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His flagship show on CNN-IBN, India at 9, was awarded the Best News Show at the [[Asian Television Awards]], 2010. He has been ‘News Anchor of the Year’ at the Indian Television Academy for seven of the last eight years. He has also been the President of the Editors Guild of India, the only television journalist to hold the post and was chosen a Global leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 2000. An alumnus of [[St. Xavier's College, Mumbai|St Xavier's College, Mumbai]], he has done his Masters and LLB from [[Oxford University]], and has also played first class cricket for the Oxford University team. He has contributed to several books and writes a fortnightly column that appears in several newspapers.<ref>[http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=22579548&ticker=IBN Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor in Chief of IBN18]</ref>
His flagship show on CNN-IBN, India at 9, was awarded the Best News Show at the [[Asian Television Awards]], 2010. He has been ‘News Anchor of the Year’ at the Indian Television Academy for seven of the last eight years. He has also been the President of the Editors Guild of India, the only television journalist to hold the post and was chosen a Global leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 2000. An alumnus of [[St. Xavier's College, Mumbai|St Xavier's College, Mumbai]], he has done his Masters and LLB from [[Oxford University]], and has also played first class cricket for the Oxford University team. He has contributed to several books and writes a fortnightly column that appears in several newspapers.<ref>[http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=22579548&ticker=IBN Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor in Chief of IBN18]</ref>

'''Dilip Venkatraman'''

Dilip Venkatraman is the Chief Executive Officer of [[CNN-IBN]] and [[IBN7]]. Dilip is responsible for the strategic, financial and operational management of CNN-IBN and IBN7. <ref>[http://www.campaignindia.in/Article/316881,dilip-venkatraman-appointed-ceo-ibn7.aspx Dilip Venkatraman appointed CEO of CNN-IBN & IBN7[</ref> In his earlier role he was responsible for all marketing operations for all existing and upcoming IBN channels & managing the overall operations of IBN Focus, the alternative media solutions unit that develops context for brands through customized content, using a 360 degrees approach. Dilip has over 19 years of corporate experience, of which 3 years were in the US. Prior to joining [[TV18|TV18 Broadcast Ltd]]. (formerly GBN), he held key positions at [[India Today]] and the [[Zee Network]]. He was the Head of Brand Management at [[Zee News]] and the President of Marketing for [[Dish TV]]. He also spent over a year as the CEO of Pugmarks, a technology company. The CNN-IBN Indian of the Year, Real Heroes, IBN7 Diamond States Awards, Citizen Journalist Awards and IBN7 Super Idols are some of the awards/initiatives conceived by him. He has to his credit the introduction of the first SMS short code in Indian Television on a nationwide basis. He is also the man behind the Zee News LED News tickers that won him the coveted 'Indian Marketing Award'. He won the prestigious "News CEO of the Year at the Exchange4media News Broadcast Awards 2011"

He is a Graduate in [[Public Administration]], and has completed his management Programme from [[IIM Bangalore]], and the Advanced Management Program from [[Harvard Business School|Harvard Business School, Boston]].<ref>[http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=76479781&ticker=8868731&previousCapId=8868731&previousTitle=Television%20Eighteen%20India%20Ltd Dilip Venkatraman's Profile]</ref>


==Questions on ethics==
==Questions on ethics==

Revision as of 10:32, 27 June 2013

CNN-IBN
CountryIndia
NetworkCNN
HeadquartersNoida, Uttar Pradesh
Programming
Language(s)English
Ownership
OwnerNetwork 18
Turner International India
Key peopleRajdeep Sardesai
Editor in chief
Sagarika Ghose
Senior Editor Anchor

Cable News Network-Indian Broadcasting Network (CNN-IBN) is a service of TV18 Broadcast Ltd (a subsidiary of Network18, India's leading full play media conglomerate) and Time Warner Inc, a US based Media and Entertainment Company. It is an English News Channel, providing news from India and around the World. Headquartered in Noida, the channel is supported by more than 20 bureaus nationwide. Led by one of the country’s most respected journalists, Padma Shri Rajdeep Sardesai, CNN-IBN boasts of the most robust team of news professionals.[1]

The channel has been a ‘thought leader’ and has started several initiatives that include CNN-IBN Indian of the Year, Real Heroes, Citizen Journalist Awards, Young Indian Leaders, India Positive Awards, State of the Nation (channel’s flagship bi-annual poll), to name a few. CNN-IBN is the first news channel in India to have introduced the concept of ‘Citizen Journalism’, which encourages citizens to send in their reports/views on issues important to them.[2]

History

Cable News Network-Indian Broadcasting Network (CNN-IBN) was launched on 16th December, 2005 in India. It came into existence as a result of a partnership between TV18 Broadcast Limited (Formerly, Global Broadcast News) and Turner International (Turner) in India. TV18 Broadcast Ltd runs the channel completely but uses the CNN brand name. Since its inception, the channel has been reaching out to an average of 45 million households every day.[3]

Personalities

CNN-IBN has a number of program hosts, news anchors, correspondents and contributors who appear daily on the channel.

Raghav Bahl

Raghav Bahl is the Controlling Shareholder and Managing Director of Network18. Raghav began his career as a management consultant with A.F. Ferguson & Co. followed by a stint with American Express Bank before he launched TV18, his production house. Winner of the Sanskriti Award for Journalism in 1994, he has over 24 years of experience in television and journalism. He founded TV18 (now Network18 Group) in the year 1993.[4]

Raghav was hailed as a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum.[5] He was also selected by Ernst & Young as 'Entrepreneur of The Year (2007) for Business Transformation'.[6] Raghav has been awarded the AIMA award for the Media Person of the Year in 2011 and BMA recognized him as the ‘Entrepreneur of The Year (2011). He has been conferred with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil), Honoris Causa by Amity University, Uttar Pradesh (2011).[7]

Raghav has been instrumental in crafting successful Joint Ventures with media giants like CNBC, NBC Universal, Viacom, Time Warner, Forbes, A&E Networks and GS Homeshopping (Korea).[8]

An Economics graduate from St. Stephens College, he has done his MBA from the University of Delhi.

Raghav has also authored the book ‘S U P E R P O W E R? The Amazing Race Between China’s Hare and India’s Tortoise’.[9]

Rajdeep Sardesai

Rajdeep Sardesai is the Editor-in-Chief, IBN Network that includes CNN-IBN, IBN7 and IBN-Lokmat. He comes with over 22 years of journalistic experience, during which he has covered major national and international stories, specialising in national politics. Prior to setting up the IBN network, he was the Managing Editor of both NDTV 24X7 and NDTV India and was responsible for overseeing the news policy for both the channels.[10] He has also worked with The Times of India for six years and was the city editor of its Mumbai edition at the age of 26. He has won numerous awards for journalistic excellence, including the prestigious Padma Shri in 2008, the International Broadcasters Award for coverage of the 2002 Gujarat riots and the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for 2007.[11]

His flagship show on CNN-IBN, India at 9, was awarded the Best News Show at the Asian Television Awards, 2010. He has been ‘News Anchor of the Year’ at the Indian Television Academy for seven of the last eight years. He has also been the President of the Editors Guild of India, the only television journalist to hold the post and was chosen a Global leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 2000. An alumnus of St Xavier's College, Mumbai, he has done his Masters and LLB from Oxford University, and has also played first class cricket for the Oxford University team. He has contributed to several books and writes a fortnightly column that appears in several newspapers.[12]

Dilip Venkatraman

Dilip Venkatraman is the Chief Executive Officer of CNN-IBN and IBN7. Dilip is responsible for the strategic, financial and operational management of CNN-IBN and IBN7. [13] In his earlier role he was responsible for all marketing operations for all existing and upcoming IBN channels & managing the overall operations of IBN Focus, the alternative media solutions unit that develops context for brands through customized content, using a 360 degrees approach. Dilip has over 19 years of corporate experience, of which 3 years were in the US. Prior to joining TV18 Broadcast Ltd. (formerly GBN), he held key positions at India Today and the Zee Network. He was the Head of Brand Management at Zee News and the President of Marketing for Dish TV. He also spent over a year as the CEO of Pugmarks, a technology company. The CNN-IBN Indian of the Year, Real Heroes, IBN7 Diamond States Awards, Citizen Journalist Awards and IBN7 Super Idols are some of the awards/initiatives conceived by him. He has to his credit the introduction of the first SMS short code in Indian Television on a nationwide basis. He is also the man behind the Zee News LED News tickers that won him the coveted 'Indian Marketing Award'. He won the prestigious "News CEO of the Year at the Exchange4media News Broadcast Awards 2011"

He is a Graduate in Public Administration, and has completed his management Programme from IIM Bangalore, and the Advanced Management Program from Harvard Business School, Boston.[14]

Questions on ethics

A controversy about some fake Twitter comments that ran on the screen during a news show raised questions about the reliability of instant feedback from viewers. The officials later apologized saying that the source of viewer comment was wrongly stated as Twitter.[15]

On November 2011, on its primetime show Face The Nation, the channel broadcasted a pre-recorded interview of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar as a live television debate. The show was hosted by the deputy editor of the channel, Sagarika Ghose, the wife of the channel's editor, Rajdeep Sardesai. On public outcry, the anchor issued a public apology on Twitter, web and TV.[16][17][18] The episode has not been hosted on the show's homepage.[19]

Controversies

Commonwealth Games Contract

On August 5, 2011 Comptroller and Auditor General of India's report on XIX Commonwealth Games was tabled in Parliament of India. In section 14.4.2 of the report, CAG alleged that while awarding contracts worth Rs 3.78 crore for production & broadcasting of commercials for promoting CWG-2010 to CNN-IBN & NDTV, the Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee followed an arbitrary approach. Proposals were considered in an ad hoc manner, as and when a proposal was received; no form of competitive tendering was adopted. The CAG further said in its report that, "We had no assurance about the competitiveness of the rates quoted by these channels and the need and usefulness of these proposals. From March 2010 to June 2010, the entire pre games publicity and sponsorship publicity was done only on NDTV & CNN-IBN."[20][21][22]

See also

Competitors

References

  1. ^ Network18 Website on CNN-IBN
  2. ^ afaqs on CNN-IBN
  3. ^ CNN-IBN reaches out to 45 million households every day
  4. ^ Management team of CNN-IBN
  5. ^ Global Leader of Tomorrow by WEF
  6. ^ Raghav Bahl, is named the business transformation entrepreneur of the year
  7. ^ [mity.edu/events/eventdetails.asp?id=1986 Raghav Bahl was conferred upon the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy]
  8. ^ Background of Raghav Bahl
  9. ^ ‘S U P E R P O W E R? The Amazing Race Between China’s Hare and India’s Tortoise
  10. ^ Rajeep Sardesai's profile on CNN-IBN
  11. ^ Top Indian Journalists
  12. ^ Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor in Chief of IBN18
  13. ^ [http://www.campaignindia.in/Article/316881,dilip-venkatraman-appointed-ceo-ibn7.aspx Dilip Venkatraman appointed CEO of CNN-IBN & IBN7[
  14. ^ Dilip Venkatraman's Profile
  15. ^ Priscilla Jebaraj (2010-12-19). "Thehindu.com". Thehindu.com. Retrieved 2011-06-07.
  16. ^ http://twitter.com/#!/sagarikaghose/status/134331682592538624
  17. ^ "Face The Nation: A clarification and an apology". November 10, 2011. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
  18. ^ "CNN-IBN 'small' apology to Sri Sri". November 11, 2011. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
  19. ^ "Face the Nation Shows Videos-Watch Most viewed videos of Face the Nation : IBNLive". CNN-IBN. Retrieved 2011-12-23.
  20. ^ "CAG Report on XIX Commonwealth Games" (PDF). Comptroller & Auditor General of India (Pdf).
  21. ^ "CAG blames top media houses in Commonwealth Games Scam". News of Delhi.
  22. ^ "Games contracts to media houses arbitrary and biased: CAG". India Today.

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