News Television Awards 2016: Zeenews.com bags best news channel website honour

New Delhi: Zee News swept the News Television Awards (NT Awards), with its online site, zeenews.com, wining the 'Best News Channel Website' award.

The website offers a 360 degree view of news events ranging from politics, crime, business, sports, education, science, technology, health and entertainment.

Other than English, the website offers news in four different languages Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Malayalam.

Besides covering day-to-day news events, Zeenews.com focusses on stories which are viral on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

By visiting the website, one can get a view of write-ups related to spirituality and horoscopes.

Also, amazing picture galleries of events across the world are uploaded by the graphics team.

The popular Daily News and Analysis show hosted by Zee News Editor Sudhir Chaudhary bagged the Indiantelevision.com 'Editorial Special Daily News Bulletin' award.

Besides winning the best show award, Zee News Editor Sudhir Chaudhary also won Editorial Special Award for TV News Presenter for his highly successful 9 pm show DNA.

`Promo Campaign by a News Channel` award went to Zee News for 'Zee News - Vote PSAs'.

The channel was also bestowed with the 'Best Use of Graphics By News Channel' award.

In 2007, Indian Television Dot Com Pvt Ltd constituted the News Television Awards to honour those who make this industry what it is. The initiative met with tremendous success as 550 entries poured in from various Hindi and English news channels.

Since then, the NT Awards have become bigger and better, and from 2011, awards were also conferred to achievers in Telugu and Marathi news channels.

In all, 40 categories covering programming, personality, channel and special awards have been drawn up this year. The NT Awards will be presented to channel programmers, anchors, presenters, technicians, producers, editors, reporters and management.