There’s hardly a primetime show on Indian news TV that is not identified with its host. “Shouty” to “communal”, it’s not hard to predict how a show will tackle a subject if you know the host. So, it’s quite surprising for the news industry that one of the country’s “most popular faces” on TV would leave his show rather abruptly.
Sudhir Chaudhary resigned as editor of Zee News and Wion on June 28. According to his resignation letter and Zee chairperson Subhash Chandra’s reply to it, Chaudhary has an “inclination” to start his own venture. “I had a couple of meetings with him in the last two days and tried to convince him to stay back, but since he is planning to start his own venture by utilizing his fan following, I did not want to come in his way of progression,” Chandra said.
