Network18 (PB)

Armed with burning ambition keen business sense and amazing audacity Raghav Bahl started Television Eighteen (TV18) with a handful of talented professionals and rank beginners. Starting from a small room in New Delhi’s Safdarjung Enclave TV18 grew into Network18-one of India’s biggest media conglomerates spanning television print films the Internet business general news drama and entertainment. In less than two decades filled with excitement adventure and frequent crises Network 18 launched pioneering properties television and film careers and racked up partnerships with blue chip media brands. This is a story of brilliant ideas severe setbacks naked aggression spectacular victories and fatal flaws.‘A tale of inspired vision of audacious risk-taking of alternating crises and opportunities of last-minute negotiations reversing agreed outcomes struggles with obdurate bureaucrats . . . And above all the inexorable laws of the market’-IANS‘This is the story of how the Indian media grew to such a remarkable and spectacular business heights in a couple of decades through the enterprise imagination and sheer passion of its frontiersman’-The Free Press Journal‘This is instructive reading for any entrepreneur indeed for any CEO whether owner or professional’-The Hoot. About the Author Indira Kannan has over two decades of experience in print and television journalism. After starting her career with India Today she joined Television18 (later Network18) in 1995. She worked with the media organization until 2011 in New Delhi and New York as a reporter producer and presenter on shows for various channels including BBC World Star Plus CNBC-TV18 and CNN-IBN. She is currently a freelance writer having contributed to several publications including The Quint the India Today group Business Standard and the Financial Express. A native of Chennai she lives in Toronto with her husband the journalist and author Anirudh Bhattacharyya.