The TV Today Network is an English-Hindi Indian news television network based in India. It is listed on the

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and the NSE and consists of the several news channels namely,

Aaj Tak ''Aaj Tak'' () is an Indian Hindi-language news channel owned by TV Today Network, part of the New Delhi-based media conglomerate Living Media group (India Today Group) Aaj Tak HD On 14 December 2018, Aaj Tak launched India's first Hindi h ...

(Hindi), India Today Television (English), Good News Today (Hindi),

Aaj Tak HD ''Aaj Tak'' () is an Indian Hindi-language news channel owned by TV Today Network, part of the New Delhi-based media conglomerate Living Media group (India Today Group) Aaj Tak HD On 14 December 2018, Aaj Tak launched India's first Hindi h ...

(Hindi) and a approved channel name Aajtak Desh (Multi language). It previously has been a channel named

Dilli Aaj Tak Dilli Aaj Tak was a 24-hour Hindi news television channel covering Delhi owned by TV Today Network. It was a sister channel of Aaj Tak. Dilli Aaj Tak initially began as a news bulletin on a public television station in India and turned to an ...

(Hindi) and a approved channel named Business Today Television (English) which was never launched at the time, but it was later launched on October 22, 2022. The network is largely owned by the Arun Purie controlled

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( d.b.a. India Today Group) which publishes ''

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'' magazine.

History

''Newstrack''

The TV Today Network was incorporated in 1988, launching a video magazine called ''Newstrack''. At that time, private television broadcasting was prohibited in India. Himani Chandna
Newstrack – The video magazine that served real issues to news-hungry Indians in DD era
The Print, 23 June 2019. ''Newstrack'' produced its programmes on videotape and distributed them to subscribers. The ''

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'' described them as fast-paced video magazines of investigative reporting, similar to CBS News's "

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". Barbara Crossette, In News-Hungry India, Videotapes Fill the Void: Supplying what the networks won't, The New York Times, 2 January 1991.

Madhu Trehan Madhu Purie Trehan (born 1940s) is an Indian journalist. She is also the co-founder and editor-in-chief of a digital media portal called ''Newslaundry''. Education Trehan studied at Welham Girls' School in Dehradun, graduating in 1962. In 1968 ...

, a sibling of Arun Purie and a graduate of

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Graduate School of Journalism, was the creator of ''Newstrack'' and also served as one of its anchors. Having started with five to six journalists, it grew to a size of 30. The length of the programmes also increased from initial 30 minutes to eventual 90 minutes. The high points of ''Newstracks coverage were those of Kashmiri militancy and the

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''Aaj Tak''

'' started in 1995 as a privately produced Hindi news and current affairs programme that aired on

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. It was aired at 10 pm everyday on the DD Metro channel, starting 17 July 1995. By 1999, it had produced 1000 episodes. In 1998, ''Subah Aaj Tak'' was started as a morning news programme for DD Metro. It was a 45-minute programme covering business, politics, sports, entertainment and human interest stories. On 31 December 2000, ''Aaj Tak'' was launched as a full 24-hour Hindi news and current affairs channel.

References

External links

TV Today website

at

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* Newstrack coverage – ''Reporting from Kashmir, 1889 to 1994''
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