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MUMBAI: The Network18 office in Empire Mills Complex, in central Mumbai had some new visitors on 8 July 2014. Alok Agrawal who has been appointed as COO of Network18, non-executive director Rohit Bansal and Reliance Industries Ltd's media director Umesh Upadhyay held a town hall meeting with the entire staff of TV18 that includes CNN-IBN, IBN7, IBN Lokmat and History TV18.
Attendees say it was a feel-good meeting and to reassure the employees about RIL's honorable intentions for them all. The employees were told that the megacorp has full faith in them and hence had invested in the Network18 group and the objective was to make it a global brand.
“There is no oil beneath your ground, if you are concerned about our motive,” is what one of them was heard to have said. They said that RIL aims to convert the Rs 4,000-5000 crore group into a Rs 50,000 crore one.
They were further told that going forward the road ahead would be shared with them. “It has been only 30 hours since the announcement of us acquiring Network18 has been made,” said one of them. “But you should know that 4G is very important for us as in the future smart phones are going to become very powerful. We are all happy that Raghav (Bahl) is continuing to give his support to the company.”
A similar meeting had taken place a day earlier with the employees in the head office in Delhi where special assurance was given to the CNBC TV-18 employees that "they need not fear publishing any story."
A source from RIL says that the exercise is being conducted so that employees are personally met and assured rather than have them believe false rumours through the media. A few more meetings are expected to be held in the coming days. http://www.indiantelevision.com/television/tv-channels/news-broadcasting/reliance-industries-execs-meet-network18-employees-140709
Attendees say it was a feel-good meeting and to reassure the employees about RIL's honorable intentions for them all. The employees were told that the megacorp has full faith in them and hence had invested in the Network18 group and the objective was to make it a global brand.
“There is no oil beneath your ground, if you are concerned about our motive,” is what one of them was heard to have said. They said that RIL aims to convert the Rs 4,000-5000 crore group into a Rs 50,000 crore one.
They were further told that going forward the road ahead would be shared with them. “It has been only 30 hours since the announcement of us acquiring Network18 has been made,” said one of them. “But you should know that 4G is very important for us as in the future smart phones are going to become very powerful. We are all happy that Raghav (Bahl) is continuing to give his support to the company.”
A similar meeting had taken place a day earlier with the employees in the head office in Delhi where special assurance was given to the CNBC TV-18 employees that "they need not fear publishing any story."
A source from RIL says that the exercise is being conducted so that employees are personally met and assured rather than have them believe false rumours through the media. A few more meetings are expected to be held in the coming days. http://www.indiantelevision.com/television/tv-channels/news-broadcasting/reliance-industries-execs-meet-network18-employees-140709
