Current channels

Former/Defunct channels

Online

Zee News operates the Daily News & Analysis and Zee News websites to provide online coverage of the channel. The ZEE5 website which is owned by the Zee Entertainment Enterprises is used to platform coverage of other ZMCL channels.^[12] The World is One News (WION) channel operates its website.^[13] The ZMCL also owns the India.com news website.^[14]

• Daily News & Analysis Website: English-language online news coverage service. It is branded under the DNA program of Zee News.^[15]

Newspaper

The Daily News & Analysis was an English-language broadsheet newspaper owned by the Zee Media Corporation Limited. It was launched on 30 July 2005 and branded under the Daily News & Analysis (DNA) program of Zee News. It was primarily circulated in Mumbai and discontinued on 9 October 2019 citing recurring losses.^[16][17][18]

Jindal Group extortion incident

The channel was tried for allegedly extorting ₹1  billion from the Jindal Group revealed through a sting operation.^[19] Two senior journalists Sudhir Chaudhary and Sameer Ahluwalia were arrested.^[20][21][22] The two were sent to a 14-day judicial custody in Tihar jail and were ultimately released on bail.^[23][24] Naveen Jindal had accused the two journalists of trying to extort ₹1,000,000,000 (equivalent to ₹2.1 billion or US$22 million in 2023) in advertisements for Zee News from him through blackmail by threatening to air stories against his company in the Coalgate scam. Zee News denied the charges and made counterclaims of Jindal offering them ₹200,000,000 (equivalent to ₹410 million or US$4.4 million in 2023) to halt their investigations against Jindal Steel's involvement in the scam but filed no charges.^[25] In July 2018, the Jindal Group withdrew the case against Zee News and both parties to the litigation stated that an out of court settlement had been reached which remains undisclosed.^[26]

Cases of fabrication

Coverage of 2020 Delhi election results

The 2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly election was held on 8 February 2020.^[44] The exit poll results predicted the Aam Aadmi Party to retain their government in National capital territory of Delhi. The Zee News telecast of the exit poll results featured Sudhir Chaudhary, who indulged in polemic commentary against the voters of the election.^[45] He stated that the people of Delhi had chosen Pakistan over Hindustan and that the rule of Mughals will now return. He further alleged the people of Delhi are lazy and only concerned about "freebies" and that issues like Ram Mandir, Balakot airstrike and Revocation of Article 370 do not matter to them which is why they have rejected the Bharatiya Janata Party.^[46] The telecast resulted in backlash and mockery of Zee News and Sudhir Chaudhary on social media.^[47]

Ban in Nepal

On 9 July 2020, Nepal's satellite and cable television operators banned Zee News and some other Indian privately owned news channels, citing "propaganda and defamatory report against the Nepali government".^[48][49]

Alleged interference in Canadian issues

Zee Media's and its subsidiary WION were cited in a September 2024 report from RRM Canada on "Potential Foreign Information Manipulation, and Interference following PM Statement on Killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar". The report examined content from popular Indian State-aligned media outlets and influencers, including WION, finding that "Modi-aligned outlets amplified several state-supported narratives about Prime Minister Trudeau, "Canada's High Commissioner to India, Canada's national security agencies, Canada's Punjabi Sikh diaspora, and Hardeep Singh Nijjar's political beliefs." The report highlighted the “massive digital footprint” of some of the named media outlets in comparison to Canadian media outlets, estimating Zee Media's total audience is 68 Million people.^{[50][51][52][53]}