HT Media appoints Amitava Bhattacharya as Business Head - East & Central Region

Amitava Bhattacharya has been appointed as the Business Head – East & Central Region for HT Media Limited. Bhattacharya’s responsibilities would entail managing the units at Kolkata, MP- CG and Rajasthan. He will be based out of Kolkata and as an additional responsibility; Bhattacharya would also have functional overview of the English Print business published out of Bihar, Jharkhand, UP markets.

Bhattacharya comes with over a decade of experience, which includes 22 years with The Times Group (BCCL) where he was part of TOI’s 2001 edition launch in Kolkata and E Samay in 2012. He has also been the EVP & Business Head - East at  Zee Media and has handled the relaunch of Zee 24 Ghanta and their two new channel launches in Zee Puruvaiya and Zee Kalinga in 2014.