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  • Hungama’s Bose joins SaharaOne as COO, Samtani shunted to different portfolio

    MUMBAI: Hungama TV COO Purnendu Bose will be joining SaharaOne as COO Television. Karuna Samtani moves on to handle other activities in the SaharaOne Entertainment network.

    Bose will be joining from 1 April and was with UTV since 2003. He put in his papers yesterday (9 March).
     

    Just five months after taking over as SaharaOne Television COO, Samtani will now be moving into other arenas of Sahara One Entertainment. “She will be handling other activities in the Sahara One entertainment,” says Sahara India Entertainment Management COO Peter Isaac.
     
     

    Bose was earlier Star TV vice president special projects and was also actively associated with the launch of Radio City and Star News. After a four year stint with Star, he had moved to UTV.

    Samtani, who joined Sahara One as COO in September 2004, was one of the key members of the joint venture formed between Sahara and Percept to handle Sahara’s entertainment businesses. She was incharge of SaharaOne Television.

    Samtani, who has a wide range of experience in the media industry was earlier with Zee Telefilms Ltd, Nimbus Communication Ltd., Pratham Media entertainment Pvt. Ltd. and also advertising agencies like Contract, Hindustan Thompson, Enterprise Nexus and Ambience Advertising.

    At Sahara One, she was instrumental in launching the latest live interactive show – Dial One and Win, which is hosted by Mandira Bedi.

  • Star’s Kumud Chowdhary joins SaharaOne as programming head

    Star’s Kumud Chowdhary joins SaharaOne as programming head

    MUMBAI: Post the restructuring of Sahara’s media and entertainment business under a joint venture management company with Percept, the company saw a couple of high profile exits. One of them was Sahara Media and Entertainment vice president, programming Triptii Sharma in November last year. SaharaOne has found her replacement as programming head in Star India’s commissioning editor Kumud Chowdhary, who is slated to join office on 11 January.

    Chowdhary, who was with Star for a period of two years, will be reporting to SaharaOne Television COO Karuna Samtani. Speaking to indiantelevision.com about the new development, Chowdhary says, “It was a great offer and there is nothing to lose here. One can do what one wants in terms of experimenting with different kinds of programming. My agenda here will be first find my focus and then work on it.”

    Confirming Chowdhary’s appointment, Samtani, on the other hand says, “There are very few good professionals in this business and we were looking for someone who would gel in with our personality and our business goals. The Percept and Sahara Groups have found a great person in Kumud.”

     

    The change from Sahara Manoranjan to SaharaOne last year has been more than just a name change as far as the channel is concerned. The look and feel of SaharaOne has slowly but surely seen a great deal of improvement in the last few months. And in this competitive market, where there are many players including Star’s new baby Star One, Samtani is looking at putting together a strong core team to take competition head on.