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  • BTVI choose to put viewers first by offering priceless insights and opinions FREE TO AIR

    BTVI choose to put viewers first by offering priceless insights and opinions FREE TO AIR

    MUMBAI: Business Television India (BTVI), India’s Premier English Business News Channel will be available to audiences for free under a revised Tariff order from Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI’s).

    According to the new tariff order, every broadcaster has to offer its channels either for free or at some price. Customers will receive 100 free to air channels for Rs. 130 and can subscribe to select pay channels at an additional cost.

    Megha Tata, COO, BTVI said, “It is a very interesting time in the history of broadcasting where the consumers get a choice to select and pay only for what they want to watch. The new tariff order will bring in place a clear demarcation whether content is king or distribution. It will further put pressure on content creators in improving the quality of programming. We at BTVI have decided to offer our priceless insights and opinions free to air. This is our endeavour to prioritise our viewers and ensure we help them to ‘Save. Invest. Prosper’ sans any additional costs.”

    Adding to the same Anuj Katiyar, Head Marketing, Research and Branded Content adds “BTVI always had a large audience base who were loyal and now we are putting our viewers before anything else and providing them our channel at no extra cost to them. BTVI is the only business news channel that is FTA. This will not only help us reach out to our loyal viewers without any hinderance but also new viewers who are looking at receiving business news, without putting any burden on their pockets.”

  • BTVI and AutoX magazine join hands to launch ‘The AutoX Show’

    BTVI and AutoX magazine join hands to launch ‘The AutoX Show’

    MUMBAI: Business Television India (BTVI), India’s Premier English Business News Channel, has teamed up with AutoX Magazine, India’s fastest growing automotive publication and portal, to launch the ‘The AutoX  Show’ – a weekly, consumer centric show on automobiles that will provide a comprehensive insight into the auto industry by featuring the latest product offering as well as providing a perspective on the overall industry. 

    Announcing the tie-up, Mr. Siddharth Zarabi, Executive Editor, BTVI said, “we are extremely pleased to announce the tie-up with the AutoX magazine. The partnership will bring together the television and digital platform strength of BTVI, India’s fastest growing business television channel. I have known Dhruv Behl for years, and am convinced that he, along with his team at Comnet Publishers, bring a deep understanding and unparalleled expertise to the automotive show space. Among India’s largest industrial sectors, automobile manufacturing is also a shining example of “Make-In-India”. Together with AutoX magazine, we aim to create magic for our viewers with a “made-in” and “made-for Indian viewers” viewing experience – on television and in the online space.”    

    Talking about this collaboration, Mr. Dhruv Behl, Publisher and Editor, said, “we celebrate our 12th anniversary in November this year, and I can think of no better way to underline this milestone than by joining hands with BTVI to launch ‘The AutoX Show’. My team and I live and breathe the latest cars and bikes, and we can’t wait to put BTVI’s viewers in the driver’s seat of the most exciting industry in the country.”

    Adding to that, Anuj Katiyar, Head of Marketing, Research & Branded Content, BTVI said, “auto related shows are extremely popular with business news viewers and it has reflected in viewership trends of our previous auto offering. The collaboration with AutoX allows us to combine BTVI’s television might with AutoX magazine’s print and digital forte to offer superior content to our combined viewers across all three platforms. We are extremely positive and confident about the content and the response it shall have from not only the auto enthusiasts, but also other viewers who would come on the channel just for this show.

     “BTVI has always had very successful auto offerings and we are now making it even bigger and better by collaborating with AutoX magazine. Our television expertise along with the deep understanding of the auto sector of the team will make for a great ride for our viewers.”

    The show will premiere on 10th November at 11 AM on BTVI. It will be repeated on Sunday 9.30 AM and 6.30 PM every week. 

  • BTVI endeavors to increase financial literacy across India through Money Mantra

    BTVI endeavors to increase financial literacy across India through Money Mantra

    MUMBAI: Business Television India (BTVI), India’s Premier English Business News Channel, introduces a multicity initiative – Money Mantra which is an effort to expand the financial awareness and literacy by bringing together, personal financial experts and mutual fund experts close to the common man and investors.

    Money Manta is an on-ground activity where our panel of experts will throw light on the basics of personal finance management, current market trends and address the problems which individuals face while investing.

    It will be an interactive session. Which will be held across Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Surat and Kolkata over a span of next four months.

    Money Mantra will kick-start in Mumbai on 17th October – P. L. Deshpande Maharashtra Kala Academy (Ravindra Natya Mandir), Prabhadevi 3:30 PM. Channel has invited Kalpesh Ashar, Founder, Full Circle Financial Planners & Advisors and Dhruv Rawani, Founder, GoalSIP.com

    and the session will be moderated by Muralidhar Swaminathan, Channel Director, BTVI

    Speaking on the same, Megha Tata, COO, BTVI said “Money Mantra is our effort to further our credo of Save, Invest & Prosper. It is a well thought activity to help individuals as well as investors to manage their wealth. These series of events will also give us an opportunity to interact with our viewers and understand them better. At BTVI, we have always believed in empowering our viewers by educating them and with Money Mantra we are re-enforcing the same.”

    Adding to that, Anuj Katiyar, Head of Marketing, Research and Branded Content, BTVI shares

    “Money Mantra is BTVI’s initiative to share expert advice with its loyalists and viewers and empower them to make the right financial decisions. With the huge response we received from our audiences for MF Guide and Call BTVI, we decided to get closer to our loyalists by covering 8 major cities in the first phase and seeping even deeper in its second phase. We have designed our 360-degree marketing campaign to reach out to everyone who wishes to comprehend the various aspects of financial literacy and intricacies of sound decision making.”

    The event has been supported by IIFL Securities, Business Standard & Big FM.

  • BTVI organizes a ground connect event to mark 100 episodes of its flagship show ‘The MF Guide’.

    BTVI organizes a ground connect event to mark 100 episodes of its flagship show ‘The MF Guide’.

    BTVI (Business Television India) – India’s premiere English business news channel took its pioneering show The MF Guide on ground on Tuesday, 25th September’ 18 in Mumbai.
    The show completed 100 episodes and to mark this milestone, the channel invited its audiences to be a part of the show by inviting them for an on-ground interactive session where fund managers and industry experts shared insights which would help the audience in successful wealth management.
    The event kick started with a talk by Ashutosh Bishnoi, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Mahindra Mutual Fund.
    This was followed by a panel discussion on setting goals and achieving them through different mutual fund investment strategy. The panel had V. Balasubramanian, Chief Equity Strategist, Mahindra Mutual Fund, Hemant Rustagi, Chief Executive Officer, Wiseinvest Advisors, Suresh Sadagopan, Founder, Ladder7 Financial Advisories, Pooja Bhinde, CFP, PB Investments as panelists and it was moderated by Mr. Muralidhar Swaminathan, Channel Director- BTVI.
    The session was informative and threw light on the current market situation along with sharing insights on how to invest in mutual funds and how to manage expectations and risks involved in investing. The on-ground show was to encourage Indian investors to SAVE, INVEST AND PROSPER which is part of channel’s credo.
    To catch this interactive session, Tune in to BTVI on Sat 29 Sep at 11am & Sun 30 Sep 6.30pm

  • ‘Wealth Manager’ – Coming soon on Bloomberg TV India

    ‘Wealth Manager’ – Coming soon on Bloomberg TV India

    Mumbai: Bloomberg TV India, the country’s leading English business news channel, will unveil the show “Wealth Manager”. The first ever show on Wealth management will highlight the challenges, opportunities and risk of managing wealth in a growing market like India.

    Bloomberg TV India will focus on the crucial sectors of Wealth Management like Insurance, Mutual Funds, International investments, Equity, Real Estate, Estate planning and Gold to give a 360-degree view on each sector. The Channel will bring together the very best financial advisers, wealth managers and private bankers to share insights, analysis and advice.

    Wealth management as an investment-advisory discipline incorporates financial planning, investment portfolio management and a number of aggregated financial services.

    Commenting on the show launch, Ms. Mini Menon, Executive Editor, Bloomberg TV India said, “Looking at the way the markets have run up so intensely in the last few months, there is still a lot of opportunity waiting to get invested in the Indian market. Managing wealth will be a bigger challenge in 2015. ‘Wealth Manager’ is our attempt to look at the reality and on ground picture of the sector and the show will enable the viewers to take informed decision. We are delighted to start our series with a focus to provide deep insights on the industry and highlight emerging trends to our viewers.

  • Bloomberg TV India hosts panel discussion to discuss “Strategies for Success”

    Bloomberg TV India hosts panel discussion to discuss “Strategies for Success”

    MUMBAI: Bloomberg TV India, the nation’s leading English business news channel, hosted an exclusive evening with the industry honchos in Mumbai to discuss the growth in business with the right strategy.

     

    The fact that rapid socio-economic changes in the country are having profound impact across sectors set the tone for the evening. Keeping this in view, the panel discussion on “Strategies for Success” highlighted the various issues faced by the new age entrepreneur in the country from planning to execute to scale up the business idea and make a bench mark in the industry. Today, some of the biggest challenges faced by any entrepreneur are finding the right talent, keeping up with innovation, keeping up with government regulation, issues related to governance, managing partners and generating funds for the business.

     

    The most important virtue an entrepreneur needs to develop is an optimistic mindset. Fear, insecurity, lack of focus, and self-disruption can bring down even the most excellent entrepreneur with the best idea.

     

    The panel discussion was a part of the ongoing series “Lesson in Strategy” featuring Dr. Tarun Khanna, Professor, Harvard Business School. In continuation to the earlier series Lesson to Leadership; the current series focuses on issues every entrepreneur faces, and arms them with crucial knowledge to nurture a great idea into a successful business model.

     

    The series includes five interview session with Dr. Tarun Khanna and one panel discussion. Bloomberg TV India brings together leaders of Indian industry and the faculty of Harvard Business School, for a discussion on innovation and how relevant is it to scale up an innovative business idea.  Each episode of the series is based on important entrepreneurial aspects such as starting a new business, Scaling up existing business, Diversification of business, Globalization of the business and sustaining growth.

    Bloomberg TV India has carved a niche for itself by catering to the influential and providing content to the viewers who are looking for niche business content in the country. Lesson in Strategy is one such thought provoking and thought leadership initiative which helps to understand how businesses operate in India and the strategies which can make a business successful. Lesson in Strategy is presented by Reliance Commercial Finance and powered by Voltas all weather.

     

    The Panel Discussion on “Strategies for Success”, part of the ongoing series “Lesson in Strategy”  will telecast on May 7th and May 10th at 8.30 pm and 10.00 pm respectively exclusively on Bloomberg TV India.

     

    Esteem panelist included Dr. Tarun Khanna, Professor, Harvard Business School ; Mr. K.V Srinivasan, CEO, Reliance Commercial Finance ; Mr. Harsh Mariwala, Chairman, Marico Limited and Mr. Varun Aggarwal, Co – Founder, CTO & COO, Aspiring Minds.

  • ET Now channel share stays stagnant; UTVi surges ahead

    ET Now channel share stays stagnant; UTVi surges ahead

     

     

    MUMBAI: UTVi has overtaken ET Now after losing its position to the English business news channel from the Times Global Broadcasting stable in the launch week itself.

    As per Tam data for week 27 (All India, C&S 25+), ET Now’s channel share has come down marginally to 5.53 per cent (from previous week’s 5.91 per cent), whereas UTVi, which had 3.98 per cent market share in week 26, went up to 5.67 per cent to regain its third position among the English business news channels.

    Among the top two, market leader CNBC TV18 fell to 62 per cent channel share from previous week’s 70 per cent, while NDTV profit upped its share to 27 per cent for the week ended 4 July.

    Even in metros, ET Now has lost ground to UTVi. The channel, which edged out UTVi with eight per cent share, lost one per cent in week 27. UTVi, on the other hand, climbed from six per cent share to 13 per cent in the week under review.

    CNBC TV18 also shed some of its share in the metro markets to NDTV Profit. From a 67 per cent share in the previous week, it slumped to 51 per cent. NDTV Profit, in contrast, rose from 20 per cent to a 29 per cent market share.

    Says UTVi VP marketing Vivek Malhotra, “Last week, what we saw was curiosity sampling for the new entrant.” 

    Officials from ET Now declined to comment.

    More significant, however, will be next week’s data which will reveal viewership numbers for the 2009-10 Budget.
     

     

     

  • Times Group’s biz channel is ET Now

    Times Group’s biz channel is ET Now

    MUMBAI: Times Global Broadcasting has announced the name of its English business news channel as ET Now.

    The channel is likely to launch by April. When contacted, Times Global Broadcasting CEO Chintamani Rao said: “ET Now will launch in the first half of this year.”

    The logo of the channel was unveiled by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 17 January, at the Economic Times awards in Mumbai.

    The channel will focus on breaking and trend stories.

    Lowe Lintas will be handling the creative duties of the channel while the media account will be with Lodestar Universal.