Joy Chakraborthy steps down as CEO of Enterr10 Media

Joy Chakraborthy has stepped down as CEO of Enterr10 Media sources close to the development have confirmed to Adgully. He had joined the organisation in March 2019.

During his association with the channel, it saw an unprecedented growth within a short span of time. He brought the channel into the consideration set of marketers and advertising agencies. Enterr10 offers the channels Dangal TV, Bhojpuri Cinema, Fakt Marathi and Enterr10 Bangla. Dangal TV has consistently been leading Hindi GEC in both pay and free platforms as per BARC India data last year.

Joy started his media career with the TOI group of publications in their Response team, there after he joined Star India as Executive Vice President, heading ad sales for most of their channels as well as launched of some of their leading channels like Star Gold, Star Vijay, National Geographic, Life Okay (then Star One). Post this, Joy moved to Zee as Executive Director to head revenue & channel placement for all their channels across genres of GEC, movies, regionals, music, sports and P&L head for the group’s niche channels thus bringing in international English entertainment into the country. As CEO at TV Today, Joy consolidated their news channels into leading positions in the domestic market and introduced them in the international space. Joy’s 2nd stint happened at TOI towards end of 2012 as Director – Response, heading their metros’ business along with several verticals as well as niche publications. Joy’s last assignment was with the Network 18 group as CEO – Forbes India and President – Revenue TV18 Broadcast’s 20 new channels of national and regional stature.

Joy is an alumnus of Harvard Business School and a National Defence Academy graduate.