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Republic TV
CountryIndia
HeadquartersMumbai, India
Programming
Language(s)English
Ownership
OwnerARG Outlier Media, Asianet News
Links
Websitewww.republicworld.com

Republic TV is an English-language news and current affairs television channel based in Mumbai, India. The channel will be launched by Mr. Arnab Goswami sometime in the last week of April or in the first week of May. Republic TV will be a global media venture.

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 2016, Goswami for the last time hosted The Newshour debate. On 16 December 2016, Goswami announced that he is coming up with his new venture, a News Channel called Republic. However, on 13 January 2017, BJP leader Mr. Subramanian Swamy wrote to the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting that the name Republic was in violation of Emblems and Names act. As a result, the name of the venture was changed to Republic TV and the same was communicated to the Ministry by Mr. Goswami through a letter.

Team

On Feb 23, 2017, Mr. S Sundaram joined Republic TV as Group CFO Mr. S.A Hariharan from Thanthi TV joined Republic TV on Feb 27, 2017. On March 15,2017 Major Gaurav Arya, a retired army officer and a popular TV personality, was reported to have joined the team of Republic TV and it was officially confirmed by the twitter handle of the Republic TV. Mr. Vikas Kanchandhani is the CEO of Republic TV. Ms. Chitra Subramaniam, co-founder of the newsminute joined as Editorial Adviser of Republic TV. Mr. Aditya Raj Kaul, former chief correspondent from J&K for Times Now, also joined Republic TV.

Mr. Minhaz Merchant, writer and founder-editor of Gentleman and Business Barons magazine is also roped in the team of Republic TV, he announced his association through a tweet. Mr. Anupam Kher, popular Bollywood actor, is also said to host a show of Republic TV, as announced through a tweet.

See also

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. "S Sundaram joins Republic TV as CFO". Exchange4Media.
  11. "Arnab's Republic adds S.A.Hariharan from Thanthi TV to its Editorial team". tvnews4u.
  12. "Major Gaurav Arya collaborates with Arnab's Republic TV". NewsLaundry.
  13. "Minhaz Merchant on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2017-04-15.

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