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NDTV Network lines up new shows in August
MUMBAI: NDTV has lined up a slew of programmes for all its three channels. All of them are scheduled for launch in August. The network will also beam an exclusive t?te-?-t?te with Amartya Sen in the form of two shows; India Questions and I to I.
On India Questions, Dr. Prannoy Roy will interview Amartya Sen in studio with an audience of college kids. In I to I, NDTV will turn the camera on Amartya Sen for a one-on-one interview with his alter ego where he will look back into his childhood, and the struggles he encountered to get to the top. The network will screen it on NDTV 24X7 and NDTV Profit.
The network is launching A very Ferrari Summer, India Innovates Good Schools of India India’s Youth Unplugged and The Best Hotels of India on NDTV Profit.
A very Ferrari Summer will provide a glimpse of what makes Italian car brands desirable. It will look at the big brands of Ferrari, Maserati and Alfa Romeo – their heritage, their engineering, their design and of course some of their best cars. The show will air on 6 August at 11 pm.
India Innovates will showcase some amazing innovations and inventions from rural India. Each report will portray the mind and milieu of the innovator and showcase the invention, tracing it from the birth of the idea, its realization and its impact. The show will premier on 13 August at 10 pm.
Good Schools of India will provide an insight into what makes the reputed boarding schools carry the tag of being some of the finest institutions in the country. The channel will look into the life inside the walls of these schools through the eyes of a student. It will explore all that these schools offer in terms of extra-curricular activities, sports and their emphasis on overall development of children.
Premiering in 5 August, The Best Hotels of India will feature some of the country’s finest hotels, informs the official communiqué.
India’s Youth Unplugged, a weekly programme, will show the debate between two teams of students on political and social issues like sting operations, single parenting and drug ban.
Jai Jawan with Akshay Kumar has the macho star joining NDTV for some real-life action as he travels to the frontlines at the Indo-Pak borders in Ferozepur. Akshay spends time with the soldiers playing volleyball with them, teaching them a few martial arts tricks and playing a game of tug of war. He also shares with them the messages that their families have sent. The show will air on NDTV India and NDTV 24×7 on 13 August at 9:30 pm and at 10:30 pm respectively, the release adds.
Choti si Asha has Asha Bhosale speaking about her latest album and on the trials and tribulation of her personal life. The show will air on NDTV India on 20 August at 9:30 pm.
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Senior media executive Madhu Soman exits Zee Media
Former Reuters and Bloomberg leader says he leaves with “no regrets” after brief stint at WION and Zee Business
NOIDA: Madhu Soman, a veteran of global newsrooms and media sales floors, has stepped away from Zee Media Corporation after a short stint steering business strategy for WION and Zee Business.
In a reflective LinkedIn note marking his departure, Soman said his time within the network’s corridors was always likely to be brief. “Some chapters close faster than expected,” he wrote, signalling the end of a nearly two-year spell in which he oversaw both editorial partnerships and commercial strategy.
Soman joined Zee Media in 2022 after more than a decade abroad with Reuters and Bloomberg, returning to India to take on the role of chief business officer for WION and Zee Business. His mandate was ambitious: bridge the newsroom and the revenue desk while expanding digital and broadcast reach.
During the stint, Zee Business reached break-even for the first time since its launch in 2005, while WION refreshed programming and strengthened its digital footprint across platforms such as YouTube and Facebook.
But Soman suggested the cultural fit proved uneasy. Describing himself as a “cultural misfit”, he hinted at deeper tensions between editorial instincts shaped in global newsrooms and the realities of India’s television news ecosystem.
Before joining Zee, Soman spent more than seven years at Bloomberg in Hong Kong as head of broadcast sales for Asia-Pacific, expanding the company’s news syndication business across several markets. Earlier, he held senior editorial roles at Reuters, overseeing online strategy in India and managing Reuters Video Services from London.
His career began in television and wire reporting, including a stint with ANI during the 1999 Kargil conflict, before moving into digital publishing as India’s internet media landscape took shape.
Now, after nearly three decades in broadcast and digital media, Soman is leaving Delhi NCR and returning to his hometown, Trivandrum.
Exhausted, he admits. But unbowed. And with one quiet line that sums up the journey: he didn’t sell his soul — because some things, after all, are not for sale.
