Mumbai: CNBC TV 18 and CNBC Awaaz have announced changes to their revenue leadership teams. Sonia Kapoor takes charge at CNBC TV18 as National Revenue Head and Sterling Ferreira as National Revenue Head at CNBC Awaaz.

Kapoor was earlier managing west & south regions as SVP & Regional Head for CNBC-TV18 & CNBC Awaaz. Ferreira was earlier in charge of national sales at CNN-IBN. Last week, CNN-IBN announced Vishal Bhatnagar as its National Revenue Head. Bhatnagar was earlier SVP & Regional Head north & east, CNBC-TV18 and CNBC Awaaz.

This move is a part of the leadership re-alignment under way at Network18 News Media, the client facing ad sales unit. Network18 News Media spearheads revenue optimisation at CNBC TV18, CNBC Awaaz, CNN IBN, IBN7, IBN Lokmat and History TV18.

Advertisement sales for the ETV regional news network, subject to regulatory approvals for the acquisition, will also form part of this stable.

Anil Uniyal, CEO, CNBC-TV18 & CNBC Awaaz, said "Sonia has been instrumental in establishing CNBC-TV18 as a benchmark in the monetisation of news brands and her perspective in charting the next phase of its growth will be critical. Sterling comes in with stellar experience across a variety of news brands, which will be crucial as we go on to unlock the tremendous potential of CNBC Awaaz."

Speaking on her elevation, Sonia Kapoor said, "It?s been a momentous journey so far and my experience with CNBC-TV18 has been intense, enriching and very satisfying. I look forward to bringing it to bear as we thrust forward and further strengthen the brand."

Sterling Ferreira said, "CNBC Awaaz is at a very interesting juncture in its success story. CNBC Awaaz is well aligned to deliver audiences and value to clients as growth, consumption and thus spends move beyond the metro markets. I hope to work with the CNBC Awaaz editorial and marketing teams in ensuring that we build further on the unique position the brand has achieved already."

Kapoor has over a decade of experience in ad sales including stints at the Indian Express Group and TV Today Network. She joined the Network18 Group in 2002. Ferreira has over two decades experience spanning a variety of media including the Indian Express Group, Business Standard, ABP, Tata, Red FM. He joined the Network18 Group in 2005.

MUMBAI: History TV18, the factual entertainment channel, is launching its new show titled ?Brave New World? on 7 September.

It will air every Friday at 9 pm.

The five part series will focus on different spheres of human lives which include Health, Machines, Biology, Environment and Technology. In the show, Professor Stephen Hawking, a theoretical physicist and author embark on a global expedition in search for scientific breakthroughs that are transforming human lives.

Hawking is joined by a team of scientific experts representing distinct disciplines - who travel the world to search for new discoveries that have the potential to bring great changes. It is their determined quest of finding and analysing most important discoveries and gives audience an indication about their future.

MUMBAI: Infotainment channel History TV18 is kicking off the ministries ?The Kennedys? tonight 16 July at 10 pm.

The eight part series deals with one of America?s most famous political families. It stars Greg Kinnear as JFK, Barry Pepper as his brother Bobby Kennedy, Katie Holmes as his wife Jackie Kennedy and Tom Wilkinson as Joseph Kennedy Sr.

The political saga unfolds the story of a manipulative father who believes in dictating the course of his sons? lives and determined to exemplify his ambitions through them. The story trails the life sequences of his sons and how they try to balance the dictates of a domineering father and their fortitude to carve their own identity.

It offers a chronicle of tangled relationships in one of the most turbulent periods of the modern age. The story reflects examples of achievements and personal failures, about loyalty and love, resentment and betrayal. It is about people imbued with great gifts and burdened by great flaws, about success of Biblical proportions and tragedy worthy of the Greeks.

MUMBAI: Infotainment channel History TV18 and news channel CNN IBN have announced the judges for the initiative ?The Greatest Indian?.

The show format is based on a ground breaking series featured on BBC called ?The Greatest Briton?. The initiative will look to answer the question of who the greatest Indian is and what does it take to be called ?Great?? The parties had formally announced the initiative in February.

The first phase of initiative comprises a jury selecting some of the Greatest Indians who have shaped the nation. The jury comprises personalities like N. Ram (former Editor-In-Chief of The Hindu), Vinod Mehta (Editor-in-Chief of Outlook), Soli Sorabjee (Former Attorney General of India), Sharmila Tagore (Bollywood actress and former Chairperson of the Censor Board of India), Harsha Bhogle (sports) and Chetan Bhagat (author).

The jury would be entrusted the task of limiting the poll list to 50 Great Indians out of a preeminent list of such 100 super achievers. The list of 50 will then be released for a nationwide poll curtain raiser on 4 July by CNN IBN Editor in Chief Rajdeep Sardesai.

MUMBAI: Factual entertainment channel History TV18 will air the story of the Hogans who are Simaese twins on 28 April at 9 pm The two little girls, Krista and Tatiana Hogan, are destined to spend the rest of their lives with each other. There are the only surviving Siamese twins in Canada. Joined at the head and sharing a brain, these five- year- olds run, play and go down their backyard slide together, braving all odds to live a normal life.

The Hogans live in Canada and are unlike any other twins. Craniopagus twins are very rare. Born after every 2.5 million children or so, such twins seldom survive in the initial year.

The Hogan twins are even more unique as they share a key blood vessel in the brain and most unexpectedly, even some brain functions. This has given them a few extraordinary abilities. Doctors report that when one of the girls is tickled, the other jumps, and that putting a pacifier in the mouth of one child causes the other to stop crying.

But do the twins share the same thoughts? Are they two distinct personalities? Where does the consciousness rest? How connected are Krista and Tatiana? How will their life progress when they grow older?

The show answers these questions in a gripping narrative style.

MUMBAI: Infotainment channel History TV18 will kick off the reality show ?Pawn Stars? on 29 March at 10 pm that showcases the lifestyle of pawnbrokers.

The Harrison clan are a family of smart, funny, weird desert rats who own the only pawnshop in Las Vegas and earn their living through customer?s treasured possessions. It?s the Harrison family where three generations of men ? grandfather, father and son all named Richard Harrison amusingly clash while running the family business together.

The grandfather goes by Richard ?The Old Man?, his bald son goes by Rick ?The Spotter?, and Rick?s son goes by Corey ?Big Hoss?. These men wheel and they deal and put a value on people?s long forgotten, priceless treasures.

Three generations of men who want to make money, don?t just buy things because they have to buy it ? they buy it to make fast money. The Harrison family (Richard, Rick and Corey) has been in the pawn business since 1988 for which they use their sharp-eyed skills to carefully assess the value of items brought by their colorful
customers, including objects ranging from the obscure to the truly historic. Their experience often helps them determine if the object brought in is real or fake and then reveal the surprising answer to the usual question "What?s it worth?" These guys are like ?quote machines? as they say in journalism.

There are Rolexes and motor cycles, but also two-century old rifles, a century-old Samurai sword, a 1920s surgical chair, a Super Bowl ring, Olympic medals and an 1830 gold-gilded Ormolu clock known as ?The Death Clock? because gilders handled deadly mercury while crafting it. From a 15th century Samurai sword to a Picasso painting, there isn?t much these men haven?t seen or heard about, inevitably making them experts in rare collectables. They?ve sold a watch to Alice Cooper and lent jewellery for the film shoot of 2007?s ?Lucky You?.

Rick says that his customers are fine people who pawn stuff for cash because they?re single moms and didn?t get child support or they need groceries or they need to pay payroll for their small company or their grandfather died and ?left me this stupid thing?. Each episode of Pawn Stars features an array of quirky characters attempting to sell, purchase or pawn items. Everything and everyone has a story and it?s the Harrison family?s job to decipher fact from fiction, because in this business, the customer isn?t always right!