| Vanita Kohli-Khandekar: The chorus against content | 10-NOV-09 |
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| Across the media and entertainment (M&E) industry, the chorus against rising content costs has been growing louder. Radio operators are lobbying against royalty costs which could vary from 7 per cent to 40 per cent of revenues per station. Direct-to-home (DTH) operators have been talking for long about how content costs take away 40-60 per cent of revenues. Earlier this year, multiplex owners and film production companies had a two-month-long stand-off over revenue share. |
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| Media numbers reveal the power of two | 31-OCT-09 |
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| It has been known for long that The Times Group (Bennett, Coleman and Company) is the largest. While the News Corporation-owned Star Group briefly lay claim to number two spot, it is now clear that Subhash Chandra’s Zee is way ahead of its former partner and now arch rival. At Rs 3,732 crore, the Zee Group is India’s second-largest media firm. |
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| 'Till we're viable, no one will invest in radio' | 03-JUL-09 |
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| Prashant Panday, CEO of Radio Mirchi, the FM-station brand of the Times Group and senior vice president at the Association of Radio Operators of India (AROI) met the Information & Broadcasting (I&B) minister Ambika Soni recently on behalf of the FM radio industry. He spoke to Shuchi Bansal on the problems plaguing the sector and AROI’s plea to the government. |
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| Business brigade | 30-JUN-09 |
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| The Times Group's new business channel, ET NOW, leverages on the combined resources of the channel and its print sibling, The Economic Times. |
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| T N Ninan: Power shift | 12-JUL-08 |
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| Mumbai has long prided itself on being the country's commercial capital. Maybe the time has finally come for it to give up such notions. |
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| Times group eyes BSE pie | 08-MAY-07 |
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| Bennett, Coleman & Co, owners of the Times Group, is believed to have bid for 2-3 per cent stake in the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).
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| Mid Day, Times group ink strategic business pact | 13-DEC-06 |
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| Mid-Day Multimedia, the publisher of afternoon daily Mid Day, and Bennett, Coleman & Co (BCCL), the publisher of The Times of India (ToI) and The Economic Times, have entered into a strategic |
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| Govt gives out 53 FM stations | 04-FEB-06 |
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| The government today gave out 53 radio stations in 19 south Indian cities in the last round of private FM radio bidding today. The total number of stations which were put on bid was 64 and the |
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| Bennett, Coleman eyes stake in Paramount Air | 05-NOV-05 |
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| Bennett, Coleman & Co, parent company of the Times group, has evinced interest in picking up minority stake in the Tamil Nadu-based low-cost carrier Paramount Airways.
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