Arnab changes channel's name to 'Republic TV'

January 31, 2017 10:06

Television journalist Arnab Goswami, whose television venture Republic came under fire from BJP leader Subramanian Swamy for falling foul of the Emblems and Names Act, has written to the information and broadcasting ministry informing it of its change of name to Republic TV.

In an application filed on January 28, 2017, to Manmeet Kaur, under-secretary in the I&B ministry, Goswami, managing director and editor-in-chief of ARG Outlier Media, has requested that 'all references to 'Republic' in our uplinking-downlinking application be construed as references to 'Republic TV' forthwith'.

You can see the application here.

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