G News Network, commonly known as GNN, is a Pakistani 24-hour news and current affairs channel based in

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. It is owned and operated by

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. It was launched in 2005 as CNBC Pakistan under a license from CNBC Asia Pacific. It was then owned by Vision Network Television Limited. In 2015, it was renamed as Jaag TV and was relaunched. In 2018, it was again relaunched with a new name GNN.

History

It started its transmission under name of CNBC Pakistan by taking a license from CNBC Asia. It was then owned by Vision Network Television. In 2015, it was relaunched as Jaag TV after struggling to compete in the Pakistani market. The channel continued to struggle and was bought by Pakistani bakery company, Gourmet Bakeries. Reportedly, they bought it for 1.5 billion to diversify their business. In 2018, the company announced its intention to rename the channel and relaunch it under the name, G News Network. For this purpose, they appointed

Amir Mir Amir Mir is a veteran Pakistani journalist who is currently CEO of GNN, a digital media project. Earlier until 2019, he was working as chief operational officer of the news channel GNN as well as a founding member since the channel's inceptio ...

, brother of journalist and anchor

Hamid Mir Hamid Mir ( ur, حامد میر; born 23 July 1966) is a Pakistani journalist, columnist and writer. Born in Lahore to a journalistic family, Mir initially worked as a journalist with Pakistani newspapers. He has hosted the political talk show ' ...

, as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the channel. On 10 August 2018,

left

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and joined GNN as President of the channel along with two other colleagues Sohail Warraich and Munib Farooq. But his stint remained brief at GNN as two months later on 12 October 2018, Hamid Mir left GNN. Senior journalist Dr. Shahid Masood joined GNN as President on 14 April 2019, continuing his show ''Live With Dr. Shahid Masood''. Senior journalist Arif Hameed Bhatti joined GNN as Chief operating officer (COO) on 13 June 2019. He will host a show at GNN.

Shows

*''Khabar Hai'' (Arif Hameed Bhatti, Saeed Qazi and Tahir Malik) *''Live With Dr Shahid Masood'' ( Shahid Masood; anchor: Zaryab Arif , earlier Mehr U. Sher, Naila Ali, Samina Pasha) * ''Clash with Aisha Yousaf'' * ''China Today'' * ''Joke Dar Joke'' (Hina Niazi) * ''Fard-e-Jurm'' * ''Face to Face with Ayesha Bakhsh'' *''View Point'' (Imran Yaqub Khan, Samina Pasha and Zafar Hilaly) * ''G Kay Sung'' (Mohsin Bhatti) * ''Taron Sy Karain Batain'' (Fizza Ali) * ''Food Street'' * ''Aisa Dais Hai Mera'' * ''Nagar Nagar ki Khabar'' * ''News Edge'' * ''Global Insight''

Former shows

* ''Aashkar'' * ''Bebaak'' * ''Clash with Aisha Yousaf'' * ''

Show'' * ''Inside Out''

References

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History

Shows

Former shows

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