The TV News Space continues to see new entrants and is interestingly poised. While there is pressure to generate huge viewership in the form of TRPs and hence the revenues, there is a need to serve the purpose for being there: to inform and to analyse. The revenue pressure is compelling some of them to cater to the lowest common denominator with stories that sensationalise. Even journalists working in news channels are more than open in their expression of helplessness on this accord.

The ones who are going the distance on trivialising the business of news for commerce have been labelled tabloid channels and are raking in the money, the others are considered serious news channels and are bleeding and lagging in the leadership sweepstakes. What is the way out? How can this change? Will news rather than TRPs ever come to the forefront? Or, will the industry get divided down the middle with one side representing the tabloid channels and the other the serious news providers?

There is also a rush into the language and niche genre segment. Will viewers respond positively? Will they lap up the offerings?

The Indian News Television Summit will examine these trends.

Programme


10:00 - 10:05
Welcome Address by
Anil Wanvari, Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief, Indiantelevision.com

10.05 - 10:15
Industry Report
Nasrin Sultana, TV News Specialist, Indiantelevision.com

10:15 - 10:40
Government Keynote
Sushma Singh, Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India

10:40 - 11:00
Industry Keynote
Rajat Sharma, Chairman, India TV

11:00 - 11:15
An Alternate View
V Vaidyanathan, Executive Director, ICICI Bank

11:15 - 11:30
Tea Break

11:30 - 12:45
The Commercial Imperative
Ashok Venkataramani, CEO, Star News
Barun Das, CEO, Zee News
Chintamani Rao, CEO, Times Now
G. Krishnan, CEO, TV Today Network
Jagjit Singh Kohli, CEO, Digicable
L V Krishnan, CEO, TAM India
Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief, CNN-IBN and IBN 7
Rohit Bansal, COO, India TV
Moderator: Anil Wanvari, Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief
Indiantelevision.com; Pradyuman Maheshwari, Consulting Editor, Indiantelevision.com

12:45 -13:00
In Conversation with
Tony Burman, Managing Director, Al Jazeera
English

13:00 - 14:00
Lunch

14:00 - 15:15
Regionalisation -Niche "Seeking Pockets of Success"
Anurradha Prasad, Managing Director, BAG Film & Media Ltd
Chandramohan Puppala, Managing Editor, TV9 News
Markand Adhikari, Managing Director, Live India
Narayan Rao, NDTV Group CEO
Moderator: Sanjeev Srivastava, India Editor, BBC World

15:15 - 15:30
Closing Note