Zee news

Zee news very interested news site Live ws is a Hindi-language news channel owned by the Essel Group.^[1] It is associated with several other sister news channels which provide coverage in Hindi, English and several regional languages of India. Zee News was launched on 27 August 1999, as Zee Sports Ltd. The company was reincorporated on 27 May 2004, as Zee News Ltd.^[2] In 2013, Zee News Ltd changed its name to Zee Media Corporation Limited.^[3] The Zee News channel is the flagship channel of the company.^[4]

Zee News
Launched	27 August 1999; 20 years ago
Owned by	Essel Group
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 4:3 576i for the SDTV feed)
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Broadcast area	International
Headquarters	Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Sister channel(s)	Zee TV
Website	zeenews.india.com
Availability
Terrestrial
Oqaab (Afghanistan)	Channel 45
Satellite
Airtel Digital TV	Channel 311
Dish TV	Channel 651
Reliance Digital TV	Channel 408
Tata Sky	Channel 511
Videocon D2H	Channel 302
Cable
Siti Cable	Channel 303
Cable TV Hong Kong	Channel 852
IPTV
now TV (Hong Kong)	Channel 785
Dish Network (United States)	Channel 708 (SD)
Streaming media
Live Stream (International)	live Web stream at Zee News

The chairman of the group is Subhash Chandra, who is a Bharatiya Janata Party-backed member of the Rajya Sabha.^[5] Sudhir Chaudhary is the editor-in-chief of Zee News and the anchor of the prime time show on the channel.^[6] The channel has been involved in several controversies and has broadcast fabricated news stories on multiple occasions.^[7] The channel is subjected to an ongoing criminal defamation case against legislator Mahua Moitra .