Living Media India

{{Short description|Media conglomerate based in New Delhi, India}}

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{{Infobox company

| name =Living Media India Limited

| trade_name = India Today Group

| logo = Living Media logo.png

| type = Public

| traded_as = {{ubl|{{BSE|532515}}|{{NSE|TVTODAY}}}}

| foundation = {{start date and age|1975}}

| location = New Delhi, India

| founders = Aroon Purie

| key_people = {{ubl|Aroon Purie (Chairman)|Ashish Bagga (CEO)|Kallie Purie (Vice Chairwoman)}}

| industry = Mass media

| products = {{hlist|Broadcasting|publishing|radio|web portals }}

| revenue = {{loss}} {{INRConvert|820|c}} (2021){{Cite web|url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/india/stockpricequote/mediaentertainment/tvtodaynetwork/TVT|title=TV TodayNetwork Share Price, TV TodayNetwork Stock Price, TV Today Network LTD. Stock Price, Share Price, Live BSE/NSE, TV Today Network LTD. Bids Offers. Buy/Sell TV Today Network LTD. News & tips, & F&O Quotes, NSE/BSE Forecast News and Live Quotes|access-date=25 December 2020|archive-date=15 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115211147/https://www.moneycontrol.com/india/stockpricequote/mediaentertainment/tvtodaynetwork/TVT|url-status=live}}

| operating_income = {{loss}} {{INRConvert|196|c}} (2021)

| net_income = {{loss}} {{INRConvert|131|c}} (2021)

| num_employees = 1,849 (2021)

| homepage = {{URL|http://www.indiatodaygroup.com/|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.

History

India Today Group was founded in 1975 by Madhu Trehan and its first publication was India Today which was a fortnightly news magazine.Pooja Bhula, [https://www.newslaundry.com/2022/07/18/who-owns-your-media-the-highs-and-lows-of-the-india-today-group Who Owns Your Media: The highs and lows of the India Today Group] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240606123057/https://www.newslaundry.com/2022/07/18/who-owns-your-media-the-highs-and-lows-of-the-india-today-group |date=6 June 2024 }}, Newslaundry, 18 July 2022. 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.{{citation |last=Shrivastava |first=K. M. |title=Broadcast Journalism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tpt8knkqUsoC&pg=PA37 |pages=37–38 |year=2005 |publisher=Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd |isbn=9788120735972}} At that time, private television broadcasting was prohibited in India.Himani Chandna, [https://theprint.in/features/brandma/newstrack-the-video-magazine-that-served-real-issues-to-news-hungry-indians-in-dd-era/253392/ Newstrack – The video magazine that served real issues to news-hungry Indians in DD era] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407153717/https://theprint.in/features/brandma/newstrack-the-video-magazine-that-served-real-issues-to-news-hungry-indians-in-dd-era/253392/ |date=7 April 2022 }}, The Print, 23 June 2019. 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.Barbara Crossette, In News-Hungry India, Videotapes Fill the Void: Supplying what the networks won't, The New York Times, 2 January 1991. {{ProQuest|108666787}} 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.