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| Country | India |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | International |
| Headquarters | Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | Hindi |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 4:3 576i for the SDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Essel Group |
| Sister channels | Zee TV |
| History | |
| Launched | 27 August 1999 |
| Links | |
| Website | zeenews.india.com |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Oqaab (Afghanistan) | Channel 45 |
| Streaming media | |
| Live Stream (International) | live Web stream at Zee News |
Zee News is an Indian Hindi-language right-wing[1] news channel owned by Subhash Chandra's Essel Group.[2] It launched on 27 August 1999 and is the flagship channel of the Zee Media Corporation.[3][4]
The channel has been involved in several controversies and has broadcast fabricated news stories on multiple occasions.[5] The channel has been subjected to an ongoing criminal defamation case against legislator Mahua Moitra as of March 2020.[6]
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- Jha, Aditya Mani (31 January 2020). "The festival and its funder". Business Line. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
- Patel, Jignesh (8 March 2019). "Zee News broadcasts old, unrelated satellite visuals as destroyed JEM camp in Balakot". Alt News. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
- Hafeez, Sarah (22 February 2018). "Zee News producer quits: Video we shot had no Pakistan Zindabad slogan". The Indian Express. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
- Yadav, Puneet (21 February 2020). "Are Newsrooms Run By Political Masters? Why Are Editors Compromising On Truth Telling?". Outlook. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
- Rampal, Nikhil (3 December 2018). "Zee News tweets doctored video of Navjot Sidhu's Rajasthan rally". ThePrint. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
- Menon, Aditya (10 February 2017). "Saffron journalism: Zee News & art of manufacturing anti-nationals". catchnews.com. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
- Khan, Saif Ahmed (10 March 2016). "Subhash Chandra failed to convince Zee is not Modi's mouthpiece". DailyO. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
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