News Broadcasting
ET NOW launches ‘Leaders of Tomorrow’ Season 8 eForum
MUMBAI: As India continues to tread the COVID-19 pandemic and its enormous impact on the businesses & economy, ET NOW Leaders of Tomorrow (LOT) Season 8 launches special webinar series, eForum, starting 12 June 2020, to accelerate SMEs, MSMEs and start-ups to tide through these unprecedented times.
This eForum will feature for the first time an exclusive conversation with CISCO former chairman and CEO and J2C Ventures CEO John Chambers in conversation with Sonali Krishna, share his expert views on crisis leadership, surviving COVID-19, and how to continue to build and scale businesses during these unforeseen times. Leaders of Tomorrow will host weekly eForum bringing the brightest minds, biggest Influencers and newsmakers in the business to deliberate on relevant discussions, providing insights to ensure periodic doses of inspiration, problem-solving strategies, ideation, crisis-specific navigation, and crystal-gazing for businesses.
Times Network MD and CEO MK Anand said, “ET NOW Leaders of Tomorrow is a legacy platform and has been celebrating the exemplary entrepreneurial spirit since its inception. With the COVID-19 pandemic and its ensuing economic impact, Leaders of Tomorrow eForum is aptly timed and driven with a purpose to enable small enterprises find solutions and strategies to reimagine their businesses. Committed to provide expert insights, guidance and inspiration to small businesses, I am confident that LOT eForum will be act as an enabler to help small businesses Rise with India.”
LOT eForum on 19 June 2020 will focus on the theme – How India will fly again; a deep dive into the travel & tourism sector featuring Prahlad Singh Patel, minister of tourism, Madhavan Menon, CMD, Thomas Cook, Amanpreet Singh Bajaj, country manager, Airbnb, Ritu Mehrotra, country manager, Booking.com.
Leaders of Tomorrow, a three-month-long eForum will feature Ministers, newsmakers, influencers,and industry leaders share their views on enabling small business to scale and analyse various steps to unleash the potential of growing businesses.
ET NOW Leaders of Tomorrow eForum is presented by IDFC First Bank.
News Broadcasting
Times Network to air JVC Exit Poll across 5 regions on April 29
Four-hour broadcast spans states and Puducherry with data-led analysis
MUMBAI: Times Network is set to roll out what it calls one of its most expansive election programming efforts yet, culminating in the JVC Exit Poll on 29 April, with a multi-hour broadcast spanning key poll-bound regions.
The exit poll will air across Times Now and Times Now Navbharat, beginning at 5pm and 4pm respectively. Co-powered by Vedanta and Jindal Stainless, the programming aims to combine on-ground reportage with data-driven projections across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry.
The network has deployed over 50 journalists across these regions, gathering voter sentiment and local insights in the run-up to polling. The effort builds on its ongoing election formats such as Election Yatra and Election Premier League, which have tracked campaign narratives and community-level issues.
In parallel, Times Now Navbharat has focused on constituency-level reporting in West Bengal through its Jan Gan ka Mann series, capturing voter opinions across diverse segments.
The coverage has also featured interviews with prominent political leaders. Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Congress leaders Ramesh Chennithala and V D Satheesan have appeared on the network’s election specials. From Tamil Nadu, voices including deputy chief minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran, BJP leader K Annamalai and NTK’s Seeman have also featured in discussions.
On the day of the exit poll, the network’s primetime anchors, including Navika Kumar, Zakka Jacob and Sumit Awasthi, will lead the coverage. They will be joined by a panel of political analysts, psephologists and senior journalists offering real-time insights and interpretation of trends.
The programming will integrate grassroots reportage with analytics from the JVC Exit Poll, aiming to give viewers an early sense of electoral outcomes ahead of the official results on 4 May.
With its combined English and Hindi broadcast reach, Times Network is positioning this effort as a comprehensive look at voter sentiment, blending field reporting, data and debate to decode what could lie ahead when the final mandate is revealed.
