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Mudra Videotec hopes to have business plan for TV foray ready in a month
After a gap that has spanned some years, Mudra Videotec is putting in place plans to re-enter television software and is looking to have a business plan ready within a month.
Kaushik Roy, Mudra VideoTech CEO, said yesterday his company would be producing television software in several languages but would be working in collaboration with production houses. Mudra will be focussing on intellectual properties (IPs) and marketing and sales while leaving the facilities aspect to its partners. By facilities he meant studios, production hardware, etc, Roy said.
Mudra was in the process of recruiting people strong in programming and ad sales to man their offices in Calcutta, Chennai, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad, Goyal said. It has already recruited staff in Mumbai. The setting up of teams in different cities was because there was a lot of scope in regional language channels, Roy said.
Asked what skills Mudra brought to the table in any collaboration considering it had been out of Television for a number of years, Goyal said there were essentially three factors which made an alliance with his company attractive: strengths in marketing and ad sales, ideas and concept generation and the brand Mudra which was attractive in itself.
Within a month the whole set-up will be in place and then we can go ahead, Goyal said when asked how long it would take to start operations.
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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.
