Sunil Lulla promoted; M K Anand steps into his shoes

Anand, who recently quit Disney UTV will run Times Television Network, while Lulla gets a larger role in the group.

Sunil Lulla, erstwhile managing director and chief executive officer, Times Television Network, has been promoted as president, corporate development at BCCL group. At TTN, he will be replaced by M K Anand, who recently quit Disney UTV Media Networks as its managing director to join the Times Group.

Lulla was earlier overseeing the broadcast business of TTN. He has spent more than eight years in various leadership roles at the company. In his new strategic role at BCCL, Lulla will work closely with Vineet Jain, managing director, BCCL Group and Satyan Gajwani, chief executive officer, Times Internet, overseeing a number of group initiatives in the areas of sports, music, international events and more.

Meanwhile Anand, who is an old BCCL hand, will return to the group after his stint of heading the broadcasting ventures of the Disney UTV group. He has worked with The Times of India group for 19 years, first with the print business for 14 years and later with the television business at Zoom from 2004 to 2009.

Earlier, Anand was managing director for Disney UTV Media Networks till December, 2013.

Anand joined UTV Global Broadcasting in 2009 as CEO (before UTV was acquired by Disney). At that time, UTV Global Broadcasting was operating four channels - Bindass, Bindass Movies (now UTV Action), UTV Movies and UTV World Movies. After the acquisition in February 2012, he was appointed managing director of Disney UTV Media Networks.

Before joining UTV, he had also worked for BCCL as business head of Zoom, the Bollywood entertainment channel of the group. Earlier, he had worked at BCCL's Response.

Anand's appointment is subject to regulatory approvals, as per the press statement issued by the BCCL group.