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  • Tez Celebrated the Mega Success of Its Show ‘Gaata Rahe Mera Dil’

    Tez Celebrated the Mega Success of Its Show ‘Gaata Rahe Mera Dil’

    MUMBAI: One of country’s leading Hindi news channels, Tez celebrated the super success of its famous musical chat show ‘Gaata Rahe Mera Dil’ through an electrifying concert. The gala night was a star studded event, with power packed performances of famous Bollywood singers Harshdeep Kaur and Mika Singh. The channel also aired the event LIVE in order to make the viewers a part of this celebration.

    The show ‘Gaata Rahe Mera Dil’ was one of the most anticipated and appreciated programmes by the Hindi news audiences on Tez, where acclaimed singers shared their life journeys and anecdotes. The show targeted progressive audience and inspired the viewers in a unique format which is the flavour of Tez.

  • India Today Group promotes Prerna Kaul Mishra, Sanjay Sinha and Amit Gupta

    India Today Group promotes Prerna Kaul Mishra, Sanjay Sinha and Amit Gupta

    MUMBAI: India Today Group has witnessed a flurry of activity at senior levels with the recent being Supriya Prasad and Rahul Kanwal getting elevated to news directors in Aaj tak and India Today respectively. And now it’s time for three more executives to get promotion. The latest movers in the hierarchy include Prerna Kaul Mishra, Sanjay Sinha and Amit Gupta, who were elevated by the company. A source close to the development confirmed the news to Indiantelevision.com.

    Mishra will now be the managing editor, social media and content services and she will also play a key role in ensuring the social media policy is followed and prevent abuse and misuse in a politically charged atmosphere.

    Sinha has been leading the rapid success of Tez and Astro Tak, which has recently crossed one million subscribers. He has now been promoted as the senior executive editor and will continue leading Tez, Tez’s contribution to YouTube via Astro Tak and the brand new The Lallantop show.

    Gupta, who is the chief executive officer of Mail Today, will take on added responsibilities as the head brand solutions across publishing and digital. His job will be to support clients in reaching target audiences through unique, customised experiences across publishing and digital platforms.

    Last month India Today TV appointed Ranjana Mangla as the national revenue head. Earlier this year, the network promoted Kalli Purie to managing director and vice chairperson for a tenure of five years, which started from 1 April 2018.

  • Ranjana Mangla appointed national revenue head of India Today TV

    Ranjana Mangla appointed national revenue head of India Today TV

    MUMBAI: Ranjana Mangla has been appointed the national revenue head of India Today TV. She will report to the chief revenue officer Rahul Kumar Shaw and will be based out of the ITG Mediaplex, Noida. 

    Previously, Mangla has worked with Discovery Jeet where she served as director – ad sales, India. Other than sales responsibilities, she also managed content partnerships for the entire network. She handled Viacom18 as vice president – sales and served the organisation for more than four years. 

    Mangla has over fifteen years of experience in large and medium sales team management, complex commercial deal negotiations with expertise in revenue strategy, large scale product launches and C-level market relations.

    Starting her career as a marketing and PR specialist in Visionaire India, Mangla has also worked with companies like NDTV Lifestyle Ltd., NDTV Imagine, Star India Private Ltd., and the Dainik Bhaskar Group of Publications. 

    Hersh Bhandari, who Mangla has replaced, will now take charge of Tez as national revenue head. He will continue reporting to Shaw.

    Bhandari joined the India Today Group as national revenue head (India Today TV) in April last year. Previously, he has worked with the Times Network for more than 10 years. Bhandari started his career as a marketing manager at Star TV’s Channel V and served the organisation for two years. 

  • India’s leading New Age News Brand TheLallantop.com set to take Television by storm

    India’s leading New Age News Brand TheLallantop.com set to take Television by storm

    New-age digital brand TheLallantop.com is about to take the television screens by storm! The digital brand, famous for its distinct news reporting style, storytelling and liberal use of colloquial words, is all set to debut as ‘The Lallantop Show’. Hosted on one of the stickiest Hindi news channels- Tez, the show is set to engage news audiences, starting from today. The show will run on weekdays, Monday to Friday at 9pm.

    The LallanTop Show will be a ‘breath of fresh air’ presenting the news in a witty, straightforward manner. The choice of words in digitally inspired storytelling format is sure to engage the viewers. The LallanTop Show aims to bring to the medium of television, the highly popular content seen on TheLallantop.com- a site that has enjoyed stupendous success in the digital space averaging more than 150000 and 200000 views per video on YouTube and Facebook respectively, the highest in the news category.

    The LallanTop Show, just like its digital footprint, will try to cater to the masses and connect with the audiences with the help of an unconventional style of news reporting and by highlighting so-called taboo topics of the society. The show also aims to bust myths and fake news circulating on social media.

    TheLallantop.com is among the top new-age digital news brands of the country. 

    Some of the milestones TheLallantop.com has achieved include becoming:

    India’s No.1 New Age News Brand with 2.4 million+ subscribers on YouTube
    India’s Most Watched New Age News Video Publisher on Facebook

    Given the brand’s past record, this latest endeavour by the TheLallantop.com is all set to become a trendsetter on television.

  • TV Today numbers up

    BENGALURU: TV Today Network Limited (TVTN) reported greatly improved consolidated results for the year ended 31 March 2017 (FY-17, current year). The Arun Purie controlled company’s consolidated profit after tax (PAT) increased 60.7 percent to Rs 991.13 million (15.7 percent margin of Total Income) as compared to the Rs 616.66 million for the previous year. TVTN’s Total Income increased 4.7 percent to Rs 6,305.77 million in the current year from Rs 6,021.98 million in FY-16.

    The improvement in performance was due to the improvement in the company’s Television Broadcasting (TV) segment, which was offset by the poor performances of TVTN’s radio and Newspaper Publishing segments.

    The TV Today television network is an English-Hindi news television network. It consists of the several news channels that include Aaj Tak (Hindi), India Today Television (English), Tez (Hindi), Business Today (English) and Delhi Aaj Tak (Hindi). TVTN’s TV segment reported operating revenue growth 5.7 percent forFY-17 to Rs 5,637.53 million from Rs 5,330.29 million in the previous year. TV segment operating profit for the current fiscal increased 1 percent to Rs 1,577.26 million from Rs 1,561.04 million in the previous fiscal.

    TVTN has made attempts to dispose its radio segment – it which runs FM radio stations under the brand Oye FM. It has been partly successful in that endeavour to the extent that government regulators have permitted it to succeed. TVTN’s radio segment revenue was almost flat (increased 0.4 percent) to Rs 90.21million from Rs 89.88 million in the previous year. The segment had an higher operating loss for FY-17 at Rs 175.09 million as compared to Rs 136.06 million in FY-16.

    TVTN reported 10.1 percent decline in revenue of its Newspaper Publishing segment in fiscal 2017 at Rs 360.81 million as compared to Rs 401.43 million in the previous year. The segment’s operating loss in FY-17 increased to Rs 28.35 million as compared to Rs 16.07 million in the previous year.

    Let us look at the other numbers reported by TV Today Network Limited

    Total expenses in FY-17 increased 6.3 percent to Rs 4,858.79 million (77.1 percent of Total Income) as compared to Rs 4,572.06 million (75.9 percent of Total Income) in FY-16. Production costs were almost flat (increased by 0.9 percent) in FY-17 at Rs 714.20 million (11.3 percent of Total Income) as compared to Rs 707.97 million (11.8 percent of Total Income).

    Employee Benefits Expense increased 2.2 percent to Rs 1,569.13 million (24.9 percent of Total Income) from Rs 1,534.92 million (25.5 percent of Total Income). Finance Costs increased 31.3 percent to Rs 84.10 million (1.3 percent of Total Income) in the current year from Rs 64.04 million (1.1 percent of Total Income) in FY-16. Other expenses in the current year increased 13.2 percent to Rs 2,170.92 million (34.4 percent of Total Income) from Rs 1,917.81 million (31.8 percent of Total Income)) in the previous year.

  • TV Today Network observes top level changes

    TV Today Network observes top level changes

    MUMBAI: One of the leading broadcast networks, TV Today Network, is seeing some top level restructuring. As part of the changes, Rahul Kumar Shaw has been instated as the chief revenue officer (CRO) for TV Today Network. He was earlier the CRO of India Today TV and business head radio. Shaw will oversee ad sales and all revenue opportunities across the Hindi cluster which includes channels like Aaj Tak, DAT and Tez. He will also look after India Today TV and the network’s radio business.

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    This information came to Indian Television.com at the time when chief revenue officer of the Hindi channels (Aaj Tak, Delhi Aaj Tak and Tej) cluster Rajnish Rikhy has stepped down from his post. Rikhy was promoted as CRO from the network’s senior VP Ad Sales and business head last month. “TV Today Network is a respectful brand and the company is well poised. There is no reason behind my exit. I just want to pursue other career opportunities”, says Rikhy.

    Prior to joining TV Today Network, Rikhy served at BCCL New Delhi as vice president(R).

     

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    Under the new structure, India Today Group business head Manoj Sharma, has been promoted to publishing director for Living Media. In his role, he will be responsible for addressing revenue maximisation, driving cost efficiencies and building brand salience. Merged entity magazines like India Today English, Hindi and its supplements, Business Today, Robb Report, Reader’s Digest, etc., will be under Sharma’s ambit.

     

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    Vivek Malhotra has been elevated to the position of chief marketing officer from VP marketing. He will oversee the marketing functions across the network’s TV channels, merged entity publications and digital. Understanding and growing on the needs of the viewers will be Malhotra’s key responsibility.

    With this change, Vishwalok Nath will take on greater revenue responsibilities in the India Today Group as head of strategic alliances, business development and syndication. He will focus towards greater monetisation opportunities for the group.

     

    Shaw and Malhotra will continue to report to TV Today Network CEO Ashish Bagga

  • TV Today Network observes top level changes

    TV Today Network observes top level changes

    MUMBAI: One of the leading broadcast networks, TV Today Network, is seeing some top level restructuring. As part of the changes, Rahul Kumar Shaw has been instated as the chief revenue officer (CRO) for TV Today Network. He was earlier the CRO of India Today TV and business head radio. Shaw will oversee ad sales and all revenue opportunities across the Hindi cluster which includes channels like Aaj Tak, DAT and Tez. He will also look after India Today TV and the network’s radio business.

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    This information came to Indian Television.com at the time when chief revenue officer of the Hindi channels (Aaj Tak, Delhi Aaj Tak and Tej) cluster Rajnish Rikhy has stepped down from his post. Rikhy was promoted as CRO from the network’s senior VP Ad Sales and business head last month. “TV Today Network is a respectful brand and the company is well poised. There is no reason behind my exit. I just want to pursue other career opportunities”, says Rikhy.

    Prior to joining TV Today Network, Rikhy served at BCCL New Delhi as vice president(R).

     

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    Under the new structure, India Today Group business head Manoj Sharma, has been promoted to publishing director for Living Media. In his role, he will be responsible for addressing revenue maximisation, driving cost efficiencies and building brand salience. Merged entity magazines like India Today English, Hindi and its supplements, Business Today, Robb Report, Reader’s Digest, etc., will be under Sharma’s ambit.

     

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    Vivek Malhotra has been elevated to the position of chief marketing officer from VP marketing. He will oversee the marketing functions across the network’s TV channels, merged entity publications and digital. Understanding and growing on the needs of the viewers will be Malhotra’s key responsibility.

    With this change, Vishwalok Nath will take on greater revenue responsibilities in the India Today Group as head of strategic alliances, business development and syndication. He will focus towards greater monetisation opportunities for the group.

     

    Shaw and Malhotra will continue to report to TV Today Network CEO Ashish Bagga

  • MSM Media Distribution is now Sony Pictures Networks Distribution India

    MSM Media Distribution is now Sony Pictures Networks Distribution India

    MUMBAI: MSM Media Distribution (MSMMD), the distribution arm and wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) today has announced a change in its name and will now be called Sony Pictures Networks Distribution India Pvt. Ltd. The name change reflects SPN’s broader vision and is part of the alignment process to its parent company Sony Pictures Networks India. 

    The new name is effective immediately. The change in the distribution subsidiary’s name does not affect or impact its business with customers and stakeholders in any way.

    With its core focus on distributing a wide array of world class television channels, spanning across different genres and languages through multiple content delivery platforms, Sony Pictures Networks Distribution Pvt. Ltd reaches out to over 120 million households in over 9000 towns in India. The company also distributes the TV Today Network channels India Today, Aaj Tak and Tez.

    As a company that encourages growth, rewards excellence and celebrates the success of its employees, Sony Pictures Networks Distribution India Pvt. Ltd was adjudged as one of India’s Top 50 Best Companies to Work for in 2015, in a survey conducted by the Great Place To Work Institute.

  • MSM Media Distribution is now Sony Pictures Networks Distribution India

    MSM Media Distribution is now Sony Pictures Networks Distribution India

    MUMBAI: MSM Media Distribution (MSMMD), the distribution arm and wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) today has announced a change in its name and will now be called Sony Pictures Networks Distribution India Pvt. Ltd. The name change reflects SPN’s broader vision and is part of the alignment process to its parent company Sony Pictures Networks India. 

    The new name is effective immediately. The change in the distribution subsidiary’s name does not affect or impact its business with customers and stakeholders in any way.

    With its core focus on distributing a wide array of world class television channels, spanning across different genres and languages through multiple content delivery platforms, Sony Pictures Networks Distribution Pvt. Ltd reaches out to over 120 million households in over 9000 towns in India. The company also distributes the TV Today Network channels India Today, Aaj Tak and Tez.

    As a company that encourages growth, rewards excellence and celebrates the success of its employees, Sony Pictures Networks Distribution India Pvt. Ltd was adjudged as one of India’s Top 50 Best Companies to Work for in 2015, in a survey conducted by the Great Place To Work Institute.

  • Q2-2014: TV Today reports Rs 12.83 cr as compared to loss in Q2-2013

    Q2-2014: TV Today reports Rs 12.83 cr as compared to loss in Q2-2013

    BENGALURU: TV Today Network Limited (TV Today) reported a PAT of Rs 12.83 crore for Q2-2014 as compared to a loss of Rs (-9.15) crore in Q2-2013. PAT for Q2-2014 was 0.7 per cent higher than the Rs 11.98 crore for Q1-2014.

    Its radio segment reported improved performance with a 27 per cent lower segment loss of Rs (-2.02) crore for Q2-2014, as compared to the Rs (-2.76) crore for Q2-2013 and 13.3 per cent lower loss as compared to the loss of Rs (-2.33) crore for Q1-2014.

    Let us look at the other results for Q2-2014 filed by TV Today

    Presently, TV Today runs four 24 hours news and current affairs channels, namely Aaj Tak, Dilli Aaj Tak and Tez in Hindi and Headlines Today in English.