Subhash Chandra holds 51% share of Sprit Textile Private Limited and through this company holds 35.24% share of Zee Media Corporation Limited.Ĥ8% share of Sprit Textile Private Limited is held by Asian Satellite Broadcast private limited and through this company Asian Satellite Broadcast private limited via Primat Infra Power and Multiventures Private Limited, holds 33.12% share of Zee Media Corporation Limited. Zee News is owned by Zee Media Corporation Limited, whose biggest shareholders are 25FPS Media Private Limited (35.32%) and Arm Infra and Utilities Private Limited (33.79%), and the remaining 30.89% shares are Public holding.ġ00% share of 25FPS Media Private and 99% share of Arm Infra and Utilities Private Limited is held by Primat Infra Power and Multiventures Private Limited (formerly known as Prime Publishing Private Limited).ĩ9.99% share of Primat Infra Power and Multiventures Private Limited (formerly known as Prime Publishing Private Limited) is held by Sprit Textile Private Limited. Their digital platform, added five new language sites including Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Gujarati. Zee News also turned free-to-air from being a paid channel.

introduced a new channel, a second Hindi News Channel called Zee Hindustan, which is a news channel without any anchors. In Hindi News Rural segment, Zee News was in fourth position and in Hindi News Urban, the channel was again ranked second behind Aaj Tak. (Watch the video here: It was later debunked as fake news, by the Reserve Bank of India.Īccording to the data available from the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) for the first week of 2019, Zee News was at the second position behind Aaj Tak in the overall Hindi news channels. During one of the very popular shows on Zee News,- DNA – Daily News and Analysis, spoke of a “revolutionary new chip” that was embedded in every 2000-rupee note, so that it can be tracked. In the aftermath of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s demonetizaton of high value currency including Rs. The channel is perceived to be closer to the BJP in its content. He was elected as an Independent from the state of Haryana, with the help of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Subhash Chandra, the owner of Zee News, is a lawmaker in the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of the India Parliament). Eventually, a full scale channel was launched as Zee News in 1999. Zee TV, back then, had a prime time news show every night as a part of their programming mix. The origins of Zee News as a channel, could be traced back to 1998, when the channel had an outlet called Zee TV and the other infotainment channel called EL-TV. Zee News is a Hindi news channel from Zee Media Corporation Limited, a part of the Subhash Chandra-family owned Essel Group.

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