Times Now is a 24-hour English news channel based in Mumbai and broadcasted in India, Singapore and USA. Arnab Goswami is the Editor-in Chief and Sunil Lulla is the current CEO. It was the first news channel in India to be launched on mobile screens (Reliance Infocomm Network). Some of the prominent journalists and anchors in the channel include Navika Kumar, Mahrukh Inayet Rizvi, Sanket Upadhyay, Srinjoy Chaudhury, Anand Narasimhan and Tamanna Inamdar.
[edit] History
The channel was launched in 2006 by Times Global Broadcasing Company Limited, a joint-venture of The Times Group (Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.) and Reuters. Sunil Lulla was hired from the Sony Entertainment Television to be the CEO. In 2008, Reuters exited the venture by selling back its 25.82 percent stake in Times Global to BCCL.[1] It is now one of the leading news channels in India.
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Times Now along with the other Times group channels (Zoom, ET Now and Movies Now) is distributed by Media Network and Distribution (India) Ltd (MNDIL), which is a joint venture between The Times group and Yogesh Radhakrishnan, a cable & satellite industry veteran, under the brand Prime Connect.[2]
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