Prabhu Chawla’s Baby

MediaWatch-Image19.4.16One of India’s finest political journalists and Editorial Director of The New Indian Express, Prabhu Chawla, is all set to launch a new Hindi news channel. The channel will first broadcast in UP & UK followed by Punjab, Haryana and other states. Padma Bhushan awardee, Chawla took to Twitter to break the news on 13th April and stated that a formal announcement by the promoters will be made soon. » India’s business audience now has BloombergQuint to look forward to. The recently launched channel promises to harness the unrivalled global resources of Bloomberg with Quintillion Media’s deep market experience to create a revamped business news channel. » WorldLink News gears up to launch a regional and a national channel in Goa. Sachin Raghoba Borker, Director of WorldLink News, will head the news network as Editor-in-Chief. Available in three languages Konkani, Marathi and Hindi, the channels will reach the entire country and gulf territories in the coming months. » Velicham TV, Tamil Nadu’s first Dalit-centric television channel was launched on BR Ambedkar’s 125th birth anniversary. The channel launched by Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), a regional party, aims to provide unbiased reporting; however this channel has no Dalit reporters on its schedule yet. » A war has been sparked between PCI and the Government over the issue of the media body’s powers. This comes after PCI decided to serve a bailable arrest warrant against Union I & B Ministry Secretary Sunil Arora for failing to appear before it despite being summoned. Read more details here.