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Republic TV is an Indian English-language news television channel. It broadcasts from its studios in Mumbai and Bangalore. Created by former Times Now Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, it was launched on 6 May 2017. It is owned by Goswami, along with Rajeev Chandrasekhar.

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Reception

Viewership ratings

Republic TV became the most-watched English news channel in India in its first week of airing with 2.11 million impressions and accounted for 51.9 per cent viewership as per data released for the week by the Broadcast Audience Research Council. The numbers were later found to be inflated, as per a later TRAI verdict.

On 12 May 2017, the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) lodged a complaint with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) accusing the group of using unethical tactics to claim a high viewership. It claimed that the channel ran multiple feeds on various multi-system operator (MSO) platforms. The complaint added that the channel listed itself at multiple locations across various genres in the electronic program guide of various MSOs and other distributors on multiple logical channel numbers (LCNs), which supposedly violated the TRAI rules for unique genre and a unique LCN. Subsequently, the TRAI ruled in favour of NBA issuing a mandate against future use of multiple LCNs.

Criticism

The channel was subject to criticism by certain sections of the media which accused it of biased, opinionated and judgmental reporting. Some also called out its style of reporting "loud" and "noisy".

Controversies

On 17 May, Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. (BCCL) lodged a complaint against Goswami and Prema Sridevi, a journalist with Republic TV, under the Indian Penal Code and Information Technology Act, 2000 accusing them of copyright infringement. BCCL alleged that the two, previously employed with Times Now, that it owns and operates, had used its intellectual property (IP) in telecasting certain audio tapes that were in their possession during their time at the former Channel. Alongside IP infringement, the complaint also alleged the commission of offences of theft, criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of property, on the two, on multiple occasions days after the channel's launch.

On 26 May, Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor filed a civil defamation case in the Delhi High Court against Goswami and Republic TV in connection with the channel's broadcast of news items from 8 to 13 May claiming his link in his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death in 2014. Seeking the channel's response, Justice Manmohan of the High Court said, "Bring down the rhetoric. You can put out your story, you can put out the facts. You cannot call him names. That is uncalled for."

See also

• Media in India
• List of news channels in India

References

1. "Decoding the fuss over Arnab Goswami's Republic TV". Business Standard. 10 April 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
2. "Arnab Goswami announces new venture; Times Now gets a new chief editor". Firstpost. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
3. "Arnab Goswami's new venture". Business Standard. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
4. "Kerala NDA vice-chairman Rajeev Chandrasekhar investor, director in Arnab Goswami's Republic". The Indian Express. 13 January 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
5. Ahluwalia, Harveen (18 May 2017). "Arnab Goswami's Republic TV topples Times Now in debut week: Barc data". Livemint. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
6. "Republic TV has 51.9% viewership in debut week: BARCH gives data to paid subs despite NBAs request". indiantelevision.com. Archived from the original on 18 May 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
7. ^ "TRAI rules against Republic TV's unethical distribution practices to boost ratings". The Times of India. 2 June 2017. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
8. Agarwal, Nikhil (15 May 2017). "Arnab Goswami's Republic TV uses unethical tactics to push viewership, NBA petitions TRAI". India Today. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
9. Ahluwalia, Harveen (16 May 2017). "Arnab Goswami's Republic TV flouting rules, says NBA in Trai complaint". Livemint. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
10. Bajpai, Shailaja (11 May 2017). "On the run". The Indian Express. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
11. Kohli-Khandekar, Vanita (8 May 2017). "Arnab's Republic a reflection of what India has become- noisy and chaotic". Business Standard. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
12. "Arnab Goswami's Republic TV is losing the battle of babble; why not try something completely different?". Firstpost. 27 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
13. ScoopWhoop (13 January 2017). "Revealed! Here's Who Are Funding Arnab Goswami's 'Republic'". ScoopWhoop. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
14. "Times Now files criminal case for stealing against Arnab Goswami of Republic TV". The Economic Times. 17 May 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
15. "Arnab Goswami faces police complaint for 'cheating' Times Now over Sunanda Pushkar, Lalu tapes". Daily News and Analysis. 17 May 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
16. "Times Group files criminal complaint against Arnab Goswami for IPR breach". Business Standard. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
17. "Congress leader Shashi Tharoor files defamation case against Republic TV's Arnab Goswami". Indian Express. 26 May 2017.
18. "Shashi Tharoor files defamation suit against Arnab Goswami, Republic TV in High Court". The Economic Times. 26 May 2017.
19. "'Bring down the rhetoric', Delhi HC tells Arnab Goswami, Republic TV". The Hindu. 29 May 2017. Retrieved 3 June 2017.

External links

• Official website

• 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