Network 1 was established by a group of television professionals from New Delhi and Mumbai, India. The objective was to create a world class television consultancy specializing in news and current affairs channels. It later diversified into independent television production, TV presentation and technical consultancy. Today Network 1 has on its staff television professionals with expertise in all relevant areas of television programming and management. The group has a collective experience of over seven decades in the field of television. All members have worked in all the leading television channels of the country – national Broadcaster Doordarshan, Star, NDTV, Zee, Sahara, Channel 7,  TV Today and Times TV. In 2005, Network 1 launched an international news and infotainment channel in the US .

In 2002 Network 1 launched Sahara Samay Rashtriya (24 hour Hindi news channel). And mapped out the broad content matrix for its regional news network. The situation involved the launch of a network from a ground zero situation. Members of Network 1 have been involved in the launches of three other television channels - NDTV-Star News(1998), Times TV (2005) and Channel 7 (2005).

Network 1 is a complete solutions provider for television channels. With experience in launching and operating television channels to executing turnkey projects, the consultancy has today diversified into professional training and education. The Network 1 Institute of Media Studies, Chandigarh was established in 2004 and has completed two very successful years. This year the school has launched masters and bachelors degrees besides short certificate courses.

Shireen

She has over 16 years of experience in TV and print journalism and TV station management. Shireen has been part of the launch of two television channels and has worked with six different television channels. Shireen started her career as a print journalist with the Times of India and then moved on to The Economic Times. From presenting and reporting to handling the on air look of channels, production values, packaging and management of personnel and resources, Shireen was instrumental in the launch of the television channel Sahara Samay and has worked with six different television channels including Star, Zee, NDTV, Doordarshan, Sahara and TV Today. She acts as a premier anchor who did several location based shows that added immense value.

Arup Ghosh

Arup has over 24 years of experience in print and TV journalism. He has been part of the launch of three 24 - hour television channels. He spent 13 years working for the top newspapers including Hindustan Times and Times of India. He started his television career as a correspondent with NDTV and was in the core team of journalists/presenters who launched the Star News channel and worked for the channel for six years. He was the head of Sahara Samay Rashtriya. He has presented special shows and covered events across the world and interviewed all the national leaders. From Sahara he moved on to Channel 7 where he joined as Director, News. He took up the assignment of launching a new and eminent, 24-hour English language news channel, NewsX in February last year. The launch of NewsX as the fresh face of news from India had been delayed by several months and this was making the investors restive. He achieved this feat within six weeks of coming board.In the process, NewsX has found its idiom in writing and presenting news. NewsX has also attained attributes that set it clearly apart from the rest of the English news channel on the air. NewsX has also made a place for its news features and current affairs. He has handpicked every single key resource in the Newsx team in the past year and deployed them as an extension of my creative capability.

 

Sundeep Misra

He has more than 15 years of print and TV journalism experience behind him. He started his career as a sports journalist and went on to work with all the leading publication like the Indian Express, The Asian Age and India Today. Today he is acknowledged as one of the leading sports journalists in the country apart from being an authority on Hockey. He has covered several international tournaments like Cricket World Cups, Olympics, World Cup Hockey, World Cup Soccer, F1 Racing as well as countless national sports events. Sundeep has worked as the sports editor of Sahara Samay Rashtriya. He now manages the Network 1 Institute of Media Studies based in Chandigarh. He also runs one of the leading web sites on Indian Hockey, www.indianhockey.com . He was the sports editor of Newsx and he introduced programming of a high standard that won sponsorship and awards.
 

Kamal Dixit

The technical head of the consultancy, Kamal has worked for over 20 years in television. His experience includes working with leading companies like TV Today, NDTV, Sahara TV and Times TV. He was a pioneer at Newstrack (TV Today), establishing the production values and maintaining quality control. He has been part of the launch of television channels and has been responsible for the news automation, play out and outdoor broadcasting operations. Kamal played a big role in the technical division of Sahara Samay and went on to be Head of News Systems (Technical), Times TV. His area of specialization is workflow design and management.
 

Mohit Gopal

He sailed with P&O shipping as a navigator before leaving to join the post graduate program at IIM Ahmedabad. From campus he joined the International Finance Corporation (World Bank) and worked on projects and assignments in diverse sectors such as Manufacturing, Power, Infrastructure and Pharmaceuticals before starting his own venture. He has strong skill sets in Financial Modeling and Planning.
 

Associate (Distribution):

Shivani Pratap Singh

Over 8 years in Satellite, Broadband and Cable industry with in-depth knowledge of Distribution and Trade Marketing, Shivani has been deeply involved in the development of Broadband and Satellite Channels, holding a key role in the Planning Committee to devise initial plans, procedures and implementation. With the channel Zoom he was primarily responsible for a profit centre with target revenue of 50 Million (INR) with a C&S base of 4.4 million, planning and implementation of marketing and promotional strategies for the region, responsible for the regions promotional budget, liaison with the agencies and sales promotions including tactical promotion for the channel’s promotional events.

He successfully launched three satellite Channels for the Sahara group and his job entailed working with a cross section of Multi system operators, agencies and Corporate thereby ensuring the visibility and carriage of the Channels in the TRP towns. Earlier with the Zee network he developed the broadband network with optic link in the Northern region, primarily in the states of Punjab, Haryana, J & K & Chandigarh. Shivani has also provided consultancy services for the DTH platform at an international level.

Rod Fairweather

Rod has worn diverse hats throughout his high-voltage, energetic career. He has extensive experience at building, motivating and running teams. Excellent communication skills both at board level as well as with staff, combined with a reputation for “rolling up sleeves” and being visibly determined to achieve strategic aims, he has delivered a range of projects that have been strong on technology as well as human resource. Rod has an impressive track record both as a technical and editorial consultant who has operated extensively in the UK, Europe and India.

As a freelance consultant director, Rod worked on the following projects : GMTV, B Sky B, VH-1, TNT, MTV, C5, ITN, LNK (Lithuania), TCS (Singapore), NDTV, Doordarshan (India) Star TV (HK). In India, Rod played a very important role as consultant with NDTV during the launch of Star News in its original form. His overall role has covered a range of areas, including programme purchasing, defining desired audience profiles, clarifying roles and goals for departments, through to establishing news gathering and editing techniques and live transmission systems. Rod was also with the Harris Corporation (formerly Encoda Systems) from 1999 and he set up and ran a highly automated commercial digital transmission services (24/7) for a Scandinavian client. He also provided worldwide support across a variety of digital play out systems. The play out operation has successfully grown from 5 to 17 channels.