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ManoramaMAX hits 5,00,000 users in 2 weeks
MUMBAI: ManoramaMAX, the first ever 100% Malayalam News and Entertainment app, launched by MM TV Ltd., has achieved instant success, hitting half-a-million users in just under 2 weeks. Users across web, android and apple devices are continuing to watch the large content bucket of the platform. The app features the best titles from both Mazhavil Manorama and Manorama News. The app also offers originals and movies.
ManoramaMAX offers all the latest news including Live Manorama News, all the daily bulletins, a special Speed News for the ManoramaMax users, and all the popular shows on Manorama. The app also offers entertainment content – programs from fiction, reality shows and other shows of Mazhavil Manorama. It allows the user to watch currently running shows before it airs on TV, if they take a premium membership.
The premium membership also grants access to 150 plus movies including premiere first on ManoramaMAX. It also showcases Max Originals and Events year long, exclusively for its premium customers.
The premium membership can be availed at Rs. 499 per year. A user can enjoy access to the free content by simply logging into the free version of the app.
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‘You packed my parachute’: Avinash Kaul’s farewell salutes Network18’s unsung thousands
The outgoing chief’s LinkedIn post skips the boardroom tributes and goes straight to the security guards, drivers and office boys who kept the machine running
MUMBAI: Most farewell posts by senior media executives follow a familiar script: gratitude to leadership, a nod to the team, a hint of what lies ahead. Avinash Kaul’s is not that post.
Writing on LinkedIn on his last day at Network18 Media & Investments, where he spent nearly 12 years rising to chief executive, Kaul bypassed the boardroom entirely and directed his most heartfelt words at the people furthest from it: the security guard who greeted him before the building was fully awake, the fleet staff who drove him to airports at ungodly hours, the office assistants, the housekeeping teams, and the administrators who, as he put it, “held ten thousand invisible threads so the rest of us could look organised.”
“You packed my parachute,” he wrote. “Every day. Without fanfare, recognition, or ever asking for it.”
It was a striking note from a man who leaves behind a considerable operational record. Kaul joined Network18 managing three channels and exits with responsibility for 20, alongside a publishing business, a growing connected television footprint, and what he says is the highest revenue and highest channel share in the group’s history. He was quick to deflect the credit. “Not because of me. Because of 4,000 people who showed up, every day, in every department, across the country.”
To content teams across India, he issued a reminder that carries some weight given the pressures Indian news media currently faces. “Keep being custodians of trust for 700 million people. That is not a small thing. That is the whole thing.”
To colleagues in revenue and ratings who found him relentless and hard to satisfy, he was unapologetic but generous. “There was never a single moment of ill intent in my heart. Everything I pushed you towards came from one belief – that you were stronger than you knew, and I was not willing to let you settle for less than your real capability.” Those who believed him, he said, flew. Those who did not taught him to be a better communicator. He was grateful to both.
On what comes next, he offered a hint wrapped in metaphor. Something is being built, he said, prepared for “the way you pack a bag before a long climb. Not out of restlessness. Out of readiness.”
In a media landscape that rarely pauses to acknowledge the people who keep the lights on, it was, at the very least, a different kind of goodbye.
