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13-522: Dibang is a senior news anchor former host of daily prime-time show 'Jan Man' and weekly show 'Press Conference' on the Hindi news channel ABP News . A member of debate panels of the channel, he is rated among the best Hindi anchors in the industry today. He is the current anchor of ABP News and was the managing director of NDTV INDIA , a 24-hour Hindi news channel. As the Executive Editor, he
26-676: A 74% majority stake while Star India reduced its participation with the remaining 26%. On 16 April 2012, ABP Group and Star India announced the end of the Star brand licensing agreement. In addition, the company sold its minority stake in MCCS to ABP Group, which in turn renamed the channel to ABP News. The change was also replicated on other regional news channels operated by MCCS such as Bengali -language Star Ananda and Marathi -language Star Majha, which were renamed as ABP Ananda and ABP Majha , respectively. A Punjabi -language channel, ABP Sanjha
39-615: A wide variety of sectors, from energy to telecommunications, retail to museums, Silicon Valley giants to European start-ups. Some notable clients include YouTube , Siemens, Engie, Goldman Sachs, Santander, T-Mobile, Vueling, BBVA, Bankinter, Sodexo, Flying Tiger Copenhagen, Pacha, A1 Telekom Austria, C&A , Fujitsu , Volotea V Festival, Doha Film Institute , King's College London , The Institute of Cancer Research, Madrid Open and Turkcell, Vueling , Coca Cola , C&A Fujitsu , Raiffeisen Bank International, LVMH , Iberia , Lloyd's of London , Swiss Re . Saffron has worked for
52-695: The Best Hindi News Channel award in the 21st edition of the Indian Television Academy Awards in 2022. ABP News was launched as STAR News on 18 February 1998 by satellite television provider Star India in partnership with the NDTV media company, with the latter producing the channel's programming. Initially, a bilingual channel broadcasting in both English and Hindi, its programming turned Hindi-only since 2003, when Star's deal with NDTV expired. In that same year,
65-656: The HD feed. Prior to the HD feed launch, ABP News had launched a test HD feed in February of that same year, exclusively on streaming service Disney+ Hotstar and on ABP's online platforms, which was basically an upscaled version of the SD channel airing 4:3 content stretched to fill the 16:9 screen. Although ABP Network's regional language channels were also rebranded, they remained airing at 4:3 standard definition . In 2018, former host Punya Prasun Bajpai stated that when he criticized
78-536: The Hindi film Madras Cafe , in which he played an ex- RAW agent. A graduate from University of Delhi, Dibang grew up in Arunachal Pradesh in north-east India. ABP News ABP News is an Indian Hindi -language free-to-air television news channel owned by ABP Group . Initially launched as Star News in 1998, it was later acquired by the Bengali media group Anand Bazar Patrika (ABP). It won
91-629: The Indian Television Academy Awards 2006, Muqabla won the Best Talk Show Award. This was the first time a Hindi chat show had won such an award in a category consisting mostly of English shows. Dibang has won many awards for his anchoring and documentaries. He also acted in an Italian film directed by Italo Spinelli. He has worked for several foreign television networks, including SBS and ABC of Australia, NHK of Japan and RAI Dibang recently acted in
104-565: The Indian government introduced a guideline limiting foreign equity in the national news business to 26%. As Star India was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong–based company Satellite Television Asia Region Ltd. (Star TV), it entered into a joint venture with the Ananda Bazar Patrika group (ABP) to form a new company, Media Content and Communications Services Pvt. Ltd. (MCCS), which took control of Star News's operations. ABP held
117-400: The channels themselves, took place in the morning of 16 December 2020, with the launch of simpler, more modern logos and a new graphics package developed by Saffron Brand Consultants for all of ABP's channels. Additionally, ABP News acquired new equipment able to record content at 1080p and launched its own HD feed; the channel's SD feed turned into a downscaled, 16:9 widescreen version of
130-491: The performance of one of prime minister Narendra Modi 's projects directed towards poor farmers in his television show Masterstroke , ABP News' satellite broadcasting was disrupted each time the program was aired. Former employees reported that the channel owners had pressured the host, Punya Prasun Bajpai, to quit the company. After his resignation, these technical issues immediately stopped. Another host, Abhisar Sharma, who challenged Modi's public safety strategies on ABP News,
143-554: Was fired that same day. He also said he was under pressure to leave. Saffron Brand Consultants The company has offices in London , Madrid , Vienna , and Istanbul with strategic partners in New York and São Paulo . Saffron has clients all over the world, from San Francisco to London, from Moscow to Hong Kong. Saffron has advised businesses and institutions all over the world on brand and strategy. Their clients come from
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#1732772447098156-518: Was granted licence approval in 2014 and launched in that year. A Gujarati -language channel, ABP Asmita , was launched on 1 January 2016. In November 2016, Avinash Pandey became a chief operating officer (COO) of ABP News. All of ABP's channels, including ABP News, were gradually revamped throughout the second half of 2020, beginning with the renaming of parent-subsidiary ABP News Network to ABP Network in July 2020. A further rebranding, which affected
169-525: Was the launching face for NDTV India. Before joining NDTV, he worked for Aaj Tak , a 24-hour Hindi news channel. When Aaj Tak became a 24-hour channel, Dibang was the launching face. Before joining television news, Dibang was a correspondent with The Sunday Times of India in New Delhi. He started his career in journalism with The Illustrated Weekly of India . He anchored the first-ever hour-long Hindi debate show on television, Muqabla on NDTV India. At
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