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  • Manish Popat out of UTV

    MUMBAI: There has been another departure from the Ronnie Screwvala-promoted United Television.
    Manish Popat, COO UTV TV content has “been asked to go,” Screwvala confirmed to indiantelevision.com.
    Popat was unavailable for comment but industry sources say he had resigned effective 15 July.
    Popat is the fourth senior management officer to have left UTV in the recent past. Six new faces have however, come on board in the major corporate restructuring that the media company has undertaken.
    Queried as to who would be replacing Popat, Screwvala said no decision had been made as yet. For the time being, the different operation heads (production head, business development manager, and five creative directors), would work independently, he said. Although Screwvala did not spell out who the seven would be reporting to, it looks likely that hands on charge would rest with UTV director Zarina Mehta.

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  • Ashish Redij joining UTV as GM TV content

    Ashish Redij joining UTV as GM TV content

    MUMBAI: The announcements made around the management restructuring at United Television had left out one name. Ashish Redij, currently with Sahara TV, is joining the Ronnie Screwvala-promoted media company as GM TV content.

     
     
    UTV had recently announced that while three top management officers had left the company, five top corporate executives were stepping in. Make that six. Redij will be reporting directly to Manish Popat, COO UTV TV content.

    Redij, who is presently assistant V-P marketing at Sahara TV, put in his papers on Monday (2 June). Before Sahara, Redij’s last stint in the television business was with Sony Entertainment Television India, which he joined in 1995 as head of research. He was part of the original team that set up SET India under Arun Arora.

    Redij left Sony in 1999 at the height of the dotcom boom and worked with Pradeep Kar at Microland. He began his career at Mudra in 1989.