After making its network EDGE-enabled, cellular major Hutch has joined hands with NDTV, allowing its subscribers to download TV content on their cell phones.
Leading TV channels will see a blackout of spot advertising from midnight tonight after Hindustan Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Airtel, Pepsi, Coca-Cola and Reliance Communications, among others, directed their media-buying agencies not to book such advertisements on 16 news and entertainment channels, including NDTV, Network 18, Zee News, Star News, starting October 16.
Sources said that the ministry has decided to issue a show cause notice to the prominent news channel after it observed that sensitive information was broadcast by it even when the operation was still on and two of the terrorists were known to be alive.
Recounts challenges faced in setting up various channels, hopes new management will always put journalism first.
Adani group opened a $1.2 billion copper plant, bought a port in Odisha, raised stakes in a cement company and stitched an alliance with rival Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries, all in a matter of one week in signs that the apples-to-airport conglomerate has shrugged off the Hindenburg effect and is back to rapid expansion spree. In the last one week, Adani group has through regulatory filings and press statements announced expansions and investments in its mainstay ports business, diversification into metal refining, fund infusion into a two-year-old cement foray and continuing progress in the commissioning of its mega solar project.
India is world's third-largest smartphone market with over 100 million smartphones sold last year.
'We didn't know where the story was going. But I knew I was telling the story of an extremely lonely journalist.'
The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group is poised to take another leap forward in the film arena with the launch of BigFlicks.com
Richest Indian Gautam Adani's group, which has grown on acquisitions, has fairly solid fundamentals but debt-funded future acquisitions can start putting pressure on ratings, S&P Global Ratings said on Thursday. Starting out as a commodities trader in 1988, the Adani group has diversified from mines, ports and power plants into airports, data centres and defence. It recently forayed into the cement sector with a $10.5 billion acquisition of Holcim's India units and is also looking to set up an aluminium factory. Most of this expansion has been funded by debt.
The project, called e-basha, is a critical part of the ambitious Digital India programme.
A separate feed of UTV Movies, tailored for the US market, is being beamed out of India and is being delivered through BT's network, BT said. The communications solutions provider has signed a similar contract with NDTV for distributing its business and lifestyle channels -- NDTV Profit and NDTV Good Times.
'Fall in line or you will be in the line of fire.'
A well-know journalist, Kumar, 44, a senior executive editor with NDTV India, is among five winners of the Asia's prestigious award.
Kumar was among five individuals who were declared winners of the award, which is Asia's premier prize and highest honour and celebrates greatness of spirit and transformative leadership in Asia.
In electing Kumar to receive the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Award, the board of trustees recognises his unfaltering commitment to a professional, ethical journalism of the highest standards; his moral courage in standing up for truth, integrity, and independence; and his principled belief that it is in giving full and respectful voice to the voiceless, in speaking truth bravely yet soberly to power, that journalism fulfills its noblest aims to advance democracy, the award citation said.
A simple look at the prices of 10 media stocks during the tenure of the current government tells an interesting tale, says N Sundaresha Subramanian.
Lovingly made, heartfelt stories that speak the truths about our lives.
Leading television networks that are members of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) have decided to drop all spot advertisements from their channels from Monday night if the advertisers and their media agencies do not agree to pay the 25 per cent surcharge levied on them. the IBF has also stated that advertisers who agree to paying the surcharge by 1800 hours on Monday will get a waiver on the additional 25 per cent for the first month - from October 16 to November 16 th
As in the past, many of the exit polls gave a clear majority to the BJP-led NDA going way off the mark in ground realities while those that predicted victory for the 'grand alliance' did not anticipate the sweep.
Even as the profit margins swelled for most media conglomerates on the back of robust growth in advertising and subscription revenues for the second quarter ended September, companies running television news channels had an uphill time.
The News Broadcasters Association (NBA) has extended an olive branch to India TV -- the Rajat Sharma-promoted channel that withdrew its NBA membership last week after being fined by the News Broadcasting Standards Disputes Redressal Authority.
The business model is going through a reality check; expansion plans on hold and manpower rationalisation is on the cards. Checking expenditure is critical now as advertising is already on a downswing, though CEOs insist that the real impact will be felt in the next quarter. On condition of anonymity, an advertising sales executive admits to a 15 to 20 per cent decline in news channel advertising.
In order to acquire scale, a host of news and current affairs broadcasters are looking at starting even entertainment channels.
Elevator News Network (ENN), in association with Helius Inc (Canada), is looking at a turnover of Rs 100 crore in India on the back of growth in out-of-home media, real estate and shopping malls in the country.
Gurmeet Choudhary, 24, plays Lord Ram in Sagar's New Ramayan on NDTV Imagine. He has done a Tamil movie, a music video and has just finished a film with Mukta Arts. He talks about how he got the role and how the character has made him popular.
He said things were on the right track and there was a possibility that it will happen.
News Time Assam be taken off air for 1-day and Care World TV channel for 7-days.
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.
'Is it advisable to have more number of scrips in small quantities or a few scrips in big quantities?'
BofA-ML mandated to find buyer for 27.5% stake in media group's holding firm
'Why has the phrase gone missing from Modi's vocabulary?' asks Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
Saisuresh Sivaswamy tells us what we must know from the election news in the print and television media.
Starting on Monday, Microsoft is inviting people to try out the new web experience.
Where does Gideon Haigh see the future of the T20 game?
'The EC seems to have killed the joy of elections by stretching it interminably.' 'Imagine watching Andhadhun in a six-hour format and you will get the point,' says Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
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.
'When the story of Elections 2019 is told by an independent writer, the BJP's role in lowering electoral standards will be etched in indelible ink,' says Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
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