MV Nikesh Kumar Managing Director of Reporter TV - Profile


Reporter is a new Malayalam news channel of Kerala which has been formed under the leadership of MV Nikesh Kumar. Read this article to know about the profile and biography of Nikesh Kumar. Some unknown facts about Nikesh Kumar can also be gathered from this article.

MV Nikesh Kumar

Name : MV Nikesh Kumar
Hometown : Kannur, Kerala
Date of Birth : October 7th, 1973
Professional status : well-known media reporter
Father : MV Raghavan
Wife : Rani, News reader in India Vision
Children : Shankaran and Janaki

MV Nikesh Kumar is a very popular media personality in the state of Kerala. Before launching a 24 hour news channel of his own named as Reporter, he was the CEO of India Vision, another Malayalam news channel. Nikesh Kumar has been awarded a prestigious award called Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism by the President of India. The most unique quality of Mr Kumar is that he is generally known as one of the most impartial news reporter in the media of Kerala. This is one of the main reasons why the people of Kerala are eagerly looking forward for the launch of his new channel, Reporter. The channel has ensured that it will concentrate on broadcasting news coverage of all the trusted news in Kerala without any inhibitions.

Profile and career biography of MV Nikesh Kumar


Nikesh Kumar is the son of M.V Raghavan, UDF leader and the leader of the Communist Marxist Party (CMP). His wife's name is Rani and he also has a son and a daughter named Shankaran and Janaki. He has studied at Mar Ivanios College, Trivandrum. Mr Kumar's media career began as a news reporter in Asianet which is one of the most popular channels in Kerala. Later he moved on to India Vision which is also another important news channel of Kerala. Nikesh Kumar was also very instrumental in the success of India Vision and was a key person to making the channel famous amongst all the other news channels in Kerala. It is this achievement of his which makes people very sure that Reporter TV news channel will also become a huge success. Nikesh Kumar is also known as the Barkha Dutt of Kerala. While working for India Vision, Mr Kumar has anchored many programs based on contemporary social and political issues. The program called 'Newsnight' which was telecasted daily at 9.00pm on India vision was anchored by Nikesh Kumar. Reports indicate that Newsnight was the most watched news show in the media of Kerala. Mr Kumar then resigned from India Vision in July 2010. Nikesh Kumar will be the managing director and the chief editor of Reporter TV news channel. Reporter will have to face a big competition from all the other already existing news channels in Kerala as well as few more news channel which are lined up to be launched soon.

Some unknown facts about MV Nikesh Kumar


1. Nikesh's pet name is Chimu.
2. Nikesh's childhood dream was to become the Indian Prime Minister.
3. Nikesh has a bachelor degree in English literature from Mar Ivanios College, Trivandrum.
4. Many people say that he resembles the famous south Indian actor 'Suresh Gopi'.
5. Nikesh's grandfather's name is Shankaran. His son's name is also Shankaran.
6. Nikesh has two elder brothers and one elder sister; Gireesh, Rajesh and Girija.
7. Mr Kumar's elder brother Gireesh is also a journalist.
8. Nikesh likes to watch comedy shows in his leisure time.
9. Nikesh is one of the board members of Parashinikadavu Snake Park, Ayurvedic College Parashinikadavu, Kannur.
10. In his school days, Nikesh as the school leader and also an SFI leader.

The logo for Reporter channel was released by the popular Malayalam writer, M.T Vasudevan Nair at DD Retreat in Thammanam, Kerala. The video launch of Reporter TV news channel's logo can be found here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHLOaNdMx_Q


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