TIMES NOW

'Times Now' is a 24-hour English news channel broadcast only in the South Asian region. It is a joint venture enterprise by the Times Group in India and the Reuters news service. It launched early-2006 expanding Times Group's reach into news television programming in India as well as to try and carve out its own slice of the tiny English news channels in India pie.
It was the first channel to be launched first on Mobile Screens (reliance Infocomm Network), before it was launched on the television screens

Contents

History

Programming

Popularity

External links

History

'Times Now' began its planning operations sometime in 2005. They poached 'Sunil Lulla' from the Sony Network to be the CEO and also placed 'Arnab Goswami' as the channel content head.

Programming

Times Now provides news and entertainment for the urbane audience. Feature shows include:

★ Frankly Speaking

★ All About Her

★ The Newshour

★ Reuters World Report

★ News Now Overnight

Popularity

The initial response to the launch of this channel was demure, in response to the numerous other 24-7 News Channels. However, after exposure to English-speaking crowd and in conjunction with creative methods, it has become more unpopular with the wide ranging public. The ratings are decreasing .

External links

★ Official Site

★ Online Indian TV