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Radio One, Chennai Live tie up for ad sales
MUMBAI: Radio One and Chennai Live, Chennai’s talk radio station, have joined hands for advertising sales, an arrangement that is spreading across private FM radio operators as they attempt to up revenues in a medium that has too many players.
The two radio stations will together offer a bouquet for advertisers to reach out to audiences who love Tamil and English in Chennai.
In a mass market where it is difficult for advertisers to focus on an upper SEC AB skew, this bouquet will ensure a ‘value driven’ approach.
The objective of the association is to give advertisers an opportunity to leverage the positioning of both groups. While Chennai Live is the only English radio station in Chennai, Radio One has a strong presence in markets like Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Pune, Kolkata apart from Chennai where it plays Tamil music.
Radio One MD Vineet Singh Hukmani said, “We have partnered with Chennai Live because it allows us local value creation in a commoditized mass market. It is our pleasure to represent this wonderful ‘independent’ station nationally and such an alliance will be a win-win for both.”
Added Chennai Live COO Prem Kumar, “This partnership would allow us to offer a strong value proposition to national brands looking at reaching out to a cosmopolitan Chennaite and we believe that this alliance with Radio one with its “Metro Innovation” strategy will help us achieve this common goal.”
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Collective Artists Network reshuffles talent leadership
Fiona D’Souza, Jinal Jhaveri and Arjun Banerjee take expanded roles in core division.
MUMBAI: Collective Artists Network just handed the talent baton to its homegrown stars because when your agents have been building careers this long, it’s time to let them run the show. Collective Artists Network has announced the next phase of leadership for its talent management business, elevating senior agents Fiona D’Souza, Jinal Jhaveri and Arjun Banerjee to expanded roles within the division. The move strengthens the company’s foundational talent arm while it continues to grow into content creation and production-led ventures.
Each of the three has played a significant part in shaping artist careers across films, digital platforms and brand partnerships. Together they now represent the next generation of leadership for Collective’s talent operations, with a continued focus on long-term career building, strong partnerships and adapting representation to a fast-changing media landscape.
Collective Artists Network founder and Group CEO Vijay Subramaniam remains actively involved in guiding artist strategy and key relationships. He said, “Talent management has been the foundation on which Collective was built, and that philosophy continues to guide how we grow the company. As we enter this next phase, it’s important that the people leading this business have both deep context and long-term convictions.”
Collective Artists Network partner and head of talent Janahavi Rawal added, “Collective’s talent business has always been built on trust, long-term thinking, and a deep understanding of where artists want to go next. Fiona, Jinal, and Arjun have each played an important role in shaping the careers of the artists we represent, and this phase is about empowering our senior agents further while building the right support systems around them.”
The leadership evolution reflects Collective’s belief in promoting from within and creating clear ownership across verticals. In a talent world where yesterday’s agent is tomorrow’s partner, Collective isn’t just reshuffling chairs, it’s handing the spotlight to the people who’ve been quietly directing the show all along.
