Republic TV

Republic TV
CountryIndia
Broadcast areaWorldwide
NetworkRepublic Media Network
AffiliatesRepublic Bharat
HeadquartersMumbai, India
Programming
Language(s)English
Picture format1080i
Ownership
OwnerArnab Goswami
ARG Outlier Media
Asianet News Network
Key peopleArnab Goswami
Sister channelsRepublic Bharat
Republic Bangla
Republic Kannada
History
Launched6 May 2017; 7 years ago (2017-05-06)
FounderArnab Goswami
Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Links
Websitewww.republicworld.com Edit this at Wikidata
Availability
Streaming media
Republic TV liveLive TV
YouTubeOfficial Channel
HotstarLive

Republic TV is an Indian right-wing[5] conservative English-language news channel launched in May 2017. It was co-founded by Arnab Goswami and Rajeev Chandrasekhar, before the latter relinquished his stake in May 2019, leaving Goswami as the majority stakeholder.[6] Chandrasekhar was an independent legislator from the National Democratic Alliance who later joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Goswami was the former editor-in-chief of Times Now. The venture was funded primarily by Chandrashekhar through his company Jupiter Capital Private Limited.

Republic TV has been accused of practicing biased reporting in favour of the ruling BJP; it has published misinformation and Islamophobic rhetoric on multiple occasions.[7][8][9][10] It has been convicted of breaching Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and News Broadcasting Standards Authority rules.[11][12] Republic TV is being investigated[when?] by the Mumbai Police after being accused of manipulating its viewership ratings in an alleged attempt to bargain for higher revenues from advertisers.[13]

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  2. ^ Hollingsworth, Julia; Mitra, Esha; Suri, Manveena (5 November 2020). "Controversial Indian news anchor arrested for allegedly abetting architect's suicide". CNN. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
  3. ^ Tanika Godbole (13 December 2020). "India: Boss of right-wing Republic TV arrested in ratings scam". DW Akademie. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
  4. ^ "Indian police arrest right-wing TV presenter in suicide case". Al Jazeera. 4 November 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
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  6. ^ Narasimhan, T. E. (6 May 2019). "Rajeev Chandrasekhar's Asianet pares stake in Arnab Goswami's Republic TV". Business Standard India. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  7. ^ Thomas, Pradip (30 October 2020). "Journalism and the Rise of Hindu Extremism". In Radde-Antweiler, Kerstin; Zeiler, Xenia (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Journalism. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-39608-0. Retrieved 6 November 2020 – via Google Books. Moreover, the blatant complicity of the ruling party and some news media in these crimes has resulted in a situation in which hate crimes against minorities and rationalists are justified and multiple signifiers circulated thus obfuscating the evidence for murders, ignoring the rule of law and replacing truths with multiple, manufactured discourses (see, for example, the outputs from Republic TV and India Upfront).
  8. ^ Chakrabarti, Santanu; Stengel, Lucile; Solanki, Sapna (20 November 2018). "Duty, Identity, Credibility: 'Fake News' and the ordinary citizen in India" (PDF). BBC World Service. pp. 87–88. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
  9. ^ Madan, Aman (23 January 2019). "India's Not-So-Free Media". The Diplomat. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  10. ^ Cite error: The named reference Fake news was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ "English news channel ratings: TRAI's intervention leads to decline in Republic TV's viewership". The Economic Times. 12 June 2017. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
  12. ^ "TRAI rules against Republic TV's unethical distribution practices to boost ratings". The Times of India. 2 June 2017. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
  13. ^ Cite error: The named reference TOI_15Dec20 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).