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The Second Coming Of Indian Tv & #8217;S Pin-Up Boy

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Last Updated : Feb 26 2013 | 1:13 AM IST

Prannoy Roy

President, NDTV

Close friends call him Tempest, a name his father gave him. And he's all set to raise a storm in the news television market by launching two national news channels by April 1.

Little surprise, then, that NDTV's personable president Prannoy Roy was mobbed by the media at a press conference on Thursday that announced the company's distribution tie-up with The One Alliance.

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A joint venture between Sony Entertainment Television and Discovery Networks, The One Alliance will carry Roy's 24-hour English and Hindi news channels along with Sony, Set Max, HBO, Discovery, Animal Planet and others.

Predictably, Roy evades all queries on his news channels

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First Published: Feb 15 2003 | 12:00 AM IST

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