enba 2022: India Today, Aaj Tak, ET Now, ABP take home top honours
NDTV's Sonia Singh won the Lifetime Achievement award, TV Today Network’s Rahul Kumar Shaw was adjudged ‘CEO of the Year’ & Aaj Tak's Sudhir Chaudhary was named ‘enba media maverick of the year’
The 15th edition of the exchange4media news broadcasting awards (enba) was organized on Sunday, August 27 in a glittering ceremony at Radison Blu, Noida. The awards honoured the best of the best in the Indian broadcast news media industry. It recognizes the best in Television news and rewards broadcasters and industry leaders who are responsible for shaping the future of Television Broadcasting in India.
At the star-studded awards night, Sonia Singh, Editorial Director, NDTV, was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement award, TV Today Network’s Rahul Kumar Shaw was honoured with the ‘CEO of the Year’ award while Sudhir Chaudhary, Consulting Editor, Aaj Tak was named the ‘enba media maverick of the year 2023’.
TV Today Network bagged the maximum number of awards with a total of 111 metals followed by ABP Network with a total of 63 metals. Coming to the medal tally, TV Today Network took home 61 gold, 31 silver and 19 bronze metals across categories at enba 2022 while ABP Network bagged 23 gold, 25 silver and 15 bronze metals across categories. Among the other channels, Times Network bagged 32 metals at enba 2022, iTV Network won 25 metals in total, NDTV took home 11 metals and Asianet News Network bagged 9 metals across categories.
The News Channels of the Year (Hindi) title was bagged by three channels – Aaj Tak, ABP News and Times Now Navbharat. While Aaj Tak bagged gold, ABP News took home the silver metal and Times Now Navbharat bagged bronze. Also, News Channels of the Year (English) was awarded to India Today, Times Now and NewsX who bagged gold, silver and bronze respectively. The ‘Business News Channel of the Year- English’ was given to ET Now while Sports Tak was named as the ‘Best Sports Digital News Channel’.
Meanwhile, Supriya Prasad, News Director, Aaj Tak, picked the gold trophy in the ‘News Television – News Director / Editor-in-Chief / Managing Editor / News Editor of the Year- (Hindi)’ category while Rahul Kanwal, Executive Director, Business Today & News Director, India Today & Aaj Tak, took home the gold award in the ‘News Television – News Director / Editor-in-Chief / Managing Editor / News Editor of the Year (English)’ category.
In the ‘Young Professional of the Year – Editorial- English’ category, Aarthi Kirushnan, Anchor & Producer of NewsX won the gold metal while in the ‘Young Professional of the Year – Editorial- Hindi’ category, Siddhi Vishal Sharma, Trainee- News & Program Production of ABP News, took home the gold metal, Ashutosh Chaturvedi, Anchor, Associate Editor, Aaj Tak bagged silver and Rajeev Dhoundiyal, Anchor, Senior Associate Producer, Aaj Tak, took home the bronze metal for their outstanding work and contribution.
Here's the complete list of winners:
