| Khanna, who has been associated with the Zee Group
for over a decade, quit in June. At that time he was the president
of Zee Network's flagship channel, Zee TV. Prior to this stint, he
was on the distribution side of the group as the Zee Turner chief
executive and before that, had worked closely with a younger brother
of Chandra, Jawahar Goel, at Siti Cable.
Khanna's quitting the top post at Zee TV came six months after
he took over the responsibilities from Apurva Purohit (now COO of
the Times Group's TV venture) with a view to overhauling the fortunes
of the channel.
There were rumours in the industry that Khanna was headed towards
Reliance Infocomm, which has been picking up professionals who have
been associated with various media group's distribution side. But
indiantelevision.com, had also reported that chances of Khanna
"being accommodated elsewhere in the Essel group" (the
umbrella organisation under which Chandra carries out his various
business activities) could not be ruled out.
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Though
there has been no official communication on this development, company
sources told indiantelevision.com that Khanna has been sitting
in Zee's office on the outskirts of Delhi in Noida, which also houses
the DTH division and the swanky uplink and play-out facility apart
from the Zee News operation.