RJ Prateeka

RJ Prateeka is a radio jockey working currently with TORi, a Telugu radio station. She hosts the show ‘LOL with Me Prateeka.’ Prateeka was born on March 31. She lives in Hyderabad with her husband, Praveen Boppana. They got married on August 24, 2013. Praveen is a VP working with Prime. An Aries by birth, Prateeka has always been very traditional, and likewise, she met her husband at the Sai Baba Sai Baba is a Tamil television series. The show is >> Read More... temple situated near her residence. Along with RJing, she loves to travel different places, she also has taken Zumba classes, and she is indeed a dog lover. She also has a pet dog.

She completed her BCom degree at St Francis College, Begumpet. While she was in first year BCom, Prateeka hosted an event held in her college called the Arthashatra. For this particular event, she went to RED FM for the purpose of media sponsorship. After visiting them for a couple of times, RED FM approached her for the audition of radio jockey. As it fitted with her college timing, she went for the audition and got selected. On November 6, 2006, she hosted her first radio show. No sooner the show became one of the top most hit shows on RED FM. As a fresher, she was told to improve her Telugu accent, but she was more comfortable speaking in her local Telangana accent which attracted more audience. She denied to apt for a fake accent and luckily, Muthu, the AP head supported her and motivated her to continue the show in her way. From then there was no turning back for RJ Prateeka.

She worked for almost eight and half years with Hyderabad’s top most radio channel as a host of the show Full2Bindaas. In 2010, she decided to quit and move to the U.S. to get a Masters degree in Media Management. On April 9, 2010, she did her last show and 4018 fans (she vividly remembers) were in front of the studio at Somajiguda to bid her farewell. Few of her listeners broke down on the call with Prateeka. After quitting the show, she bagged three awards. In July, she received for the best show, the Indian Radio Forum Award. In the following year, she got the CineGoers and the Best RJ Award.

Sensing the impact that she had on her listeners, she dropped the idea of going to the U.S. In August 2010, after a big break of 5 months, she came back to host the same show. And she did the same show for straight two years until 2012, with the same enthusiastic response from her fellow listeners. In 2013, she did The Prateeka Show on the V6 channel. It was her fist TV appearance. She did 60 live episodes for the show. She again took a long vacation, and after a year and a half, the famous radio channel TORi approached her to work with them. She presently hosts ‘LOL with Me Prateeka’ ( 6:30 pm-8:30 pm) Monday to Saturday. Prateeka surely is the radio sensation of Hyderabad. According to Nielson survey, she is the top RJ even when she was not working. Undoubtedly, RJ Prateeka continues to be the most cherished RJ in Hyderabad.