[6] Raji Menon bought back the shares, earlier gifted to Sashi Kumar in 1999 at an agreed price, and took over full control of Asianet.

[5] At the time, Asianet was the leader amongst the Malayalam channels accounting for 35% of Kerala's total advertisement market.

While there was no official word from Asianet on the size of the investment, the figure is thought to range between INR 120-150 crore.

[5][10][7] Asianet was restructured into four companies in June 2008 (general entertainment, news, radio and media infrastructure).

[5] Star India eventually bought a 51% stake in Asianet Communications and formed a joint venture with JEV in November 2008.

The latter move was by acquiring a 19% equity stake in Vijay TV from Chandrasekhar and Asianet Communications MD Madhavan.

[16][4] M. G. Radhakrishnan, the former Editor-in-Chief of Asianet News, told the media he was not aware of the email and that he had "never faced pressure of any kind from the management".

[16][17] SARG Media Holding - owned by Arnab Goswami - is other major investor in ARG Outlier Asianet News.

[18][19] In May 2019, Asianet diluted its shareholding in the Republic Media Network by selling a large amount its shares to Goswami.

[22] Citing a report of P. R. Sunil, the government said the coverage was done in a manner "which highlighted the attack on places of worship and siding towards a particular community".

[11] "Asianet News had a long history of credible and balanced journalism that is critical of positions across the political spectrum, despite being owned by a parliamentarian of the Hindu nationalist party...Nikita Saxena and Atul Dev reported on how the editorial team of Asianet [News] have frequently resisted attempts by [Rajeev] Chandrashekar to interfere with their broadcasts and dictate their coverage and the struggle to maintain the channel's objectivity.

[4] According to Jacob George, a prominent commentator, Asianet News has had a "secular and progressive stance" since the time of its inception in 2003.

In his opinion, the current editorial leadership at the news channel is "not easily malleable" and has "immense credibility".

[24] Jupiter Capital, according to the email, wanted their new editors to be "right of centre in his/her editorial tonality" and "well familiarised with his (Rajeev Chandrasekhar's) thoughts on nationalism and governance".