CABLE OPERATORS DISAPPOINTED WITH THE BUDGET

Shalini Behl appointed ‘What’s On India’ channel head

Feb 16, 2010. Shalini Behl has been appointed as Channel Head, What's On India.
Behl will be managing the programming, distribution, marketing, and on air functions, apart from day to day running of the channel.
Prior to this, she was with Reliance Big TV, where she had handled revenue function of VAS services and was responsible for launching all the interactive services on the platform. In Behl's 15-year old career, she has worked on various roles from ad agencies to media marketing, content acquisition and revenue functions across industries. In the past, she has also worked with channels such as Zee TV and Sony Entertainment Channel.
(February 2010)

Ravinder Taneja joined WWIL

Feb 16, 2010. Ravinder Taneja has joined Wire and Wireless India Limited (WWIL) as Senior Vice President - Sales &Operations (HITS).
Before joining WWIL, he was working with Tata Teleservices Limited as Vice President – Enterprise Business and has 21 years of rich experience in operational processes relating to acquisition cost and budgetary control, market planning, distribution and channel development, product & communication including brand retail.
Mr. Taneja has worked in different capacities with P& G Godrej, PepsiCo Limited, CANDICO India Limited, PVR Pictures Limited and Hindustan Times. His key achievements include developing new businesses into sizeable operations, setting up operations and bottling plants for Pepsi, setting up operations and printing facilities for Hindustan Times, distribution infrastructure, service centres, retail franchisee chain, call centre operations and tower infrastructure for Tata Teleservices.
(February 2010)

Himanshu quits Big FM

Feb 16, 2010. Himanshu Shekhar has put in his papers at Big FM as regional head of North and West India, after a two-year stint.
According to the sources, Shekhar is currently serving his notice period at the FM radio company. He is likely to join Mindshare Fulcrum in Jakarta where he will be handling the account of Unilever. This will be his second stint with Mindshare Fulcrum, where Shekhar had earlier served for eight years before joining Big FM in 2008.
(February 2010)

Avinash Kaul to head b’cast bizz at Sahara

Feb 19, 2010. Avinash Kaul has been made Head, Broadcast Operations at Sahara Media and Entertainment Limited. Avinash will be managing the operations of the three channels of Sahara - Sahara One, Filmy and Firangi.
Avinash has come from NDTV Media where he was the Executive Vice President since the company’s inception in 2002. Before joining NDTV Media, Kaul had worked with the Star India Group as the Senior Manager and with Discovery Communications as Assistant Manager.
(February 2010)

Fox India appoints Keertan as MD

Feb 24, 2010. FOX International Channels has announced the appointment of Keertan Adyanthaya as the new Managing Director for FOX International Channels India. He will take charge from April, 2010.
Keertan will be responsible for all existing FOX International Channels in India including its strong existing brands like National Geographic Channel and FOX History & Entertainment as well as its upcoming ones like Baby TV, Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo Adventure, Nat Geo Music and National Geographic Channel HD.
With a career spanning over 15-years in allied fields of the media, he has earlier worked media companies including O&M, Mindshare, Channel V, Star News, VH-1 and Star Plus.
(February 2010)

My Profile Vikas Sharma

Vikas Sharma Quits Digi Cable and joins WWIL a Zee Network Company as Business Head , North & West - India will look after Ad Sales & Programming for the regions
Having experience of more then 15 years worked with Phyche TV Movie Centre, Siti Cable, AM Trinity Pletco Ltd, Total TV, Lok Shabha Television (Parliament of India), Digi cable Network (India) Pvt. Ltd
(February 2010)

ZEEL Digital Head Ishwar Jha Quits

Jha has been associated with ZEEL for more than four years; to set up his venture on digital media platform.
BestMediaInfo Bureau | Delhi | February 24, 2010
Ishwar Jha, the head of digital services at Essel group company Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) has called it a day. March 3, 2010 would be his last working day at ZEEL. Jha has been associated with ZEEL for more than four years.
Confirming the development to BestMediaInfo.com, Jha said that he might head towards entrepreneurship and set up his own venture on digital media platform.
Jha had founded Digital Media Convergence Ltd, the Zee Group’s venture into digital entertainment in June 2006 and during a 2 year period as Chief Executive Officer, inked a partnership with BSNL partnership for Mobile TV, launched the entertainment portal Mypopkorn.com, and a digital content syndication for the subsidiary.
ZEEL owns channels Zee TV, Zee Cinema, Zee Premier, Zee Action, Zee Classic, Ten Sports, Zee Sports, Zee Cafe, Zee Studio, Zee Trendz, Zee Jagran, Zing, ETC Network, Zee Motion Pictures and Zee Limelight.
(February 2010)

Viacom18 Appoints Gaurav Gandhi As The Chief Commercial Officer

Gaurav will head the International Business also; he comes in here from NDTV Imagine.
BestMediaInfo Bureau | Mumbai | February 26, 2010
Viacom18, (an equal JV between Viacom Inc. and the Network18 Group) India’s fastest growing entertainment conglomerate, today announced the appointment of Gaurav Gandhi as the Chief Commercial Officer - Viacom18 Group. In this newly created role, Gaurav will also spearhead Viacom18's international business and will be reporting to Rajesh Kamat, Group COO - Viacom18 and CEO - COLORS.
Speaking on the appointment, Rajesh said, "Given our exponential growth as a group in the last 18 months and our future growth plans, it is now critical that we centralize our cost and commercial functions, thus ensuring synergies between various group businesses. Given Gaurav's relevant experience and proven track record, I am confident in his ability to add value across the group."
Gaurav joins Viacom18 from NDTV Imagine and brings with him over a decade of experience in the media and broadcasting space. Before NDTV he spent close to 4 yrs at STAR India, where he handled various assignments including Content Acquisition, Business planning & Syndication.
(February 2010)

Vikas Varma quits 9XM, joins MTV

Jan 18, 2010. Vikas Varma has quit INX Media where he was heading the music entertainment channel 9XM and Content-9X, the Hindi GEC of INX Media.
Varma has now joined Viacom 18 owned music channel MTV as its creative and content Head. He replaces MTV India GM and VP Ashish Patil who has been elevated as Senior VP of new ventures at Viacom 18.
(January 2010)

Ashish Patil joins Kamat’s team at Viacom 18
Jan 18, 2010. MTV India General Manager and Vice President Ashish Patil has been elevated as the Senior Vice President, New Ventures and General Manager, Youth Movies at Viacom 18.
Patil has joined Rajesh Kamat’s team who has been made the head of the group’s new ventures.
(January 2010)

NDS announces key appointments for Asia

Jan 20, 2010. Underlying the achievements of its team of executives in China, NDS is pleased to announce the following key promotions on January 20, 2010.
Chris Yap has been promoted to Vice President and General Manager, Cable, for NDS Greater China, reporting to Sue Taylor, Vice President and General Manager Asia Pacific. He is responsible for new accounts in the Asia Pacific region; regional strategy; and the technical support and delivery teams in China, Hong Kong, South Korea, India, SE Asia and Australia. Chris also oversees the cable business for the region and manages the team in China.
Yvonne Wang, Tigo Yeung, Sammy Qiu, Ben Liu have also been promoted to various positions in Asia.
(January 2010)

Reshuffle in I&B Ministry

Jan 24, 2010. A senior officer of the Punjab Cadre DP Reddy has been appointed Joint Secretary at the Information and Broadcasting Ministry. He replaces VB Pyarelal and is given charge of Films in the Ministry.
VB Pyarelal has been made Joint Secretary – Information and Additional Secretary Uday K Varma has been appointed Special Secretary at the Ministry.
(January 2010)

Mrinal Pande appointed Prasar Bharti Chairperson
Jan 24, 2010. A renowned journalist and author Mrinal Pande has been appointed Prasar Bharti Chairperson. She replaces Arun Bhatnagar whose resignation was accepted by the Government on December 18, 2009.
Earlier, Pande has left the Hindustan Times Group as Chief Editor of Hindi daily Hindustan, last year. She has also worked as Editor of women’s magazine “Vama”.
(January 2010)

Rajesh Kamat elevated as Viacom 18 COO

Jan 18, 2010. Rajesh Kamat has been elevated as the Chief Operating Officer of Viacom 18. The post of COO is newly created. Kamat will continue his current assignment as CEO for Colors.
Kamat has worked with companies such as Endemol, STAR India and Coa Cola.
(January 2010)

Tushar Shah back to MSM

Multi Screen Media (MSM) has re-appointed Tushar Shah as Senior Vice President – Corporate Services. Shah will be given charge of Channel 8, the Bengali channel that the MSM has acquired.
Tushar Shah had earlier worked with Sony Entertainment Television (Now MSM) which he had left to join Walt Disney as its India Director – Marcomm. Over his vast experience of 20 years in telecom and media, he has also worked with brands like Times of India, Telstra and Hutch.
(January 2010)

NewsCorp re-structures management

NewsCorp has announced a major restructuring plan within the organization.
The Group has created a new designation of Entertainment Chairman at Fox Networks and has appointed Peter Rice to the position. Rice will oversee all entertainment-centered domestic Fox networks.
Fox Sports chairman and CEO David Hill will be in charge of all Fox sports TV operations including the company's 19 regional sports networks besides Fox Sports, Fox Soccer Channel, Fox Sports en Espanol and Fuel TV as well as the company's joint venture sports businesses with Stats and Big Ten Network.
Both Rice and Hill will continue to report to Fox Networks Group chairman and CEO Tony Vinciquerra. The group is planning to create some more posts in the coming months.
(January 2010)

Hindujas appoint Sunir Kheterpal as CEO

The Hinduja Group on January 6, 2010 has announced the appointment of Sunir Kheterpal as the CEO of IN Entertainment.
Sunir Kheterpal comes on board from Reliance BIG Entertainment, where he set up the international and domestic distribution business for the Group before moving on to managing key co-production relationships at BIG Pictures.
Sunir has previously worked in the banking and financial services industry with Bank of America, Rabobank and YES Bank.
(January 2010)

Padmanabhan made BloombergUTV VP

Manoj Padmanabhan has joined UTV’s business channel BloombergUTV as Vice President-Sales. He will be reporting to the channel’s business head Deepak Lamba.
Padmanabhan has left Ten Sports as Director-ad sales in order to take-up his new assignment at BloombergUTV.
(January 2010)

Ross leaves BBC

Jonathan Ross, one of the highest paid presenters of the UK has announced his retirement from BBC.
Jonathan has decided not to continue with BBC after his contract terminating in July. Jonathan has been hosting two of the BBC’s most popular shows - Film 2010 and Radio 2.
(January 2010)

Network18 realigns human resource

Focusing on its web and mobile businesses, Network18 has realigned its human resources within the group.
While Lakshmi Narasimhan who was earlier heading the Group’s special interest publishing and printing operations business, Infomedia18, has been appointed as CEO of Web18, the Group’s web and mobile business, Surya Mantha, who was earlier CEO of Web18, has now been designated as Executive Director, Convergence at Network18.
(January 2010)