Aaj News
Aaj News HD is a 24-hour Pakistani news television channel. It is a privately owned Urdu language TV station which covers national and international news. It began as a hybrid channel, but later separated its entertainment programming to sister channel Aaj Entertainment, and became a news channel.
History
Aaj News was started on 23 March 2005 by the Business Recorder Television Network, a subsidiary of Business Recorder Group which also operates Aaj Entertainment.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.
On 23 March 2009, Aaj News was converted into a 24-hours news channel. The Recorder Television Network comprises Aaj News and Aaj Entertainment.
Programmes
Hosts
Current
- Munizae Jahangir
Former hosts
- Azfar Rehman
- Asma Shirazi
- Rana Mubashir
- Sana Bucha
- Syed Talat Hussain
- Javed Ahmed Ghamidi
- Ali Saleem
Former programs
- 3 Idiots
- ''News, Views & Confused''