It said all the members unanimously elected Mr.Arnab Goswami, Managing Director and EIC of Republic TV, as the new President of NBF’s Governing Board
New Delhi: The News Broadcasters Federation (NBF) is India’s largest association of over 78 news channels it has elected the editor-in-chief of Republic TV’s Arnab Goswami as president of its governing board.
On Saturday the body consisting 78 news channels in 14 languages which are representing broadcasters from 25 States, met to finalize modalities of a self-regulatory organization of News Broadcasters Federation Authority and to bring in transparent self-regulation on content, a statement said.
By the end of January 2020 the new self-regulatory organization is scheduled to be announced officially, it said.
The statement said the biggest ever gathering of regional news broadcasters represent their combined interests and perspectives on matters related to the news broadcasting industry.
It said all the members unanimously elected Mr.Arnab Goswami, Managing Director and EIC of Republic TV, as the new President of NBF’s Governing Board.
After being elected as the President of NBF Arnab Goswami said “I am grateful for the trust and confidence showed in me by one of the largest-ever group of broadcasters in India. NBF is a game-changer and its incredible how so many channel owners and top executives have come together so quickly to make NBF happen,”.
“For a far longer period of Delhi-based channels have falsely claimed to represent Indian broadcasting. NBF will definitely change that, for good,” Goswami added.
The members also elected four vice-presidents: Jagi Mangat Panda, co-founder of Ortel Communications; Shankar Bala of Fourth Dimension Media; Sanjive Narain, Chairman and Managing Director of Prag News, and Kartikeya Sharma of ITV Network, who will be part of the governing board.
The founder members of the NBF have included Republic Media Network (Republic TV and Republic Bharat), Puthiyathalaimurai (Tamil Nadu) and V6 News (Telangana), Orissa TV (Orissa), IBC24 (MP and Chhattisgarh), TV9 Bharatvarsh, News live and Northeast Live (Assam and Northeast), First India News (Rajasthan), Kolkata TV (West Bengal), CVR News (AP and Telangana), Polimer News (Tamil Nadu), are another members.
Chairman and Managing Director of Pride East Entertainment, a regional broadcaster from the Northeast Riniki Bhuyan Sharma said: “This is one of the best moves that have been made with all of us together and thinking that in the broadcasting industry, it will be a huge step,”.
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