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Sanjay Ray Chaudhuri is popularly known as RayC. He was Co-founder and Executive Director of TV18 and Network18. It was one of India's leading media conglomerate with revenues of over a billion dollars and employing more than 4000 people.
Early Life
Sanjay Ray Chaudhuri did his schooling from St. Paul's School, Darjeeling.[2]He graduated in English Honors from St. Stephens College and then did a Masters in Mass Communication from Jamia Millia Islamia
Career
He began his career in 1989 as a writer and director on a documentary on the Cleaning of the Ganga project in Varanasi for Doordarshan. It took him two months to complete the documentary for which he was paid ₹ 5,000.In 1993 with Raghav Bahl [3]founded TV18 and they produced and directed two pilot episodes India Business Report( a weekly business show) , which was sent to the BBC and The India Show ( an entertainment and lifestyle feature show) which was sent to StarPlus.Both were selected from among hundreds of contenders.These two shows ran for 10 years.TV18 became the first Indian media production house to have a show in BBC and StarPlus.He directed and presented India's first show on satellite television called The Amul India Show on StarPlus.He also directed India's first glamorous celebrity talk show Nikki Tonight[4] in Star Tv featuring Nikki Bedi which quickly proved to be Asia's most widely viewed and controversial talk show and was cancelled after a guest , a gay rights activist Ashok Row Kavi, made a derogatory remark about Mahatma Gandhi.He also did India's first music countdown show, Public Demand in MTV.He directed a highly acclaimed docu-drama series Bhanwar (TV series) on Sony Entertainment Television.He received the Special Jury Award for Best Investigative Show at the 1998 Screen Awards.Beside these flagship shows he directed many business show, documentaries, short films and also set up the creative operations for the news channels CNBC-TV18 and CNN-IBN.He attracted media talents like Rajdeep Sardesai and Sameer Manchanda and discovered Cyrus Broacha and launched him on a show called MTV-U. When in 2014 when Reliance Industries took over Network18 he founded Arre an Indian OTT platform based in Mumbai with former Network TV18 CEO – B. Sai Kumar and COO – Ajay Chacko online channel brand Arre in October 2015.In the past he held the position of Principal at Doordarshan[6],Non- Executive Director at Network18 Media & Investment Ltd.,Executive Director at Television Eighteen India Ltd.[8] and Director at Web18 Software Services Ltd.
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