Ramoji Rao lived as the interface between business and politics and was an active participant in both for most of his remarkable life.
RIL has completed Network 18s open offer after four months of acquiring the latter.
RIL has also appointed McKinsey senior advisor Adil Zainulbhai as independent director and Network 18 Media & Investments (NW18) former promoter Raghav Bhel as a non-executive director on the NW18 Board.
Reliance Industries and Network 18 group on Tuesday joined hands for a multi-layered deal, under which the Mukesh Ambani-led corporate giant would sell a part of its interest in Eenadu TV channels and would also fund promoters of the media group.
The Network18 stock is down 4.2 per cent after the declaration of results to Rs 49.50 currently.
Both sports and digital will drag down the healthy operating margins that entertainment television continues to make.
ETV's bouquet consists of 11 regional channels and one Telugu news channel ETV2.
Interview with President & CEO, Viacom International.
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev, who is a known supporter of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has said that he sees a lot of 'Indianness' in Congress president Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
Billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani has turned a venture capitalist and is backing a new television channel Epic TV due to go on air next month.
In the biggest ever deal in the Indian media sector, RIL will acquire control in Network 18 Media & Investments Ltd, including its subsidiary TV18 Broadcast Ltd.
For some, he is a visionary who grew his one-channel firm into a media giant by the sheer dint of his courage; for others, he is a compulsive risk-taker.
Most television channels, including NDTV, were giving NDA a thumbs up, when it was the Grand Alliance that was winning the battle on the ground.
Mythological and historical shows are lapped up not just by the young, but equally by grown men and women.
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