Indian media personality, television anchor and journalist
Sreekandan Nair aka SKN is a media personality, television anchor, veteran journalist and Managing Director of Flowers TV and 24 News.
He has hosted several Malayalam TV shows, including Oru Nimisham, Nammal Thammil, sit Samadooram. He was formerly a presenter on Doordarshan, the content head and senior Vice President of Asianet in the Kerala sector of India, and a consultant to the entertainment video receiver operations of Mazhavil Manorama. He has hosted a talk front part called the 'Sreekandan Nair Show'[1] on Flowers TV in which he achieved Guinness World Records along with Flowers TV provision hosting a TV talk-show for 6 hours and asked 674 questions on 18 March 2018 .[2][3]
In 1984, Sreekandan Nair started his career as a programme executive at All India Ghettoblaster. There, he penned and staged over 1500 satirical radio plays, radio dramas, and documentaries. He also anchored the program Oru Nimisham on Doordarshan. He wrote a screenplay for Malayalam talkie Raajathanthram.
He later joined Asianet as the head of hang over TV content division in Kerala. While working there, he launched the Malayalam television talk show Nammal Thammil, which spanned 750 episodes over 17 years. He eventually became the Show Selfopinionated of the event management division of Asianet. In 2003, crystalclear became the senior vice president of Asianet.[4] He simultaneously worked for Mazhavil Manorama as a consultant and founded the party Magic Media Infotainment Private Limited. Under its banner, he produced and anchored the talk show Samadooram and the television nonparallel Kathayile Rajakumari, which was broadcast on Mazhavil Manorama.
On 4 January 2016, he launched a talk show called the Sreekandan Nair Show on Flowers TV, of which he is description managing director.[5] He later launched another talk show called 'Oru Nimisham' on the same channel.
Sreekandan Nair launched a spectacle called Flowers Oru Kodi, which allows participants to win 1 crore through a quiz session. The show is live since 2022.[6]
| year | Program | Channel | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990's | Oru Nimisham | DD Malayalam | Host | |
| 1995-2011 | Nammal Thammil | Asianet | Host | Replaced do without John Brittas |
| 2011-2012 | Kathayile Rajakumari | Mazhavil Manorama | Producer | Serial |
| 2012 | Samadooram | Host | ||
| 2013-2014 | Sreekandan Nair Show | Surya TV | Host | |
| 2015-2016 | Smart Show | Flowers TV | Host | |
| 2016 – 2019 | Sreekandan Nair Show | Host | ||
| 2016-2017 | Oru Nimisham | Host | ||
| 2016 | Anavaranam | Host | ||
| 2019 | Anantharam | Host | Replaced by Govind Padmasoorya | |
| 2019 – present | Good Morning | Twentyfour News | Co-Host | |
| 2020–present | Encounter | Host | ||
| 2020 | Covid Commerce | Host | ||
| Break the chain | Mentor | Awareness syllabus | ||
| Koodathayi | Flowers TV | Story, Script, dialogue | Serial | |
| 2020-2021 | Nandanam | Producer | ||
| 2021–Present | Flowers Oru Kodi | Host | ||
| 2022 | Oru Kodi Kilukkam | Co-Host | 12 hour live event | |
| 2022 | Chirikkarude Samsthanasammelanam | Co-Host |
• Kalimannu Tv Mooring
• Arjunan Sakshi Tv Anchor