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Republic TV is an English-language news and current affairs television channel based in Mumbai, India. The channel is going to be launched on the 6th of May 2017 on 10 AM.Republic TV has been promoted as a global media venture to promote unbiased journalism.

History

Arnab Goswami, then Editor-in-Chief of a 24-hour English news channel Times Now, resigned from the channel on 1 November 2016. On 18 November, he hosted for the last time The Newshour Debate. On 16 December, Goswami announced that he is coming up with his new venture, a news channel called Republic. However, on 13 January 2017, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy wrote to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting that the name Republic was in violation of Emblems and Names (Prevention of improper use) Act 1950. As a result, the name changed to Republic TV and the same was communicated to the Ministry by Goswami through a letter.

Team

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, an entrepreneur, and an independent Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, also the vice-chairman of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition National Democratic Alliance in its Kerala wing, invested in ARG Outlier Media Private Ltd., a company that the Republic TV was reported to be a part of. Through companies owned by him, he invested ₹30 crore (US$3.5 million) in it. The other major investor was Goswami himself along with his wife Samyabrata Ray, who invested through SARG Media Holding Private Ltd., a company that the two held majority equity in.

S. Sundaram, who had served as the CFO for Times Now between 2005 and 2012, was named the Group CFO for Republic TV. Others who joined included senior anchor and Deputy Assignment Editor of Tamil news channel, Thanthi TV, S. A. Hariharan; retired army officer and television personality Major Gaurav Arya chief business officer of Reliance Broadcast Network Vikas Khanchandani as the CEO, co-founder of the The News Minute Chitra Subramaniam as editorial adviser, former chief correspondent from Jammu and Kashmir for Times Now Aditya Raj Kaul, writer and founder-editor of Gentleman and Business Barons, Minhaz Merchant and actor Anupam Kher.

Launch

On 4 May 2017, Republic TV announced its launch through its official twitter handle. The channel will be launched as a Free to Air (FTA) channel on Intelsat 20 at 68.5 East on frequency 3790 H 7200. All the major DTH and Cable TV operators including TataSky, AirteldigitalTV, Hathway, GTPL, Asianet Cable Vision, Fastway, TCCL have finished the process of testing the channel .It will also be available on mobile app Jio TV and HOTSTAR.As of May 5, 2017, the channel has already gone live on most major DTH platforms like Airtel Digital TV, Hathway and more. The launch was strategically planned by the management to go live in a few phases, until May 6, 2017, on and after which it goes full throttle on all cable and DTH platforms, including Hotstar.

See also

• Media of India
• List of news channels in India

References

1. ^ "Arnab Goswami announces new venture; Times Now gets a new chief editor". Firstpost. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
2. ^ "Arnab Goswami's new venture". Business Standard. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
3. "Arnab Goswami's interview". Businessworld. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
4. "Arnab Goswami announces new venture". The Indian Express. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
5. "Republic' made a Twitter and Facebook debut?". The Financial Express. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
6. "Republic' will change the perspective of journalism". The Indian Express. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
7. "Arnab Goswami has announced his new venture 'Republic'". The Indian Express.
8. "Subramanian Swamy has a point, Arnab Goswami's 'Republic' could be in trouble". OpIndia.com.
9. "Arnab changes his channel's name from 'Republic' to 'Republic TV' after Swamy's intervention". OpIndia.com.
10. 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.
11. "S Sundaram joins Republic as CFO". exchange4media.com. 23 February 2017. Archived from the original on 1 March 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
12. "Arnab's Republic adds S.A.Hariharan from Thanthi TV to its Editorial team". tvnews4u.com. 27 February 2017. Archived from the original on 27 April 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
13. "Major Gaurav Arya collaborates with Arnab's Republic TV". newslaundry.com. 15 March 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
14. "Minhaz Merchant on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2017-04-15.

External links

• Official website
• Official Twitter Handle

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• 24-hour television news channels in India
• Companies based in Mumbai
• Indian companies established in 2017
• English-language television stations in India
• Television channels and stations established in 2017