MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports had rolled out Closeup
Dream Job - Harsha Ki Khoj contest to identify a presenter. Here
comes, the winner Anand Narasimhan who will be joining the elite group
of presenters and commentators on the network.
Narasimhan, 27-year-old media planner with Maxus Global Bangalore
was taken to ESPN Star Sports' broadcast center in Singapore, along
with other three finalists, Padamjeet Sherawat, Puneet Pal Singh
and Manish Vallicha, informs an official communiqué.
The contestants were guided tour of the ESS office and familiarised
them with the working of the master control room and tape library,
sportscenter studio and the newsroom.
Closeup Dream Job - Harsha Ki Khoj kicked off in October
last year.
The media release informs that more than 44,000 individual
entries, over 100,000 minutes of commentary clips, auditions of 750
contestants across six cities, on-air competition during live cricket
in Bangladesh, public votes and eight rigorous studio rounds later,
the final was held live in studios in Singapore on 10 March.
The contest is targeted at sports fanatics who have grit enough
to become a commentator - just like Harsha Bhogle.