News Broadcasting
India’s leading New Age News Brand TheLallantop.com set to take Television by storm
New-age digital brand TheLallantop.com is about to take the television screens by storm! The digital brand, famous for its distinct news reporting style, storytelling and liberal use of colloquial words, is all set to debut as ‘The Lallantop Show’. Hosted on one of the stickiest Hindi news channels- Tez, the show is set to engage news audiences, starting from today. The show will run on weekdays, Monday to Friday at 9pm.
The LallanTop Show will be a ‘breath of fresh air’ presenting the news in a witty, straightforward manner. The choice of words in digitally inspired storytelling format is sure to engage the viewers. The LallanTop Show aims to bring to the medium of television, the highly popular content seen on TheLallantop.com- a site that has enjoyed stupendous success in the digital space averaging more than 150000 and 200000 views per video on YouTube and Facebook respectively, the highest in the news category.
The LallanTop Show, just like its digital footprint, will try to cater to the masses and connect with the audiences with the help of an unconventional style of news reporting and by highlighting so-called taboo topics of the society. The show also aims to bust myths and fake news circulating on social media.
TheLallantop.com is among the top new-age digital news brands of the country.
Some of the milestones TheLallantop.com has achieved include becoming:
India’s No.1 New Age News Brand with 2.4 million+ subscribers on YouTube
India’s Most Watched New Age News Video Publisher on Facebook
Given the brand’s past record, this latest endeavour by the TheLallantop.com is all set to become a trendsetter on television.
News Broadcasting
CNN-News18 to air live counting day coverage for five state election results on May 4
The channel is rolling out its biggest election coverage machinery yet for results day on 4th May
NOIDA: The votes have been cast. Now comes the reckoning. CNN-News18 is pulling out all the stops for results day on 4th May, when counting begins across five battleground states — West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Puducherry — in what promises to be one of the most closely watched electoral verdicts in recent memory.
The channel’s coverage, titled Battle for the States: The Verdict, kicks off at 7am and runs through the day across linear TV, connected television and YouTube. It is the culmination of CNN-News18’s multi-format editorial initiative, Battle for the States, which has tracked the polls from the beginning under the theme Road to Power.
At the operational heart of the coverage will be the Live Results Hub, the channel’s central command centre built to collate, verify and process real-time data flowing in from reporters stationed at counting centres across constituencies. The hub combines newsroom intelligence, analytics and on-the-ground reporting to deliver what the channel promises will be the fastest and most accurate results coverage in English news.
Leading the on-air charge will be primetime anchors Rahul Shivshankar, Anand Narasimhan, Aman Sharma, Nabila Jamal and Shivani Gupta. They will be joined by a wide panel of commentators including author Chetan Bhagat; GVL Narasimha Rao, senior leader of the BJP; Smita Prakash, editor of ANI; activist Saira Shah Halim; political analyst Sumanth C Raman; Abhijit Iyer Mitra, senior fellow at IPCS; Amitabh Tiwari, founder of VoteVibe; columnist Abhijit Majumdar; Nalin Mehta, managing editor of MoneyControl; political analyst Tehseen Poonawalla; senior journalist Subir Bhaumik; and political analyst Manojit Mandal.
Shivshankar, who serves as editorial affairs director at CNN-News18, set out the stakes plainly. “Counting day is one of the most watched events in the electoral cycle, where speed and credibility are tested in real time,” he said. “Battle for the States: The Verdict is built on that promise, combining ground reporting, sharp analysis and cutting-edge election technology to give viewers the clearest and fastest route to the verdict. On May 4, CNN-News18 will once again be the nation’s most trusted channel to witness democracy in action.”
Smriti Mehra, chief executive of English and Business News at Network18, framed the coverage in broader terms. “Elections are defining national events, and audiences turn to brands they trust in moments that matter,” she said. “CNN-News18 has consistently led from the front in every election coverage, and this special programming reflects the scale of our ambition and editorial strength.”
The channel has form here. It claims to have been India’s most preferred English news destination for election results for the past 20 years, covering everything from the 2024 general elections to the Delhi, Maharashtra, Bihar and BMC polls on the back of what it calls an “Always First, Always Right” record. Five states, one day, and a nation waiting for answers. The clock starts at 7am on 4th May.
