Times Now
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| Country | India |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Worldwide |
| Headquarters | Mumbai,Maharashtra,India |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Picture format | 4:3(576i,SDTV) 16:9(1080i,HDTV) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | The Times Group |
| Sister channels | Times Now Navbharat Zoom ET Now Movies Now Romedy Now MN+ MNX Mirror Now ET Now Swadesh |
| History | |
| Launched | 23 January 2006 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Fetch TV(Australia) | 719 |
| Streaming media | |
| Live Stream | Watch Live |
| Live Stream on ZengaTV | Watch Live |
Times Nowis an English-languagenews channelinIndiaowned and operated byThe Times Group.The channel launched on 23 January 2006 in partnership withReuters.[1][2]Noted for reporting in favor of the rulingBJP,it has promoted disinformation on multiple occasions.
It is apay televisionthroughout India. Until 2016, it was India's most popular and the most viewed English news channel.[3][4][5]
History
[edit]In 2016Arnab Goswami(the earlier editor-in-chief) left the channel to launchRepublic TV.[6]
Times India eventually expanded the Times Now into a news network:
| Channel | Language | Genre |
|---|---|---|
| Times Now | English | News |
| Times Now World | ||
| Mirror Now | ||
| ET Now | ||
| Times Now NavBharat | Hindi | |
| ET Now Swadesh |
Distribution
[edit]Along with the other Times group channels (Zoom,ET NowandMovies Now), Times Now is distributed by Media Network and Distribution (India) Ltd (MNDIL), which is a joint venture betweenThe Times Groupand Yogesh Radhakrishnan, a cable and satellite industry veteran, under the brand Prime Connect.[7]
Employees
[edit]- Rahul Shivshankar– Editor-in-chief[8]
- Navika Kumar – Group editor[9]
- Maroof Raza– Consultant and strategic affairs expert[10]
Lawsuits
[edit]On 15 November 2011, in the country's highest defamation suit, theSupreme Courtupheld the Bombay High Court's order requiring Times Now to pay ₹100 crore. The channel had erroneously run the picture of Supreme Court judgeP.B. Sawantpicture instead of someone similarly named as part of aProvident Fundscandal, and the payment went directly to Sawant.[11]
In 2018, Times Now aired derogatory remarks about activist Sanjukta Basu. She filed a complaint with theNews Broadcasting Standards Authorityin March 2019. In October 2020, she moved Supreme Court claiming that her case was pending with NBSA. Before the case could be listed for hearing in the Supreme court, NBSA released the judgement on her complaint. NBSA ordered Times Now to air apology on live TV at 8PM and 9PM during theprime timeand submit DVD copies of the same. NBSA found that Times Now had not contacted Basu to get her version and failed to verify the facts before broadcasting. This conduct was judged to be a violation of NBSA guidelines. The NBSA order noted that "there was an absence of neutrality in the programme".[12]
Violation of Code of Ethics and Broadcasting Standards
[edit]Times Now was accused of misrepresenting facts regarding an interview of an allegedeve teaser.[13]TheNews Broadcasting Standards Authorityasked Times Now to apologize and fined them ₹50,000.[14][15][16][17]
The National Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA) reprimanded the channel for a bias in their coverage of theTablighi Jamaatcongregation on 23 June 2016 for violating the Code of Ethics and Broadcasting Standards.[18][19]
2020 Delhi riots
[edit]In 2021, theNational Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA)found that debates by two Times Now anchors – Rahul Shivshankar and Padmaja Joshi on the topic2020 Delhi riotswere not conducted in an "impartial and objective manner". NBDSA found that the anchors had "violated the Fundamental Principles as enumerated in the Code of Ethics and Broadcasting Standards and various Guidelines issued by NBDSA". In his order NBDSA chairperson Justice (retired) A.K. Sikri directed Times Now to take down videos of from YouTube and websites. NBDSA had ordered this responding to the complaint filed against Shivshankar accusing him of selectively showing the observations of the courts and the police to make it appear as if theanti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protestorswere responsible for the religious violence. The order quoted, "The coverage was done to target a community that is critical of the Delhi Police's investigation and project them and their critique in a negative light, thereby unduly hindering the right of the viewer to have a fact based view on the matter and amounted to a sustained campaign to challenge a position, without intimating to the viewers what that position is in its entirety or allowing panellists to explain the same".[20]
Reception
[edit]The channel is accused of practicing biased reporting in favour of the rulingBharatiya Janata Party(BJP).[21][22][23][24]
According to a 2022BBC Newsarticle, several Indian news anchors including Times Now's Shivshankar are known to shout down their panelists and ranting during their show, and have been accused of bias towards India's governing party,Bharatiya Janata Partyand Prime MinisterNarendra Modi.[25]
In 2020,Newslaundryreported that Shivshankar had used severaldog whistlesto negatively portray the Indian Muslims.[26]
On 6 September 2021, Times Now was criticised for a report using video that suggested aPakistan Air Forcejet was hovering overAfghanistan'sPanjshir Valley.The video was soon revealed to be aUnited States Air ForceF-15jet filmed by aYouTubeairplane enthusiast inWalesfilming the jet within theMach Loopthree months before.[27]
See also
[edit]References
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- ^Chandran, Bipin (14 June 2013)."Reuters to pay $19 mn for 26% in Times Now".Bipin Chandran.Business Standard.Archivedfrom the original on 15 January 2018.Retrieved15 January2018.
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- ^Scroll Staff (25 October 2020)."Times Now asked to air apology to activist for derogatory remarks during 2018 debate".Scroll.in.Archivedfrom the original on 5 March 2022.Retrieved5 March2022.
- ^Bhardwaj, Ananya (11 September 2018)."Why Delhi woman behind viral post on 'molestation' didn't appear in court for 3 years".ThePrint.Archivedfrom the original on 13 June 2021.Retrieved26 August2020.
- ^"Times Now fined, asked to apologize for intimidating reporting in Jasleen Kaur story".The News Minute.15 March 2016.Archivedfrom the original on 13 July 2016.Retrieved10 July2016.
- ^Bansal, Shuchi (15 March 2016)."NBSA asks Times Now to issue apology, pay fine for a story".Mint.Archivedfrom the original on 8 July 2016.Retrieved10 July2016.
- ^Ajmal, Zaheeb (26 October 2019)."'Times Now, will you issue public apology now', ask Twitterati after Sarvjeet Singh is acquitted by court ".National Herald.Archivedfrom the original on 17 November 2020.Retrieved17 January2021.
- ^Jagmohan, Aakruti (17 March 2016)."NBSA Asks Times Now to Apologise, Pay Fine for Jasleen Kaur Story".TheQuint.Archivedfrom the original on 24 October 2020.Retrieved26 August2020.
- ^"NBSA reprimands three TV channels over Tablighi Jamaat reports".The Hindu.Archivedfrom the original on 19 June 2021.Retrieved19 June2021.
- ^"NBSA fines News18 Kannada, Suvarna News, censures Times Now".Deccanherald.Archivedfrom the original on 17 June 2021.Retrieved19 June2021.
- ^"Two of Times Now's Debates on Delhi Riots Were Not Impartial, Objective: NBDSA".The Wire.22 November 2021.Archivedfrom the original on 5 March 2022.Retrieved5 March2022.
- ^Priyadarshini, Anna (2 December 2020)."TV channels double down".Newslaundry.Archivedfrom the original on 22 January 2021.Retrieved24 January2021.
- ^"Farmers are angry with 'Godi Media' for demonising them. TV channels double down".Newslaundry.Archivedfrom the original on 11 December 2020.Retrieved18 December2020.
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- ^"'I am Mr McAdams': TV anchor Rahul Shivshankar yells at wrong man on Ukraine live ".BBC News.4 March 2022.Archivedfrom the original on 4 March 2022.Retrieved4 March2022.
- ^S, Meghnad (3 June 2020)."When Rahul Shivshankar used Black Lives Matter to bash Muslims, as usual".Newslaundry.Archivedfrom the original on 5 March 2022.Retrieved5 March2022.
- ^Chaudhuri, Pooja; Pathan, Aqib (6 September 2021)."Times Now airs video from UK as Pakistani fighter jet in Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan".alt news.Archivedfrom the original on 6 September 2021.Retrieved6 September2021.