Prabhu Chawla's ‘Sachchi Baat’ on ETV

Prabhu Chawla, Editorial Director, The New Indian Express, is all set to host a new talk show, ‘Sachchi Baat’, on ETV from January 15, 2011. Chawla has signed a deal with the channel for two years. Apart from the Hindi channel ETV, the show would also be aired on the ETV’s Gujarati and Urdu channels.

Chawla was earlier hosting the talk show ‘Seedhi Baat’ on Aaj Tak. Following his departure from the India Today Group, and hence from the show, the industry has been expecting Chawla to host a new TV show on similar lines as ‘Seedhi Baat’.

Speaking  on the new show, Chawla said, “The objective of ‘Sachchi Baat’ is to grill the high and mighty from all sectors and factions, whose decisions influence the lives of people.”

‘Sachchi Baat’ is planned as a half-hour show. It is scheduled for Sundays at from 8.00 pm to 8.30 pm. The time slot competes directly with ‘Seedhi Baat’, which is now hosted by MJ Akbar on Aaj Tak. ‘Sachchi Baat’ will also have repeat telecasts on ETV on Mondays at 7.00 pm and Saturdays at 9.00 pm. ETV Bangla and ETV Telugu will also air the show in Hindi language soon.

Sakal Pune loses colour for a day

Marathi daily Sakal is set to go all-colour in Pune from January 5, 2011 onwards. To create the curiosity among its readers, the newspaper came out entirely in monochromes on January 4, 2010. The B&W edition of the newspaper included all the supplements and the advertisements. A sky bus in the main issue requested readers to preserve the black and white copy as a memorabilia of Sakal Pune, turning a new page in its history. The campaign was created by Pune-based agency Setu Advertising.

Commenting on the initiative, Indranil Datta, Marketing Head, Sakal Media Group, said, “Sakal as a brand enjoys a strong emotional connect with its readers, which dates back to the last 79 years. So, every change in the product will be critically evaluated by its loyal readers of Pune. Therefore, we needed a communication that broke through the clutter from an ordinary message of any another newspaper in this part of the country. Launching in all-colour is something spectacular. So, the black and white issue on January 4, 2011, not only created a disruption, but also made the message memorable in the minds of readers.”

Indian M&E industry going forward

After a year of economic uncertainty in 2009, the Indian Media and Entertainment (M&E) industry returned to steady growth in 2010. With the pace of growth only set to gather speed, competition is likely to be the theme for 2011, and the ‘new normal’ for the Indian M&E industry going forward.

Competition in the Indian M&E industry is being shaped by four macro-economic factors – market variation, market volatility, margin pressure, and stakeholder confidence – which, while not new, are now increasingly important for today’s executives to address. Variation across demographics and the price sensitivity of consumer groups within the Indian market are challenging the go-to-market assumptions of even the most established M&E companies.

Shashidhar Bhat joins samaya TV as chief Editor

Changes in Kannada journalism As well. After most contravecial and talented Editor Vishsweshwar Bhat shown door by times group management one more changes reported. That’s Shashidhar Bhat, with mouthful of paan, again on the small screen anchoring talk in Samay News channel.

Though, Shashidhar Bhat is an old horse and spent force, his come back welcomed by most except his old colleagues. Shashidhar Bhat, got first G category site from Govt among journalists, is comparatively better than V.Bhat and harmless to society.

Read this blog post in kannada.

ಕಳೆದ ವಾರ ವಿಜಯಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಸಂಪಾದಕರಾಗಿದ್ದ ವಿಶ್ವೇಶಭಟ್ಟರು ರಾಜೀನಾಮೆ ಕೊಟ್ಟಾಗ ನನ್ನ ಗೆಳತಿಯೊಬ್ಬಳು ಪ್ರತಿಕ್ರಿಯಿಸಿದ್ದು ಹೀಗೆ; ಇದು ಪತ್ರಿಕೋದ್ಯಮದ ನೈತಿಕತೆಗೆ ಸಿಕ್ಕಿದ ಜಯ.
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Prabhu Chawla joins Indian Express

Stalwart in the field of journalism Prabhu Chawla has put in his papers at the India Today Group. With this, Mr. Chawla has finally put a big full stop to all the speculations about his detachment with India Today. Prabhu Chawla is now said to have joined the Indian Express Group, however, his designation there is still not revealed.

Till yet, rumors of regarding process of putting his candidature on the back burner in the group were hovering in the air, as the management started to neglect him after the association of senior journalist M.J. Akbar with the company.

India Today Group had appointed MJ Akbar as Editorial Director of India Today - English and India Today - International and their extensions. Chawla was then given the charge of Editor (Languages) and CEO. Before holding this post, he had worked as Editorial Director of the magazine India Today for 14 years.

Chawla had started his journalistic career with India Today and had then joined The Indian Express. He then rejoined India Today, first as Editor of the Hindi edition, and then the English edition too.

MJ Akbar Replaces Prabhu Chawla As Host Of Seedhi Baat ‎

M.J. Akbar Replaces Prabhu Chawla As Host Of Seedhi Baat  Brings Mani Shankar Aiyer as the first guest on the talk show.  Rajat Arora | Delhi | December 24, 2010  Aaj Tak has finally found a new host for its flagship talk show Seedhi Baat. The speculations were on rife about the future of the talk show after the departure of Prabhu Chawla from the India Today Group last week.  The new Editorial Director of India Today Group M.J. Akbar is all set to don a new hat of a host of Hindi talk show Seedhi Baat. M.J. Akbar is recording his first episode of Hindi talk show Seedhi Baat today with senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyer.  Seedhi Baat is known for its fearless and grilling approach and the outgoing host Prabhu Chawla was awarded as the best talk show host for Seedhi Baat by Indian Television Academy.  In September, India Today Group was restructured when M.J. Akbar joined as Editorial Director and Prabhu Chawla was eased out and was made Editor, Language. Last week Prabhu Chawla parted ways with India Today group and joined The New Indian Express as Editor.

Movers and shakers

Recent changes in Bangalore

1. New Indian Express Business correspondent  P. Jayadevan is joining *Economic Times*

2. Pranav Nambiar who was with DNA earlier, has joined Times of  India

 3. Chief reporter of  Kasturi TV channel, Anand has resigned
4. Pragyan Acharya has  joined as *Dataquest* Correspondent in *Cybermedia* *Bangalore Bureau*

 5. Malini N  joined Voice & Data in  Bangalore

6. Nikhil Sivadas has joined *ET Now Bangalore as Business  Correspondent.
7. Vinu Lal has joined Economic Times, Bangalore as Assistant Editor
8. Sudipto Mondal, The Hindu from Mangalore transfred to Bangalore.
9. M.Raghava of The Hindu has transfered from Bangalore to Mangalore