Finally, the much-hyped Arnab Goswami’s Republic TV was launched, after many months of delay and anticipation. Republic TV since its launch is in the news and now it is trending on Twitter with more than 100 tweets a minute.
A day before its launch, Republic TV announced that its channel would go live on Hotstar and later the channel will also live stream on Jio TV and its website. News about this channel started trending on Twitter with hashtags #May6WithArnab since May 5th night. This was spotted at the top of the trending list.
The hashtag trended globally at the 4th position and received about 75,000 mentions globally. Goswami’s fans took to Twitter to share their feelings about his news channel, on the other hand, critics slammed him for this brave move.
In the first episode, the channel telecasts the story with the hashtag #LaluTapesExposed. Which became a trending topic with around 40,000 tweets a minute after the channel aired the Shahabuddin-Lalu Yadav tapes.
Seems like the channel is all about Arnab and the ‘R’ in the name became the channel’s logo. The first 10 minutes when the show was launched, the whole of India was eagerly waiting for the Arnab introduction, and he nailed it completely.
In the first 10 minutes, Goswami highlighted that nationalism is at the core of the channel’s values. “Being a nationalist is a prerequisite to being a journalist. In our reporting and relentless pursuit of the truth, our nationalism is our strength,” he said.
The channel went live at 10 A.M., on May 6, both on television and also on Hotstar.