MUMBAI: Viacom18 has announced elevations of Vh1 deputy GM Ferzad Palia and MTV sales head –North & East Jaideep Singh.

While Palia has been promoted as Vh1 head, Singh has been given the position of MTV India national head – sales.

Palia has been among the start up members of the English entertainment channel Vh1 and has led its marketing and content till date. As the channel head, he will now be responsible for all functions of the channel and will report into Viacom18 Group CEO Haresh Chawla.

Singh has been with Viacom18 for close to four years. In his new role, he will now be responsible for not only driving MTV sales revenues across all markets, but also its pan-regional sales for the brand. He will continue to report into MTV India senior VP – marketing and sales Aditya Swamy.