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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 Purie 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. 27 SATELLITESATELLITE & CABLE & TV CABLE TV JANUARY 2021JUNE 2021 MARKET: TV CHANNELS - MOVERS & SHAKERS 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 28 SATELLITESATELLITE & CABLE & TV CABLE TV JANUARY 2021JUNE 2021 MARKET: TV CHANNELS - MOVERS & SHAKERS 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. KALANITHI MARAN Zoom and Times Now; the Internet 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 Union ads in exchange for real-estate Minister of ownership or equity in a company. India In 2018, Vineet Jain, and Murasoli Sanjeev Shah, executive president of Maran and B.C.C.L., were caught on camera as part grand 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.