NEW DELHI: Soon-to-be-launched Republic Bangla has announced its tagline – Kotha hobey chokhe chokh rekhe. The tagline signals the start of a new era of journalism in West Bengal that is fearless, unhindered by agendas and uncompromising on the truth, and indicates that the conversations and discourse will be face-to-face and eye-to-eye.
Republic Media Network’s Bengali news channel, Republic Bangla, is set to disrupt the Bengali news genre. The regional channel will take the Network’s focus on hard news and unabated aggression in the pursuit of the truth to ensure that there is neither hesitation nor reluctance to speak truth to power.
The launch of Republic Bangla was announced by Republic Media Network’s editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami on 11 December 2020. While the Network quickly amassed a team of over 200 through an overwhelming recruitment drive that recorded over 20,000 applicants, the Republic Bangla team is now on the verge of launch. Republic Bangla assures that it will bring hard-hitting, investigative news to the Bengali news genre and storm the market with a 100 per cent news format.
Powered by the principles of seeking accountability of the powerful, reportage for the citizen, putting India first, and being uncompromisingly and unflinchingly nationalistic, Republic Bangla strives to remain true to its tagline of Kotha hobey chokhe chokh rekhe.
Republic Media Network currently beams to over 150- 200 million viewers across the country, in English and Hindi, and is excited for the inroads in the Bengali news genre. Republic TV is India's first independent English news venture and has been the number 1 channel in terms of English news viewership consistently since its week of launch. Republic Bharat is India’s most-watched Hindi news channel, that has disrupted the stagnant and satiated genre of Hindi news by executing a 100 per cent news format. With an intense focus on news and breaking it to its viewers first, Republic Bangla too, will redefine news for the regional Bengali audience.
Republic Bangla’s launch comes as part of the Network’s intent to grow into regional languages in the near future.
