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Arun Poddar is an industry veteran with an enriched experience and excellent track record of over 23 years in sales and distribution. He brings with him...
For both Sesame Workshop and its newly-appointed executive director for Indian operations, Sashwati Banerjee, India is a big challenge. The US-based Sesame Workshop might have revolutionized...
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A 1971 batch officer of the Indian Administrative Service, SK Arora is a man of few words and believes that actions should speak for themselves. But...
Size, the makers of Godzilla would vouch, definitely matters at the box-office. And Star India is getting bigger by the day. In terms of annual turnover...
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He has seen the downside of life. Portrayed himself in a Hindi potboiler film after becoming a successful media personality. At one time, he had even...
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One could be excused for wondering if the head honcho of India’s largest media house and largest-by-far broadcast company isn’t getting bored of the sameness of...
From being a junior minister to former information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj few years back, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has come a long way to become...
Sameer Nair, the chief operating officer of Star India, an arm of the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star Group Pvt Ltd, can be a reticent man. Very unlike...
Sameer Nair, the chief operating officer of Star India, an arm of the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star Group Pvt Ltd, can be a reticent man. Very unlike...
The name Nittin Keni reminds one of the chart-busting and revenue-raking Hindi film Gadar – Ek Prem Katha, featuring Sunny Deol and Amisha Patel a few...
When Deepak Chaurasia, the 30-year-old political editor of Aaj Tak, was announced the consulting editor of Prasar Bharati’s news channel DD News, critics speculated if the...
When the 20-something Sushanto Roy was named CEO of Sahara India’s media and entertainment division, sceptics tittered that it was father and chairman Subrata Roy’s way...
India’s pubcaster Prasar Bharati, which oversees the functioning of Doordarshan (DD) and All India Radio (AIR), has always been looked upon as a slumbering behemoth. ...
In his late twenties, ASC Enterprises Ltd’s group president and CEO Punit Goenka is not one of those high-profile, page three-type executives. Surprising, because he heads...
His reputation as a street fighter precedes him. His style of functioning may be debatable. His spoken language is not as savvy as those who sit...
Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea these days rues the fact that he is not getting enough time for golf and, thus, relaxation and exercise. Shuttling between...
Sitting in his seventh floor sparsely furnished office at the Videocon Towers in the busy Central-West area of Delhi, Uday Shankar, the 30-something news director of...
Ravi Shankar Prasad, the new minister of information and broadcasting is a no-nonsense man. He speaks haltingly, in a measured manner, mulling, chewing and pondering over...
How would you describe India’s information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj ,DTH,? Gutsy and headstrong! Slightly strange for one born on 14 February. There have been...
The Sahara India Parivaar, estimated to have a turnover of Rs 160 billion, has this knack of getting into the news and, most of the time,...
Zee folklore has it that when Zee Telefilms was riding the crest of success a few years ago, a journalist came to do a cover story...
Jonathan Howlett, global director of airtime sales of BBC World, is no stranger to India. He has come to the sub-continent often and is a keen...
The cell phone buzzes constantly, but Apurva Purohit, president of Zee TV, the flagship channel of the Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms, doesn’t mind attending to the...
The Subhash Chandra promoted Zee Telefilms could not have been going through a worse phase. With TRPs of programmes failing to register in the Top 50...
With a longish nose and speaking style that is slightly high-pitched, Ian Diamond, senior vice president and general manager of Turner Entertainment Networks Asia Inc fits...
Discovery Communications India’s managing director, Deepak Shourie, sits in a room in the Delhi office which does not reflect much change from the times of the...
For a man who has risen from living in a one-room tenement along with his parents and other siblings to a posh pad in the Capital’s...
In 1995 when ESPN came to India, not many had thought that it would become a force to reckon with where sports’ broadcasting was concerned. And...
‘Critics had written off Tarun Tejpal and his Tehelka (in English it would roughly translate to being ‘sensational’) venture after a run-in with the outgoing government...
A few days ago, Star News completed three years of operation under a new regime after the divorce from its long-standing content partner, NDTV, which has...
Fifty-something Prabhat Dabral may not look like an archetypal head of a clutch of news channels, but this former Doordarshan man has managed to climb to...
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