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Big Fight: Rajdeep Sardesai moves to TV-18
The ever-polite 'hamaam-mein-sab-nange-hain,
chota-shakeelji,
ask-same-question-in-different-ways-till-the-TV-blows-a-fuse
anchor moves to a new hamaam. Sardesai will now irritate us
from a new channel.
Update 19 Apil, 205: Rajdeep Sardesai and Sameer
Manchanda today announced today that their new channel will be
called new channel will be called Broadcast News. The venture
will be in collaboration with TV-18.
BY A CORRESPONDENT
 17 April, 2005: As it happened, Rajdeep Sardesai's Big fight was not restricted to
the small screen. It is being played out in a wider arena, now, with CNBC
TV-18 snapping up the ace reporter-anchor-manging editor of NDTV. When NDTV
muscled into CNBC TV-18 territory with the launch of NDTV Profit early this
year, this surely what they would have bargained for.
Rajdeep Sardesai brings with him to CNBC his experience at the
Times of India, NDTV 24X7 and of course, its Big Fight melodrama. One of the
most-recognised TV anchor faces in India, Rajdeep Sardesai, even after his
departure from print media in the ninetees, used to pen regular weekly
columns.
One of the earliest faces in Prannoy Roy's televison venture New Delhi
Television, Rajdeep Sardesai has stuck with Prannoy Roy for long, through
the dotcom boom and bust and through the parting of ways with STAR TV
network and NDTV's successful IPO. Sardesai now joins hands with Raghav Bahl
of TV-18, which runs the CNBC TV-18 business channel in India. It is
expected that Rajdeep and his co-departee Sameer Manchanda (NDTV's chief
financial officer) will lead the general news channel to be launched by
TV-18 soon.
This is the second major editorial loss for Prannoy Roy. Last year, NDTV's
Arnab Goswami had quit the channel to join Times Television.
BY A CORRESPONDENT
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