Tag: vinod kapri

Star Gold HD to premiere ‘Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho’ on 22 Aug

MUMBAI: Star Gold HD brings to its viewers a different cinematic experience with world television premieres of cult movies that belong to various genres. Upping the ante on entertainment, the channel showcases the World Television Premiere of ‘Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho’ on 22 August at 8:00 pm which will be exclusively aired on Star Gold HD.

Directed by National Award winning filmmaker, Vinod Kapri, Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho is a political satire cum love story which is set in Tanakpur, a village of Haryana. The story of the film revolves around a village in Haryana where Arjun (Rahul Bagga) an electrician and aspiring policeman is falsely accused by village Pradhan (Annu Kapoor) of raping his buffalo. Pradhan along with his dependable assistant Bhima (Ravi Kishan) and local Tantrik (Sanjay Mishra) plans this to seek revenge from Arjun for having an affair. Pradhan uses his influence to make Khap panchayat pass a verdict that Arjun has to marry the victim. What follows next is an agonizing ordeal for Arjun and his family.

So gear up to watch the entertaining flick which is inspired by true events in India exclusively on Star Gold HD on 22 August at 8:00 pm.

August 21, 2015
Vinod Kapri quits News Express

MUMBAI: News Express CEO and editor in chief Vinod Kapri has decided to quit the organisation. Confirming the news to indiantelevision.com he said that he will concentrate on completing and releasing his upcoming film.

He is currently serving his notice period at the news organisation till 31 October. He currently has no plans to join any other channel until his movie is completed.

Kapri had joined the company in December last year after a six year stint at India TV as managing editor. He has been a journalist for nearly two decades and has also worked with organisations such as Star News and Zee News.

October 6, 2014
Ajit Anjum set to join India TV as managing editor

MUMBAI: Ajit Anjum, current managing editor of News 24 is set to take up the same position with one of the leading Hindi news channels- India TV.

Anjum is currently serving his notice period with News 24 and according to sources, will be joining India TV from 1 August. This place has been vacant since former managing editor Vinod Kapri left the channel after a long stint of six years.

Meanwhile, News 24 deputy director for news Deep Upadhyay will oversee operations.

With an experience spanning more than two decades, Anjum has had stints with Aaj Tak, Chauthi Duniya and Amar Ujala.

July 14, 2014
News Express rebrands to focus on investigative journalism

MUMBAI: When Vinod Kapri quit as India TV’s managing editor and joined News Express as the network’s editor-in-chief and CEO, he had firmly decided that he would bring about a turnaround in the channel.

Now two months later, News Express is all set to give itself a polished look starting 25 February.

News Express has a brand new logo in red and blue and a dual tag line ‘We report to you/Fikra Aapki’ in order to communicate that the channel will be pro people.

Similarly, the graphics of the channel will also be designed by an agency that has developed the new logo. The agency will also be working on the new channels planned by News Express. With the new look, the channel aims to be a lot more cleaner and a lot less noisier.

Investigative stories will form the core of the channel. Says Kapri, “We already have tough competition in the Hindi space. We have decided to do three things: make the channel clutter free, focus on investigative journalism and not put up any content which will hurt people or go against basic norms of news coverage.”

Kapri also adds that the aim of the channel is not to be the first or the number one but rather to be the one to present the right news. The focus is on getting new viewers to sample the new look of the channel.

The channel is launching with its first show called Operation Prime Minister. Other shows lined up are Namaskar India, Desh Janana Chahta Hai with Nishant Chaturvedi, Rajniti Black and White with Navin Kumar, Express Election xchange with Satish K Singh and Nishant Chaturvedi, The New(s) Rebel – Ek awaz tark ki with Satish K Singh, Aaj ke Mukhya Samachar with Nishant Chaturvedi and Kapri’s own show Raj Shastra. A special weekly show called Udaan is planned that will be anchored by acid attack survivor Laxmi.

The marketing campaign will begin in the first week of March, once the channel has settled a bit. Owing to elections, Kapri is confident that it will resonate well with the viewers.

February 24, 2014
News Express brings Sanjeev Kumar as network sales head

MUMBAI: After quitting India TV and joining News Express as CEO, Vinod Kapri has been working on getting his A team together. The latest to be recruited is media professional Sanjeev Kumar who will be heading the channel’s network sales.

Kumar has over seven years of experience, the last being as the country head for ANN7 in South Africa. He has also worked as a vice president of sales at Zee News handling the channels Zee News, Zee UP/UK, Zee Punjabi, Zee MPCG. He was also associated with the Outlook group and Bennet Coleman and Co.

Kapri says, “Sanjeev Kumar has a very rich experience of media sales and is a step further in our endeavour to build a team of best professionals in media.”

He has already beefed up the channel’s editorial and managerial teams and is also focusing on improving its distribution. Amit Tripathi was earlier roped in as COO, Satish K Singh as the editor, Ravikant Mittal as managing editor and Jacob Matthew as executive editor.

While the channel isn’t available on a lot of platforms as of now, it has struck a deal with one of India’s biggest DTH operators – Tata Sky – recently. Close to 11 million subscribers will get to watch News Express from 5 February onwards.

February 1, 2014
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.

August 22, 2009
India TV returns to NBA fold after three-month estrangement

NEW DELHI: India TV has returned to the News Broadcasters Association after three months of estrangement over the decision of the NBA Authority taking suo motu action on the telecast of a report relating to an interview by a Pakistani researcher to Reuters after the terrorist attacks in Mumbai on 26 November last year.

Following the channel’s return to the NBA, its founder-chairman Rajat Sharma will rejoin as a member of the NBA Board. The channel’s managing editor Vinod Kapri, who had tendered his resignation, returns as a member of the NBA Authority.

It is understood that though the channel was forced to pay a penalty of Rs 100,000 and run an apology scroll, India TV which had quit NBA on 19 April decided to sink differences after some members of the NBA Board – themselves broadcasters – were sympathetic and admitted the guidelines of the Board had not been followed.

NBA sources told indiantelevision.com that any viewer can complain to the respective TV channel directly about any report. The matter goes to the NBA Authority headed by Justice JS Verma only after the channel has not been able to satisfy the complainant within one week.

India TV had run a late night report in Hindi about an interview given in English to Reuters by Barhana Ali who is a researcher with the American CIA about the terrorist attack. Ali had subsequently complained to the channel that the interview had been in English to Reuters and not to the channel, and that she had been erroneously described as a CIA spy.

The channel had subsequently run a story clarifying the points made by Ali, and she was satisfied. The NBA Board had been duly informed and decided to treat the matter as closed.

However, the 9-member NBA Authority – set up by the NBA Board – decided suo motu to take up the case and is understood to have taken a decision against the channel in a hearing which reportedly did not have the quorum as required under the guidelines.

India TV is understood to have taken the decision to return in the larger interest of unity among news channels.

July 17, 2009