Sanjay Upadhayay has joined Sony Entertainment Television as Vice President-Development Programming, after a stint of almost four years with BAG Films. He will be reporting to Albert Almeida, Executive VP and Business Head, Sony Entertainment Television.
Nachiket Pantvaidya, Executive Director-Production and Programming, Walt Disney Television International (India), has decided to move on, and is likely to move to BBC.
‘Comedy Circus’, a new reality-based comedy format, will be aired on Sony Entertainment Television starting June 16, every Saturday in the 9.30 pm time slot.
Following the announcement of Vikas Bahl quitting SAB, the youth-centric GEC has roped in Anuj Kapoor as its Businees Head. He will assume the new role on June 11.
Starcom Entertainment and Hollywood’s Pier3 Entertainment are entering into a strategic partnership. The alliance is being seen as a mutual sharing of expertise. It will also provide Pier3 Entertainment’s American clients opportunities in India and China.
Rediffusion DYR Mumbai has bagged the Reliance General Insurance and Kaya Skin Care accounts. Rediffusion won the Reliance account from its sister agency Everest, through a selection procedure. The Kaya account was earlier with ANC, and was won by Rediffusion after a creative pitch had been called.
Integrated brand communications firm brand-comm leading is hosting ‘Brandate’, an insightful rendezvous on branding on June 30 this year in Bangalore.
Seiko has announced its official foray into the Indian market with three new collections. Looking at establishing the brand’s premium imaging in the country, Seiko intends to invest heavily on promotional activities.
Entertainment Network (India) Ltd has tied up with Shri Puran Multimedia Ltd (Radio Mantra) as a partner to provide sales and support across eight cities. ENIL’s Radio Mirchi has also launched its 14th station in the country at Vadodara.
Kolkata based paint company , Berger Paints launches Berger Kidz under the aegis of Lewis Berger in association with Cartoon Network .
As part of Amar Ujala’s internal restructuring drive, Shashi Shekhar has been promoted from Group Editor to President-News. Shekhar has an experience of more than 27 years in journalism and has been associated with the organisation since 2001.
RP Singh, quit MH One News on June 6 as Chief Operating Officer after an association of seven months. On the other hand, Pankaj Shukla, Associate Editor, Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) TV, has now joined MH One News Channel as Executive Producer.
Sharif D Rangnekar, Director and CEO, Integral PR, has been re-appointed for a further two-year term as Vice President for the Asia Pacific region of Public Relations Organisation International, Inc. (PROI).
Businessworld has made some key changes in its editorial operations. P Hari from the Bangalore bureau is moving to the nerve centre of international IT and ITES industry, Silicon Valley, California. DN Mukherjea, Associate Editor, will be in charge of Special Projects of the magazine and not involved in day-to-day editorial operations.
Rajeev Dubey, Deputy Editor, Financial Express, Delhi, and PV Iyer, Resident Editor, Financial Express, Delhi, are slated to join Businessworld’s Delhi bureau.
Achuthan Kutty, founder and ex-CEO of Bridge over TW and Business Head, Media2win, has joined nautanki.tv as National Head-Sales & Alliances. He has been previously VP-Media Buying for Mudra and has 17 years of mainline advertising experience. He will be responsible for growing nautanki.tv's business and also its foray into the regional media. He will be based in Bangalore. nautanki.tv is the largest online video media network in South Asia. nautanki.tv operates like a video ad network with 1000+ publishers and functions like a regular TV channel with original programming.