Neville Bastawala New Head of Marketing for Star
After bidding adieu to Mid-Day, Neville Bastawala has joined Star India as Head of Marketing for Star World and Star Movies.
Bastawala will be assisting Saurabh Yagnik, General Manager & senior vice-president, English Channels, who has been overlooking the English general entertainment business so far.
(December 2010)

Kanika Saxena, new CMO at Balaji Motion Pictures
Ex-Associate Vice President and Head Marketing, UTV Bindass, Kanika Saxena takes over as Chief Marketing Officer at Balaji Motion Pictures.
Prior to joining UTV Bindass, Kanika was associated with Sahara One, as Senior Manager Marketing.
(December 2010)

FoodFood channel ropes in K. Lakshminarayan as COO
FoodFood, a brainchild of Sanjeev Kapoor, the soon -to-be-launched 24-hour food lifestyle channel, has roped in Karthik Lakshminarayan as its COO.
Lakshminarayan was part of the team that launched Colors. FoodFood is the joint venture between Malaysia-based Astro and Chef Sanjeev Kapoor's Turmeric Vision.
(December 2010)

Maa TV loses Sharrath Marar but gets J Shekar
Maa Television Director and CEO Sharrath Marar, has resigned. It is not known where Marar is headed next. He has been with Maa Television Network for close to four years. J Shekar was bought in as COO of the channel from Zee Kannada.
(December 2010)

Helen Jackson is BBC Worldwide MD
BBC Worldwide has announced the appointment of Helen Jackson as MD, content and production.
In this role, Jackson will take overall leadership of BBC Worldwide's TV content activity.
(December 2010)

Pitalwalla joins UTV interactive as head for 3G
UTV Interactive, the digital arm of UTV group, has appointed Sameer Pitalwalla as the business head for its 3G division.
In his new role, Pitalwalla will be responsible for driving the 3G initiatives across platforms for the UTV Interactive division.
(December 2010)

New Appointments in Hathway
Hathway Cable & Datacom has appointed G Subramanian as Chief Financial Officer and Roshan D'souza as President - broadband services.
Subramanian has over 28 years with varied companies such as BPL Mobile, Aircel & Bennett & Coleman.
Roshan D'souza, on the other hand, brings along with him over 16 years of cross functional experience.
(December 2010)

Ashwani Gujral & Sudarshan Sukhani Join ET NOW
Ashwani Gujral and Sudarshan Sukhani have been roped in by ET NOW for technical analysis on business TV. They move from CNBC TV 18 where they have guided millions of investors create wealth and are the biggest and the most respected names in technical analysis along with ET NOW's own Deepak Mohoni and CK Narayan.
These doyens of technical analysis in India will add to ET NOW's firepower and markets coverage from December 13, 2010
(December 2010)

Prabhu Chawla Joins The New Indian Express As Editor-in-chief
Prabhu Chawla, Editor (Languages), India Today Group has moved on and joining the Chennai based daily “The New Indian Express” as Editor-in-chief from 14 Dec 2010. He will be based out of Delhi.
He is replacing the Editor-in-chief Aditya Sinha who is slated to join DNA as Editor-in-chief next month.
(December 2010)

Dilip Jayaram to Head Advertisement Sales for Dish TV
Dish TV, Asia's largest DTH Company announced the appointment of Dilip Jayaram as National Ad Sales Head. In his new role, Dilip will report to Salil Kapoor, COO, Dish TV. As National Ad Sales Head, Dilip will drive the Ad Sales and establish Dish TV as a preferred platform for advertisers across the country.
(December 2010)

Manoj Sharma bids adieu to India TV
Manoj Sharma has quit India TV as Group Business Head. He had joined India TV in January 2010 and has been responsible for the business expansion of all group companies, including Independent News, India TV Interactive, Independent Media, Studio Brahma and India TV Mission.
(November 2010)

Espn Software India Appoints Aloke Malik As MD
Asia's leading sports content provider ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) announced the appointment of Aloke Malik as the Managing Director of its India operations, ESPN Software India (ESI).
Aloke joins ESI from Idea Cellular where he was the Chief Operating Officer of the company's East Operations. Having worked with leading local and multi-national companies such as ITC Limited, Pepsi, Reliance Retail, Madura Garments & Idea Cellular across India, Aloke brings over 23 years of rich industry experience in general management, marketing, sales & distribution.
(November 2010)

Zoom Entertainment Network appoints Avinash Kaul as CEO
Avinash Kaul has joined Times Television Network as Chief Executive Officer of Zoom Entertainment Network Limited. Prior to this, for a brief period, Kaul was the CEO of SaharaOne where he headed three channels- SaharaOne, Filmy and Firangi.
Kaul has close to 12 years of experience in the television business. He started his career as a Media Planner with HTA Fulcrum, and then moved onto Discovery Communications and Star India.
(November 2010)

Hemal Jhaveri takes over as biz head of Star Gold & Utsav
Hemal Jhaveri has taken over as business head of Star Gold and Star Utsav.
Jhaveri was next in command to Sameer Rao who quit the organisation on 1 November.
Jhaveri has over 12 years of work experience in the Indian media industry spanning music television, Internet and mobile entertainment, movie acquisition and channel programming. He was attached to Channel V as a senior executive from 1998 to 2000.
(November 2010)

Seher Bedi joins MTV as content head
Viacom18 has appointed Seher U Bedi as head of content for its youth entertainment channel MTV.
This is Bedi's second innings at MTV. Earlier she was associated with the channel as a supervising producer from September 1995 till January 2001. During her stint, she worked on shows like Club MTV, Loveline, Bakra and MTV Megamix.
Bedi said that "Yes I have joined MTV again. I will be heading the channel's content," Bedi said.
She will replace Vikas Varma, who had quit in September, after a short nine-month stint at MTV India as creative and content head.
MTV SVP marketing and sales Aditya Swamy was looking after creative and content in addition to his current responsibilities till now.
(November 2010)

Prasoon Joshi Appointed Chairman Of McCann World group Creative Leadership Council
Prasoon Joshi, Executive Chairman and Regional ECD Asia Pacific of McCann Erickson India has been appointed Chairman of McCann Worldgroup Creative Leadership Council.
Prasoon Joshi said, "It's a very good opportunity to look at worldwide operations and the worldwide creative product of the company. I feel honoured with this responsibility."
McCann Worldgroup Creative Leadership Council looks at the creative product of the organization worldwide and finds the ways to increase the creative performance. The council has chosen one person from USA, one from Europe, 2 people from Latin Amarica and one from China with Prasoon Joshi as the Chairman.
This is the first time when McCann Worldgroup Creative Leadership Council has chosen its Chairman from Asia.
(November 2010)

N Dilip Venkatraman is CEO, CNN-IBN
Network18 has promoted N Dilip Venkatraman, chief marketing officer of CNN-IBN, IBN7 and IBN-Lokmat, to the post of chief executive officer of the group's English news channel CNN-IBN. Venkatraman will be responsible for the strategic, financial and operational management of the news channel. Prior to this, he was responsible for handling the marketing operations of existing and upcoming IBN channels as well as managing IBN Focus, the alternative media solutions unit for the channels.
Venkatraman has earlier worked with the India Today Group and Zee Network.
(November 2010)

Star Gold head Sameer Rao quits
Sameer Rao, executive vice-president and general manager, STAR Gold has put in his papers at the organisation. Rao will join Vidhu Vinod Chopra's production company as chief executive officer with effect from November 15.
Rao will look after the business side of production in the company. The movement is part of a two year break from STAR Gold as he plans to return to the channel after two years.
(November 2010)

Chad Hurley to quit as YouTube CEO
YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley has decided to step down as the company's CEO, the company has announced. He would, however, continue to be with the video streaming giant as an adviser.
Hurley, 33, and his partner, Steve Chen, sold the site to Google for $1.65 billion. Chen left YouTube in 2008 to work on other Google projects.
Said Hurley in a statement, "For the last two years, I had taken on more of an advisory role at YouTube as Salar Kamangar has led the company's day-to-day operations. I will continue to serve as an adviser and am excited to witness the next phase of YouTube's growth."
(November 2010)

J Shekar Leave Zee Kannada
J Shekar, Business Head of Zee Kannada, has put in his papers. He has been with Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd for more than a decade. He is currently serving his notice period and will be with Zee till the end of January 2011.
Confirming the development, Shekar said, "I have put in my papers and am serving the notice period now. I have a few options, but cannot talk about them now. You will come to know of it when the time comes."
Shekar had started out with the Zee Group as Regional Director for Siti Cable Network, taking care of distribution. He then moved to Alpha Telugu (now called Zee Telugu), where he headed the sales of Zee Tamil, Zee Telugu and Zee Kannada. For the past two years, he has been the Business Head for Zee Kannada.
(November 2010)

Gautam Sharma joins India TV as Senior VP, Sales
Gautam Sharma has joined India TV as Senior Vice-President, Sales. He moves from Star News, where he was working as Assistant Vice-President and Head of Revenue (North) for four years. Sharma has also worked with Aaj Tak, Star TV and Planman Media and has an experience of 11 years in the media industry.
On joining India TV, Sharma said, "India TV is the only news organisation that is expanding. It is a great opportunity for me to grow, and I am excited about working at India TV's new state of the art facility."
(November 2010)

Rahul Dev joins Aaj Samaj, Leaves CNEB
Rahul Dev has put in his papers at Hindi news channel CNEB as Editor-in-Chief and CEO. He has joined Aaj Samaj as Editor-in-Chief, where he will be taking care of both the newspaper and magazine domains.
It may be recalled that Dev had joined CNEB in September 2008, a few months after the channel's launch. Speaking on the journey with CNEB, Dev said, "My stint with the group has been rewarding, educative, and by and large satisfactory."
Speaking on the goal that he had set before joining the print domain, Dev remarked, "Print domain in India is facing unprecedented challenges, especially Hindi and language print. It needs innovative thinking and vision; quality and interesting content, which can attract more and more readers. Keeping all these challenges in mind, I would like to try my hand in print."
Dev has more than 30 years' experience in print and television.
(November 2010)

Ashu Dutt joins Bloomberg UTV as CCE
Bloomberg UTV has roped in Ashu Dutt as its chief consulting editor - Financial Markets. This follows the recent appointment of Vivek Law who joined the channel as Editor.
At Bloomberg UTV, Dutt would lead the markets band programming right from pre-market hours till post market-closing. In the new assignment, Dutt will be reporting to Law.
Prior to joining Bloomberg UTV, Dutt was associated with ET Now in the capacity of chief consulting editor - Financial Markets.
(November 2010)

Rajeev Takru Appointed Addl. Secretary in I&B Ministry
Rajeev Takru, a senior Indian Administrative Officer, has been appointed the new Additional Secretary in the Information and Broadcasting Ministry.
Takru comes in the vacancy created by Uday Kumar Verma, an IAS officer from Madhya Pradesh in the 1976 batch, who was moved to the post of new Secretary in the Ministry Of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises from 1 September. Verma had been Special Secretary in the I&B Ministry.
Takru is from the 1979 batch from Gujarat.
(October 2010)

Anil Uniyal Appointed CEO of CNBC-TV18 & CNBC Awaaz
Anil Uniyal, COO, Network18 Media & Business Head, TV18 Media Operations, has been assigned the mandate to lead Network18′s business news channels, CNBC-TV18 & CNBC AWAAZ as CEO, with immediate effect. In his new role, Uniyal will be responsible for the strategic, financial and operational management of India's No.1 business news network and will report into Sai kumar, Group COO, Network 18.
(October 2010)

Ajay Chacko appointed as President, AETN-18
Ajay Chacko has been appointed as the president of AETN-18, the recently announced joint venture between AETN and Network18.
Based in Mumbai, Chacko will be responsible for the day-to-day operational, strategic and financial management of the joint venture and its suite of channels and services. AETN-18 plans to launch three channels -- History, Bio, and Crime and Investigation Network -- apart from other popular AETN entertainment channels in the Indian market.
(October 2010)

Nitin Vaidya quits Zee
After a successful stint of over a decade, Zee Entertainment Enterprise Ltd (Zeel) COO and business head Zee TV Nitin Vaidya has quit the company.
Zee will not be seeking an immediate replacement for Vaidya's role and his direct reports will, henceforth, be reporting into Zeel MD Punit Goenka.
Vaidya, who led Zee's forays into regional space and later flagship Hindi channel Zee TV, has expressed his desire to explore new vistas.
(October 2010)

Virad Kaul Appointed as CEO of Zee Turner Ltd.
Zee Turner Ltd., India's leading channel distribution, joint venture company of two renowned media conglomerates - Essel group and Turner International today announced the appointment of Virad Kaul as its Chief Executive Officer.
Prior to this, Virad was COO, Idea Cellular, UP - West for the last 4 years and was also holding additional charge of Delhi & Haryana Circle for the last few months. He was instrumental in leading Idea to the No. 1 position in U.P. West, spearheading its rapid ascent and market share growth in the circle.
(October 2010)

NDS appoints Jayant Changrani To Head Indian Operations
NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, announced the appointment of Jayant Changrani as Country Head & General Manager for NDS India.
Based in Gurgaon near New Delhi, Changrani will oversee strategy, business development, pre-sales and sales activities in India. His remit includes identifying and developing new business opportunities for NDS' end-to-end pay-TV solutions in cable, satellite (DTH), IPTV and mobile TV markets. He is also responsible for internal operations at the NDS centres in Delhi and Mumbai.
Changrani has more than 22 years industry experience. Prior to joining NDS, he spent ten years as Senior Vice President, Broadband Networks and Commercial at Hathway Cable & Datacom and five years as the Head of Business Operations at GTL.
Sue Taylor, Senior Vice President and General Manager of NDS Asia Pacific, said: "Jayant has an excellent understanding of the Indian pay-TV industry, particularly the cable TV and DTH broadcasting sectors. His vast experience will be invaluable to NDS and its local customers as pay-TV undergoes a period of rapid transformation in India. We are confident that Jayant will be an asset to our Indian operations."
(October 2010)

Arvind Mahendru joins ESPN Star Sports
Former senior vice-president, new media of India TV Interactive, Arvind Mahendru has joined ESPN Star Sports as director of digital media.
Based in Delhi, Mahendru will report to James Miner, the senior vice-president of digital media for ESPN Star Sports (ESS), based in Singapore. He will also report to Sanjay Kailash, executive vice-president, ESPN Star Sports, India.
As the head of digital media, he will look after ESPN's properties like mobile, 3G, streaming and website from both the business and the development perspective.
Having around 18 years of experience, Mahendru started his career with GlaxoSmithKline as management trainee in 1993.
(October 2010)

R. Sridharan appointed Executive Editor of ET NOW
R. Sridharan, Senior Editor, News and Trends, has been appointed as Executive Editor of ET NOW with immediate effect. Sridharan, who joined ET NOW in September 2008, has been instrumental in driving the qualitative content of the evening band and has played a crucial role in the growth of the channel. He will report to Rahul Joshi who looks after the editorial content of both Economic Times and ET NOW. Sridharan fills in the position which was left vacant with Andy Mukherjee moving back to Singapore.
(October 2010)

Kunal Mukherjee to head UTV Bindass as head, marketing
UTV Bindass has appointed Kunal Mukherjee as head, marketing. At UTV, Mukherjee is already spearheading three other channels, including UTV World Movies, UTV Movies and UTV Action.
Kanika Sharma has put in her papers at UTV Bindass, where she was AVP, Marketing. She was with the channel for nearly two years and was reporting to Business Head, Nikhil Gandhi.
Mukherjee's appointment is being seen as a step to fill the vacancy at UTV Bindass.
Commenting on the appointment, Nikhil Gandhi, business head, UTV Bindass, says, "Mukherjee will take on the role of marketing head for brand Bindass, in addition to his current portfolio of marketing head, UTV World Movies, UTV Movies and UTV Action."
(October 2010)

Sameer Manchanda steps down as Joint MD IBN18; Raghav Bahl steps down as Director, DEN
IBN18 Broadcast Limited (IBN18) announced that Sameer Manchanda, Joint Managing Director, has stepped down from the office of Joint Managing Director as well as from the Directorship of the company with immediate effect. The intimation was sent to the Stock Exchange.
Additionally, DEN Networks Limited (DEN) announced that Raghav Bahl, a Director on DEN, has stepped down from the Directorship of the company with immediate effect.
(October 2010)

Vivek Law to join Bloomberg UTV as editor
Bloomberg UTV has appointed CNBC-TV18 national editor Vivek Law as its editor.
Law has resigned at CNBC-TV18 and will be joining Bloomberg UTV from 1 November.
Bloomberg UTV Editor-in-Chief Govindraj Ethiraj had earlier moved out to join Nandan Nilekani in the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) project being undertaken by the Government of India.
Law comes with over 15 years of experience in journalism and has worked with India Today, Economic Times, Business Standard and The Financial Express.
(October 2010)

Vinod J Nathan joined Suvarna TV
STAR Network's Kannada general entertainment channel, Suvarna TV, has roped in Vinod J Nathan as national sales head. Nathan will be responsible for the entire sales function of Suvarna TV and the regional heads of the channel will report to him a newly created position.
Based in Bengaluru, Nathan will report Anup Chandrashekharan, business head, Suvarna TV. Earlier, Nathan was director, client leadership, GroupM Media (Mindshare).
(October 2010)

Yubaraj Bhattacharya joined Mahuaa TV as CEO
Yubaraj Bhattacharya, creative director, STAR Jalsha is moving to PK Tiwari promoted Mahuaa TV as chief executive officer. Bhattacharya will be in charge of all channels which are on air, including Bhojpuri and Bangla news and general entertainment channels and will also be responsible for launching new channels in future.
Prior to launching STAR Jalsha, Bhattacharya was part of the team that launched STAR Ananda.
(October 2010)

Vineet Jain elected PTI Chairman
Vineet Jain, Managing Director at Bennett Coleman and Company Limited has been elected new Chairman of India’s largest news agency Press Trust of India (PTI).
He has replaced Punjabi Kesari Group editor Vijay Kumar. Before this, he was serving as vice-chairman. He had also held the post in 2002-03. The post of vice-chairman now went to Mathrubhumi Group chairman and managing director MP Veerendra Kumar.
Other members elected to the PTI board are Vijay Kumar Chopra from Hind Samachar, N Ravi from The Hindu, R Lakshmipathy Dinamalar, Aveek Kumar Sarkar from Ananda Bazar Patrika, Shekhar Gupta from Indian Express, K.N. Shanth Kumar from Deccan Herald, Mahendra Mohan Gupta from Jagran Prakashan, Hormusji N. Cama from Bombay Samachar, Riyad Mathew from Malayala Manorama and Sanjoy Narayan from Hindustan Times.
(September 2010)

Vikas Verma quits MTV
MTV India creative and content head Vikas Varma has quit the company though he will continue to work for the channel as a consultant.
Prior to MTV, Varma was with INX media as head - music entertainment channels since April 2007. Before that he was the programming head at Radio City.
MTV SVP, Marketing and Sales Aditya Swamy has been given an additional responsibility of creative and content till the channel gets Verma’s replacement.
(September 2010)

NewsX appoints Diptosh Majumdar as editorial director
Diptosh Majumdar has been appointed as editorial director at NewsX, a news channel soon to be rechristened as IMN News.
He comes from CNN-IBN where he was the national affairs editor and here at NewsX, he will look after the NewsX’s news room operations.
Majumdar has also worked with the brands such as The Telegraph and Indian Express.
(September 2010)

Uday Shankar elected as IBF president
Uday Shankar, CEO, Star India has been elected as the President, Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF).
The decision has been taken in the 58th Board of Directors meeting held in Hyderabad. The Board has also unanimously elected, G. Krishnan, CEO TV Today as the Vice President and Sunil Lulla, CEO, Times Television Network as the Honorary Treasurer of IBF.
The election took place when Jawahar Goel, President, K.V.L. Narayan Rao, Vice President and Venkat, Treasurer, have willingly stepped down from their posts at IBF.
(September 2010)

Anuj Gandhi leaves Den Networks
Anuj Gandhi has quit as CEO at Den Networks. He is currently serving his notice period.
Gandhi will continue to serve as an advisor to the company as well as director at its joint venture distribution company with Star – Star Den.
Gandhi had earlier worked with Set Discovery as its president.
(September 2010)

Big Productions makes key appointments
Reliance Group’s content production arm Big Productions has appointed Jayesh Patil as head of fiction programming while Bimal Unnikrishnan has been made head of non-fiction programming.
Patil comes with over 16 years of creative experience in Hindi fiction shows and has worked with industry’s some renowned brands such as Creative Eye, Playtime Creations, BAG Films, Optimistix, Hats Off and UTV Television.
Unnikrishnan who has been given the charge of non-fiction has worked with Zee Television, Cinema Vision India, Powercut International, Media Studio, Miditech, UTV Television and The Right Picture during his 15 years of career.
Both of them will be reporting to Big Productions business head P Sarvanan.
(September 2010)

India Today taps MJ Akbar
Veteran journalist MJ Akbar has joined the India Today Group and will oversee the Group's flagships, English edition of India Today and news channel Headlines Today, as editorial director for both the brands. On the eve of its 35th anniversary, Prabhu Chawla, editor of India Today magazine across all its editions for 14 years, will be moving into a new editorial and corporate role as CEO of a to-be-formed corporate entity.
(September 2010)

Shalini Behl quits “What’s On India”
“What’s On India” CEO Shalini Behl has quit.
She had joined the India's first TV guidance channel, “What's on India” as channel head in February, this year.
During her 15 years career, Behl has worked with Reliance Big TV, Sony Entertainment Television, Zee TV.
(August 2010)

Nidhi Dutt to present BBC India Business Report
Nidhi Dutt has been appointed as a presenter by the BBC World News.
She will present the half-an-hour weekly business programme – India Business Report for BBC.
Nidhi comes from ABC Networks where she used to cover events in South Asia for ABC Television, radio and online. She has also worked with Thompson Reuters and Times Now.
(August 2010)

Avinash Kaul ends six-month stint with Sahara
Avinash Kaul has resigned from CEO to Sahara One Media and Entertainment Ltd.
Avinash had joined the company in February, this year and was given responsibility to look after entire business operations of three channels - Sahara One, Filmy and Firangi.
In his career spanning 12 years, Avinash has worked with brands such as NDTV, Star and Discovery.
(August 2010)

Vikram Malhotra joins Viacom18
Viacom 18 has announced the appointment of Vikram Malhotra as COO at Studio 18, the film production and distribution arm of the company.
He is entitled to report to group CEO Haresh Chawla. As COO, he will be responsible for driving growth and profitability at Studio18.
Vikram comes from Balaji Telefilms where he was working as COO. Prior to that, Vikram was the Head of Worldwide Marketing of Kingfisher Airlines.
(August 2010)

Fox appoints Debarpita as VP
FOX International Channel has announced the appointment of Debarpita Banerjee as the Vice President - Marketing for FOX International Channels.
In her new avatar, Debarpita will be responsible for Marketing and Communications initiatives for the bouquet of channels under FOX International Channels in India such as National Geographic Channel, FOX History & Entertainment, Baby TV, Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo Adventure, Nat Geo Music and National Geographic Channel HD.
Debarpita comes with 14yrs of strong experience with advertising majors like BBDO, Leo Burnett & JWT, where she had spearheaded accounts for brands like Horlicks, ICI Dulux, Coca Cola, GSK, SBI etc.
(August 2010)

Endemol appoints Shubhojit Ganguly to head Bengal operations
Endemol India has appointed Shubhojit Kumar Ganguly as the head of operations, Bengal with immediate effect.
Prior to Endemol, Ganguly was with Zee Akash Bangla as business head.
In his new role, Ganguly will be responsible for driving the growth and operations of Endemol India in the Bengal market. He will take care of the fiction and non-fiction shows and will develop new formats for the viewers.
He comes with over 20 years of experience.
(August 2010)

David Madden appointed as President Fox Television Studios
David Madden has been named Fox Television Studios president.
The announcement was made by Twentieth Century Fox Television chairmen Dana Walden and Gary Newman, to whom Madden reports.
Madden succeeds Emiliano Calemzuk who recently stepped down from his position.
(August 2010)

Digicable SVP - network development Surendran Nair quits
Digicable Network India senior vice president – network development Surendran Thankappan Nair is quitting the organisation to float his own venture.
Prior to joining Digicable Network, Nair was AVP – business development at Wire & Wireless (India) Ltd. where his key responsibility was to set up the digital and analogue headend for implementation of CAS (Conditional Access System) having features like video on demand, pay per view, electronic programme guide (EPG) and live gaming. Nair was also with ETC Networks where he was head – network development.
(August 2010)

Sony VP Neeraj Arora elevated
Sony Entertainment Network vice president Neeraj Arora has been elevated as Executive Vice President and International Business Head.
Arora has taken over charge from Rajan Singh and continued to be based at London.
Prior to Sony, he had held various positions with Zee Network and B4U Network in India and the UK.
(July 2010

Venkateish quits ESPN, joins Dish TV
After a successful seven-year stint, RC Venkateish has quit ESPN Star Sports as Managing Director to join the Essel Group’s DTH arm Dish TV as CEO.
He was working with the channel for last seven years.
Vijay Rajput will take charge of ESS India till Venkateish’s successor is announced. Vijay is currently holding the post of COO at ESS India.
(July 2010

Sunil Punjabi quits Sony
Sony Entertainment Television Senior VP – Business Development and New Media, Sunil Punjabi has quit the company to join Cinemax as CEO.
Sunil had joined Sony in June, last year to head business development for sports, and movie channels.
(July 2010

Dinesh Jain ends three-year stint with Zee Turner
Dinesh Jain has put-in his papers to Zee Turner, ending his three-year stint with the company as CEO.
Zee Turner director Karan Kapur has been given the responsibility to look after the channel.
(July 2010

Puneet Goenka replaces Laxmi Goel at Zee News
Puneet Goenka has replaced Laxmi N Goel as Managing Director at Zee News Limited (ZNL).
Puneet Goenka is the eldest son of Subhash Chandra. He is already holding the post of MD and CEO of ZEEL.
Laxmi N Goel will continue as a non-executive director on the board and will continue to look after the group’s real estate business.
(July 2010

Venugopal joins Sun Direct
Sun Direct has announced the appointment of Venugopal Iyengar as its Marketing Head.
He comes from Walt Disney Television India where he as Marketing Head was leading the off-air marketing teams for the Disney-owned TV channels in India.
He has also worked with Zee Telefilms as Deputy Vice President – Marketing for its premier movie channel Zee Cinema.
(July 2010

Dilip Sharan joins Neo Sports as EVP
Dilip Sharan has been appointed as Executive Vice President (EVP) – Distribution Platforms at Neo Sports Broadcast.
He will look after the channel’s distribution across the platforms including cable and DTH and will report to the president – affiliated sales, Arun Poddar.
Sharan has earlier worked with Zee Turner, ESS, Modi Entertainment, Tata Press and Dunlop India.
(July 2010

Govindraj Ethiraj leaves BloombergUTV, to join UIDAI
Govindraj Ethiraj, the founder-member and Editor-in-Chief of Bloomberg UTV has resigned.
Ethiraj will be joining the Government’s Unique Identification (UID) project and will be a part of the Nandan Nilekani’s team at Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).
He will be working till September at Bloomberg UTV for smooth transition.
(July 2010

Sahara One restructures itself
Under the leadership of its new CEO Avinash Kaul, Hindi GEC Sahara One has launched its new corporate identity with a changed logo and all new team.
Beside Kaul who comes from NDTV, Sheetal Ladha has joined the channel as Programming Head. Creative Director Mushtak Shekh has been given the responsibility to oversee new concept and ideas.
While AIDEM Ventures, which was recently created by Raj Nayak has been given the responsibility of sales, Karthik L has been put in as head-Marketing and International Distribution (UK, US and Canada). For the rest of the international distribution, Sahara One Media Entertainment Limited (SOMEL) has appointed Pallav Nagar, former Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel) head subscription - Asia Pacific. Nagar will take care of South East Asia, the Middle East and North Africa region.
For the movie acquisition business, the company has appointed Select Media Holdings’ Vikrant Rai as Head - syndication. SOMEL has recruited former NDTV Media executive Viral Jani as AVP - research & strategic planning. Also, Puruskar Gupta has joined the company as head - finance. He comes from Real Global Broadcasting.
The channel has also got a new feel and logo designed in-house by the OAP (on-air promotion) team, headed by Ashish Kapoor.
(May 2010)

NDS appoints Anoop Varma as Director
NDS, a leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, has announced the appointment of Anoop Varma as Director of Sales for NDS India. Anoop will report to Alan Dishington, General Manager, NDS India.
In his new position, Anoop will oversee all business development, sales and pre-sales activities for NDS in India.
Prior to joining NDS India, Anoop has worked for national and international media brands including Viaccess, Star News and Aaj Tak News.
(May 2010)

Discovery appoints Rajiv Bakshi VP
Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific has announced the promotion of Rajiv Bakshi to Vice President – Marketing for India region.
In his new leadership role, Rajiv will be responsible for creating and implementing strategic marketing initiatives for Discovery’s entire portfolio of six networks in India. He will continue to report to Rahul Johri, senior vice president & general manager, India.
During his last five years at Discovery, Rajiv played a critical role in driving ratings for Discovery Channel, establishing India’s leading lifestyle channel Discovery Travel & Living and refreshing Animal Planet. With over 12 years of experience, Rajiv has worked in various capacities across diverse sectors including FMCG, Auto, Durables and Hospitality.
(May 2010)

Sanjeev Srivastava quits Sahara
Sanjeev Srivastava has quit Sahara India Media which he had joined as CEO and Editor-in-Chief in January, 2010.
He comes with over 25 years of experience with various media organisations including the Times of India and Indian Express and most recently as head – BBC Hindi output.
(May 2010)

Disney India realigns top rung
May 20, 2010. The Walt Disney Co, India has announced key changes to its top management in the country.
While director of strategic sales and market development Vijay Subramaniam has been given an additional charge of Disney India Media Solutions and Alliances (DIMSA), Roshini Bakshi who was the regional director for consumer products has now been promoted to VP-Consumer Products, Publishing and Retail. Swati Shetty has also been promoted to Walt Disney Studios International Production (India) theatrical productions and acquisitions executive director. Prior to this, she was director for theatrical production and acquisition.
The announcements come as Disney’s increasing focus on retail and on making and acquisition of Bollywood movies.
The Walt Disney Company in India has named Raju Venkataraman, as Vice President and General Manager - Disney Media Distribution.
(May 2010)

DP Reddy takes-charge as Jt Secretary - Broadcasting
April 5, 2010. A Punjab Cadre IAS officer, DP Reddy has taken charge of Broadcasting at the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
Mr Reddy takes charge from Zohra Chatterjee who has held the position of Joint Secretary (Broadcasting) since May, 2007 till a new appointment is made for the post. Chatterjee has been appointed Member Secretary in the rank of Additional Secretary to the National Commission for Women.
DP Reddy has already been holding the position of Joint Secretary (Films) since February 2010.
(April 2010)

Raj Nayak expands his team, takes Kaushal Dalal
April 6, 2010. Former NDTV CEO Raj Nayak who has recently announced to form his own media company named Aidem Vnetures has started building his team.
Mr Nayak has appointed Kaushal Dalal as EVP – Business Development & Strategy at his new media venture. Mr Dalal has also been given an additional responsibility of finance, legal and investment related matters of the company.
Earlier, Kaushal had worked with Star TV for over nine years where as the head of business development where he was involved in all new business projects and transactions for Indian operations of Star.
(April 2010)

Tony D’Silva elevated as CEO
April 9, 2010. Sun Direct Chief Operating Officer (COO) Tony D’Silva has been promoted to the post of the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
D’Silva who had worked with brands like Star, Zee and Modi Entertainment had joined Sun Direct in September, 2007.
(April 2010)

Neeraj Goswami quits Warner Bros.
April 14, 2010. Warner Bros. India – National Sales Head Neeraj Goswami has put-in his papers to the company.
Neeraj has been serving at Warner Bros India for last three and a half years. He has not revealed his next move, yet.
(April 2010)

Restructuring at Viacom18
April 13, 2010. In two major announcements by Viacom18, Deputy General Manager of VH1 Ferzad Palia and MTV Sales Head – North & East Jaideep Singh have been elevated.
While Palia has been promoted to Head-VH1, Jaideep has been made National Head- Sales at MTV. Ferzad Palia has been given responsibility for all functions of the channel and will report to Viacom18 Group CEO Haresh Chawla. However, Jaideep Singh will continue reporting to MTV India senior VP – marketing and sales Aditya Swamy.
Major restructuring at the company is also likely to be announced soon.
(April 2010)

Amit Malhotra elevated as VP at Disney
April 30, 2010. Amit Malhotra takes over the role of Vice President – Programme Distribution, Asia Pacific at Disney Media Distribution from Greg Johnson who is leaving the company.
Malhotra has been with Disney for over six years, having started off India operations for the Walt Disney Company’s TV business in the country in 2004. Malhotra has built a significant and successful pan-regional and South East Asia wide business for the organisation.
(April 2010)

Harsh Rohtagi made content head at Imagine TV
April 28, 2010. Turner General Entertainment Networks India Ltd (TGEN) has announced that Harsh Rohatgi has taken over the role of head of content and communication of its flagship Hindi GEC, Imagine TV.
In his new role, Harsh will oversee all the creative, strategic, marketing, commercial and management functions of Imagine TV which will include programming, marketing, communication, commercial, research and strategic planning. A key member of the management team of Imagine since inception, Rohatgi previously held the position of EVP — revenue management and new ventures at the channel.
In a related development, Shailaja Kejriwal, Executive Vice President (content) is moving on from the channel.
(April 2010)

Rameet Arora moves from Colors
April 28, 2010. Marketing Head of the Hindi GEC Colors, Rameet Arora has put in his papers to the company.
Arora has been part of the start up team of the Colors since April 2008. during this tenure he has taken the role of marketing for the channel, overseeing all the marketing verticals – trade as well as consumer. Prior to joining Colors, Arora was Vice president and Director Corporate Initiative at Leo Burnett for over 8 years.
Arora who is presently serving his notice period of 3 months will be joining the food retail chain McDonald’s as Senior Director.
(April 2010)

Star India appoints Abhishek Verma

March 10, 2010. Star India has appointed Abhishek Verma as the marketing head of Star World and Star Movies. He will report to Star India EVP Marketing Anupam Vasudev.
Verma leaves Neo Sports as head - marketing and communication to take up his new assignment at Star.
(March 2010)

Zee Turner VP quits

March 5, 2010. Zee Turner Senior VP cable sales Dilip Sharan has quit the company. Sharan was responsible for developing and implementing the cable sales strategy after joining Zee Turner in August 2009.
Meanwhile, Zee Turner has put Himmat Sandhu in charge of cable sales for the time being. Sandhu was handling cable sales before Sharan joined.
(March 2010)

ZEEL re-structures duties at senior level

March 4, 2010. In its restructuring efforts, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) has given the responsibility of regional channels in the Hindi speaking markets to Nitin Vaidya who is currently the COO, national channels and business head of Zee TV.
Now after the re-alignment, while business heads of Zee Marathi, Zee Bangla, Akash Bangla, Zee Jagran, ETC Punjabi, Zee Salam and Zee Talkies will report to Vaidya, the responsibility of ZEEL’s English channels – Zee Studio and Zee Café has been taken from Vaidya and has been given to Anurag Bedi who is currently heading business operations for music channels Zing, ETC and Zee Trendz.
Chief Revenue Officer at ZEEL Joy Chakraborthy has been awarded an additional responsibility of handling the profit and loss accounts of five channels.
(March 2010)

Nikhil Gandhi made Business Head – UTV Bindass

March 20, 2010. Nikhil Gandhi has been made Business Head of UTV Bindass. He has been given an additional responsibility of Bindass as he continues as Vice President and Network Head – Sales at UTV Global Broadcasting Ltd (UGBL).
Nikhil takes charge from Heather Gupta who was given additional responsibility of Bindass and Bindass Movies, last year besides her responsibility as VP – HR.
(March 2010)

Amar Tidke appointed 9XM Programming Head

March 25, 2010. Amar Tidke has been appointed INX Media’s music channel 9XM’s programming head. He comes from Fever FM Mumbai where he was working as programming head.
Tidke has been given the task of driving the creative and programming function of the channel.
(March 2010)

Raghu Menon elected Chairman IPDC

March 25, 2010. India has become the first developing country to chair the Inter-Governmental Council of the International Programme for Development of Communication (IPDC) as Secretary at Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Raghu Menon has been elected as Chairman of the council.
Since its inception in 1980, the Chairmanship had always remained with developed countries but this time, the candidature of the India, endorsed by Asia Pacific Regional Group and supported by countries from Africa, Arab and Lain American Region, won the election with 23 out of 37 votes against Switzerland which got 14 votes.
On the election, Mr Menon thanked the members of the Inter-Governmental Council and asked the media to be more inclusive to ensure spread, reach and coverage of media accessibility to all the citizens.
India will be chairing the Inter-Governmental Council of IPDC till its next Session in 2012.
(March 2010)

Ashish quits Viacom, joins YRF

March 29, 2010. Ashish Patil who was recently designated the Sr VP- New Ventures and GM - Youth Movies at Viacom 18, has put-in his papers to the company.
Patil is serving his notice period at Viacom18 and would join Yash Raj Films as Business and Content Head for a new division which would create youth movies. He will take on his assignment at YRF from April 1, 2010. At Yash Raj Films, he would be reporting to Aditya Chopra, Vice Chairman, Yash Raj Films.
Patil started his career over 15 years ago with Contract Advertising as a Copywriter. He has worked with MTV for 12 years. His last role at MTV was as a general manager before he was elevated to Viacom 18.
(March 2010)

Eros appoints Rajesh Bahl

March 29, 2010. Eros International Media, the Indian media and entertainment company has appointed Rajesh Bahl as Chief Digital Officer to spearhead its digital initiatives across all the new media platforms. He would head Mobile, Online, DTH, IPTV, Cable and other emerging platforms at the company.
Bahl worked with Star India where he headed the Mobile business as part of Star Digital group.
(March 2010)

Raj Nayak quits NDTV Media, sets-up new company

March 30, 2010. One of the founding members and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NDTV Media Ltd Raj Naik has announced to quit the company.
After serving seven years at the company, Nayak has decided to set-up his own venture to be named AIDEM Ventures Pvt Ltd. In a joint press statement along with NDTV Chairperson Prannoy Roy, Raj Nayak said, “In my 23 years of experience, I‘ve had the opportunity of handling some of the biggest media brands in India like ESPN STAR Sports, STAR TV Network & many more; but launching NDTV channels in 2003 with Radhika and Prannoy Roy & the NDTV team was one of the most exciting & challenging assignments of my career.”
(March 2010)

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)