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  • Ranjana Mangla joins Star Sports as VP – emerging sports

    Ranjana Mangla joins Star Sports as VP – emerging sports

    MUMBAI: Ranjana Mangla has joined Star Sports as vice president – emerging sports, Indiantelevision.com has learnt. Mangla, who took charge of her new role on Monday, was the national revenue head of India Today TV in her last gig.

    Mangla has previously 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 has also been part of Viacom18 as vice president – sales, spending more than four years with the media and entertainment conglomerate.

    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, she has also worked with NDTV Lifestyle, NDTV Imagine, Star India, and the Dainik Bhaskar Group of Publications.

    Mangla’s appointment seems to be in line with Star India’s vision of driving growth with sports as a big pillar. Apart from cricket the Star Sports bouquet of channels broadcasts Pro Kabaddi, Indian Super League, I-League, Super Cup, Premier League, Bundesliga, Badminton World Federation events, Premier Badminton League, Ultimate Table Tennis, and other premium sports such as Formula 1, Wimbledon, The French Open and US Open.

    Earlier this week, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports along with Star Sports kick started the countdown to Khelo India Youth Games with an appeal to encourage India to play more- with the evocative ‘#5MinuteAur’ campaign.

    Khelo India Youth Games, which are a part of the Khelo India programme, will be held from 9 to 20 January 2019 in Pune, Maharashtra. The games will be telecast live across Star Sports Network and Hotstar in five languages – English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada.

    Mangla was named national revenue head of India Today TV in July this year.

    India Today Group CEO Vivek Khanna too called it quits last month in a letter dated 30 November 2018. The resignation was informed to the Bombay Stock Exchange on the same date stating that he plans to pursue other professional opportunities by the company.

    Khanna joined India Today Group in November 2017.  

  • TV Today Network to replace Business Today with Aaj Tak HD

    TV Today Network to replace Business Today with Aaj Tak HD

    MUMBAI: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has granted permission to the TV Today Network to change the name and logo of news and current affairs TV channel Business Today to Aaj Tak HD in a letter dated 27 August 2018. TV Today Network had written to MIB requesting for these approvals on 12 October 2017.

    “The Stock Exchange would be duly intimated before the launch of the channel ‘Aaj Tak HD’”, the company informed the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) today.

    Apart from the logo and name change, the channel will also witness a change in transmission mode from SD to HD and a language switch from English to Hindi.

    In the same letter, MIB also approved the appointment of India Today Group CEO Vivek Khanna, who took over the position in November last year.

    Aaj Tak is the leading channel in all the three Hindi speaking markets according to the BARC data. The channel announced a hike in its ad rates earlier this week.

    Aaj Tak recalibrated its rates after indexing inventory and latest leadership performance across parameters.

    Commenting on the latest development, TV Today CRO Rahul Shaw said, “Given its unchallenged viewership and unparalleled following, Aaj Tak is now strategically looking at lowering inventory and compensating it with a premium pricing. With leadership across hsm, all india, urban, rural, coverage and prime time and almost a quarter of  news viewership with only one news channel on big news time bands, it is important that the leader helps the genre improve yields “.

    India Today Group CEO Vivek Khanna added, “The most influential news brand of the country has been a role model for many to follow. Truth, integrity and unconventional methods of news reporting really leave no competition in sight.”

    In BARC’s week 33 data, the channel garnered 214534 impressions (000s) sum in the urban plus rural market. In the rural market, the channel’s recorded viewership was 102312 impressions (000s) sum. The urban market helped the channel register 112222 impressions (000s) sum.

  • Vivek Khanna becomes Group CEO at India Today

    Vivek Khanna becomes Group CEO at India Today

    NEW DELHI: Vivek Khanna, former chief executive officer of Hindustan Media Ventures, has come on board the India Today Group as its Group CEO. He will report to vice chairperson Kalli Purie, who recently announced the growth of the group by launching seven mobile channels.

    The news was announced to the employees by group chairman and editor-in-chief Aroon Purie in an internal communication this morning: “I am excited about Vivek joining us. With his background plus track record and our bench strength, I am confident he will bring structure, process discipline and marketing muscle to our creative genius so we can scale new heights. In all of you, I know I have the best team in the industry which makes me so proud. Now with the new leadership in place, I look forward to a year of exponential growth.”

    Purie added that “Apart from his strategic thinking and marketing expertise, I have selected Vivek because he is a ‘people’ person. He has an inclusive style of leadership, works hard and with passion, is goal oriented, pays attention to details, and builds teams. He believes that the right person in the right job is the only formula for good decisions, growth, and organisational success. Like me, Vivek leads from the trenches. He is known for personally going out to close partnerships and service clients.”

    Vivek comes with 26 years of solid experience in strategy, sales, and marketing. An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad, Vivek began his career with Hindustan Unilever and Aviva Life Insurance. He moved to HT Media in 2008. Since 2013, he has been the CEO of Hindustan Media Ventures.

    Aroon Purie said Vivek’s most impressive accomplishments include the turnaround of HT products and brands. Last year, Hindustan Media Ventures was ranked amongst the top five fastest growing listed companies in India. He grew the advertising revenue of Hindustan by 14 per cent between 2013 and 2016; this was 4-10 per cent faster than competition.

    Operating EBITDA grew at more than 30 per cent per annum in this period. Circulation of the newspaper increased by over 30 per cent. The top line increased from Rs 6 billion to Rs 10 billion and the company’s market cap doubled to over Rs 20 billion.

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