‘We create stars, we don’t need them’
Punit Goenka’s father once said, “Son, by the time you realise your father was right, you will have a son who thinks his father is wrongâ€. Words of a successful father who knows his onions. Goenka, MD & CEO, ZEEL (ZEE Entertainment Enterprise Ltd), believes that this statement made by his father Subhash Chandra (Chairman, Essel Group) is by far the biggest learning curve of his life.
Why the first mover still leads
I run a business and I am answerable to shareholders, the chairman and the board for the profitability of my business as my primary KRA. I cannot be happy about just being No. 1 in viewership for some channel. And therefore we don’t run TAM rat race to be No. 1 with trivialised news content.
‘I always wanted to be number one’
Humble beginnings are not clichés, really. They are and will always be lessons of excellence. One such paradigm of excellence is a man who started off with his family business of converting whole grain into pulses. When faced with an acute cash crunch in that business, the man left his hometown Hisar in Haryana with barely Rs 17 in his pockets.
King of Heartland
Aggressive marketing has helped the Dainik Bhaskar group dethrone competitors with ease in literally every market they have entered, write Rohit Manchanda and Mehnaz Nasreen.
Unlike Other Newspapers, We Give Readers What They Want
The Managing Director of Dainik Bhaskar Group in Jabalpur, Kailash Agarwal is also in-charge of Dainik Bhaskar’s five editions in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. Also the first cousin of Ramesh Agarwal, Chairman of DB Corp. Ltd., he speaks to Rohit Manchanda and Mehnaz Nasreen in an exclusive interview for TSI Media Watch
My Days with Dainik Bhaskar
Uday Sinha, the former Executive Editor with Dainik Bhaskar, has been in the field of journalism for over 28 years. Presently, he is the Managing Editor with Channel One and has also worked as an Editor with Sahara Time and as an Executive Editor with The Pioneer.
With the news, & away from all the clutter
23rd January, 2006, just three days before a national holiday, the nation witnessed the birth of an English national news channel, and many would have wondered why Bennett, Coleman & Co. and Reuters had entered a Joint Venture to come up with yet another medium to clutter the already fierce media battle amongst news channels.
The rise and shine of Times Now
In a certain reporter’s diary, it was June 1, 2001. He was reporting from Nepal, where the then heir to the throne, Prince Dipendra had just shot his entire family and himself. The reporter had no live OB (Outside Broadcast) van to his aid. But that wasn’t reason enough to deter his passion for reporting.
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
