Asianet News Network

Asianet News Network
TypeMedia conglomerate
Country
India
Founded30 September 1995; 29 years ago (1995-09-30) (as Asianet News Launch date)
by Raji Menon
Broadcast area
India
OwnerJupiter Capital (Rajeev Chandrasekhar)
Official website
www.asianetnews.com

Asianet News Network (ANN) is an Indian news media company incorporated in the year 2008. It is a subsidiary of Jupiter Entertainment Ventures.[1][2] Asianet News Network operates the Malayalam news channel Asianet News, the Kannada news channel Asianet Suvarna News and the Kannada daily Kannada Prabha. It also operates separate news portals in English, Telugu, and Tamil languages.[3] Jupiter Entertainment Ventures is an investor in English news channel Republic TV.[4] Asianet News, was originally founded by Raji Menon.[5]

Frank P Thomas is the Director and Group CFO of Asianet News Network (ANN),Rajesh Kalra is the Executive Chairman of Asianet News Network (ANN). Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a Bharatiya Janata Party former Member of Parliament in the Council of States from Karnataka, is the chairman of Jupiter Entertainment Ventures.[6]

  1. ^ "Asianet News Network Private Ltd.: Private Company Information". Bloomberg. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  2. ^ "ASIANET NEWS NETWORK PRIVATE LIMITED". opencorporates.com. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  3. ^ "Asianet News Network buys Tamil portal NewsFast". VCCircle. 1 September 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  4. ^ Narasimhan, T. E. (6 May 2019). "Rajeev Chandrasekhar's Asianet pares stake in Arnab Goswami's Republic TV". Business Standard India. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  5. ^ "BPL's Rajiv buys Asianet". The Times of India. 30 October 2006. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  6. ^ Pande, Manisha (20 October 2016). "Asianet And The 'Independence' Of Rajeev Chandrasekhar". Newslaundry. Retrieved 26 June 2024.