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'''ANUSHREE SINGH IS THE FUTURE EDITORE OF CNN IBN.....'''{{Infobox TV channel
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Revision as of 04:43, 26 July 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 is broadcast in the United Kingdom as News 18 India on the [[British Sky Broadcasting]] satellite platform - Channel 573.

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 16 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" [14]

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.[15][16]

Sagarika Ghose

Sagarika Ghose is an Indian journalist and author with over 18 years of experience in journalism. With CNN-IBN since 2006, she has been a prime time anchor and Deputy Editor covering politics extensively. Her flagship show, Face the Nation is a hard, provocative show where she addresses a current issue and puts it to the test with a panel and gauges public mood.[17][18]

Prior to working with CNN-IBN, Sagarika worked with publications like The Times of India, Outlook Magazine and The Indian Express. In 2004 she became the first woman to anchor the popular BBC programme ‘Question Time India’. Sagarika received her Bachelor's degree in History from St. Stephen's College, Delhi. A recipient of the Rhodes scholarship, she also gained a Bachelor's in Modern History from Magdalen College and an M.Phil from St Antony's College at Oxford.[19][20]

Suhasini Haider

Suhasini Haider is the Deputy Foreign Affairs Editor and a prime time anchor with CNN-IBN.[21] Suhasini hosts ‘World View’, CNN-IBN’s signature show on International Affairs.[22] She is a regular columnist on Indian Foreign Policy and Strategic Issues for various national dailies. Over the course of her 17-year career, Suhasini has covered stories and conflicts from the most diverse regions including Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Libya, Lebanon and Syria. In India, she has covered the external affairs beat for over a decade and her domestic assignments include in-depth reportage from Kashmir. In 2011 she won the Indian Television Academy - GR8! Award for 'Global News Coverage', and the ‘ENBA' Award for Best Spot News Reporting from Libya.[23] In 2010, she won the 'Best TV News Presenter' in News Television Awards. Suhasini is the only journalist to have interviewed the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his family, a show that won the prestigious Indian Television Academy award as 'Best Chat show' for the year.[24]

Anubha Bhosle

Anubha Bhosle, is a Senior Editor and Senior Special Correspondent. She has reported equally from the sub-zero battlegrounds of Kargil and the quaking grounds of Gujarat. She possesses an all-round prowess, be it in reporting from ground zero or moderating red-hot debates in the studio. She has been the face of ‘The Citizen Journalist Show’ on CNN-IBN since its inception. She is a Post Graduate in Social Communication from Sophia College, Mumbai and has done her Bachelors in Journalism from Delhi University.[25][26][27]

Karan Thapar

Karan Thapar is a Senior Anchor and Journalist with CNN-IBN. Trained as a correspondent, producer, editor and presenter with London Weekend Television in the United Kingdom, where he worked for programmes as varied as Weekend World, The World This Week, The Business Programme, The Walden Interview and Eastern Eye, he has both the most varied and the most in-depth knowledge and experience of television current affairs programme.[28] Karan anchors The Last Word, a first-of-its-kind daily debate show on Indian television, where Karan discusses the everyday news. Devil’s Advocate is another show on which Indian and international stalwarts from various walks of life are questioned by Karan Thapar.[29][30]

Gaurav Kalra

Gaurav Kalra has been producing sports content on television for over a decade. He started his career at Trans World International where for four years he worked on a variety of programming including magazine shows, news bulletins and live broadcasts. In his next role at Quintus, Gaurav produced a series of programming under the Wisden brand name, including the Wisden Indian Cricketer of the Century and the Wisden Awards. Gaurav joined CNN-IBN as Sports Editor in 2005 and has hosted a whole range of programming on the entire gamut of sports ever since. He has also won a host of awards in the span of his career.[31][32][33]

Rajeev Masand

Rajeev Masand is a film critic and the Entertainment Editor for CNN-IBN. He has had an accomplished media career spanning 16 years covering the Indian entertainment industry. A graduate from Mumbai University, Rajeev started reporting at the age of 16 at The Times of India. He held several key positions such as Assistant Editor at The Indian Express, Special Correspondent and Film Critic at Star News to name a few. He also pushes the envelope of innovation on Now Showing on CNN-IBN, which is characterized by tremendous interactivity, viewer participation, online communities, and user-generated discussion.[34][35]

Karma Paljor

Karma Paljor has been a journalist for over 11 years. Having started with The Times of India in Mumbai, he moved to CNBC-TV18 in 2001. Apart from covering national and political stories for the channel, Paljor also anchored the breakfast show on CNBC-TV18. He bagged the Chevening Scholarship for Broadcast Journalism in 2004. Paljor also did a half-hour programme on the problems plaguing the aviation sector in India in 2006, following which the civil aviation ministry suggested several changes including, an overhaul of infrastructure at Air Traffic Controls across India. Apart from various daily news shows, Paljor anchors India Positive, a show that showcases stories of courage, hope, harmony and peace.[36][37][38]

Smitha Nair

Smitha Nair is currently the Mumbai Bureau Chief and a prime-time anchor with CNN-IBN. Prior to this, she was a special correspondent, Political Bureau. A graduate in Economics/Commerce along with a Post Graduate diploma in Journalism, Smitha was a CNN] Journalism Fellow in the year 2009. She loves books, sports and cinema. If she wasn't a journalist, she says she would have been a constitutional lawyer or a filmmaker.[39][40][41]

Cyrus Broacha

Cyrus Broacha is a TV anchor, theatre personality, political satirist, columnist and author. He is also a stand-up comedian and prankster, best known for his show The Week That Wasn't on CNN-IBN, a show that lightens up your weekends with pun-a-minute approach. The show is a 30 minute spoof on the major news events of the week.[42][43]

Bhupendra Chaubey

Starting his career with NDTV, Bhupendra Chaubey has been a journalist for the past 12 years. As a political journalist travelling across the length and breadth of the country, he has that unique ability to grasp things at a micro level and then present it on a macro level. A graduate in Mathematics and post graduate in films, Bhupendra has been among the finest political journalists of his generation having covered two general elections and assembly elections of all states. He is amongst those journalists who depend more on their ground political awareness supplementing it with academic awareness of issues that confront the nation.[44][45][46]

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.[47]

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.[48][49][50] The episode has not been hosted on the show's homepage.[51]

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."[52][53][54]

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. ^ Dilip Venkatraman appointed CEO of CNN-IBN & IBN7
  14. ^ Dilip Venkatraman is CEO, CNN-IBN
  15. ^ Dilip Venkatraman's Profile
  16. ^ Dilip Venkatraman promoted as CEO of CNN-IBN
  17. ^ Sagarika Ghose invites team anna
  18. ^ Question time india
  19. ^ Sagarika Ghose Columns
  20. ^ Being There -Sagarika Ghose
  21. ^ Suhasini Haider, Deputy Foreign Editor, CNN-IBN
  22. ^ Suhasini Haider on World View
  23. ^ Suhasini won Indian Television Academy - GR8! Award
  24. ^ Suhasinin Haider interviewed Dr. Manmohan Singh
  25. ^ Anubha Bhosle's Blog
  26. ^ Anubha Bhosle won the Best TV News Reporter award
  27. ^ CNN IBN to focus on digital presence of Citizen Journalist
  28. ^ About Karan Thapar
  29. ^ CNN–IBN presents the ‘The Last Word’ with Karan Thapar
  30. ^ Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN's Devil's Advocate
  31. ^ <http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/author/260/gauravkalra.html Gaurav Kalra's Profile]
  32. ^ Gaurav Kalra, CNN IBN Sports Editor
  33. ^ CNN-IBN remains India’s Best News Channel
  34. ^ Rajeev Masand, CNN-IBN 3/5 "spoilers"
  35. ^ Rajeev Masand's profile
  36. ^ Karma Paljor on IBNLive
  37. ^ Karma Paljor's Uttarakhand Diaries
  38. ^ Karma Paljor
  39. ^ Smitha Nair's news
  40. ^ Young Professional of the Year 2011
  41. ^ CNN-IBN completes 7 winning years
  42. ^ Cyrus comes to town
  43. ^ Cyrus Broacha on DNA
  44. ^ Bhupendra Chaubey on IBNLive
  45. ^ Bhupendra Chaubey - Money Control
  46. ^ India @ 9 with Bhupendra Chaubey
  47. ^ Priscilla Jebaraj (2010-12-19). "Thehindu.com". Thehindu.com. Retrieved 2011-06-07.
  48. ^ http://twitter.com/#!/sagarikaghose/status/134331682592538624
  49. ^ "Face The Nation: A clarification and an apology". November 10, 2011. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
  50. ^ "CNN-IBN 'small' apology to Sri Sri". November 11, 2011. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
  51. ^ "Face the Nation Shows Videos-Watch Most viewed videos of Face the Nation : IBNLive". CNN-IBN. Retrieved 2011-12-23.
  52. ^ "CAG Report on XIX Commonwealth Games" (PDF). Comptroller & Auditor General of India (Pdf).
  53. ^ "CAG blames top media houses in Commonwealth Games Scam". News of Delhi.
  54. ^ "Games contracts to media houses arbitrary and biased: CAG". India Today.

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