June , 2006
Cricket Move Over, Soccer Rocks Now
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Friday is the big day for television industry. Ever wondered why? That's the day when we get our TRP ratings. That's the day where we get to know whether all the long hours of work that we put in through the week have borne any fruit. So as usual I woke up this Friday wondering how we had performed as a channel. But what I saw, just took me by complete surprise. For many years now, the popular view has been that there is no bigger television event than cricket. Everything else, tennis, athletics, soccer, hockey used to be a distant third fourth maybe even last on that ladder. That though changed this time. At a time when the Indian cricket team is touring West Indies, Rahul Dravid notching up his 23rd test century, Virender Sehwag showing glimpses of his old magic, well people were not watching them.....
More about Bhupendra Chaubey
Bhupendra Chaubey has been a TV journalist for the past 12 years starting his career with NDTV. As a political journalist travelling across the length and breadth of the country, he has that unique ability to grasp things at a micro level and then present it on a macro level. A graduate in Mathematics and post graduate in films, Bhupendra has been among the finest political journalists of his generation having covered two general elections and assembly elections of all states. He is amongst those journalists who depend more on their ground political awareness supplementing it with academic awareness of issues that confront the nation. Bhupendra often hosts the very popular and award winning news show face the nation on CNN-IBN. He wants to be associated with the process of understanding the ever changing face of India. He lives in the national capital with his family.
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