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Fever FM Bangalore promotes ‘Maleyali Jotheyali’
MUMBAI: Fever FM Bangalore has tied up with Kannada movie Maleyali Jotheyali. The radio station is organising a mix of on-air and on-ground activities, to create listener delight and promote the film.
As part of the on-air activity, Fever 104 FM has planned an exclusive interview with Ganesh and Shilpa Ganesh, the producer of Maleyali Jotheyali on the day of the release and a chance for the Fever FM listeners to meet both of them at the FM station studios.
The radio station will also be giving away outfits worn by Ganesh in the movie through a special on-air contest, in which the listeners will be asked to complete a line from the movie.
Also, the on-ground initiative ‘Mall-alli Ganesh Jotheyali‘ has been conceptualized to give the city a chance to meet Ganesh. It was held in malls over two consecutive weekends where activities were conducted.
Says Fever FM Bangalore station head Anjali Paul, “We are proud to be associated with Maleyali Jotheyali. It is always our endeavour to create exciting opportunities for our listeners. We hope the movie gets great response from all over South India.”
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Abhay Duggal joins JioStar as director of Hindi GEC ad sales
The streaming giant brings in a seasoned revenue hand as the battle for Hindi television advertising heats up
MUMBAI: Abhay Duggal has a new desk, and JioStar has a new weapon. The media and entertainment veteran has joined JioStar as director of entertainment ad sales for Hindi general entertainment channels, adding 17 years of hard-won revenue experience to one of India’s most powerful broadcasting operations.
Duggal is no stranger to big portfolios or bruising markets. Before joining JioStar, he spent a brief stint at Republic World as deputy general manager and north regional head for ad sales. Before that, he put in three years at Enterr10 Television, where he ran the north region for Dangal TV and Dangal 2, two of India’s leading free-to-air Hindi channels. The north alone accounted for more than 50 per cent of total channel revenue on his watch, a number that tends to get attention in any sales meeting.
His longest stint was at Zee Entertainment Enterprises, where he spent over six years rising to associate director of sales. There he commanded the Hindi movies cluster across seven channels, owned more than half of north India’s revenue across flagship properties including Zee TV and &TV, and closed marquee sponsorships across the Indian Premier League, Zee Rishtey Awards and Dance India Dance. He also handled monetisation for the English movies and entertainment cluster and the global news channel WION, a portfolio that would stretch most sales teams twice his size.
Earlier in his career Duggal closed what was then a Rs 3 crore single deal at Reliance Broadcast Network, one of the largest in Indian radio at the time, before that he helped launch and monetise JAINHITS, India’s first HITS-based cable and satellite platform.
His edge, by his own account, lies in marrying data and instinct: translating audience trends, inventory signals and client demands into long-term partnerships built on cost-per-rating-point discipline rather than short-term deal chasing. In a media landscape being reshaped by streaming, fragmented attention and AI-driven advertising, that kind of rigour is increasingly rare and increasingly valuable.
JioStar, which blends the scale of Reliance’s Jio platform with the content firepower of Star, is doubling down on its advertising business at precisely the moment the Hindi GEC market is getting more competitive. Bringing in someone who has spent nearly two decades doing exactly this, across some of India’s most watched channels, is a pointed statement of intent. Duggal has spent his career turning audiences into revenue. JioStar is clearly betting he can do it again, and bigger.
