MUMBAI: Radio City is on a hiring spree. The latest to join the radio station is Zoom regional sales head (West and East) Ashit Kukian. He will be joining Radio City in the first week of November as national head – corporate sales.
The news comes hardly a week after Radio City announced that it had roped in UTV Television Content chief operating officer Vikas Varma as its national head programming.
In June this year, Sandeep Sharma, who was the then national sales head of Radio City, put in his papers to join Times Now as vice-president and head of ad sales. Post his departure, Star’s Jayant Bokare stepped into Sharma’s shoes as a stop gap arrangement.
Kukian, who has been associated with the Times of India (TOI) for the last 13 years, officially put in his papers at Zoom today (10 October) and will be serving his notice period till the end of the month.
Confirming the development to Indiantelevision.com, Kukian says, “The medium of radio has been growing steadily recently and is definitely here to stay. It is a good career opportunity for me as well as an opportunity to grow further as an individual.”
At TOI, Kukian was handling sales for Femina and the Filmfare Magazine for close to seven years. Post, that he was also involved with the display advertising division of TOI for three years. Kukian was one of the core members of Zoom during the time of its launch a year back.
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