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Republic Media Network

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Republic Media Network
Private
ISIN🆔
IndustryMass media
Founded 📆May 2017; 7 years ago (2017-05)
Founders 👔Arnab Goswami
Headquarters 🏙️Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Area served 🗺️
Worldwide
Key people
Arnab Goswami
(Co-founder) and (Editor-in-chief)
Products 📟 
Members
Number of employees
🌐 Website[Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 665: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). ] 
📇 Address
📞 telephone

Republic Media Network, is an Indian media conglomerate, co-founded by Arnab Goswami and Rajeev Chandrasekhar. It headquarters in Mumbai, India.[1] Republic Media Network consists 4 channels, Republic TV, Republic Bharat, Republic Bangla, Republic Kannada.

History[edit]

Background[edit]

Arnab Goswami resigned as editor-in-chief of Times Now on 1 November 2016, citing editorial differences, lack of freedom and newsroom politics.[2][3] He hosted the last edition of his show,[4] The Newshour Debate, a fortnight later.[5][6] Incidentally, the show had been subject to an investigation by Ofcom, the UK broadcasting regulatory authority, in August and September; the investigation had held Times Now guilty of violating the impartiality clause of its broadcast code.[7]

On 16 December, Goswami announced his next venture — a news channel called Republic;[8] the name was later changed to Republic TV in the face of complaints by Subramanian Swamy.[9] Republic TV was hyped as India's first independent media outlet which would 'democratize' news and compete with global media giants whilst being unabashedly pro-India.

Funding[edit]

Republic TV was funded in part by Asianet (ARG Outlier Asianet News Private Limited), which was primarily owned by Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a then-independent member of Rajya Sabha who had political links with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and was vice-chairman of the National Democratic Alliance in Kerala.[10] Among other major investors were Goswami himself, his wife Samyabrata Goswami, educationists Ramdas Pai and Ramakanta Panda — all of whom invested through SARG Media Holding Private Ltd.[11]

Chandrasekhar resigned from the board, after he officially joined the BJP in April 2018;[12] Goswami purchased back Asianet's shares in May 2019.[13][14]

Recruitments[edit]

The Wire and Newslaundry had come across an internal memo floated by Chandrasekhar's group that asked for selective recruitment of right-of-center pro-military voices, who were conducive to his ideology.[15]

S. Sundaram, who had served as the CFO for Times Now between 2005 and 2012, was named the Group CFO. Chief Business Officer of Reliance Broadcast Network Vikas Khanchandani, who had earlier stints as Senior Vice President of NDTV, was made the CEO[16] and co-founder of The News Minute, Chitra Subramaniam was roped in as the editorial adviser.[17] Others who joined included senior anchor of Thanthi TV S. A. Hariharan, retired army officer and television personality Gaurav Arya,[18] former chief correspondent from Jammu and Kashmir for Times Now Aditya Raj Kaul, writer and founder-editor of Gentleman, Minhaz Merchant[19] and actor Anupam Kher.[20]

Launch[edit]

Republic TV was launched on 6 May 2017 as Flagship channel, through most direct-to-home television in India and cable television operators, alongside over mobile platforms such as JioTV and Hotstar.[21] Reporting on its launch, Business Standard wrote "The company has already hired 300 people, of whom 215 are on board. A state-of-the-art-studio is being built in Mumbai's Lower Parel area."[22]

On 2 February 2019, the channel launched its Hindi language outlet named Republic Bharat.[citation needed]

Republic TV launched a Bengali language news channel, Republic Bangla, on 7 March 2021.[citation needed]

Republic TV bought Dighvijaya News channel from VRL Media and rebranded to Republic Kannada.[23][better source needed]

Owned channels[edit]

Name Language Type
Republic TV English News channel and portal
Republic World
Republic Bharat Hindi
Republic Bangla Bangla
Republic Kannada Kannada
Asianet News Malayalam
Asianet Suvarna News Kannada
Kannada Prabha Newspaper
Asianet Newsable English News portal
Asianet News Telugu Telugu
Asianet News Tamil Tamil
Asianet News Hindi Hindi
Asianet News Bangla Bangla

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Republic Bharat Fined £20,000 By UK Communications Regulator Ofcom". outlookindia.com. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
  2. ↑ Srikrishna, Vasupradha (1 September 2019). "Neoliberal Media Making the Public Interest and Public Choice Theory Obsolete: Need for a New Theory". Media Watch. 10 (3). doi:10.15655/mw/2019/v10i3/49692. ISSN 2249-8818.
  3. ↑ Team, BS Web (27 March 2017). "Arnab Goswami gets candid: Was not even allowed to enter Times Now studio". Business Standard India. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  4. ↑ Ayres, Alyssa (5 December 2017). Our Time Has Come: How India is Making Its Place in the World. Oxford University Press. pp. 34, 81. ISBN 9780190494537. Search this book on
  5. ↑ "Arnab Goswami's new venture". Business Standard. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  6. ↑ "Arnab Goswami announces new venture; Times Now gets a new chief editor". Firstpost. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  7. ↑ Venkataramakrishnan, Shoaib Daniyal & Rohan (27 April 2017). "'Proud of all my partners': Arnab Goswami when asked about BJP influence in new venture". Scroll.in. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  8. ↑ "Arnab Goswami has announced his new venture 'Republic'". The Indian Express.
  9. ↑ "Arnab Goswami changes channel name to Republic TV, gives in to Subramanian Swamy". Firstpost. 31 January 2017. Archived from the original on 9 May 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
  10. ↑ "What the Nation Wants to Know but Arnab's Republic Won't Tell You". The Quint. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  11. ↑ Kaushik, Krishn (13 January 2017). "Kerala NDA vice-chairman Rajeev Chandrasekhar investor, director in Arnab Goswami's Republic". The Indian Express. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  12. ↑ "Rajeev Chandrasekhar resigns as board director of Republic TV, says decision taken as he is now BJP MP – Firstpost". www.firstpost.com. 2 April 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  13. ↑ Arnab Goswami buys back Republic Media shares from Asianet, Live Mint (A Hindustan Times Media company), Lata Jha (6 May 2019)
  14. ↑ Arnab Goswami buys back shares from Asianet; Republic TV now valued at this much, The Financial Express (6 May 2019)
  15. ↑ Pande, Manisha (20 October 2016). "Asianet And The 'Independence' Of Rajeev Chandrasekhar". Newslaundry.
  16. ↑ Quint, The (2020-12-13). "Held in Fake TRP Case, Who is Republic TV CEO Vikas Khanchandani?". TheQuint. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
  17. ↑ "Chitra Subramaniam joins Republic TV". news.rediff.com. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
  18. ↑ "Major Gaurav Arya collaborates with Arnab's Republic TV". newslaundry.com. 15 March 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  19. ↑ "Minhaz Merchant on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  20. ↑ Sen, Rajyasree (24 May 2017). "Anupam Kher's People a welcome break from the screaming jingoism of Republic TV". Livemint. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  21. ↑ "Arnab Goswami's Republic first Indian news channel to air live on Hotstar". Business Standard. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
  22. ↑ Kohli-Khandekar, Vanita (6 May 2017). "Arnab Goswami's Republic TV went live today; but why so much fuss over it?". Business Standard. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
  23. ↑ World, Republic (2023-09-01). "Arnab Goswami announces Republic Kannada, channel to go on-air 'very soon". Republic World. Retrieved 2023-10-07.

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