NEW DELHI: Not only media was in full force at the CNBC TV 18 Economic Conclave, organised on the occasion of completion of five years on the business channel, but media personalities were honoured too.

Zee Telefilms CMD Subhash Chandra was one of the recipients of the CNBC TV 18 Commendation for Business Leadership and Excellence.

The show reel hailed Chandra as a pioneer in satellite television in India and commended him for building up a business empire in the media sector from the scratch, which, today, is a world class outfit.

Giving him company from the media sector was Sun TV chairman Kalanidhi Maran, hailed as the king of the South Indian television.

The others who also received the CNBC TV 18 commendation included SEBI chief GN Bajpai, ICICI chairman KV Kamath, LG Electronics India MD KR Kim, Bharti Enterprise CMD Sunil Mittal, Hero Honda chairman Pawan Munjal, HCL technology chairman and CEO Shiv Nadar and HDFC chairman Deepak Parekh.

Mittal and Parekh could not be present to accept the commendation from prime mInister Manmohan Singh.