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In all the shake
up at various TV channels, last week’s news was that Raveen
Raj Kohli was likely to takeover Star News. This week, STAR’s
Sameer Nair has been given his due share in the success pie as he
takes over as the network’s Chief Operating Officer. Much of
Star Plus’ boost is attributed to the business acumen, energy
and vision of Sameer Nair. One immediate change that Nair’s
promotion makes in the executive scheme of things is that Tarun
Katial, V-P, programming Star Plus, Star Movies and Star World,
will be devoting all his energies now to Star Plus. The new COO
revealed that the next two months would be see some additional reorganisation.
Nair joined
STAR in 1994 in charge of Star Movies. Thereafter he moved on to
lead movie acquisitions and headed the on-air promotion and presentation
department. In 1999, Nair took over as the programming head of Star
Plus and soon became the executive vice-president, programming for
the whole network. While Nair shares with Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea
the credit for the phenomenal success of Kaun Banega Crorepati and
making Star Plus the No 1 channel, the responsibility of getting
Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan to host KBC was entirely his.
Born and brought
up in Mumbai, Nair started his career with UDI Yellow Pages in Mumbai
where he spent two years. He then moved on to spend another four
years at Goldwire, an advertising agency in Chennai. Nair also worked
as an independent ad filmmaker in Chennai for a year and a half.
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