Aaj News
File:Aaj News (television channel) logo.png | |
Country | Pakistan |
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Headquarters | Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Urdu |
Picture format | |
Ownership | |
Owner | Business Recorder Group |
Sister channels | Aaj Entertainment |
History | |
Launched | 23 March 2005 |
Former names | AAJ TV (2005–09) |
Links | |
Website | aaj |
Aaj News (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. The channel started out as hybrid channel (news, current affairs and entertainment), but later separated its entertainment programming to sister channel, Aaj Entertainment, and became a news channel.[1][2][3]
History
Aaj News was started on 23 March 2005 by The Business Recorder Television Network, subsidiary of Business Recorder Group.[4]
The Business Recorder Group is the parent company of Business Recorder newspaper and Apex Printery, the only non-government organization to print financial and legal papers in Pakistan.[citation needed]
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.[5]
On 23 March 2009, Aaj News was converted into a 24-hours news channel.[6] The Recorder Television Network comprises Aaj News and Aaj Entertainment.[7]
Notable programmes
Hosts
- Rizwzan Jaffer
- Rana Mubashir
- Asma Shirazi
- Sidra Iqbal
- Sherry
- Shaukat Paracha
- Imran Sultan
- Munizae Jahangir
Former Hosts
- Reham Khan
- Sadia Afzaal
- Sana Bucha
- Talat Hussain
- Nadeem Malik
Currently programmes
- AAJ Pakistan with Sidra Iqbal
- AAJ Rana Mubashir Kay Saath (Fri-Sun 8:00pm)
- AAJ Islam with Khalid Malik
- Faisla Aap Ka with Asma Shirazi Monday-Thursday 8:00pm
- Gol Gapain
- In The Arena (Tues & Thurs 7:00pm)
- Rubaru (Thurs-Sun 10:00pm)
- Paisa Bolta Hai (Sunday 4:00pm)
- Spotlight With Munizae Jahangir (Mon-Wed 10:00pm)
- Sawal Hai Pakistan Ka Saturday 7:00pm
- Target Sunday 7:00pm
- Tax Aur Aap Monday 4:00pm
- View 360 (VOA) Monday-Friday 7:30pm
Formerly Progammes
Popular shows
- AAJ Subh
- AAJ Ki Baat
- AAJ Ki Khabar
- AAJ Entertainment Tonight
- Late Night Show With Begum Nawazish Ali
- 3 Idiots
- 4 Man Show
- Chandini
- In The Arena
- Jalebi
- Kuch Hai
- News, Views & Confused (a satirical comedy, hosted by Fasi Zaka)[8]
- The Real Show
- Trendlines
- Kiran Aur George
- Kahani Ke Pechay
- Living Room
- Live With Javed Ahmed Ghamidi
- Meri Jadojehad
- Perspectives
- Islamabad Tonight
- Islamabad Tonight with Rehman Azhar
- Bottom Line
- Bureau Report
- Bolta Pakistan
- Cross Current
- Dus With Sana Bucha
- Golf Club
- Good Morning AAJ
- AAJ With Reham Khan
- Off The Record
- The Barkat Uzmi Show
- The Most Respectable Show
- Live With Talat Hussain
- Zero Point
Special Programming
- Kuch Cricket Ho Jaye
- AAJ Pakistan Ki Awaz
See also
- List of Pakistani television stations
- List of news channels in Pakistan
- Rashid Mehmood (Director News)
- News, Views & Confused
References
- ^ Taliban attack Pakistan's Aaj TV station in Karachi BBC News website, Published 26 June 2012, Retrieved 11 November 2021
- ^ Pakistan media condemn attack on teenage activist BBC News website, Published 10 October 2012, Retrieved 11 November 2021
- ^ Pakistani media demand action over airport attack BBC News website, Published 10 June 2014, Retrieved 11 November 2021
- ^ "Blurred vision: Where is Pakistani television headed?". The Express Tribune (newspaper). 5 May 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ "Pemra serves notice on TV channel". Dawn (newspaper). 23 April 2007. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- ^ "Aaj News". Media Ownership Monitor Pakistan website. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ "Business Recorder Group - profile". Media Ownership Monitor Pakistan website. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ How Pakistan's Satirists Poke Fun, Politically The Washington Post (newspaper), Published 28 November 2007, Retrieved 11 November 2021
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