Times Now


The Times Now is a 24-hour English news channel in India owned and operated by The Times Group. The channel launched on 23 January 2006 in partnership with Reuters. It is a pay television throughout India. Until 2016, it was India's most popular and most viewed English news channel with Arnab Goswami as the anchor. After the 2016 departure of Goswami, the channel has typically ranked as the third most watched English news channel in India.

Associated journalists

Along with the other Times group channels, Times Now is distributed by Media Network and Distribution Ltd, which is a joint venture between The Times Group and Yogesh Radhakrishnan, a cable and satellite industry veteran, under the brand Prime Connect.

Controversies

On 15 November 2011, in the country's highest defamation suit, the Supreme Court upheld Bombay High Court's order making Times Now liable to pay Rs. 100 crore. The channel had erroneously run Justice P B Sawant's picture instead of another judge in connection with the Provident Fund scam.
Times Now was accused of misrepresenting facts regarding a biased interview it telecast of an alleged eve-teaser Sarbjeet Singh who was falsely accused by Jasleen Kaur in August 2015. The News Broadcasting Standards Authority authorities asked Times Now to apologize and fined them 50,000 rupees.