Launched 31 December 1998 Picture format 4:3 (576i, SDTV) | Owned by Living Media Audience share 115,885 (Jan 2017, ) | |
Network Broadcast television and online Slogan "Sabse Tez" (English: 'The Fastest') | ||
AAJ TAK is a 24-hour Hindi news television channel owned by TV Today Network. AAJ TAK loosely translates as "Till Today" or "Up to the Minute". AAJ TAK initially began as a news bulletin on a public television station in India and turned to an independent channel after the carrier did not renew its contract. In India, AAJ TAK is free-to-air. In 2006 it began offering a pay channel to international markets.
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Controversies
In November 2015, a video came online showing an Aaj Tak reporter bribing a kid with money to purchase liquor in order to give an anti-BJP statement for which the channel received widespread condemnation.
Accolades
According to a 2006 poll jointly conducted by the BBC and Reuters, of specific news sources spontaneously mentioned by Indians, Aaj Tak was the most trusted.