News Broadcasting
Sri Adhikari Brothers’ ‘views channel’ Janmat to go on air in October
MUMBAI: Promoters of Sri Adhikari Brothers’ Gautam and Markand Adhikari are planning to launch a 24-hour “views channel” titled Janmat in early October. The current affairs and news channel received an uplink nod from the information and broadcasting ministry earlier this month.
Plans are also afoot to launch a Marathi entertainment channel Mi Marathi towards the end of October.
Janmat will be the first interactive and current affairs channel in the country with 70 per cent of prime time shows having huge audience participation. The channel has already created three large state-of-the-art studios in the heart of Delhi and two in Mumbai.
There will be over 45 shows in a variety of genres across the board, from hard-core social and political analysis to crime, lifestyle, youth, education and women related programming. Viewers can participate any time of the day and night through a variety of Interactive media.
At launch, Janmat will introduce a talent hunt for television anchors throughout the country. Aspiring candidates will be given the chance to anchor shows on the channel. Through a variety of rounds, the top three winners will be selected as official anchors for the channel. Creating such a space for the common man to participate in the television medium is being done for the first time in the country.
These anchors will join the bandwagon of stalwart anchors already on board Janmat such as Vir Sanghvi, Karan Thapar, Harish Gupta, Umesh Upadhyay, Rahul Dev, Swati Chaturvedi, Anish Trivedi, Sandeep Bamzai, Manpreet Brar Walia, Meher Bhasin and film maker and social activist Ashok Pandit.
Senior Journalist Harish Gupta has been roped as director – news of Janmat and Umesh Upadhyay will look after the day-to-day affairs of the channel.
Sri Adhikari Brothers vice chairman and managing director Markand Adhikari says, “There are about 24 news channels telecasting the same news 24 hours, and many more are coming up, so much so that the space is totally saturated and fragmented. Janmat will create its own space and niche for which the Adhikari Brothers are well known. This will be the first channel whose focus is on people’s views blended with news.”
News Broadcasting
News18 India to air Sabse Bada Dangal on 4 May counting day
Channel promises fastest results, live trends and analysis across five states.
MUMBAI: Ballots will do the talking and screens will do the shouting. As counting day approaches for high-stakes Assembly elections across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry, News18 India is gearing up for an all-day broadcast of its flagship election show, Sabse Bada Dangal, on 4 May from 6 am onwards. The Hindi news channel plans to deliver continuous, real-time updates as votes are tallied, combining live counting data with on-ground reporting and studio analysis. With political fortunes set to shift through the day, the coverage will track every swing, surge and surprise as trends turn into results.
The broadcast will feature a mix of senior political leaders, analysts and experts, offering instant reactions and decoding the evolving electoral picture. Expect heated debates, quick takes and detailed breakdowns as the numbers settle across all five states.
For News18 India, counting day has long been a high-visibility moment. The network is banking on its reporting reach, editorial bandwidth and technology-driven coverage to stay ahead in what is often a fiercely competitive news cycle.
With multiple battlegrounds and shifting narratives, the day promises both drama and data in equal measure. And if all goes to plan, Sabse Bada Dangal will once again turn the counting of votes into prime-time spectacle.
