Sudip Roy Appointed as National Revenue Head, IBN7 & IBN-Lokmat

Network18 has appointed Sudip Roy as the National Revenue Head for IBN7 & IBN-Lokmat. Sudip brings with him over 17 years of experience in strategy planning, business development, advertising sales and customer relationship management across leading media houses. In his previous role, Sudip was the Senior Vice President - Advertising Revenue, Neo Sports & Neo Prime. He has held senior management roles in other leading networks such as Zee Telefilms Ltd and MCCS Pvt. Ltd. – an ABP Group company. In his current role, Sudip will focus on the overall sales strategy for driving the goals of further augmenting the network’s market share and revenues.

Commenting on his appointment, Avinash Kaul, CEO, IBN News Network, said, “As we continue to move ahead with our growth plans, we are confident that Sudip’s rich experience in the Hindi and Marathi news genre will allow him to play an invaluable leadership role in driving exponential revenue growth at IBN7 & IBN-Lokmat.”

Sudip said, "Both IBN7 & IBN-Lokmat are strong brands in the news television industry in terms of credibility, viewership and innovation. It‘s been an exciting ride for me in the broadcast industry so far, and I look forward to working with the team to lead advertising revenue at IBN7 & IBN-Lokmat to new heights".

Sudip has a Post-Graduation Diploma in Business Administration and has also participated in leadership training programs including a training programme on TV Advertising by MICA in 2004.

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The Network18 Group is a media and entertainment company with interests in television, internet, films, e-commerce, magazines, mobile content and allied businesses. Through its subsidiary ‘TV18 Broadcast Ltd.’ [BSE: 532800, NSE: TV18BRDCST], the group operates news channels - CNBC-TV18, CNBC Awaaz, CNBC-TV18 Prime HD, CNN-IBN, IBN7 and IBN-Lokmat (a Marathi regional news channel in partnership with the Lokmat group). TV18 also operates a joint venture with Viacom, called Viacom18, which houses a portfolio of popular entertainment channels – Colors, Colors HD,MTV, SONIC, Comedy Central, VH1, Nick. Nick Jr. and Nick Teen - and Viacom18 Motion Pictures, the group’s filmed entertainment business. TV18 has also forayed into the Indian factual entertainment space through A+E Networks | TV18 (a joint venture between A+E Networks and TV18 Broadcast) and operates HistoryTV18. TV18 and Viacom18 have also formed a strategic joint venture called IndiaCast, a multi-platform ‘content asset monetization’ entity mandated to drive domestic and international channels distribution, placement services and content syndication for the bouquet of channels from TV18, Viacom18 and other broadcasters. For more information, please log on to www.network18online.com