MEDIA CONGLOMERATE/ GROUP/
INSTITUTION
Is a company that owns large numbers of
companies in various mass media such as
television, radio, publishing, movies, and the
Internet etc etc ….
The Times Group is India’s largest media
conglomerate with its flagship Bennett,
Coleman and Company Limited (BCCL) being
the largest publishing company in India and
South-Asia.
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Publishing
Largest publishing co in India: 13 newspapers, 18 magazines, 11
publishing centers, 26 printing centers
 Largest English newspaper in India by circulation (and the world)
 Largest Business newspaper in India by circulation (2nd largest English
Business daily in the world, behind WSJ)
 Largest Non‐English newspapers in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore by
circulation (India’s three largest cities)
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India’s most viewed English News Channel for over 6 years running
India’s most viewed English Business News channel
India’s most viewed Bollywood Entertainment and Lifestyle Channel for
over 9 years running
India’s first HD English Movies Channel
India’s first English Entertainment Channel focused on Romance and
Comedy
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Out-of-home
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Largest Indian network based on traffic and revenue (behind Google, Facebook,
Yahoo)
Operates 30+ digital businesses, most of which are Top 3 in their competitive
segment
Most popular B2C mobile shortcode in India, across SMS, voice, WAP, and USSD
Radio
Largest radio network in India by revenue and listenership, with 32 stations
Largest Out‐of‐home advertising business in India with presence in all major
metros
Owns advertising contracts in most major airports in India.
Other Activities
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Music
Movies
Syndication
Education
Financial Services
Event Management
Specialised publications - including books and multimedia
 Times
of India
 Delhi Times
 Mumbai Mirror
 NBT
 Zoom
 Movies Now
 Romedy Now
 ET Now
 Times Now
 Femina
 Top
Gear
 Filmfare
 Radio Mirchi
 Hello
 Good Homes
 Home Trends
Sun Group consists of 33 Television Channels,
DTH one of largest Service Provider in India,
45 FM Radio Stations, 2 Daily Newspapers, 5
Magazines, an Airline & IPL franchise.
 Sun
TV
 Gemini TV
 Udya TV
 Surya TV
 Spicejet
 Sunrisers Hyderabad
 Sun Pictures
 Dinakaran, Tamil Murasu & Malai Murasu are
the country’s largest circulated Tamil dailies.
The group has a strong presence in
newspapers, radio, event marketing, printing
,internet portal. With its flagship Hindi daily
newspaper - Dainik Bhaskar, Gujarati daily,
Divya Bhaskar, Marathi daily Divya Marathi
and English daily - dna, it covers 14 States
with 58 editions. It also publishes DB Star and
Magazines like Aha! Zindagi, Balbhaskar and
Young Bhaskar. The other media businesses
includes MY FM (radio channel) & DB Digital
(internet services).
 Zee
Entertainment Enterprises
 Zee
Media Corporation
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HT Media found its beginning in 1924 when its flagship
newspaper, Hindustan Times was inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi
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HT Media also publishes a national business newspaper, Mint. Mint
is a one-of-its-kind newspaper in the sense that the company has
an exclusive agreement with the Wall Street Journal to publish
Journal-branded news and information in India. Mint is today the
second-largest business newspaper in India with presence in the
key markets of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Chandigarh,
Pune, Kolkata and now Ahmedabad too.
 Diversifying
its ambit of operations, the
company in a consulting partnership with
Virgin Radio, has launched the FM radio
channel - Fever 104. Currently available in
Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kolkata, Fever
104 has established a strong presence as
being one of the most vibrant channels on air
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Internet businesses of HT Media incorporated under Firefly e-ventures,
operate leading web portals Hindustantimes.com and livemint.com in the
general and business news categories respectively. The company's job
portal Shine.com which has received high appreciation from consumers
and industry for its innovative design and usability crossed 7 million
registrations. Desimartini.com -a platform to discover and express
oneself on movies. The company also has an education
portalwww.HTCampus.com aimed at students passing out of school and
college to help them take the right decision about their higher
education.
 Founded
in 1988 by Pranay Rao and Radhika
Rao
 Famous
shows- The world this week ; News
Tonight(first private news on DD); produced
first 24 hour news channel –Star News
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channels NDTV 24x7 (English), NDTV India
(Hindi) and India’s first ever 2-in-1 channel
NDTV Profit-NDTV Prime (Business and
Infotainment)
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NDTV 24x7 is the only English News Channel from
India which is beamed in the UK, USA, Canada,
South Africa, Middle East, Australia, New
Zealand, Mauritius and most of the SAARC
Countries to reach out to the Indian Diaspora
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Subsidiaries: NDTV Lifestyle, NDTV Convergence
(triple play; to exploit the synergies between
television, Internet and mobile and owns the
website ndtv.com) and NDTV Worldwide offering
high end consultancy for setting up of local
television news channels in emerging markets
across the world.
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2007 the company launched NDTV Good
Times, an up-market lifestyle channel for the
global urban Indian; and used its expertise to
launch global channels, Astro Awani, a
channel in Malaysia and Independent
Television with Beximco Group in Bangladesh
Media and entertainment company with interests in television,
internet, filmed entertainment, digital commerce, magazines,
mobile content and allied businesses
The Network18 group operates digital business including portals
such as moneycontrol.com, ibnlive.com, burrp.com, in.com and
firstpost.com. 'Network18' also operates e-commerce properties
like HomeShop18 and bookmyshow.com and publishes Forbes
India, the nation's first local edition of a foreign news magazine
title, in collaboration with Forbes Media. In addition, the group
operates Network18 Publishing, a player in the special interest
publishing space.
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'Network18' has investments in Yatra, Stargaze and other companies.
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Through its subsidiary 'TV18 Broadcast Limited‘ the group operates news
channels - CNBC-TV18, CNBC Awaaz, CNBC Bajar, CNBC-TV18 Prime HD,
CNN-IBN, IBN7, ETV channels and IBN-Lokmat (a Marathi regional news
channel in partnership with the Lokmat group).
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TV18 also operates a joint venture with Viacom, called Viacom18, which
houses a portfolio of popular entertainment channels - Colors, Colors HD,
Rishtey, MTV India, MTV Indies, Comedy Central, Vh1, Nick, Sonic, Nick
Jr, Teen Nick and Viacom18 Motion Pictures, the group's filmed
entertainment business. TV18 operates a factual entertainment channel
History TV18 through a joint venture with A+E Networks.
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Recent Reliance deal acquired control of Network 18 and TV 18
Viacom 18 Media Pvt. Ltd. is a 50/50 joint venture operation
in India between Viacom Inc and the Network18 Group,
(with
interests
in
television,
internet,
filmed
entertainment, mobile content & allied businesses,
comprising brands like CNBC TV18, CNBC Awaaz,
Newswire18, moneycontrol.com, CNN-IBN, IBN 7,
Homeshop18 and E18 amongst others).
Viacom 18 Media Pvt. Ltd. operates six
general
entertainment channels - MTV, Nickelodeon,
Vh1,
COLORS, SONIC, Comedy Central and film business through
Viacom18 Motion Pictures, that produces, acquires and
distributes Hindi films.
ABP Group has evolved into a media
conglomerate that has eleven premier
publications, three 24-hour national TV news
channels, two leading book publishing
businesses as well as mobile and internet
properties
Dailies –Ananda Bazar Patrika, The Telegraph
ABP News, ABP Majha, ABP Ananda
Fortune India
Living Media (India Today Group) is an Indian
media conglomerate based in New Delhi and
has interest in magazine, newspaper, books,
radio, television, printing and interest
 India
Today
 Headlines Today
 Aaj Taak
 Business Today
 Good Housekeeping
 Cosmopolitan
 Readers Digest
 Harvard Business Review
The Indian Express and the business daily,
The Financial Express, are published from a
dozen cities every day, including New Delhi,
Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Pune,
Chandigarh, Lucknow, Jammu and Chennai.
The Group publishes Loksatta in Mumbai, the
largest Marathi daily, and Jansatta in Hindi.
Screen, its weekly entertainment magazine,
is considered the most influential and
authoritative in the Mumbai film industry.
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Indian Express Group is a pioneer in
launching niche business and trade
publications, exclusively handled by its
strategic business unit: Business Publications
Division (BPD). Established in 1990, the
division manages leading B2B publications
and events catering to major industry
verticals such as Information Technology,
Hospitality, Travel, Pharma and Healthcare.
 Express
Computers
 Express
Travelworld
 Express
Pharma etc etc…..
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To act as a central organization of the Press of India, Burma and Ceylon.
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To promote and safegaurd such business interests of members as ae
affected or are likely to be affected by the action of Legislatures,
Governments, the Law Courts, municipal and local bodies and
associations or organizations commercial or formed for any other purpose
and to take such steps as may seem desirable to that end.
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To collect information upon all topics having a practical interst for
members and to communicate the same to them.
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To promote co-operation in all matters affecting the common interests of
members.
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To hold periodical conferences of its members to discuss and determine
action on matters of common interest.
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To make rules to govern the conduct of its members, to provide penalties
for the infringement thereof, and to provide means of determining
whether there has been such infringement.
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To maintain a permanent secretariat in India to watch over the interests
of members and to permit of a constant interchange of information and
views.
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To do or concur in doing all such other things as may be considered
conducive or incidental to the attainment of the aforesaid objects or to
the interests of newspapers in general or of the Society or any of its
members in particular.
Below mentioned are some of the functions
and activities of INS.
 Advertising
 Newsprint
 Industrial Relations
 Press Freedom
 Seminars
 Modernization
 INS Buildings
Jagran Prakashan Ltd (JPL) is India’s leading
media and communications group, with its
main interests across Newspapers, Outdoor,
Internet, Magazines, Below the Line
marketing solutions, and Mobile Value Added
Services
 Dainik
Jagran
 Mid Day
 Nai Duniya
 Jagran Sakhi
I-next, India’s fastest growing compact daily in bilingual format,
has caught on to the pulse of the Young at Heart. In a very short
span of time, it has captured the imagination of people who look
out for newer opportunities and seek deeper probes into the
more relevant issues of changing India of today. It now covers 12
prominent cities in 4 states of India through its various editions.
It distinctly stands apart from its competitors due to its beautiful
packaging of news, attractive layout design and the versatility of
news & features. These accomplishments have made I next the
pulse of today’s Youthful India wherever its present
 Mahendra
 Sanjay
Gupta
Gupta
Amar Ujala Publication Ltd is a privately
owned newspaper publisher, based in Noida,
India. The company publishes Amar
Ujala. The group has also expanded into
consumer magazines and books publishing
business. Amar Ujala is privately owned by
the Aggarwal and Maheshwari family.