Aaj News

AAJ NEWS HD
آج نیوز
AAJ News logo since March 2009
CountryPakistan
HeadquartersKarachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Programming
LanguageUrdu
Picture format(1080p 16:9 HDTV, MPEG-4)
Ownership
OwnerBusiness Recorder Group
Sister channelsAaj Entertainment
Play Entertainment
History
LaunchedMarch 23, 2005; 21 years ago (2005-03-23)
Former namesAAJ TV (2005–2009)
Links
Websiteaaj.tv

Aaj News HD (Urdu: آج نیوز, lit. 'Today News') is a 24-hour Pakistani news television channel. It is a privately owned Urdu language TV station which covers national and international news. It began as a hybrid channel (news, current affairs and entertainment), but later separated its entertainment programming to sister channel Aaj Entertainment, and became a news channel.

History

Aaj News was started on 23 March 2005 by the Business Recorder Television Network, a subsidiary of Business Recorder Group which also operates Aaj Entertainment.

On 22 April 2007, PEMRA served a show-cause notice to Aaj News, for violating the 2002 PEMRA Ordinance by airing news and talk shows on an issue pending with the Supreme Judicial Council and unable to present a NOC from the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting.

On 23 March 2009, Aaj News was converted into a 24-hours news channel. The Recorder Television Network comprises Aaj News and Aaj Entertainment.

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Hosts

Current

Former hosts

Former programs

See also

References

  1. ↑ Taliban attack Pakistan's Aaj TV station in Karachi BBC News website, Published 26 June 2012, Retrieved 11 November 2021
  2. ↑ Pakistan media condemn attack on teenage activist BBC News website, Published 10 October 2012, Retrieved 11 November 2021
  3. ↑ Pakistani media demand action over airport attack BBC News website, Published 10 June 2014, Retrieved 11 November 2021
  4. ↑ "Blurred vision: Where is Pakistani television headed?". The Express Tribune. 5 May 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  5. ↑ "Pemra serves notice on TV channel". Dawn (newspaper). 23 April 2007. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  6. ↑ "Aaj News". Media Ownership Monitor Pakistan website. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  7. ↑ "Business Recorder Group - profile". Media Ownership Monitor Pakistan website. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  8. ↑ How Pakistan's Satirists Poke Fun, Politically The Washington Post (newspaper), Published 28 November 2007, Retrieved 11 November 2021