Monday, January 5, 2009

Sastry resigns from Sakshi TV

Mr. Sastry, Chief of Sakshi TV has resigned this evening. Though it looks like a sudden development, insiders say that the trouble has been brewing up for more than a month. There are too many Heads in the channel and everybody was trying to dethrone the other and gain an upperhand. Disgusted with such developments, Ms. Geetha left the organisation. There are also allegations against some Heads that there was misappropriation of funds in procurement of machinery. Though Mr. Sastry cannot be directly linked to the scam, he is said to be responsible for bringing in a certain group and giving postings of their choice at the cost of others and this led to dissatisfaction among the staff, particularly the district staff reporters. Mr. Nemani Bhaskar, who quit NTV and joined Sakshi TV was given more powers and this is also said to be one of the reasons for Sastry's decision to quit. Observers say that Mr. Jagan could successfully keep the newspaper in the safe hands of Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy but the choice for the channel, Mr. Sai Reddy is a wrong one. There were internal sqabbles from day one but all of them started coming up even before the launch of the channel. News is also that the other Head Mr. Srinivasa Reddy has also resigned. One version says that Mr. Srinivasa Reddy resigned on the day when he was sent to the construction site and Mr. Sastry put in his papers when he was asked to restrict himself to the city bureau. Both the resignations are accepted today.

On the other hand, Mr. Murthy, Mr. Ramachandra Rao and Mr. Ramakrishna have met Mr. Chowdary today to express their dissatisfaction on knowing that Mr. Satish Babu is likely to heat NTV. There are rumours that the trio is joining Sakshi TV. However, there is no confirmation. The dissatisfaction of these three is due to the management's decision to induct Mr. Satish Babu into NTV as its head. Mr. Satish Babu, though is in a comfortable position in Asianet, wants to move to a channel already on air since he doesnt want to sit idle during the hectic election time. At one stage, Mr. Siva Prasad's ( Earlier in NTV as Output Editor and now Executive Editor in Andhra Jyothi's proposed channel ) name was also considered by the management but somehow it didnt work out. Some people say that Mr. Siva Prasad's condition was that the three ( Murthy, Ramachandra and Ramakrishna ) be removed and now that they are likely to quit, he may come back again.

Interestingly, Mr. Nemani Bhaskar who recently left NTV to join Sakshi has started calling all the district reporters over phone to mobilise solidarity for his leadership on one hand and to identify Mr. Sastry's men on the other. The situation is yet to ripen and the journalists are eagerly waiting to know all the minute details. If he is really serious about Mr. Sastry, he may lead a movement for Sastry but the chances are remote.
At the end, staff at sakshi started thinking that the management of SakshiTV is not interested in bringing out the channel and as such started sending people out !!!!

1 Comment:

vishnu said...

All the best for "Sakshi T.V" and entair the staff members.

With Love
Vishnu Vardhan