹43.15 crore (US$6.7 million) (2015)

[4]

Parent Essel Group
Website zeenews.india.com

Zee News is an Indian news channel launched in 1999 and is the flagship property of Zee Media Corporation Ltd, company and a subsidiary of Essel Group.[5]

Channels operating

It currently operates the following news and regional entertainment channels:[6]

Controversies

Jindal Group incident

The channel was tried for allegedly extorting Rs 100 crore from the Jindal Group[10] and two senior journalists have been arrested so far.[11][11][12] Naveen Jindal accused Zee News of trying to extort Rs 100 crore from him for not airing stories against his company in Coal Scam. Zee News refuted the charges and made counter charges of Jindal offering them Rs 25 crore to halt their investigations against Jindal Steel in the coal scam.[13]

Allegations of fabrications

Zee News reported that some of the students from Democratic Students' Union (DSU) raised slogans such as "Bharat Ki Barbadi" ("Destruction of India") and " Pakistan Zindabad" ("long live Pakistan") [14] In a letter Vishwa Deepak, who later resigned from the channel after expressing reservations over its 'biased coverage' alleged that "Our biases made us hear Bhartiya Court Zindabad as Pakistan Zindabad." ("long live Indian courts" as "long live Pakistan."). After Delhi police report it was claimed that footage was genuine. After getting authentication by forensic lab of CBI it is almost confirmed that vedio footage telecasted by the channel was authentic. [15] In response, Sudhir Chaudhary, Zee News Editor, said "Our channel only showed what was happening there, whatever we have shown is 100 per cent authentic.[16]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Contact Us". zeenews.india.com. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
  2. ↑ Abid, Hasan (25 May 2015). "R K Arora joins Zee Media Corporation as COO". E4M bureau. Exchange4Media. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Zee Media Corporation Ltd profit and loss statement". The Times Group. The Economic Times. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  4. ↑ "Zee Media Corporation Ltd balance sheet". The Times Group. The Economic Times. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  5. ↑ "Zee News takes punch line". afaqs news bureau. afaqs. 24 July 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  6. ↑ "Zee News turns global; embraces new tagline as Zee Media Corporation". afaqs news bureau. afaqs. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  7. ↑ "Zee to Launch Zee Kalinga". Delhi, India: The Media Info, 13 December 2013. 2013-12-13. Retrieved 2013-12-13.
  8. ↑ "Zee Media woos Rajasthan with Zee Rajasthan Plus". afaqs news bureau. afaqs. 2 August 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  9. ↑ Dhaleta, Surendra Kumar (12 December 2008). "Zee News to launch Telugu channel in January". afaqs news bureau. afaqs. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  10. ↑ "Jindal plays CD, claims Zee editors demanded Rs. 100 crore". The Hindu. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  11. 1 2 "Naveen Jindal vs Zee: Senior journalists arrested over alleged extortion". NDTV India. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  12. ↑ "Jindal Group and Zee television in extortion scandal". The Australian. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  13. ↑ "Naveen Jindal accuses Zee News of extortion, channel hits back - The Times of India". Timesofindia.indiatimes.com. 2012-10-25. Retrieved 2012-11-03.
  14. ↑ "From 'Pakistan Zindabad' to 'Bharat ki barbaadi' - Slogans that were raised by 'anti-nationals' in JNU". Zee News. 14 February 2016.
  15. ↑ "Zee News producer quits: Video we shot had no Pakistan Zindabad slogan". The Indian Express. 22 February 2016.
  16. ↑ "We speak with the Zee News journalist who resigned over the channel’s coverage of #JNURow". Newslaundry. 21 February 2016.
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