"News Express" will add on TataSKY on 5th Feb
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MUMBAI: After quitting India TV and joining News Express as CEO, Vinod Kapri has ensured to get a good team for the channel. Now, after completely shuffling the managing team, he has got on board Sanjeev Kumar to head the channel’s network sales.
Kumar has over seven years of experience, the last being as the country head for ANN7 in South Africa. He has also worked as a vice president of sales at Zee News handling the channels Zee News, Zee UP/UK, Zee Punjabi, Zee MPCG. He was also associated with the Outlook group and Bennet Coleman and Co.
Kapri says, “Sanjeev Kumar has a very rich experience of media sales and is a step further in our endeavour to build a team of best professionals in media.”
Lately, the channel is building up its editorial and managerial team and increasing its distribution too. While the channel isn’t available on a lot of platforms as of now, it has struck a deal with one of the biggest DTH operators – Tata Sky – recently. Close to 11 million subscribers will get to watch News Express from 5 February onwards.
The channel has witnessed an overhaul with several media professionals joining it in the past few months. Amit Tripathi came as COO, Satish K Singh as the editor, Ravikant Mittal as managing editor and Jacob Matthew as executive editor.
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MUMBAI: After quitting India TV and joining News Express as CEO, Vinod Kapri has ensured to get a good team for the channel. Now, after completely shuffling the managing team, he has got on board Sanjeev Kumar to head the channel’s network sales.
Kumar has over seven years of experience, the last being as the country head for ANN7 in South Africa. He has also worked as a vice president of sales at Zee News handling the channels Zee News, Zee UP/UK, Zee Punjabi, Zee MPCG. He was also associated with the Outlook group and Bennet Coleman and Co.
Kapri says, “Sanjeev Kumar has a very rich experience of media sales and is a step further in our endeavour to build a team of best professionals in media.”
Lately, the channel is building up its editorial and managerial team and increasing its distribution too. While the channel isn’t available on a lot of platforms as of now, it has struck a deal with one of the biggest DTH operators – Tata Sky – recently. Close to 11 million subscribers will get to watch News Express from 5 February onwards.
The channel has witnessed an overhaul with several media professionals joining it in the past few months. Amit Tripathi came as COO, Satish K Singh as the editor, Ravikant Mittal as managing editor and Jacob Matthew as executive editor.
