CNBC India has teamed up with Sun Microsystems and SAP India to launch the first of it‘s kind multimedia property that will focus on key industry segments.
The Industry Vector, to be held on 9 May at the Taj Poolside in Mumbai, will witness the participation and interaction of key business leaders, policymakers and opinion leaders on specific industry issues.

The first series focussed on industry vertical forums will comprise corporate chieftains of an industry sector and would be initiated by a panel of speakers. The first session will focus on the banking and financial services industry, according to an official release.

The forum will be led by a panel of eminent personalities from the finance sector including Zarir Cama, CEO HSBC, Ramesh Sobti, ABN AMRO bank, Leo Puri, Principal McKinsey & Co., Dalbir Singh, Chairman Central Bank of India & Indian Banks Association, Cherian Verghese, CMD Corporation Bank. The forum aims to provide a platform to discuss and debate issues and to drive towards tangible points of action and will conclude with a precise direction.

Through sustained and continuous offerings on ground, CNBC India, along with Sun Microsystems and SAP India, aim to make this a single point of convergence for discussions on industry specific issues, says the release. A designated committee consisting of industry experts and consultants who will decide upon the issues for the forums. The committee‘s key responsibility will be to identify and articulate issues that need to be focussed on for each of the on-ground forums, it adds.

The MSN network and NBC have announced the launch of the official web site for "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno." The launch coincides with the 10th anniversary of Jay Leno hosting ‘The Tonight Show‘.
In India, the show airs on weekend nights on CNBC Asia. Fans of the talk show can access exclusive show content and schedules, message boards, celebrity chat sessions at http://tonightshow.msn.com/.

‘The Tonight Show‘ on MSN offers a closer look at show segments such as Jay‘s Monologue, Headlines and Jay Walking, as well as popular musical guests. Users of MSN Broadband can access a wide selection of specialised content, including video clips. In addition, MSN Music, located at http://music.msn.com/, provides in-depth coverage of artists featured nightly on "The Tonight Show," including interviews, album reviews and audio clips.

America‘s first broadcast network, NBC owns CNBC and operates MSNBC in partnership with Microsoft, in addition to the NBC Television Network and 13 television stations.

The Indian Broadcasting Foundation has a new chairman in KS Sarma, the new Prasar Bharati CEO.

Sarma‘s appointment was decided at an IBF board meeting held in New Delhi yesterday. The meeting was reportedly attended by Zee TV CEO Sandeep Goyal, Star India head Peter Mukerjea, Discovery Networks India head Deepak Shourie, Turner Broadcasting‘s Anshuman Mishra, UTV‘s Ronnie Screwvala, Sahara TV‘s Mahesh Prasad, Sabe TV vice chairman Markand Adhikari and Eenadu‘s I Venkat.

Sarma replaces Anil Baijal, former Prasar Bharati acting CEO and additional secretary in the Information and Broadcasting ministry. Reports say the IBF board meeting also discussed other issues like the new unified television rating system being put into place with the impending merger of TAM and INTAM. Conditional Access System and the role of the IBF role in WTO negotiations were also discussed, say reports.

The long pending issue of payment defaults by ad agencies to broadcasters was also taken up at the meeting, reports say, with the IBF even considering a ban on defaulting agencies. The IBF is likely to meet with representatives of the AAAI in Mumbai to discuss the issue.