STAR News bags 'The Best News Channel' award

The glittering 4th INDY's award ceremony was full of industry leaders like Arun Handa, Chairman-Club Mahindra, Siddartha Basu and others. The award rewards the excellence in Mass communication, Marketing communication, Public relations, Advertising & Branding. The award is presented by the CMO Council of India, with a jury of industry experts. In the clutter of approximately 13 national Hindi News channels, STAR News bagged the award of "Best News channel of the year'.

Neeraj Sanan, VP, Marketing of MCCS India Pvt Ltd received the award. On this achievement Mr. Sanan said that the award belongs to the people who worked 24*7 to make this happen. Even in the race of TRPs, we never compromised on credibility. That's the reason the year 2009 which was full of news worthy stories like elections, economic slowdown, inflation etc; STAR News was the preferred choice of viewers. We will continue to strive for excellence and deliver values to viewers & advertisers.

Media Content and Communications Services (MCCS) is a 74:26 joint venture between Ananda Bazaar Patrika TV, a 100% subsidiary of ABP Pvt. Ltd, and STAR News Broadcasting Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of the STAR group. MCCS broadcasts "STAR News" India's most reputed Hindi news channel, "STAR Ananda", India's 24 hours national Bengali news channel and "STAR Majha", India's 24 hour national Marathi news channel.