Aaj Tak, India Today TV win best Hindi, English News Channel honours respectively at ENBA

The latest edition of exchange4media's news broadcasting awards, or ENBA, honoured the best and brightest in the world of broadcast news in a glittering ceremony held in Noida today.

ENBA celebrates the success of television news professionals across 31 different categories. Standing true to its reputation, ENBA generated an enormous response from the broadcast news industry garnering over 300 entries for the various category of awards.

This year's big winners included India Today TV, which won the Best English News Channel of the Year, while Aaj Tak won the Best Hindi News Channel of the Year. Rajat Sharma from India TV also won the Best Hindi Editor-in-Chief of the Year while Rahul Kanwal (India Today TV)was honoured with the Best English Editor-in-Chief of the Year.

Kartikeya Sharma of iTV Network was named the Best News Television CEO of the Year.

CNBC TV18 and its sister channel CNBC Awaaz were also honoured in the BARC India Business News category. The former won the BARC India Business News Channel of the Year (English), while the latter was accorded the same in the Hindi language category.

News9 was lauded as the Upcoming National News Channel of the Year, while Ashish Singh from NewsX won the Young Professional (Editorial) of the Year.                                                         

The jury for ENBA 2016 was led by Star India’s Managing Director Sanjay Gupta. He was accompanied on the jury by several other stalwarts such as Alok Mehta, Chief Editor, Outlook Hindi; Junior Anand Gupta, Founder SHE & Ninja Girl Bags; Archana Datta, Ex – Director General, All India Radio & Doordarshan; columnist Devi Cherian; Dheeraj Jain, Managing Director, Radcliffe Capital; author Jaishree Mishra, senior journalist Shravan Garg and Sudhir Mishra, Founder & Managing Partner, Trust Legal, Advocates & Consultants.

The complete list of winners can be seen below: