NTV is a Turkish nationwide
television news
News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting various news events and other information via television, radio, or the internet in the field of broadcast journalism. The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or telev ...
channel owned by
Doğuş Media Group.
It was partnered with
MSNBC
MSNBC (originally the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company) is an American news-based pay television cable channel. It is owned by NBCUniversala subsidiary of Comcast. Headquartered in New York City, it provides news coverage and politi ...
between May 2000 and 2014. Besides domestic and international news, the channel's programming includes documentaries, as well as programs on finance, arts and culture, lifestyle, and sports.
History
NTV was founded in 1996 as a subsidiary of
Cavit Çağlar
Cavit Çağlar (born 1944, Komotini, Greece) is a Turkish businessman and politician. He was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) for the True Path Party (DYP) in 1991, serving as a Minister of State responsible for state-own ...
's Nergis Group (hence the original full name of Nergis TV) and as the first news channel of Turkey. In January 1999, the channel became part of
Doğuş Group
Doğuş Holding A.Ş. (''Doğuş Group'') is one of the largest private-sector conglomerates in Turkey, with a portfolio of 250 companies in 7 industries, including high-end car dealerships, retail stores, restaurants, cafes, construction companie ...
. The success of NTV changed the Turkish media industry and started the era of thematic TV channels.
In June 2013, NTV's
lack of coverage on the
Gezi Park protests
A wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Turkey began on 28 May 2013, initially to contest the urban development plan for Istanbul's Taksim Gezi Park. The protests were sparked by outrage at the violent eviction of a sit-in at the park prote ...
saw protests in front of its head office in
Istanbul
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, and the resignation of some NTV staff in protest. The CEO of
Doğuş Media Group, Cem Aydın, conceded that the criticisms were "fair to a large extent", and that "our audience feels like they were betrayed". Shortly after his comments, Aydın left Doğuş Media. Soon after that, NTV refused to air a
BBC World News
BBC World News is an international English-language pay television network, operated under the ''BBC Global News Limited'' division of the BBC, which is a public corporation of the UK government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and ...
package on press freedom in Turkey, breaking its partnership agreement with the
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. The BBC suspended the agreement in response.