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| Raghav Bahl |
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| Raghav Bahl, 50 years, is the Founder, Controlling Shareholder and Editor of Network 18. Raghav began his career as a management consultant with A.F. Ferguson & Co. followed by a stint with American Express Bank before he launched TV18, his production house. Winner of the Sanskriti Award for Journalism in 1994, Raghav has over 24 years of experience in television and journalism. He founded TV18 (now Network18 Group) in the year 1993.
With a journalistic career spanning two decades, Raghav has anchored and produced some of the most successful business programming including shows like India Business Report, The Appointment and The Nation's Business, interviewing much of India's political leadership, as well as international personalities like Bill Gates and Mukesh Ambani.
Raghav appears in the Power 50 list put out by weekly India Today each year, and has been named one of the Global Leaders of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. He was also chosen by Ernst and Young as the Entrepreneur of the Year for Business Transformation in 2007, and won the Sanskriti Journalism Award in 1994.
Raghav has been instrumental in crafting successful Joint Ventures with media giants like CNBC-TV18 and CNBC Awaaz. His latest victory is the successful launch of the Indian edition of Forbes magazine, and the launch of what is said to be one on India's biggest distribution entities, called Sun18. The launch marks the entry of Network18 Group into the Indian television distribution space.
A consummate deal-maker, Raghav has helped in the growth of the channel with other major joint ventures with Viacom, called Viacom18 which houses the MTV, VH1 and Nickelodeon channels in India - as also Studio18, the Group's filmed entertainment operation and 'Colors', the country's leading Hindi general entertainment channel. Additionally, Network18 holds the Group's online & on-air home shopping venture, Homeshop18, its full spectrum events management venture, E18 and its sports management & marketing division, Sports18.
An Economics graduate from St. Stephens College, Raghav has done MBA from the University of Delhi and under his guidance the nation has witnessed the successful launch of the countries leading English news channels CNN-IBN and India's No 1 Hindi news channel IBN7. Also with the launch of IBN Lokmat, a Marathi news channel in partnership with the Lokmat group the channel continues to expand in the regional space as well.
His book Superpower? : The Amazing Race Between China's Hare and India's Tortoise, takes a close look at who is likely to dominate the world over the next decade - India or China and provides an incisive and in-depth analysis about the race to the superpower status between the two neighbors and Asian giants.
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