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  • CNN-IBN Presents Young India Debates

    CNN-IBN Presents Young India Debates

    MUMBAI: With more than half of India’s population below the age of 25 & around 14 crores youngsters getting ready to cast their maiden vote, the politics of the nation is heading for  change. The political parties have already started luring these youngsters by making promises & planning policies that will benefit them as they get ready to decide the fate of the world’s biggest democracy by selecting or rejecting the candidates.

    Recognizing the significance of these young participants in the world’s largest democratic exercise, CNN-IBN adds another masterpiece to its election programming – YOUNG INDIA DEBATES, a show to highlight the power of youth as India gets ready to vote. Anchored by Rajdeep Sardesai & Anubha Bhonsle, the debate show will emerge as a breakthrough in the election programming space.

    Talking on the launch of the show, Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief, CNN-IBN, IBN7 & IBN-Lokmat, said, “Today the youth of this country dominates the electoral demography and is ready to play a pivotal role in the next government formation. Through this show, we as the leading news channel of the nation empower the youth to take up their issues & seek answers on their concerns by debating it with their leaders. This show is another milestone in our comprehensive election programming and also, stands testimony to our belief in inclusive Journalism.”

    Don’t miss this special debate show starting 19th April, Saturday @ 8.00 PM and repeats on 20th April, Sunday @ 12 noon & 9.30 PM only on CNN-IBN.

     

  • CNN-IBN & IBN7 in partnership with ADR launch MP Ka Report Card

    CNN-IBN & IBN7 in partnership with ADR launch MP Ka Report Card

    MUMBAI: With almost 8,000 candidates from over 1,400 political parties, 814 million eligible voters, and nine phases, India’s 16th General Election is going to be the largest electoral exercise that the world has ever witnessed. The big question: Who should we vote for?

     

    To help the voters make up their minds, CNN-IBN and IBN7, in partnership with ADR, have come up with a unique initiative called *MP**’s Report Card and MP** Ka Report Card*, a special survey-based news segment that illeducate the voters about their leaders and help them taking informed decisions.

     

    Starting March 18, this special high-frequency segment will cover the work done by our MPs, their successes and failures. The survey will cover around 250,000 people in 530 constituencies, making it the largest such survey ever undertaken.

     

    Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief, CNN-IBN, IBN7 & IBN-Lokmat, said,”The common man can make or break a government. As a news network, it’s our responsibility to educate our voters and keep them informed about the leaders they are going to vote for. With MP’s Report Card, we want to enable voters to truly understand the performance of their current MPs and take decisions accordingly.”

     

    Don’t miss the special segments starting 18th March, Monday to Friday, throughout the day only on CNN-IBN & IBN7.

  • CNN-IBN and Rajdeep Sardesai Leads in Social Media Conversation during Assembly Elections

    CNN-IBN and Rajdeep Sardesai Leads in Social Media Conversation during Assembly Elections

    MUMBAI: The recent research conducted by an independent organizationGoonj Labs, on news channel’s social media engagement during the latest Assembly Elections, has yet again proved that CNN-IBN, India’s No. 1 English News channel is the leader in social media space too. The channel’s popularity when calculated across platforms on Google Search, Facebook, Twitter, Google News, You Tube was 14% higher in comparison to the nearest channel on the counting day. CNN- IBN consistently receives more positive feedback than the rest.

    In terms of interactions,Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief, CNN-IBN, IBN7 & IBN Lokmat is leading the pack, especially due to personal intervention and responses which come regularly. On the counting day, 67% people searched, read, or interacted with content related to Rajdeep(#AskRajdeep) in India.When it comes to interaction with opinion makersand influencers Rajdeep Sardesai is the most popular choice, the popularity of Rajdeep was 73% more than the average for English News editors and a staggering 35% more than his nearest competitor, also Rajdeep Sardesai received 95% more than Arnab G. and 33% more than Barkha Dutt.

    In terms of positive interactions on social media, Rajdeep Sardesai is the most popular choice with 60% more positive interactions than the average for the English News editors.On the election results day, Rajdeep Sardesai was the most sought after English News editor on social media; not only in terms of volume but also in terms of positive comments and interaction with influential individuals.

    CNN-IBN, the most watched English news channelof the Countryleads other channels in positive conversations and interactions in social media space; the channel has 64% more positive conversations than the category average for English News. On the day of announcements, CNN-IBN had the highest share of conversations compared to other English news channels (approx. 30% ahead), also on positive conversations and engagement, CNN-IBN is consistently ahead. In comparison to the rest, CNN-IBN is the most popular choice when it comes to the influential people on social media;the popularity of CNN-IBN among influencers is 56% more than the category average for English News.The popularity of CNN-IBN was 48% more than the category average for English News.

    The result from the report by Goonj Labs has proved that, CNN-IBN & Rajdeep Sardesai were hands down Winners on Social Media Space during Assembly Elections.

  • Inspirational Indians Felicitated at SENIOR CITIZEN AWARDS

    Inspirational Indians Felicitated at SENIOR CITIZEN AWARDS

    MUMBAI: In a first-of-a-kind initiative, CNN-IBN, in partnership with Paranjape Schemes Construction Limited, honoured 12 unsung senior citizens of India at the Senior Citizen Awards – The Unstoppables. At a glittering awards ceremony held at Taj Land’s End Hotel in Mumbai, Chief Guest Amitabh Bachchan felicitated the winners for their brave and inspirational endeavours.

    These special awardees, well past their retirement age, have been working tirelessly to improve the lives of people around them, thereby making themselves valuable partners in India’s progress. The recipients of this award were as follows:

    •    Keepu Tsering Lepcha
    •    Girish Bharadwaj
    •    Manilal Dand
    •    Chandrasekhar Sankurathri
    •    Hirbaiben Ibrahimbhai Lobi
    •    Dr. Joyce Siromoni
    •    HS D’Lima
    •    Merzaban Patel 
    •    Dr. Shantuben Patel
    •    Sindhutai Sapkal
    •    Tulasi Munda
    •    Anjina Rajagopal

    The Senior Citizen Awards – The Unstoppables adhered to a process of selection which had the CNN-IBN Editorial Board at its core.
    Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief, CNN-IBN, IBN7 & IBN-Lokmat, shares his views about the awards, saying, “We are proud to bestow this honour on our senior citizens who work at the grassroots to uplift our society without looking for any kind of recognition in return. These citizens have withstood the odds of age and have zealously taken it upon themselves to pave way for a better future for the generations to come.”

  • Battle for the States

    Battle for the States

    MUMBAI: As the 5 states of Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Mizoram go to elections in November-December, CNN-IBN & IBN7, in partnership with THE WEEK, bring to you the most incisive and definitive pre-election survey in these states, conducted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS).

    Amidst the tough multi-party competition and hectic campaigning in these states, the survey will give the viewers a head start on the likely outcome of the Assembly elections; delving into seat projections, sensing the mood of the voters in key constituencies and discussing the biggest factors and issues that are going to impact the results.

    With a formidable team of journalists, joined by the best political experts in the country, the survey aims to give its viewers the sharpest and most precise analysis of the elections.
    Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief, CNN-IBN, IBN7 and IBN-Lokmat, said, “The pre-poll study is an attempt to sense the mood of the voters and determine how this will impact the overall constitution of the respective State Assemblies. Once again, we are pleased to partner with THE WEEK in this endeavour.”

    Ashutosh, Managing Editor, IBN7 said, “In the run-up to the State Assembly elections, this pre-poll study is an initiative to reach out to voters, understand their issues and how their decision will impact the electoral outcomes in these 5 key poll-bound states.”

    Philip Mathew, Managing Editor, THE WEEK, said, “We are glad to partner with CNN-IBN & IBN7 in conducting this pre-poll survey. As usual, it is our endeavour to give our readers the most thorough insights into the current political and social scenarios in the poll-bound states.”
    To know the findings of this study, tune into ‘Election Tracker’ on CNN-IBN and ‘Mera Vote Meri Sarkar – Agar Abhi Chunav Hon Toh’ on IBN7, from Mon, Oct 28 to Thu, Oct 31 at 8pm.

    You can also read the detailed results and analysis of the survey in the issue of THE WEEK, hitting stands on Nov 1, 2013.

  • CNN-IBN shines at the 13th Indian television academy awards

    CNN-IBN shines at the 13th Indian television academy awards

    NEW DELHI: India’s Most Awarded News Channel, has once again proved its mettle by winning three awards at the prestigious 13th Indian Television Academy Awards. CNN-IBN was adjudged the Best English News Channel of 2013 – for the seventh time in the last eight years and four times in a row. Sagarika Ghose, was conferred the Best Anchor – Talk/Chat Show for Face the People. The other award was bagged by the channel’s flagship show INDIA at 9 in the category Best News/ Current Affairs Show.

    The Indian Television Academy Awards is an annual event organised by the Indian Television Academy. The awards are presented in various categories, including popular programming (music, news, entertainment, sports, travel, lifestyle and fashion), best television channel in various categories, technical awards and best performance awards.

    Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief, CNN-IBN, IBN7 & IBN Lokmat, said, “It is with great pride that we accept the award for the Best English News Channel for the seventh time in the last eight years. This is indeed a tribute to the relentless spirit of the wonderful team at CNN-IBN which works very hard day after day, 365 days.”

  • TV9’s Mumbai-centric Hindi news channel to convert into Marathi

    TV9’s Mumbai-centric Hindi news channel to convert into Marathi

    MUMBAI: Associated Broadcasting Company Limited (ABCL), which runs a clutch of regional channels, is converting its Mumbai-centric Hindi news channel into full-fledged Marathi.

    The decision to make TV9 Maharashtra a local regional-language news channel comes in the wake of losses from the city-specific Hindi news channel. “We are changing it into Marathi as it is the only loss-making channel in our entire bouquet. Earlier being in Hindi, we were not attracting any state government advertisements. Going local would also mean that we get more connected with people outside Mumbai,” said ABCL vice president operations KVN Murthy.

    The channel’s operational loses are estimated at close to Rs 300 million a year, according to market estimates. TV9 officials, however, declined to comment on the extent of these losses.

    TV9 Maharashtra has begun the process of transitioning into a full-fledged Marathi news channel as part of its strategy to go local. The news bulletin and the other prime-time shows have already made the shift to Marathi with the exception of the Entertainment bulletin which will eventually go Marathi.

    TV9 Maharashtra head Srinivas Reddy said that 90 per cent of the content is in Marathi while only 10 per cent is in Hindi. “We haven’t decided any date on when we want to become a Marathi channel completely. But that is the way we are moving.”

    ABCL had made its expansion into the Hindi language with the launch of TV9 Mumbai in 2009 focussed on local news. However, TV9 Mumbai was last year rebranded as TV9 Maharashtra to widen the viewership base. But language turned out to be a major impediment since Marathi is the most widely spoken language in Maharashtra.

    “Marathi is the language of the common people in Maharashtra. We thus decided to become a Marathi news channel,” Reddy said, talking about the shift to Marathi language.

    TV9 Maharashtra, which will have to compete with established players like Zee 24 Taas, ABP Majha (earlier Star Majha) IBN Lokmat and ETV Marathi, is betting on local content to drive viewership.

    “If you look at other Marathi news channels, they are covering more of other news rather than news of local relevance. We will be focusing only on local news. In fact, TV9 Maharashtra will have 90 per cent of local content and maybe 10 per cent of other content like sports,” he averred.

    TV9 Maharashtra has around 100 part-time and full-time journalists across Maharashtra and around 15 anchors. While most of the team is in place, the channel will hire new employees for its output division.

    The Marathi news broadcaster also has offices in different cities of Maharashtra including Nagpur, Nashik and Pune.

    So will there be a sizeable retrenchment because of this makeover exercise? “We are not sacking anybody. In fact, a lot of our employees were already Marathi speaking and we are also training existing employees in our output division in addition to hiring new people for output division.”

    However, Indiantelevision.com has been made to understand that the broadcaster has already told certain employees to look out for a new job as part of its resturcutring excercise.

    In addition to TV9 Maharashtra, ABCL runs four regional news channels including TV9 Karnataka (Kannada), TV9 Gujarat (Gujarati), Indiavision (Malayalam), Kolkata TV (Bengali), besides an English news channel News9. It also has a niche channel in Telugu devoted to Entertainment and News called TV1.

  • Promoters’ stake in Network18 rises to 73% after rights issue

    Promoters’ stake in Network18 rises to 73% after rights issue

    MUMBAI: Raghav Bahl’s stake in Network18 has soared to 73 per cent after a muted response from the other shareholders to the rights issue but it is still not clear how much control Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) will have indirectly over the sprawling media company which has interests in television, internet, films, digital commerce, magazines, mobile content and allied businesses.

    RIL’s Independent Media Trust (IMT) was to provide the money the promoters of Network18 would require to subscribe to shares in the rights issues of both Network18 and TV18. The details of funds lent by IMT through investments in zero coupon optionally convertible debentures (ZOCDs) issued by the promoter companies are not yet available.

    A minimum amount of Rs 9.96 billion borrowed from IMT would result in a 51 per cent stake in the promoter companies of Network18 on conversion of the ZOCDs.

    Following the closure of the rights issue on 4 October, the promoter holding in Network18 Media & Investments Ltd has jumped by 51 per cent from its earlier stake of 48.30 per cent.

    This follows the increase in stakes of the six promoter companies which subscribed to the promoters’ entitlement in the rights issue and also to the rights entitlement unsubscribed by non-promoter shareholders.

    After the rights issue, the shareholding of the six promoter companies in Network18 has increased to 66.16 per cent from 36.90 per cent. After including the shareholding of other promoter group holdings, the total promoter stake in Network18 after the rights issue is 73 per cent.

    The six promoter companies are RRB Mediasoft, RB Mediasoft, RB Media Holdings, Watermark Infratech, Colorful Media and Adventure Marketing. These promoter companies are owned and controlled by Bahl, founder of Network18 group, and wife Ritu Kapur.

    Network18’s subsidiary TV18 Broadcast Ltd operates news channels CNBC-TV18, CNBC Awaaz, CNBC-TV18 Prime HD, CNN-IBN, IBN7 and IBN-Lokmat (a Marathi regional news channel in partnership with the Lokmat group of newspapers).

    TV18 also operates a joint venture with Viacom, called Viacom18, which houses a portfolio of popular entertainment channels – Colors, Colors HD, MTV, Sonic, Comedy Central, VH1 and Nick – and Viacom18 Motion Pictures, the group’s filmed entertainment business.

    Network18 offered 307 shares for every 50 shares held by its shareholders at a price of Rs 30 per share. Its subsidiary TV18’s rights issue of 41 shares for every 11 shares held by its shareholders at a price of Rs 20 per share closed on 15 October, but the details of the issue are still not available.

  • IBN Lokmat Q3 net loss widens to Rs 41 mn

    IBN Lokmat Q3 net loss widens to Rs 41 mn

    MUMBAI: IBN Lokmat, the 50-50 JV between TV 18 Broadcast and Lokmat Group, has finished another quarter in the red with the net loss widening to Rs 41.2 million for the quarter ended 31 December 2011.

    The company, which runs 24-hour Marathi news channel IBN Lokmat, had reported a net loss of Rs 34 million in the earlier year.

    Revenue from operations fell 10.42 per cent to Rs 43 million compared to Rs 48 million in the year ago period. Operating expense for the quarter also increased to Rs 71 million, from Rs 64 million in the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal.

    The increase in expense was mainly because of the hike in marketing costs during the quarter to Rs 29 million. Staff costs for the quarter remained flat at Rs 21 million, while production cost came down 10 per cent to Rs 20 million.

    IBN Lokmat‘s Ebitda loss for the quarter has also gone up to Rs 27 million, from Rs 19 million a year ago.

  • TV 18’s national news ops break even in Q3

    TV 18’s national news ops break even in Q3

    MUMBAI: The national news business of TV18 Broadcast has attained break-even status while losses continue to kick in from regional news operations.

    TV18‘s general news operations on a combined level, however, posted an operating loss of Rs 16 million for the fiscal third quarter, reversing from a profit of Rs 71 million in the earlier year. The loss in the second quarter of this fiscal was lower at Rs 7 million.

    Operating profit from the business news segment has narrowed to Rs 108 million for the three months ended December 2011, from Rs 225 million a year ago.

    TV18‘s operating loss from combined news operations was Rs 162 million, reversing from a profit of Rs 296 million in the earlier-year quarter. Revenue grew to Rs 1.67 billion compared to Rs 1.53 billion a year ago.

    In the general news segment, revenue rose to Rs 773 million, from Rs 744 million in the third quarter of the previous fiscal. For business news, revenue stood at Rs 876 million, up 11 per cent.

    Revenue from infotainment channel History 18, which was launched in the third quarter of this fiscal, stood flat at Rs 22 million. The channel posted a loss of Rs 253 million.

    Digital business continued to be in the red with the loss widening almost 51 per cent to Rs 322 million. Revenue rose 10 per cent to Rs 584 million.

    Web18 recorded revenues of Rs 263 million, a growth of 21 per cent over the corresponding quarter last year on a proforma basis. Newswire18 delivered revenues of Rs 108 million for the quarter, and HomeShop18 Rs 213 million, a growth of 28 per cent over the corresponding quarter last year.

    On a consolidated basis, TV18 Broadcast posted a net loss of Rs 535 million for the fiscal third quarter , mainly due to new channel launches.

    The company‘s consolidated net profit in the same quarter of the earlier year stood at Rs 198 million.

    Revenue increased to Rs 3.43 billion, up from Rs 2.36 billion a year ago.

    TV18‘s consolidated numbers include 100 per cent standalone and AETN18, 50 per cent share of Viacom18 and 50 per cent share of IBN Lokmat.

    The company‘s shares closed at Rs 31.30, down 2.03 per cent on the BSE.