News Broadcasting
ABP Majha leads the YouTube chart on Counting Day
MUMBAI: India’s leading Marathi News Channel, ABP Majha, claimed a digital landmark today by attaining approx. 162K concurrent users on YouTube channel on 24th October, 2019, the counting day of State Assembly Elections.
Amidst the election frenzy, ABP Majha managed to surpass all its competitors such as News18 Lokmat and Zee 24 Taas.
ABP Majha is one of the most viewed Marathi channels, which reaches out to the entire region of Maharashtra. Kaul Marathi Manacha, ABP Majha’s flagship election property, gives a platform to the views and thoughts of a common man through innovative campaigns and drives across Maharashtra.
Keeping the dynamic digital landscape in mind, ABP has further expanded Majha into the digital sphere through its YouTube channel and is already leading in the segment. With real-time election updates, public issues, trends and results, the channel aims to ensure that the viewers don’t miss out any of the political happenings.
ABP News Network CEO Avinash Pandey said, “Our ever-increasing viewership-base is the foundation of our YouTube channel. These numbers are a true testament to the unmatched value offered by ABP Majha. Credibility and objectivity has always been the core of all our channels and we will continue to maintain the same in the future.”
News Broadcasting
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.
