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  • It is Arnab’s Republic now

    It is Arnab’s Republic now

    NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: It’s not the nation now, it’s republic. And, true to his flamboyant style, Arnab Goswami’s new venture, believed to be on the cutting edge of technology — and news — would be christened Republic.

    Though not much details are available, Goswami, when contacted by indiantelevision.com on Thursday, confirmed that his new independent venture would be called Republic.

    Goswami was mum on the nature of the project or the investors funding it or when the venture would be launched. Industry sources, however, opined that it may be up and running (as a news channel) on 27 January 2017. Goswami, reportedly, has offers dangling for many of his former colleagues in Times TV Network. According to company sources, quite a few may also join their former editorial boss’ new venture.

    After about a fortnight’s speculation, the news about Goswami exiting Times group as the editor-in-chief of Times Now and ET Now became official in the first week of November 2016. Some media reports, which indiantelevision.com could not confirm independently, had indicated that the departure was not on as much a friendly terms as the celebrity news anchor had expected.

    Before his departure from Times group’s TV news venture, in at least a couple of media conferences and events, Goswami had said that there were no reasons why India could not have a media organisation as professional or credible as BBC or CNN and also straddle the digital (news) world with equal ease, hinting at his future assignments and challenges.

    Over the last several years, Goswami had become the face of Times Now news channel with his aggressive brand of TV journalism and signature news show called the `News Hour’, which actually ran over 60 minutes debating two to three big news developments of the day.

    It is ironical — some may call it coincidental — that Goswami chose to make public to select media outlets about his new venture `Republic’ on a day when his former employer, Times TV Network, formally announced his successor at Times Now in Rahul Shivshankar  for whom this would be his second stint at Times.

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  • It is Arnab’s Republic now

    It is Arnab’s Republic now

    NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: It’s not the nation now, it’s republic. And, true to his flamboyant style, Arnab Goswami’s new venture, believed to be on the cutting edge of technology — and news — would be christened Republic.

    Though not much details are available, Goswami, when contacted by indiantelevision.com on Thursday, confirmed that his new independent venture would be called Republic.

    Goswami was mum on the nature of the project or the investors funding it or when the venture would be launched. Industry sources, however, opined that it may be up and running (as a news channel) on 27 January 2017. Goswami, reportedly, has offers dangling for many of his former colleagues in Times TV Network. According to company sources, quite a few may also join their former editorial boss’ new venture.

    After about a fortnight’s speculation, the news about Goswami exiting Times group as the editor-in-chief of Times Now and ET Now became official in the first week of November 2016. Some media reports, which indiantelevision.com could not confirm independently, had indicated that the departure was not on as much a friendly terms as the celebrity news anchor had expected.

    Before his departure from Times group’s TV news venture, in at least a couple of media conferences and events, Goswami had said that there were no reasons why India could not have a media organisation as professional or credible as BBC or CNN and also straddle the digital (news) world with equal ease, hinting at his future assignments and challenges.

    Over the last several years, Goswami had become the face of Times Now news channel with his aggressive brand of TV journalism and signature news show called the `News Hour’, which actually ran over 60 minutes debating two to three big news developments of the day.

    It is ironical — some may call it coincidental — that Goswami chose to make public to select media outlets about his new venture `Republic’ on a day when his former employer, Times TV Network, formally announced his successor at Times Now in Rahul Shivshankar  for whom this would be his second stint at Times.

    ALSO READ

    Arnab Goswami quits as editor-in-chief of Times Television Network

    The after-effect of Arnab Goswami’s exit

    ‘King’ content will take over monopolistic media entities, says Arnab Goswami

     

     

  • Rahul Shivshankar appointed chief editor of Times Now

    Rahul Shivshankar appointed chief editor of Times Now

    MUMBAI: It’s official now. Times Network has announced the appointment of Rahul Shivshankar as the chief editor at Times Now. This would be his second stint with the network after a gap of close to 6 years.

    In his new role, Shivshankar will lead the editorial team of Times Now and will work closely with the business and leadership teams to ensure that the channel grows significantly and profitably.

    “This is my second stint with Times Now and it’s more like a homecoming. Leading a channel that has already set a very high benchmark is always a challenge. I look forward to taking on this mantle and hope to help Times Network achieve our objectives,” added Shivshankar.

    Based out of Mumbai, he will directly report to Times Network MD and CEO MK Anand.

    “I am pleased to welcome Rahul as the Chief Editor of Times Now. We are confident that the vast knowledge and domain expertise which he brings with him will hold TIMES NOW in good stead and reaffirm the channel’s leadership position in the market,” said Anand.

    In a career spanning almost 20 years, Shivshankar has served as editor in chief of NewsX, executive editor of Headlines Today (TV Today Network) and as senior editor of Times Now. He has also worked for the editorial page of The Times of India.

  • Rahul Shivshankar appointed chief editor of Times Now

    Rahul Shivshankar appointed chief editor of Times Now

    MUMBAI: It’s official now. Times Network has announced the appointment of Rahul Shivshankar as the chief editor at Times Now. This would be his second stint with the network after a gap of close to 6 years.

    In his new role, Shivshankar will lead the editorial team of Times Now and will work closely with the business and leadership teams to ensure that the channel grows significantly and profitably.

    “This is my second stint with Times Now and it’s more like a homecoming. Leading a channel that has already set a very high benchmark is always a challenge. I look forward to taking on this mantle and hope to help Times Network achieve our objectives,” added Shivshankar.

    Based out of Mumbai, he will directly report to Times Network MD and CEO MK Anand.

    “I am pleased to welcome Rahul as the Chief Editor of Times Now. We are confident that the vast knowledge and domain expertise which he brings with him will hold TIMES NOW in good stead and reaffirm the channel’s leadership position in the market,” said Anand.

    In a career spanning almost 20 years, Shivshankar has served as editor in chief of NewsX, executive editor of Headlines Today (TV Today Network) and as senior editor of Times Now. He has also worked for the editorial page of The Times of India.

  • Rahul Shivshankar new Times Now editor-in-chief?

    Rahul Shivshankar new Times Now editor-in-chief?

    MUMBAI: The ever-growing speculation that ensued after Times Now’s editor-in-chief quit the channel last month has finally been laid to rest. If industry sources are to be believed, then Times Network has found a replacement for Arnab Goswami in NewsX editor-in-chief Rahul Shivshankar, who might fill in Goswami’s shoes at Times Now.

    NewsX’s executive producer Chandi Ahlawat Dabas shared the information through a tweet: “Rahul Shivshankar moves on from NewsX. Will be shortly joining Times Now as Chief Editor. #Breaking and #Confirmed”, as reported by oneindia.com.

    While Shivshankar has confirmed that he has stepped down from his current role in NewsX to the media, he refrained from commenting on the prospect of rejoining Times Now.

    Shivshankar was often considered as Goswami’s right hand man during his earlier stint as the senior editorial at Times Now before he quit. He was a part of the launch team of Headlines Today in 2003. Since then, he has worked with Times Now, India Today and NewsX.

    In 2013, he joined NewsX as the managing editor, which was his second stint with the channel. In August 2014, he was made the editor-in-chief of the channel.

    Now that he is rumoured to take on the role of editor-in-chief at Times Now, would Shivshankar also moderate the channel’s flagship prime time debate show ‘ News Hour?’

  • Rahul Shivshankar new Times Now editor-in-chief?

    Rahul Shivshankar new Times Now editor-in-chief?

    MUMBAI: The ever-growing speculation that ensued after Times Now’s editor-in-chief quit the channel last month has finally been laid to rest. If industry sources are to be believed, then Times Network has found a replacement for Arnab Goswami in NewsX editor-in-chief Rahul Shivshankar, who might fill in Goswami’s shoes at Times Now.

    NewsX’s executive producer Chandi Ahlawat Dabas shared the information through a tweet: “Rahul Shivshankar moves on from NewsX. Will be shortly joining Times Now as Chief Editor. #Breaking and #Confirmed”, as reported by oneindia.com.

    While Shivshankar has confirmed that he has stepped down from his current role in NewsX to the media, he refrained from commenting on the prospect of rejoining Times Now.

    Shivshankar was often considered as Goswami’s right hand man during his earlier stint as the senior editorial at Times Now before he quit. He was a part of the launch team of Headlines Today in 2003. Since then, he has worked with Times Now, India Today and NewsX.

    In 2013, he joined NewsX as the managing editor, which was his second stint with the channel. In August 2014, he was made the editor-in-chief of the channel.

    Now that he is rumoured to take on the role of editor-in-chief at Times Now, would Shivshankar also moderate the channel’s flagship prime time debate show ‘ News Hour?’

  • 137 GEC and news pay channels violated ad cap rule in second quarter

    137 GEC and news pay channels violated ad cap rule in second quarter

    NEW DELHI: Even as the ad cap case drags on with the government failing to take a firm stand either way, a total of 137 pay channels including 25 news and current affairs channels continued to violate the regulations for telecasting a maximum of 12 minutes of commercials per hour in the second quarter of the year.

    The report released today by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India for the period from 28 March to 2 June 2016 shows that the number of violators has remained almost the same as in the first quarter when the total was 133 between 28 December and 27 March.

    While there has been a very miniscule fall in the violators among news channels from 30 to 25, there is an increase in non-news channels from 103 as on 27 March to 112 as on 26 June.

    The average duration per hour of advertisements (commercial and self promotional) during peak hours (7pm‐10 PM) in pay news channels for the period 28 March to 26 June shows that the highest of these was by 21.95 minutes by ETV Rajasthan and the lowest was 12.01 minutes by Zee Telugu. Interestingly, the highest in the first quarter was also by ETV Rajasthan with 24.83 minutes. Times Now which had been at the bottom with 12.15 minutes in the first quarter does not even figure in the list of violators in the second quarter.

    Among pay non-news channels (general entertainment channels) for the same period, the highest was 24.54 minutes by B4U Movies (which had topped the list in the first quarter with 23.41 minutes and was also at the top in December last year) and the lowest was 12.03 minutes by Raj Digital Plus. Odisha TV’s Tarang which had been at the bottom in the first quarter increased its ad time to 12.22 minutes.

    There are at least 16 news and 30 non-news channels clocking more than 15 minutes per hour. While the number of news channels was the same in the first quarter, the number of GECs has risen from 24.

    TRAI has made it clear that “the information is based on the data submitted by the broadcasters and TRAI bears no responsibility for correctness. As per information available with TRAI, the rest of the pay news and non-news channels are carrying less than 12 minutes of average duration per hour of advertisements (commercial & self promotional) during peak hours (7PM – 10 pm).”

    Asking TRAI not to take any coercive action against any channel pending hearing of the case in the first hearing over two years earlier, the Delhi High Court had asked all channels and TRAI to keep a record of the advertising time consumed including commercials.

    The petition had been filed by the News Broadcasters Association and some channels challenging the TRAI decision to implement the directive of 12 minutes contained in the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act 1995. The Information and Broadcasting Ministry and TRAI are the respondents in the petition.

    After the Information and Broadcasting Ministry told the Court on 27 November 2015 that it was discussing the issue with broadcasters, the matter was put off several times. In the 11 February hearing, Discovery Communications moved for intervention while Home Cable sought early hearing.

    In its intervention, MSO Home Cable Network (P) Ltd said it wanted to intervene as it was directly affected by the outcome of the present petition. It wanted the NBA petition to be dismissed and added: “The Pay channel broadcasters are profiteering at the expense of subscribers and the DPOs. There is no justification for changing monthly subscription when commercial advertisements are inserted. The Standards of Quality of Service (Digital Addressable Cable TV Systems) Regulations 2012 (with Amendments thereafter) is justified to the extent they are applicable to pay channels. The pay channel broadcasters cannot charge the subscription fee while inserting commercials into the content or in the alternative, the subscribers have to be compensated for the revenue earned on the basis of their being subscribers of the channels.”

    In the petition, the news channels made the plea that most of them are free to air and therefore do not get any subscription fee from the viewers as the GEC channels do.

  • 137 GEC and news pay channels violated ad cap rule in second quarter

    137 GEC and news pay channels violated ad cap rule in second quarter

    NEW DELHI: Even as the ad cap case drags on with the government failing to take a firm stand either way, a total of 137 pay channels including 25 news and current affairs channels continued to violate the regulations for telecasting a maximum of 12 minutes of commercials per hour in the second quarter of the year.

    The report released today by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India for the period from 28 March to 2 June 2016 shows that the number of violators has remained almost the same as in the first quarter when the total was 133 between 28 December and 27 March.

    While there has been a very miniscule fall in the violators among news channels from 30 to 25, there is an increase in non-news channels from 103 as on 27 March to 112 as on 26 June.

    The average duration per hour of advertisements (commercial and self promotional) during peak hours (7pm‐10 PM) in pay news channels for the period 28 March to 26 June shows that the highest of these was by 21.95 minutes by ETV Rajasthan and the lowest was 12.01 minutes by Zee Telugu. Interestingly, the highest in the first quarter was also by ETV Rajasthan with 24.83 minutes. Times Now which had been at the bottom with 12.15 minutes in the first quarter does not even figure in the list of violators in the second quarter.

    Among pay non-news channels (general entertainment channels) for the same period, the highest was 24.54 minutes by B4U Movies (which had topped the list in the first quarter with 23.41 minutes and was also at the top in December last year) and the lowest was 12.03 minutes by Raj Digital Plus. Odisha TV’s Tarang which had been at the bottom in the first quarter increased its ad time to 12.22 minutes.

    There are at least 16 news and 30 non-news channels clocking more than 15 minutes per hour. While the number of news channels was the same in the first quarter, the number of GECs has risen from 24.

    TRAI has made it clear that “the information is based on the data submitted by the broadcasters and TRAI bears no responsibility for correctness. As per information available with TRAI, the rest of the pay news and non-news channels are carrying less than 12 minutes of average duration per hour of advertisements (commercial & self promotional) during peak hours (7PM – 10 pm).”

    Asking TRAI not to take any coercive action against any channel pending hearing of the case in the first hearing over two years earlier, the Delhi High Court had asked all channels and TRAI to keep a record of the advertising time consumed including commercials.

    The petition had been filed by the News Broadcasters Association and some channels challenging the TRAI decision to implement the directive of 12 minutes contained in the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act 1995. The Information and Broadcasting Ministry and TRAI are the respondents in the petition.

    After the Information and Broadcasting Ministry told the Court on 27 November 2015 that it was discussing the issue with broadcasters, the matter was put off several times. In the 11 February hearing, Discovery Communications moved for intervention while Home Cable sought early hearing.

    In its intervention, MSO Home Cable Network (P) Ltd said it wanted to intervene as it was directly affected by the outcome of the present petition. It wanted the NBA petition to be dismissed and added: “The Pay channel broadcasters are profiteering at the expense of subscribers and the DPOs. There is no justification for changing monthly subscription when commercial advertisements are inserted. The Standards of Quality of Service (Digital Addressable Cable TV Systems) Regulations 2012 (with Amendments thereafter) is justified to the extent they are applicable to pay channels. The pay channel broadcasters cannot charge the subscription fee while inserting commercials into the content or in the alternative, the subscribers have to be compensated for the revenue earned on the basis of their being subscribers of the channels.”

    In the petition, the news channels made the plea that most of them are free to air and therefore do not get any subscription fee from the viewers as the GEC channels do.

  • Times accepts Arnab’s resignation; to host Newshour till Nov-end

    Times accepts Arnab’s resignation; to host Newshour till Nov-end

    MUMBAI: Much has been speculated about what will happen to Times Now after the exit of its star anchor.

    The news of Arnab Goswami’s resignation sent tremors across newsrooms and the social media went berserk. Over the last couple of days, the channel has been flashing, “Arnab will be back tomorrow night”. Guess, that will come to an end till the later half of November 2016.

    The Times Group has accepted the resignation of the president news and editor-in-chief of Times Now, ET Now and Magicbricks Now. Goswami will remain in his current position with Times Network till the later half of November 2016 and will continue anchoring the flagship show The Newshour till then.

    “Times Network cherishes the decade-long association with Arnab. We are sure he will do well in his next endeavor and our good wishes are with him,” said Times Network MD and CEO M K Anand.

    In the spirit of reciprocity, Goswami remembered his long journey with the channel and shared, “It’s been an exciting ride at Times Network. We have changed the way news is done and I have worked with fantastic professionals in this journey. To these professionals, I dedicate the success of the last decade as I look forward now to the future.”

    The nation has to only remain calm till we hear next from Goswami. Only time can say what will happen to Times Now whose identity has been linked to its most vocal anchor from over a decade.

  • Times accepts Arnab’s resignation; to host Newshour till Nov-end

    Times accepts Arnab’s resignation; to host Newshour till Nov-end

    MUMBAI: Much has been speculated about what will happen to Times Now after the exit of its star anchor.

    The news of Arnab Goswami’s resignation sent tremors across newsrooms and the social media went berserk. Over the last couple of days, the channel has been flashing, “Arnab will be back tomorrow night”. Guess, that will come to an end till the later half of November 2016.

    The Times Group has accepted the resignation of the president news and editor-in-chief of Times Now, ET Now and Magicbricks Now. Goswami will remain in his current position with Times Network till the later half of November 2016 and will continue anchoring the flagship show The Newshour till then.

    “Times Network cherishes the decade-long association with Arnab. We are sure he will do well in his next endeavor and our good wishes are with him,” said Times Network MD and CEO M K Anand.

    In the spirit of reciprocity, Goswami remembered his long journey with the channel and shared, “It’s been an exciting ride at Times Network. We have changed the way news is done and I have worked with fantastic professionals in this journey. To these professionals, I dedicate the success of the last decade as I look forward now to the future.”

    The nation has to only remain calm till we hear next from Goswami. Only time can say what will happen to Times Now whose identity has been linked to its most vocal anchor from over a decade.