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  • Network18 braces up revenue function with new appointments

    Network18 braces up revenue function with new appointments

    MUMBAI: Network18, one of India’s most diversified media conglomerates, has been strengthening its revenue team since the past few months after Joy Chakraborthy took over as the President – Revenue for TV18 and CEO-Forbes India in May 2016.

    Moving forward, it has appointed Amit Tripathi as the national revenue head for government sales & non-metro markets, and Sandhya Dhar as the vice president – focus sales (branded content of the network).

    Chakraborthy said, “I believe that such talent will continue to strengthen the revenue proposition, and provide greater momentum to the sales function.”

    Tripathi has over 21 years of experience in sales, marketing & business development. Prior to joining Network18, he was the COO and national sales head at Focus News. He also served as the national sales head at Zee News in the past.

    Dhar has over 17 years of experience in sales. She was the asst. vice president & sector head (BFSI & HealthCare) at ET Edge (Times Conferences Limited). She was associated with Bennett Coleman & Company for over a decade into brand-building and sales.

    Tripathi will report to Chakraborthy.

    Network18 is a media and entertainment group with interests in television, internet, films, e-commerce, magazines, mobile content and allied businesses. Through its subsidiary, TV18 Broadcast Ltd., the group operates news channels such as CNBC-TV18, CNBC Awaaz, CNBC-TV18 Prime HD, CNN-News18 and IBN7. TV18 also operates a joint venture with Viacom called Viacom18.

  • Network18 braces up revenue function with new appointments

    Network18 braces up revenue function with new appointments

    MUMBAI: Network18, one of India’s most diversified media conglomerates, has been strengthening its revenue team since the past few months after Joy Chakraborthy took over as the President – Revenue for TV18 and CEO-Forbes India in May 2016.

    Moving forward, it has appointed Amit Tripathi as the national revenue head for government sales & non-metro markets, and Sandhya Dhar as the vice president – focus sales (branded content of the network).

    Chakraborthy said, “I believe that such talent will continue to strengthen the revenue proposition, and provide greater momentum to the sales function.”

    Tripathi has over 21 years of experience in sales, marketing & business development. Prior to joining Network18, he was the COO and national sales head at Focus News. He also served as the national sales head at Zee News in the past.

    Dhar has over 17 years of experience in sales. She was the asst. vice president & sector head (BFSI & HealthCare) at ET Edge (Times Conferences Limited). She was associated with Bennett Coleman & Company for over a decade into brand-building and sales.

    Tripathi will report to Chakraborthy.

    Network18 is a media and entertainment group with interests in television, internet, films, e-commerce, magazines, mobile content and allied businesses. Through its subsidiary, TV18 Broadcast Ltd., the group operates news channels such as CNBC-TV18, CNBC Awaaz, CNBC-TV18 Prime HD, CNN-News18 and IBN7. TV18 also operates a joint venture with Viacom called Viacom18.

  • Ambani talks about RIL’s media & entertainment empire

    Ambani talks about RIL’s media & entertainment empire

    MUMBAI: When one of India’s richest billionaires starts talking about what most consider as a small media & entertainment business, juxtaposing it against the Rs 300,000 crore he generates out of oil and gas, it’s a statement of how much it has come to mean to him.

    At the RIL AGM on 1 September chairman Mukesh Ambani outlined the scale of Reliance Industries Ltd’s (RIL’s) M&E business.

    “We own 58 channels the highest number by an Indian company and we are aggressively investing in it along with global leaders such as Viacom, CNBC, CNN Forbes, and A+E Networks,” he said with aplomb.

    11 of these channels are overseas but they are Indian and catering to the diaspora globally. Network18 contributes 21 of these in the form of news channels reaching out national and regional viewers, in 18 states and 11 languages. The entertainment and infotainment TV business it has set up in partnership with global majors such as Viacom and A+E has 26 channels.

    “Our television network reaches out to more than 500 million viewers every month, that is two out of every five Indians,” he explained. “Colors is amongst the top two channels in India, while Nick and MTV are top players in their genres.”

    He was pretty kicked up about the reach of online websites under the Network18 umbrella. “They attract over 27 million unique visitors every month which is the largest in India,” he exclaimed.

    He also spoke about the fact that online shopping and ticketing sites such as bookmyshow have got the highest traction in the country.

  • Ambani talks about RIL’s media & entertainment empire

    Ambani talks about RIL’s media & entertainment empire

    MUMBAI: When one of India’s richest billionaires starts talking about what most consider as a small media & entertainment business, juxtaposing it against the Rs 300,000 crore he generates out of oil and gas, it’s a statement of how much it has come to mean to him.

    At the RIL AGM on 1 September chairman Mukesh Ambani outlined the scale of Reliance Industries Ltd’s (RIL’s) M&E business.

    “We own 58 channels the highest number by an Indian company and we are aggressively investing in it along with global leaders such as Viacom, CNBC, CNN Forbes, and A+E Networks,” he said with aplomb.

    11 of these channels are overseas but they are Indian and catering to the diaspora globally. Network18 contributes 21 of these in the form of news channels reaching out national and regional viewers, in 18 states and 11 languages. The entertainment and infotainment TV business it has set up in partnership with global majors such as Viacom and A+E has 26 channels.

    “Our television network reaches out to more than 500 million viewers every month, that is two out of every five Indians,” he explained. “Colors is amongst the top two channels in India, while Nick and MTV are top players in their genres.”

    He was pretty kicked up about the reach of online websites under the Network18 umbrella. “They attract over 27 million unique visitors every month which is the largest in India,” he exclaimed.

    He also spoke about the fact that online shopping and ticketing sites such as bookmyshow have got the highest traction in the country.

  • Network18 appoints Sitaraman Shankar as managing editor

    Network18 appoints Sitaraman Shankar as managing editor

    MUMBAI: Network18 appoints Sitaraman Shankar as managing editor- special rojects. Shankar will work across all Digital and TV news properties. In the new assignment, Shankar will work closely with Network18’s television news editors in multiple areas, and drive the scaling up of the flagship digital brand moneycontrol, thereby expanding it to newer areas.

    Shankar will also serve as Group Training Editor and manage the content quality by fostering learning culture in the newsrooms.

    A chemical technologist-turned-journalist, Shankar has 22 years of experience in journalism, most of which was with Reuters where he reported, edited and ran newsrooms in Frankfurt, London and Dubai. His last assignment was with Hindustan Times where he played a variety of roles including that of Deputy Managing Editor and Editor (Views).

  • Network18 appoints Sitaraman Shankar as managing editor

    Network18 appoints Sitaraman Shankar as managing editor

    MUMBAI: Network18 appoints Sitaraman Shankar as managing editor- special rojects. Shankar will work across all Digital and TV news properties. In the new assignment, Shankar will work closely with Network18’s television news editors in multiple areas, and drive the scaling up of the flagship digital brand moneycontrol, thereby expanding it to newer areas.

    Shankar will also serve as Group Training Editor and manage the content quality by fostering learning culture in the newsrooms.

    A chemical technologist-turned-journalist, Shankar has 22 years of experience in journalism, most of which was with Reuters where he reported, edited and ran newsrooms in Frankfurt, London and Dubai. His last assignment was with Hindustan Times where he played a variety of roles including that of Deputy Managing Editor and Editor (Views).

  • Network18 strengthens revenue team; Joy Chakraborthy hires Priyanka Datta & Preeti Sahni

    Network18 strengthens revenue team; Joy Chakraborthy hires Priyanka Datta & Preeti Sahni

    MUMBAI: There’s change afoot at Television18 and Network18 following their acquisition by the Mukesh Ambani group last year. The companies saw a rash of exits close to it being taken over – and afterwards too – as executives long associated with Raghav Bahl’s team decided to move out.

    But looking at the past few months, both the companies have been strengthening the senior management team. Amongst the standout hires who have come in since is Rahul Joshi as CEO (News) and editor-in-chief and he has followed up by building the team editorially with journalists and editors for the channels being roped in.

    Another solid news industry resource recruited in May 2016 was Joy Chakraborthy, who came in as president revenue of TV18, allowing Joshi to concentrate more on management and editorial. Recently Joy was entrusted with further responsibility as CEO of Forbes India, thus consolidating television and the business magazine revenues under one head.

    A 20 year old veteran of the media industry – with experience ranging from The Times of India group to Star India to Zee Entertainment to India Today – Joy is now building his team under him. He has brought in Priyanka Datta as executive vice president to head the English news cluster (CNBC-TV18, CNBC-TV18 Prime HD and CNN News18) and network sales head for north and south.

    Another senior professional, Preeti Sahni has been appointed as vice-president to head sales for Forbes India and International business for English news channels of the network.

    Says Joy: “I am pleased to welcome Priyanka and Preeti to the Network18 family. Both Priyanka and Preeti come with right learnings and experience to take on their respective mandates at Network18. Priyanka Datta comes with a well-rounded understanding of TV channels, having headed ad sales and brand solutions roles at Zee. Preeti Sahni comes with specialization in luxury and international sales, having worked on and headed senior roles with premium media brands in her earlier roles.”

    Priyanka has around 20 years of experience with an exposure to sales, marketing, business management and P&L. and was last associated with Zee Entertainment for 14 years wherein she headed sales nationally for almost all channels of Zee Network as well as their Brand Solutions Cell. Her last assignment with Zee was that of Business Head of Zindagi and the FTA GEC channels.

    Prior to joining Network18, Preeti was with BCCL as general manager handling the luxury and international businesses. Preeti has a vast professional repertoire in product management and sales, and is skilled in conceptual marketing and business development. Prior to BCCL, she has worked with brands like India Today, HT Media, Oracle and Scholastic.

  • Network18 strengthens revenue team; Joy Chakraborthy hires Priyanka Datta & Preeti Sahni

    Network18 strengthens revenue team; Joy Chakraborthy hires Priyanka Datta & Preeti Sahni

    MUMBAI: There’s change afoot at Television18 and Network18 following their acquisition by the Mukesh Ambani group last year. The companies saw a rash of exits close to it being taken over – and afterwards too – as executives long associated with Raghav Bahl’s team decided to move out.

    But looking at the past few months, both the companies have been strengthening the senior management team. Amongst the standout hires who have come in since is Rahul Joshi as CEO (News) and editor-in-chief and he has followed up by building the team editorially with journalists and editors for the channels being roped in.

    Another solid news industry resource recruited in May 2016 was Joy Chakraborthy, who came in as president revenue of TV18, allowing Joshi to concentrate more on management and editorial. Recently Joy was entrusted with further responsibility as CEO of Forbes India, thus consolidating television and the business magazine revenues under one head.

    A 20 year old veteran of the media industry – with experience ranging from The Times of India group to Star India to Zee Entertainment to India Today – Joy is now building his team under him. He has brought in Priyanka Datta as executive vice president to head the English news cluster (CNBC-TV18, CNBC-TV18 Prime HD and CNN News18) and network sales head for north and south.

    Another senior professional, Preeti Sahni has been appointed as vice-president to head sales for Forbes India and International business for English news channels of the network.

    Says Joy: “I am pleased to welcome Priyanka and Preeti to the Network18 family. Both Priyanka and Preeti come with right learnings and experience to take on their respective mandates at Network18. Priyanka Datta comes with a well-rounded understanding of TV channels, having headed ad sales and brand solutions roles at Zee. Preeti Sahni comes with specialization in luxury and international sales, having worked on and headed senior roles with premium media brands in her earlier roles.”

    Priyanka has around 20 years of experience with an exposure to sales, marketing, business management and P&L. and was last associated with Zee Entertainment for 14 years wherein she headed sales nationally for almost all channels of Zee Network as well as their Brand Solutions Cell. Her last assignment with Zee was that of Business Head of Zindagi and the FTA GEC channels.

    Prior to joining Network18, Preeti was with BCCL as general manager handling the luxury and international businesses. Preeti has a vast professional repertoire in product management and sales, and is skilled in conceptual marketing and business development. Prior to BCCL, she has worked with brands like India Today, HT Media, Oracle and Scholastic.

  • Network18’s Joy Chakraborthy gets additional role as Forbes India CEO

    Network18’s Joy Chakraborthy gets additional role as Forbes India CEO

    MUMBAI: Joy Chakraborthy gets added responsibility as Forbes India CEO at Network18. Two months, Chakraborthy joined Network18 as president for revenue and business development in May 2016 and now he will be overseeing Forbes India as well.

    Chakraborthy comes with over twenty years of experience in the media industry and has worked across top companies such as the Times Group, where he was director-response handling the biggest revenue portfolio. Prior to that, he headed the Zee group as executive director in charge of revenues, channel placement and the entire niche channel business portfolio. He also served TV Today network as CEO soon after the Zee stint. He has also spent his early years as executive vice president at Star India for six years heading advertising sales of all the channels.

    Graduated from the National Defense Academy with a Master’s degree in marketing management from NMIMS. He has also completed Advanced Management Programme from the Harvard Business School.

  • Network18’s Joy Chakraborthy gets additional role as Forbes India CEO

    Network18’s Joy Chakraborthy gets additional role as Forbes India CEO

    MUMBAI: Joy Chakraborthy gets added responsibility as Forbes India CEO at Network18. Two months, Chakraborthy joined Network18 as president for revenue and business development in May 2016 and now he will be overseeing Forbes India as well.

    Chakraborthy comes with over twenty years of experience in the media industry and has worked across top companies such as the Times Group, where he was director-response handling the biggest revenue portfolio. Prior to that, he headed the Zee group as executive director in charge of revenues, channel placement and the entire niche channel business portfolio. He also served TV Today network as CEO soon after the Zee stint. He has also spent his early years as executive vice president at Star India for six years heading advertising sales of all the channels.

    Graduated from the National Defense Academy with a Master’s degree in marketing management from NMIMS. He has also completed Advanced Management Programme from the Harvard Business School.