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Living Media India Limited
India Today Group
Company type Public
Industry Mass media
Founded1975;49 years ago (1975)
Founders Aroon Purie
Headquarters New Delhi, India
Key people
  • Aroon Purie (Chairman)
  • Ashish Bagga (CEO)
  • Kallie Purie (Vice Chairwoman)
Products
RevenueDecrease2.svg820 crore (US$96 million) (2021) [1]
Decrease2.svg196 crore (US$23 million) (2021) [1]
Decrease2.svg131 crore (US$15 million) (2021) [1]
Number of employees
1,849 (2021) [1]
Website indiatodaygroup.com

Living Media India Limited, d.b.a. India Today Group, is an Indian media conglomerate based in New Delhi, India. It has interests in magazines, newspapers, books, radio, television, printing and the Internet.

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History

India Today Group was founded in 1975 by Madhu Trehan and its first publication was India Today which was a fortnightly news magazine. [2] Aroon Purie is the current chairman and editor-in-chief and Dinesh Bhatia is the current CEO of India Today Group.

TV Today Network

The TV Today Network is an English-Hindi Indian news television network based in India. The TV Today Network was incorporated in 1988, launching a video magazine called Newstrack. [3] At that time, private television broadcasting was prohibited in India. [4] Newstrack produced its programmes on videotape and distributed them to subscribers. The New York Times described them as fast-paced video magazines of investigative reporting, similar to CBS News' "60 Minutes".

Madhu Trehan, a sibling of Arun Purie and a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, was the creator of Newstrack and also served as one of its anchors. [5] Having started with five to six journalists, it grew to a size of 30. The length of the programmes also increased from initial 30 minutes to eventual 90 minutes. The high points of Newstrack's coverage were those of Kashmiri militancy and the demolition of the Babri Masjid. It is listed on the BSE and the NSE and consists of the several news channels namely, Aaj Tak, India Today, Good News Today, Aaj Tak HD and digital channels distributed through its websites or YouTube.

Television channels

ChannelLanguageCategoryLaunchedClosed
Aajtak Hindi News30 September 1995
Aajtak HD 14 December 2018
Good News Today 5 September 2021
India Today English7 April 2003
Dilli Aajtak Hindi 200630 June 2020
Aajtak Tez22 August 20054 September 2021
NewsTrack200112 February 2016
Living AXNGeneral Entertainment and News22 August 200512 October 2017

Digital channels

ChannelLaunchedLanguageCategory
Business Today 2018HindiBusiness News
Aajtak 22023News
Prime Time2022
So Sorry2014

Tak.in

An online platform of 18 niche news channels of TV Today Network including Astro Tak, Bharat Tak, Bihar Tak, Biz Tak, Crime Tak, Dilli Tak, Duniya Tak, Fit Tak, Gujarat Tak, Life Tak, MP Tak, Mumbai Tak, News Tak, Punjab Tak, Rajasthan Tak, Sahitya Tak, Sports Tak and UP Tak.

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