Republic TV is a free-to-air Indian Far-right, Hindu Nationalist news channel. It was co-founded by Arnab Goswami and Rajeev Chandrasekhar, before the latter relinquished his stake in May 2019. The channel has been accused of practicing biased reporting in favour of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. It has also been criticised for falsely claiming about Bollywood actresses in Sushant Singh Rajput Suicide case.
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Republic TV is a free-to-air Indian Far-right, Hindu Nationalist 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. The channel has been accused of practicing biased reporting in favour of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. It has also been criticised for falsely claiming about Bollywood actresses in Sushant Singh Rajput Suicide case. On 2 February 2019, the channel launched its Hindi language outlet named Republic Bharat. Republic TV was hyped as India’s first independent media outlet which would ‘democratize’ news and compete with global media giants whilst being unabashedly pro-India. The top news spot was taken over by DD India, a public broadcaster, according to the Indian newspaper Mint. The Broadcasters Association lodged a complaint with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India accusing the group of using unethical tactics for high viewership. It claimed that the channel ran over multiple feeds, listed itself at various locations and listed itself in the guide to various electronic platforms. The Financial Express noted that the most-watched English news channel in India for the past 100 weeks in a row since its founding was Republic TV.
It accounted for 51.9 per cent of impressions for the first week of its airing in its first week in May, with 21.1 per cent for the week of the BARC report. The report said the channel allegedly became the most watched news channel for the second week of May. It also said that it had published fake news and Anti-Muslim comments on multiple occasions supporting the BJP. The venture was funded primarily by Chandrashekhar through his company Asianet News. The former legislator was an independent legislator from the National Democratic Alliance who later joined the Bharatiy Janata party and GoswAMI was the former editor-in-chief of Times Now. Goswiami purchased back Asianet’s shares in May2019, leaving him as the majority stakeholder. The company has already hired 300 people, of whom 215 are on board, and a state-of-the-art-studio is being built in Mumbai’s Lower Parel area. The group has hired senior anchor of Thanthi TV S. A. Hariharan, retired army officer and television personality Gaurav Arya, former chief correspondent from Jammu and Kashmir for Times Now Aditya Raj Kaul, founder-editor of Gentleman, Minhaz Merchant and actor Anupam Kher.
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