STAR India has finally got a new CEO. Close to four months after the high-profile exits of Peter Mukherjea and Sameer Nair, STAR has appointed STAR News CEO Uday Shankar as new chief executive.

Senior executives of STAR India and STAR News confirmed the development to ET on Sunday. A formal announcement is expected in the next few days from Hong Kong. However, the STAR spokesperson feigned ignorance when contacted for an official response.

A veteran in the news business, this will be Mr Shankar’s first stint in the general entertainment broadcasting segment. A senior print and television journalist, Mr Shankar joined STAR News in February 2004. (more…)

Sahara TV has introduced a new show called “Sirf Ek Minute Mein” after scrapping the game show, “Mission Ek Crore Ka” with “Snajay Dutt”. This was planned to be shown on the TV in March this year. The game show hosted by Aryan Vaid and Mini Mathur. The game show is separated in three parts; first the viewers have to call on 190-4424-9090-01 or SMS on 9090 to register for participation. Callers are selected by a unsystematic process supervised by EandY who are the auditors for the show, and then who will be called by the host during the show.

The caller is given 60 seconds to answer as many questions as possible with each correct answer fetching a prize. If in a minute a caller gets six answers correctly, then they qualify for the bumper prize. If the participant gets the bumper question right then they win a prize along with the six prizes won in the earlier round and if they get the bumper question wrong then they will have to forfeit 3 of their prizes.