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MARKET: TV CHANNELS - MOVERS & SHAKERS
MOVERS & SHAKERS IN
THE GLOBAL MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT
TV CHANNELS - MOVERS & SHAKERS
It takes personalities with immense grit and determination to launch channels and
streaming services. The bigger challenge after launching them is to ensure that it survives
and thrives in this increasingly competitive global media landscape.
AROON PURIE diversified media group with 32 English news channel Headlines
- INDIA TODAY magazines, 7 radio stations, 4 TV Today.
Aroon Purie (born 1944) is the channels, 1 newspaper, multiple web He was conferred the Padma
founder-publisher and former editor- and mobile portals, a leading classical Bhushan in 2001, the third-highest
in-chief of India Today and former music label and book publishing arm. civilian award of the government of
chief executive of the India Today Vidya Vilas Purie, Aroon Purie's India, for his contribution to Indian
Group. He is the managing director of father, launched the fortnightly journalism. He has received other
Thomson Press (India) Limited and the magazine India Today in 1975, with his honours, including the B.D. Goenka
chairman and sister Madhu Award for Excellence in Journalism
managing director Trehan as its (1988), 'Journalist of the Year 1990'
of TV Today. He is editor and award by the Indian Federation of
the recipient of the Aroon Purie as Small and Medium Newspapers, the
Padma Bhushan its publisher. G.K. Reddy Memorial Award
award. He was also for Outstanding Contribution
the editor-in-chief to Journalism (1993–1994), the
of Reader's Digest Hall of Fame Award from the
India. In October Advertising Club of Kolkata
2017, he passed (2002) and the NT Award for
control of the India Lifetime achievement from
Today Group to his www. Indiatelevision.com
daughter, Kallie (2008).
Purie. He is associated with
P u r i e several councils, including
graduated from The the Council of Management,
Doon School and earned a bachelor's The magazine was born during the Audit Bureau of Circulations
degree in economics from the London Emergency declared by Prime Minister (Chairman, 2000–2001). He is on the
School of Economics in 1965. Indira Gandhi. With India Today, Executive Committee of The Editors'
Bollywood actress Koel Purie is his Aroon tried to "fill the information gap Guild of India, Council of
youngest daughter. which exists amongst persons Management All India Management
He started his career in 1970 at interested in India residing abroad". Association (Special Invitee). He was
Thomson Press as Production With editions in five languages, it is Chairman of the CII National
Controller and continues to be its the most widely–read publication in Committee on Media (2001–2002).
guiding force even though he handed India – a position which, as of 2006, it He is currently the chairman
over to his son Ankoor Purie. With five had held for over a decade – with a of FIPP (Federation of International
facilities across India, it has a national readership of over 11 million. Periodicals and Publications). Aroon
presence. He began the India Today He also set the journalistic style Purie is a board member of the Global
Group with an eponymous magazine for the 24-hour news and current affairs Editors Network since its creation in
in 1975. Today the group is India's most Hindi news channel Aaj Tak and April 2011.
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PRANNOY ROY the chief executive of the Indian unit launching a television production
- NDTV of a British company, he himself was house called New Delhi Television. He
Prannoy Roy brought the focused and dedicated towards his has also co-authored "A Compendium
country to the edge of its seat with his studies as well as his career right from of Indian Elections” and "India
innate knack of translating the the start. Decides: Elections
complicated facts of election politics Prannoy Roy 1952-1991" with David
and budget number crunching into was an achiever right Butler.
straight-to-the-point analysis. from his early days; he With such a flawless
Several years and thousands of completed his career, Prannoy Roy
anchoring hours on, he has questioned schooling from La has a list of
and examined salient facts about how Martiniere Calcutta and The Doon achievements. To begin with he was
the news affects his viewers’ lives. School, Dehradun. He also won Economic Advisor in the Indian
scholarship to Hailey government's Ministry of Finance and
bury and Imperial an Associate Professor at the Delhi
Service College in the School of Economics, where he
UK for his A-levels developed a macro-econometric
and qualified as a forecasting model for the Indian
charted accountant. economy. He has also been a
Prannoy Roy did his consultant to the India division of
graduation from the international accountancy firm
University of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
London’s Queen In 2009 Roy was, along with
Mary College in 1973 billionaire Mukesh Ambani, one of two
in Economics. He Indians serving on the International
later got his Ph. D Advisory Board of Council on Foreign
He has been adjudged the from the Delhi School of Economics Relations in Washington. Apart from
television personality of the and therefore he is often referred as winning international and national
millennium by the Indian Express poll Dr. Prannoy Lal Roy. awards for his programs, Roy has been
and has contributed to various national With an extraordinary academic adjudged the "Television Personality
and international publications. background, Prannoy Roy has a career of the Millennium" by an Indian
Dr. Roy has a doctorate in graph that always climbed upwards. He Express poll.
Economics from the Delhi School of started his career with rigorous
Economics and is a Qualified Chartered covering of India’s general election on
Accountant from London. Doordarshan and for BBC world news. VINEET JAIN
Dr. Roy has also served as He rose to fame with news programs - TIMES NOW
Economic Advisor with the Ministry like ‘The World This Week’ and ‘The Vineet Kumar Jain is the
of Finance, Government of India. News Tonight’. These
Prannoy Lal Roy needs no shows were also among
introduction as the man from Kolkata the best 5 television
has created a big name for himself in programs of India since
the media. He is co-founder as well as Independence. He has
executive co-chairperson of one of the also been an Economic
most viewed news channel, NDTV advisor with the Ministry
(New Delhi Television). He is best of Finance, Government
known for his truthful journalism and of India. In the year 1988,
for being an active media personality. Prannoy Roy along with
Being from a well educated his journalist wife
background, with his Irish mother Radhika Roy, took a big
being a teacher and a father who was leap in news industry by
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Managing Director of Bennett, Vineet Jain is the great In 1990, Maran started a
Coleman & Co. Ltd. (B.C.C.L.), grandson of Ramkrishna Dalmia, the monthly magazine in Tamil called
commonly known as The Times Group, first Indian owner of B.C.C.L. His Poomaalai. On 14 April 1993, he
India's largest media group.[1] He runs grandfather, Shanti Prasad Jain, took founded Sun TV. Sun TV was listed
B.C.C.L along with his brother Samir over the company from Ramkrishna on the Bombay Stock Exchange on
Jain who is vice-chairman. Dalmia. Shanti Prasad's son, Ashok 24 April 2006 upon raising $133
Vineet Jain graduated from the Jain, took control of the company in million for 10% of the share capital,
American College of Switzerland and the nineteen-sixties and was chairman catapulting him into the billionaire
joined B.C.C.L. as the deputy of B.C.C.L. until his death in 1998 from charts. He was among the few
managing director in 1993. heart failure. representatives at a roundtable with
Jain's mother, Indu Jain, used the visiting then US President Bill
to hold the title of chairman of B.C.C.L. Clinton.
His sister Nandita Judge, who also By 2010, he was the 17th richest
worked at the company, died in a Indian, with a net worth of US$4 Billion,
helicopter crash in 2001. and is the highest paid business
Jain is divorced. He splits his executive in India. Maran and his wife,
time between homes he shares with Kavery were ranked the highest paid
Vineet has focussed on his brother in New Delhi and Business executives in the list of
transforming B.C.C.L. into a multimedia Mumbai. Indian executive pay charts with a
company, making investments in radio package of ?62 crore (US$8.7 million)
with Radio Mirchi; television with each.
Zoom and Times Now; the Internet
KALANITHI MARAN He has won Young
with Indiatimes, Bombay Times and - SUN TV Businessman awards from CNBC and
Delhi Times; movie production and Ernst & Young, and Forbes
out-of-home advertising. In 2003, he magazine named him the
conceived and launched Media.net, "Television king of southern
B.C.C.L.'s venture which allows India.
advertorials to be written about the Kalanithi Maran is the son of
entertainment industry and celebrities. the former
Under this program, B.C.C.L. accepts U n i o n
ads in exchange for real-estate Minister of
ownership or equity in a company. I n d i a
In 2018, Vineet Jain, and Murasoli
Sanjeev Shah, executive president of Maran and
B.C.C.L., were caught on camera as part g r a n d
of an undercover sting operation by nephew of
Cobrapost agreeing to promote former Tamil
Hindutva content through the group's Nadu chief
many media properties for a proposed minister M.
spend of ` 500 crore, some of which Karunanidhi. His younger brother
the client said could only be paid with Kalanithi Maran is an Indian Dayanidhi Maran was also a former
black money. B.C.C.L. has responded media baron who is the chairman and minister. Kalanithi Maran married
to the sting claiming that the video that founder of the Sun Group. He owns Kavery, a native of Coorg and has a
was released by Cobrapost was television channels, newspapers, daughter named Kaviya Maran. He had
incomplete and doctored and that weeklies, FM Radio stations, DTH his schooling with Don Bosco,
Vineet Jain was engaged in a counter- services, Sports team and a movie Egmore, Chennai. He graduated in
sting of his own to expose the production house. He also held a major Commerce from Loyola College,
undercover reporter during the filming share in the Indian airline Spice Jet from Chennai. He did his MBA from
of the video. 2010 to 2015. University of Scranton.
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SUBHASH CHANDRA GOEL traders who procured and supplied rice of India. The competition was one of
- ZEE TV to the Food Corporation of India. the biggest newspaper battles of
Subhash Chandra Goenka In the 1980s, he started Mumbai. Sustaining earlier losses, the
(born 30 November 1950) is an Indian manufacturing flexible packaging newspaper eventually turned around.
billionaire media baron. He is the (mainly plastic tubes) for fast moving On 25 November 2019, Chandra
chairman of the Essel Group, an Indian consumer goods such as toothpaste had to resign as chairman of his
media conglomerate, and founded Zee under the brand name Essel Packaging. company Zee Entertainment
TV in 1992. He was also the chairman He followed it up with a leisure park Enterprises, as per the SEBI Listing
of Zee Media but resigned as Director (EsselWorld) in north Mumbai. Regulations. However, he still
and Non-Executive Chairman of the In 1992, he launched Zee TV, continues as a non-executive director
company on 24 May 2016. He was the second private commercial of the company.
television channel in the country in In his autobiography ‘The Z
association with factor: My journey as the wrong man
Star TV in Hong at the right time’, Chandra has written
Kong, and in about his association with the
2003, Dish TV, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh,
ideological parent
of the BJP, in his
younger days.
Chandra claimed the
support of
Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP)
legislators and said
he had others
across party lines.
first satellite On 22 May 2020, Essel Group
television provider in India. defaulted 616 INR Crore secured NCD
elected to the Upper House of the Chandra launched India's first Bonds with standstill agreement along
Indian parliament for the Haryana state satellite TV channel, Zee TV, in 1992. with Subhash Chandra Personal
in the 2016 Rajya Sabha election, as an The channel competes with, among Guarantee thus affecting 3,00,000
independent candidate supported by others, Sony Entertainment Television investors.
legislators from the Bharatiya Janata and STAR Plus. Currently, the Zee TV In August,2020, Zee
Party. network, consisting up to 90 channels, Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL)
Chandra was born in Adampur, reach 1.3 Billion people spread over 174 appointed promoter Subhash Chandra
Hisar district, Haryana. His family had countries. as chairman emeritus, following his
a debt of ` 3.5 lakh, which he had to In 2005, in collaboration with resignation as non-executive director
repay. His family could not afford his Dainik Bhaskar group, Chandra of the firm. Subhash Chandra, who was
higher education, and in 1965 he launched an English-language daily previously chairman, would now
dropped out of school to join the family newspaper, DNA, in Mumbai to continue to be associated with the
business of commission agents and challenge the well-settled The Times business in an honorary fashion.
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