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{{Short description|Malayalam satellite TV channel}}
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{{Infobox television channel
| name = Mangalam TV
| logo = Mangalam logo.png
| logo_size = 200px
| logo_caption =
| launch_date = 26 March 2017
| picture_format = 480i
| network =
| owner = [[Mangalam Publications]]
| country = [[India]]
| language = [[Malayalam]]
| area = [[Indian sub-continent]], [[Middle East]], [[Europe]], [[North America]]
| headquarters = [[Thiruvananthapuram]], [[Kerala]]
| former_names =
| sister_channels =
| website = {{URL|https://www.mangalam.com/news/about-mangalam.html}}
}}
'''Mangalam TV''' is a 24 hours Malayalam satellite news channel headquartered in [[Thiruvananthapuram]], Kerala.

==Controversy==
On its launch day,<ref>{{Cite web|title=mangalam tv: Launch-day sleaze puts TV CEO, four journalists in headlines | Thiruvananthapuram News - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thiruvananthapuram/launch-day-sleaze-puts-tv-ceo-four-journalists-in-headlines/articleshow/58023030.cms|website=The Times of India}}</ref> Mangalam TV, aired a telephonic audio clip in which Transport Minister [[A. K. Saseendran|AK Saseendran]] is allegedly heard speaking in a sexually explicit way to a person,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Minister A K Saseendran phone talk Mangalam tv exclusive launching YouTube 360p - YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EguW4cy2vxw&app=desktop|access-date=2020-07-22|website=youtube.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Kerala minister AK Saseendran quits over alleged obscene phone call with woman|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/kerala-minister-quits-over-alleged-obscene-phone-conversation-with-woman/story-fA00lc5IoPETZ2YUMs048H.html|access-date=2020-07-22|website=Hindustan Times|language=en}}</ref> whom the channel claimed was a [[housewife]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kerala sleaze audio case: Mangalam TV channel CEO, 4 others arrested|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/kerala-sleaze-audio-case-mangalam-tv-channel-ceo-4-others-arrested/story-o98UulJ5mV4mdCUtIXpYiM.html|access-date=2020-07-22|website=Hindustan Times|language=en}}</ref> Saseendran resigned as minister the same day. It was [[Chief minister (India)|Chief Minister]] [[Pinarayi Vijayan]] who had inaugurated the channel launch.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Akshay|title=ചാനല്‍ മത്സരം കൊഴുപ്പിക്കാന്‍ മംഗളം ടെലിവിഷനും; മുഖ്യമന്ത്രി നിലവിളക്ക് കൊളുത്തി ഉദ്ഘാടനം ചെയ്തു|url=https://malayalam.oneindia.com/news/kerala/pinarayi-inaugurates-mangalam-television-channel-166390.html|access-date=2020-07-22|website=malayalam.oneindia.com|language=ml}}</ref>

Later, the channel [[Chief executive officer|CEO]] Ajith Kumar apologised and admitted that it was a [[sting operation]] done using a woman journalist of the channel<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mangalam TV CEO apologises for sting against former minister|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/mangalam-tv-ceo-apologises-for-sting-against-former-minister-4593308/|access-date=2020-07-22|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref> after having denied it earlier.<ref>{{Cite web|title='Will you stop journalism if HONEY TRAP proved'?; Mangalam CEO tongue tied in Editors Hour - YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE4nELG3b8A&app=desktop|access-date=2020-07-22|website=youtube.com}}</ref>

On April 4, the CEO and four mediapersons of the channel were arrested by the [[Kerala Police|police]] for airing “[[Obscenity|obscene]] conversation” and criminal conspiracy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/kerala-sleaze-audio-case-mangalam-tv-channel-ceo-4-others-arrested/story-o98UulJ5mV4mdCUtIXpYiM.html|title=Kerala sleaze audio case: Mangalam TV channel CEO, 4 others arrested|website=Hindustan Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Legal|first=India|title=Trouble in store for Mangalam TV|url=https://www.indialegallive.com/commercial-news/controversy-news/trouble-store-mangalam-tv|access-date=2020-07-22|website=India Legal|language=en-US}}</ref>

Later, Saseendran was acquitted in the case after the complainant, who had earlier alleged [[sexual harassment]] turned [[Hostile witness|hostile]] in court and he returned as minister.<ref>{{Cite web|title=NCP's AK Saseendran acquitted; set to return to Kerala state cabinet|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2018/jan/27/ncps-ak-saseendran-acquitted-set-to-return-to-kerala-state-cabinet-1764225.html|access-date=2020-07-22|website=The New Indian Express}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=After acquittal in sleaze talk case, AK Saseendran returns to Kerala cabinet|url=https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/after-acquittal-in-sleaze-talk-case-ak-saseendran-returns-to-kerala-cabinet/1048040/|access-date=2020-07-22|website=The Financial Express|language=en-US}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Malayalam-language television channels]]
[[Category:24-hour television news channels in India]]
[[Category:Television channels and stations established in 2017]]
[[Category:Television stations in Thiruvananthapuram]]

Mangalam TV - Revision history

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