Network18's CNBC-TV18, CNN-IBN, IBN 7 sweep ENBA 2013

The Network18 Group swept the Exchange4media News Broadcasting Awards (ENBA) 2013, bagging as many as 18 awards. CNBC-TV18 and CNN-IBN bagged 5 awards each while Network18's Hindi news channel IBN7 won 6 awards. Network18's founder-editor Raghav Bahl won the Lifetime Achievement Award and Group CEO B Sai Kumar won the News Television Network CEO of the year (English) award.    Said Bahl while receiving the award: “I accept it on behalf of Network18 because that’s where the award belongs. It belongs to nearly 5,000 people who work at the Group; who really worked so hard. We have grown about 70 percent CAGR over the last seven-eight years.” B Sai Kumar, CEO, Network18 said: “We at Network18 strongly believe that the news industry has very good times ahead. We see two key trends — we see news going local, we see news going multi-device; and to that end, I think the direction is a very clear - convert news rooms with a keen eye on multiple platforms, that's where we are going to see a lot of action in the year ahead.” CNBC-TV18's managing editor Shereen Bhan bagged the award for Best Anchor, English. Sonia Shenoy won the award for Young Professional of the Year - Editorial. CNBC-TV18's Young Turks won the Best Business Programme English, while Making It Big was given the Best Integration of a Brand in a News Programme English and CNBC-TV18's manager-marketing Sana Ally won the award for Young Professional of the Year, Business - English.English Editor-in-Chief of the Year award went to the editor-in-chief CNN-IBN Rajdeep Sardesai. Muzaffarnagar Chaupal anchored by Sagarika Ghose won the award in the best talk show category in English while IBN7's Zindagi Live bagged the award in the Hindi category for its programme Living with Cancer.