Asianet News Network

Asianet News Network
Type	Media conglomerate
Country	India
Founded	30 September 1995; 28 years ago (as Asianet News Launch date) ; by Dr. Raji Menon
Broadcast area	India
Parent	Jupiter Entertainment Ventures Private Limited
Official website	www.asianetnews.com

The Asianet, Asianet Satellite Communications and Asianet News were founded by Dr. Raji Menon.^[1]

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

Frank P Thomas is the Director and Group CFO of Asianet News Network (ANN), Manoj K Das is the current Managing Editor of Asianet News and Kaushik Ghosh is the Chief Revenue Officer of Asianet News Network (ANN). Rajesh Kalra is the Executive Chairman of Asianet News Network (ANN). Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament in the Council of States from Karnataka, is the chairman of Jupiter Entertainment Ventures.^{[citation needed]}

Channels and web portals[edit]

Name	Language	Type
Asianet News	Malayalam	News channel & portal
Asianet Suvarna News	Kannada	News channel & portal
Republic TV	English	News channel
Republic Bangla	Bangla
Republic Bharat	Hindi
Republic World	English
Republic Kannada	Kannada
Kannada Prabha	Kannada	Newspaper

Digital channels[edit]

Name	Language	Type
Asianet Newsable	English	News portal
Asianet News Telugu	Telugu
Asianet News Tamil	Tamil
Asianet News Hindi	Hindi
Asianet News Bangla	Bangla

References[edit]

^ "BPL's Rajiv buys Asianet". The Times of India. 30 October 2006. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
^ "Asianet News Network Private Ltd.: Private Company Information". Bloomberg. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
^ "ASIANET NEWS NETWORK PRIVATE LIMITED". opencorporates.com. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
^ "Asianet News Network buys Tamil portal NewsFast". VCCircle. 1 September 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
^ 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.

[1] "BPL's Rajiv buys Asianet". The Times of India. 30 October 2006. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 26 December 2023.

[2] "Asianet News Network Private Ltd.: Private Company Information". Bloomberg. Retrieved 18 July 2018.

[3] "ASIANET NEWS NETWORK PRIVATE LIMITED". opencorporates.com. Retrieved 3 August 2018.

[vccircle-4] "Asianet News Network buys Tamil portal NewsFast". VCCircle. 1 September 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2018.

[:10-5] 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.

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