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Fact CrescendoCulture & entertainment

Claim: Rangaraj Pandey Started new tv channel

Publisher’s rating: Fact Crescendo Rating: False

The report examines a viral story claiming that journalist Rangaraj Pandey had started a new channel called Chanakya and that it might soon become a satellite channel. The article says the story was shared widely on Facebook and attributed to the website TNNews. Its key distinction is between an online media operation and a full-time television or satellite channel. Rather than relying only on the viral post, the fact-check says it contacted Pandey directly through WhatsApp and asked him about the claim. According to the response reproduced in the article, he said he had not started a TV channel. He described Chanakya as an online media company operating on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, and said work was underway on a website intended to function like web television. He allowed that it might become a full-time or satellite channel in the future, while noting he could not fully disclose his future plans. The review concludes that the claim of a channel already launched was false, while acknowledging that Pandey had established an online media presence and was developing a web-TV project. Thus, the viral report appears to have presented a possible future development as an existing TV-channel launch. The supplied excerpt documents the publisher's direct-contact method and reproduces Pandey's response; it does not include independent records or further corroboration of that response.