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  • Oplifi appoints Pranjal Sharma as head- business development

    Oplifi appoints Pranjal Sharma as head- business development

    Mumbai: The digital media company Oplifi has appointed Pranjal Sharma as head of business development of the company. Sharma will be based out of Oplifi’s Gurgaon office.

    Sharma has a decade of experience and has worked with companies like mCanvas, The Quint, Pocket FM. His last stint was with Statiq, where he was heading the entire media business operations and client partnerships for DOOH and Digital offerings. He is an MBA postgraduate from Chitkara university and holds the Executive Business strategy degree from IIM Kozhikode. He started his career as an Audio engineer which has ingrained creativity and a sense for detail in his business development modus operandi.

    Speaking on the appointment, Oplifi co-founder Anup Kumar said, “We are thrilled to welcome Pranjal Sharma, who brings a unique blend of digital media sales expertise and a remarkable entrepreneurial spirit. This hire reflects Oplifi’s commitment to pioneering innovation and harnessing the power of entrepreneurial minds. With our new leader on board, we’re excited to drive growth and create new opportunities for our clients and partners, further solidifying our presence in the Indian market.”

    Commenting on his new role, Pranjal says, “This role is exciting, where we are building new relationships and always coming up with innovative solutions to solve business problems. Oplifi is on a rapid growth trajectory, and I am happy to be a part of this journey.”

  • Hunt for Zee Business head continues

    Hunt for Zee Business head continues

    MUMBAI: Zee Business, an arm of Zee Media Corporation, has seen several transitions in its management this year. The channel was initially headed by Amish Devgan, who decided to move away after serving for 14 years. It was then led by Zee Media Corporation’s then CEO for content Samir Ahluwalia,who was re-designated as the editor of the channel in June 2016.

    After Devgan’s exit, the channel was looked after by Ahluwalia and deputy editor Mihir Bhatt. Accused in the case of Rs 100-crore extortion from industrialist Naveen Jindal, Ahluwalia called it a day in Zee Media in September. Then, the search for Zee Business head continued, until this development.

    Sources told indiantelevision.com that Zee reportedly tried to reach out to few media experts namely, Sanjay Pugalia, Mehraj Dube, Amish Devgan and Pranjal Sharma to take up the role.

    While Pugalia is with Raghav Bahl’s The Quint as the president and editorial director of both The Quint and Bloomberg Quint, Dube is Essel Group Corp Resources’ deputy vice president. Devgan has taken up the role of the executive editor at IBN7 whereas Sharma is an economic analyst and writer contributing to BusinessWorld magazine as its consulting editor and anchors ‘The Appointment’ show on Zee network.

    It remains to be seen who will head the channel…

  • Hunt for Zee Business head continues

    Hunt for Zee Business head continues

    MUMBAI: Zee Business, an arm of Zee Media Corporation, has seen several transitions in its management this year. The channel was initially headed by Amish Devgan, who decided to move away after serving for 14 years. It was then led by Zee Media Corporation’s then CEO for content Samir Ahluwalia,who was re-designated as the editor of the channel in June 2016.

    After Devgan’s exit, the channel was looked after by Ahluwalia and deputy editor Mihir Bhatt. Accused in the case of Rs 100-crore extortion from industrialist Naveen Jindal, Ahluwalia called it a day in Zee Media in September. Then, the search for Zee Business head continued, until this development.

    Sources told indiantelevision.com that Zee reportedly tried to reach out to few media experts namely, Sanjay Pugalia, Mehraj Dube, Amish Devgan and Pranjal Sharma to take up the role.

    While Pugalia is with Raghav Bahl’s The Quint as the president and editorial director of both The Quint and Bloomberg Quint, Dube is Essel Group Corp Resources’ deputy vice president. Devgan has taken up the role of the executive editor at IBN7 whereas Sharma is an economic analyst and writer contributing to BusinessWorld magazine as its consulting editor and anchors ‘The Appointment’ show on Zee network.

    It remains to be seen who will head the channel…

  • News TV industry gears up for 4th News and Television Awards and Summit

    News TV industry gears up for 4th News and Television Awards and Summit

    NEW DELHI: The news television industry is gearing up for the most prestigious Indian News Television (NT) Awards and Summit.

    Currently in the fourth year, the NT Awards is conducted by Indiantelevision Dot Com to recognise and honour news channels and professionals in the country.

    And continuing the tradition, this year also the awards have been judged by the peer group – senior members of the news industry as well as eminent personalities. Over 100 jurors were part of the judging process.

    Indiantelevision.com founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief Anil Wanvari said, “Indiantelevision.com is delighted to present the fourth News Television Summit and Awards at a time when the news industry is working on its commitment to get its house in order. The challenges are plenty because of the diversity of news channels. We are grateful for the fantastic response we have received from the Ministry, the industry, the jurors and our efforts in trying to create the definitive recognition for excellence in performance in the news television. We look forward to growing the awards further in the coming year with the support of the industry.”  
         
      In all, 800 entries were received for 32 categories. The awards will be announced at a glittering ceremony on 17 March at Hotel Ashok in New Delhi from 6.30 pm onwards.

    The NT Awards will be preceded by the Fourth News Television Summit, which will be held at the same venue earlier in the day. The theme of the summit is “News Television: Juggling to get the right mix.”

    Endorsed by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, the summit will aim to get a government perspective and address the ever-growing issue of regulation. Co-regulation or self-regulation, the big brains behind the news media and government will trash it out at the summit.

    This year Indiantelevision.com has also added the Marathi News channels to the summit and will debate the issues related to that space.

    The panellists include Ashok Venkatramani (Star News), Anuranjan Jha (CNEB News), Anurradha Prasad (News24), Barun Das (NBA, Zee News), Dinesh Akula (TV9), G Krishnan (TV Today), Jehangir S Poncha (NewsX), Kanwar Sandhu (Day & Night News), Mandar Phanse (IBN Lokmat), PN Vasanti (CMS Media Lab), Pranjal Sharma (Bloomberg UTV), Punitha Arumugam (Madison Media), Shazi Zaman (Star News), QW Naqvi (Aaj Tak), Rani Reddy (Saakshi TV), Kumar Rajesh (Maurya TV), Rajiv Khandekar (Star Majha), Sanjay Salil (Media Guru), Simen Haagenrud (Vizrt), Vinay Tewari (CNN IBN) and Yogesh Radhakrishnan (MNDIL).

    The NT Awards will have categories that will cover programming and personality awards. The NT Awards will be presented to channel programmers, anchors, presenters, technicians, producers, editors, reporters and management. Also, this year NT Awards will honour the excellence in the Marathi TV news industry in addition to the Hindi, English and Telugu industry.

    Auditing the awards is Ernst and Young. The jury meetings were organised in Mumbai, Hyderabad and New Delhi.

    Star News and Star Majha are the Summit Gold partners while Vizrt, CVB News Service, Day & Night News, NDTV, Sakshi TV, TV9 and Media Guru are Silver partners. Morya TV is regional partner and Sahara News Network, CNEB, Manthan, CNBC TV18 and CNBC Awaaz are support partners.

    Avishkar, Cable Quest, Satellite@Internet India, Satellite & Cable TV are print partners and Save the Children is the cause partner of the event.

  • Editors of TV news channels form body to take up content issues

    Editors of TV news channels form body to take up content issues

    NEW DELHI: Editors of satellite television news channels today formed a Broadcasters Editors Association (BEA) to “strengthen the values of objective and fair broadcast journalism” and to “protect and promote the freedom of expression.”

    BEA president Shazi Zaman of Star News told indiantelevision.com that the Association was a “forum to deliberate on content issues.” Asked if the BEA would take up the Content Code issue, he said the Association would discuss any threats to freedom of creating content.

    So would the BEA also become a negotiating body with the Government in the manner of the News Broadcasters Association (NBA)? “That would depend on a given situation and on whether the Information and Broadcasting Ministry wished to consult them as a stakeholder,” Zaman explained.

    The editors of television channels feel there is a need to evolve healthy norms, promote training of professional journalists at all levels, ensure dissemination of credible and constructive news content and to protect the right to freedom of expression, whenever threatened.

    There are two Vice-Presidents – Arnab Goswami of Times Now and Pankaj Pachauri of NDTV. ETV’s NK Singh is General Secretary and Sudhir Chaudhary of Live India is the Treasurer.

    Members of Executive Committee are: Ashutosh (IBN-7), Vinay Tewari (CNN IBN), Satish K Singh (Zee), Ajit Anjum (News 24), Vinod Kapri (India TV), Sanjay Bragta (Sahara TV) and Pranjal Sharma (UTVi).

    The BEA will soon develop its own website for direct media-public interaction. It will hold seminars and other modes of two-way interaction to receive feedback from civil society organisations and decision-makers in public domain.