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INTRODUCTION
News is any new information or information on current events which is presented by
print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience. The
reporting and investigation of news falls within the profession of journalism. News
is often reported by a variety of sources, such as newspapers, television, and radio
programs, wire services, and web sites. News reporting is a type of journalism,
typically written or broadcast in news style. Most news is investigated and
presented by journalists and can be distributed to various outlets via news agencies.
There are many categories of news. The weather is typically presented by a certified
meteorologist or, on smaller stations, a less-trained "weatherman" and is considered
news. Other news categories are: sports, fashion, society, entertainment, business,
cartoon strips, features, lottery numbers, and lives of celebrities, advertising, and
more. Until the 1970s, when women's lib issues came to the forefront, most
newspapers had a "Women's" section devoted entirely to fashion and society news.
In its infancy, news gathering was primitive by today's standards. Printed news had
to be phoned in to a newsroom or brought there by a reporter where it was typed and
either transmitted over wire services or edited and manually set in type along with
other news stories for a specific edition. Today, the term "Breaking News" has
become trite as broadcast and cable news services use live satellite technology to
bring current events into consumers' homes live as it happens.
Events that used to take hours or days to become common knowledge in towns or in
nations are fed instantaneously to consumers via radio, television, cell phones, and
the Internet.
Most large cities had morning and afternoon newspapers. As the media evolved and
news outlets increased to the point of near over saturation, afternoon newspapers
were shut down except for relatively few. Morning newspapers have been gradually
losing circulation, according to reports advanced by the papers themselves.
Commonly, news content should contain the "Five Ws" (who, what, when, where,
why, and also how) of an event. There should be no questions remaining.
Newspapers normally write hard news stories, such as those pertaining to murders,
fires, wars, etc. in inverted pyramid style so the most important information is at the
beginning. Busy readers can read as little or as much as they desire. Local stations
and networks with a set format must take news stories and break them down into the
most important aspects due to time constraints.
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India has more than forty domestic news agencies. The Express News Service, the
Press Trust of India, and the United News of India are among the major news
agencies.
• Dailies have driven this growth in the press medium, their reach rising as a
proportion of all individuals aged 12 years and above – which is the universe
defined for NRS – from 24% to 25%. Magazines have declined in reach
from 9% to 8% over the last one year.
• The time spent reading has remained the same – at 39 minutes daily on an
average per day over the last year. But there has been increase in urban India
(from 41 to 44 minutes daily) and decrease in rural India (from 36 to 35
minutes daily).
• Literacy as measured in the NRS has risen from 69.9% to 71.1% over the
last year. The rate of growth has been marginally lower urban areas (84.4%
to 85.3%) than in rural areas (63.6% to 64.8%). One would expect this to
boost the market for the press medium.
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• Radio is one medium that has shown considerable resurgence. Its reach has
increased from 23% to 27% of the population listening to any station in the
average week. Almost equaling the number of readers.
• Mobile phones must now be given their due place as media. Reach of this
medium – as measured by the proportion of the population accessing value-
added-features (VAS) at least once a week – has grown from 1.1% last year
to 2.7% -- translating to nearly 22 million individuals.
• If there is one overall conclusion, it is that the press medium must watch
emerging media closely. The NRS has the data points to indicate media
consumption amongst consumers from all walks of life. It is also worth
remembering that, socio-culturally speaking, India is like a couple of dozen
countries with a total of sixteen official languages and wide disparities in
living standards – the complexity of the Indian media market would rival
those of Europe if taken as a whole.
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• Dailies continue to grow, adding 12.6 million readers from last year to reach
203.6 million while there has been a drop of 7.1 million magazine readers. It
must be remembered that this refers only to mainstream magazines. A host
of niche titles that continue to be launched regularly are not fielded and their
collective readership estimate is outside the purview of the study.
• Over the last 3 years the number of readers of dailies and magazines put
together among those aged 12 years and above has grown from 216 mn to
222 mn – a growth of almost 3% over last year.
• There is still significant scope for growth, as 359 million people who can
read and understand any language do not read any publication. Of this 359
million, 68% read Hindi. It is not just affordability that is a constraint, since
20 million of these literate non-readers belong to the upscale SEC A and B
segments.
• The Hindi belt has been witness to intense activity from large dailies and is
an indicator of the general growth in the vernacular dailies segment. To
elaborate, vernacular dailies have grown from 191.0 million readers to 203.6
million while English dailies have stagnated at around 21 million.
• Magazines overall show a decline in the reader base, both in urban and rural
India. The reach of magazines has declined from 75 mn in 2005 to 68 mn in
2006. Magazines have lost 12% of their reach since 2005.
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• There are now two dailies that have captured more than 2 crore (20 million)
readers – Dainik Jagran (with 21.2 million) and Dainik Bhaskar (with
21million). The gap between Dainik Jagran & Danik Bhaskar has reduced
from 3.8 million readers to 200,000 readers this year.
• The Times of India is the most read English Daily with 7.4 mn readers, but
The Hindu has taken the second spot with 4.05 mn readers, pushing
Hindustan Times, to the third spot with an estimated readership of 3.85 mn.
Though Hindustan Times adding 360,000 new readers in Mumbai, it has but
lost readership across the Hindi belt.
• Today the average urban adult spends 44 minutes per day reading dailies and
magazines. The average reading time used to be 41 minutes.
• C&S reach has now penetrated 61% of all TV homes up from 56% last year.
• Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh dominate the markets with TV
reach of 76.2%, 76.2% and 78% respectively. These States also have high
penetration of Cable & Satellite i.e. 60%, 53% and 59% respectively.
• Color TV now matches the rapid pace of cable and satellite growth
• The number of individuals who accessed the Internet in the last 3 months
increased marginally from 10.8 mn to 13.0 mn in 2006. While 10.8 mn of
these are in urban India, nearly 1.8 mn internet users reside in rural India.
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The growth seems slower than expected – it must be pointed out that the
growth of the number of internet users in urban India is 35% over last year
while in rural India this seems to have stagnated.
• Among the fast growing tribe of mobile phone owners, 38% access value
added features like downloads, accessing news and Cricket scores, SMS etc
vs. 13.9% last year.
• The figure is higher at 44% in 42 metros.
• This means that as an advertising medium, it reaches more than 22 million
consumers. As can be expected, the usage levels are much higher among
young urban audiences and needs to be closely watched by not only the press
but also the TV industry in future. With the impending launch of 3G next
year the quality of content that will be delivered to mobile subscribers will
make it a force to reckon with.
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NEWS PAPERS
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Times of India and Statesman were amongst the first English language newspapers
and are still being published. Indian newspaper Industry has come a long way since
then and now hundreds of newspapers in regional languages; Hindi and English are
published every day from India.
1) The Hindu
2) Mid Day
3) Indian Express
4) The Statesman
5) Times of India
6) The Telegraph
7) The Pioneer
8) The Tribune
9) Hindustan Times
10) New Indian Express
11) The Asian Age
12) Deccan Chronicle
13) Deccan Herald
14) Afternoon Despatch & Courier
15) The Hitavada
16) Vijay Times
17) Central Chronicle
18) News Today
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Business newspapers
1) Economic Times
2) Financial Express
3) Business Standard
4) Business Line
Local newspapers
Hindi
1) Dainik Bhaskar
2) Jagran
3) Naiduniya
4) Rajasthan Patrika
5) Amai Ujala
6) Hindi Milan
Tamil
1) Dina Thanthi
2) Dinamani
3) Dinamalar
4) Dinakaran
Malayalam
1) Malayala Manorama
Gujarati
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1) Gujarat Samachar
2) Sandesh
3) Divya Bhaskar
Bengali
1) Anandbazar Patrika
2) Pratidin
Telegu
1) Eenadu
2) Vaartha
3) Andhra Prabha
Marathi
1) Sakal
2) Loksatta
3) Lokmat
4) Maharashtra Times
5) Tarun Bharat
Kannada
1) Udayavani
2) Sanjevani
Oriya
1) Pragativadi
2) The Samaja
3) Dharitri
Assamese
1) Aji
Punjabi
1) Daily Aji
Urdu
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1) Siasat Daily
2) The Inquilab
3) The Daily Milap
1) Times of India
2) Hindustan Times
3) The Hindu
4) Indian Express
5) The Telegraph
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The conference began on a positive note with an assurance that newspapers in India
are here to stay for some more time now. Unlike in the West where the industry is
being considered as a setting sun, Indian newspapers still have a huge potential in
terms of reach and thereby revenue.
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one of the prime reasons for the Indian print media to be happy about.” Wilkinson is
the moderator for all the sessions of the conference.
Speaking on the topic ‘How to Unlock Value from the Newspaper Business’, Akhil
Gupta, Senior Managing Partner and Chairman at Blackstone, which is an
alternative investing company, provided a comparison between different media and
their ad spends. He said that television ad spend in India was $1,372 billion, out of
the total industry revenue of $4,302 billion in television. The ad spend by print was
$1,558 billion, compared to an industry revenue of $3,128 billion, which indicates a
bright future for the print industry. He added that GDP was not an indicator of ad
spends, but private consumption of a product was the right indicator. Reach of TV is
more than that of print, with TV at 54.4 per cent, and print at 36.6 per cent.
“Ad intensity in India is far too behind in media, as compared to that of the US.
While in India it is 1.7 per cent, it is 5.6 per cent in the US. Contrary to perceptions,
Hindi and vernacular media are reaching to audiences faster than their English
counterpart, and as a result, ad spends will move from metropolitan cities to semi-
urban cities,” Gupta explained.
Gupta added that television ad spend had increased significantly over the last two
decades, and commanded 40-45 per cent of the advertising market. “Indian
newspapers outperform most leading newspapers across the world. The trend in
India would be to move from more regional to more pan-India presence because of
fund flow due to FDIs and the country’s population. However, the challenges ahead
are to build deep distribution network and product innovation, which would come
through efficient use of technology and by offering better pricing. Investment in
media is the highest, and I would say that there is enough headroom to invest more,”
he concluded.
WAN’s ‘World Press Trends, released in June 2007 at the 60th World Newspaper
Congress in Cape Town, showcased the fact that in 2006, the total circulation (515+
million) of paid-for dailies round the world rose by 2.30 per cent over the previous
year. The five-year increase, for 2002-2006, was a decent but unremarkable 9.48 per
cent.
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The breakdown told the real story. Unsurprisingly to newspaper people round the
world, the lion’s share of this 2.30 per cent global growth came from Asia (3.61 per
cent). South America (4.55 per cent), Australia & Oceania (2.11 per cent), and
Africa (1.20 per cent) made useful but more modest contributions to global growth.
North America saw a straight drop of 1.97 per cent in 2006, against a background of
a 5.18 per cent decline over five years. As for Europe, most of its 0.74 per cent
growth came from the less developed countries of eastern Europe and, to an extent,
central Europe. The European Union registered a 0.87 per cent drop in 2006, making
it a 5.63 per cent slide since 2002.
The real story has been known for some years: populous and fast-growing Asia is
the wonderland of newspaper growth. The story has attracted some wide-eyed,
exclamatory notice in the western press; and, as far as the story of the Indian
language press is concerned, there is a splendidly insightful book by the political
scientist Robin Jeffrey, India’s Newspaper Revolution (Oxford University Press,
New Delhi, 2000).
But there is an interesting story within the Asian newspaper growth story. It is in
developing — not developed — Asia where paid daily newspaper circulation is
growing. (South Korea, with its 10.59 per cent rise in 2006 and its 19 per cent
growth over five years, is an exception to this trend.) Paid-for daily newspapers in
China registered a 2.27 per cent growth in 2006, against a background of a 15.52 per
cent increase over five years.
The corresponding figures for India were 12.93 per cent and 53.63 per cent. “The
Japanese remain,” as a WAN press release puts it, “the world’s greatest newspaper
buyers, with 630.9 [copies of] daily sales per thousand adults [compared with about
70 copies of daily newspapers for 1000 adults in India].” But even in Japan, daily
newspaper sales dropped by 0.83 per cent in 2006 and by 2.42 per cent over five
years.
So it is developing Asia that is doing most of the running in this continent. ‘World
Press Trends’ minus developing Asia will look remarkably flat.
Five factors
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NRS after NRS has brought news that is music to the ears of the Indian language
press. According to NRS 2006, all the top ten most read dailies in India were Indian
language newspapers, with their estimated readership ranging from 8.41 million to
21.17 million. Not surprisingly given the enormous diversities of India, circulation
growth within the Indian language press has varied considerably across languages
and States. Hindi dailies accounted for more than 40 per cent of total daily
circulation in India and English language dailies for just over 10 per cent.
Newspapers in languages such as Telugu, Assamese, Punjabi, and Urdu, starting
from low bases, have also achieved dynamic growth rates. There is growth also in
those language sectors, notably Gujarati and Malayalam, that had a higher base
decades earlier.
The circulation of Indian dailies jumped 33 per cent to over 7.86 crore during 2001-
05 even as global newspaper circulation increased 9.95 percent in the same period.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, newspaper circulation is growing and new
newspapers are being launched at a ‘remarkable rate’, the Paris-based World
Association of Newspapers (WAN) said in a release.
Daily newspaper titles surpassed 10,000 for the first time in history, with India
accounting for 1,834 dailies in 2005, up 22.8 per cent from 1,493 dailies in 2001,
according to World Press Trends, WANs annual statistical compendium of the
newspaper industry.
"Newspapers are doing far better than commonly believed. In fact, the figures
confirm that the industry is healthy and vigorous and is successfully dealing with
increasing competition from other media.
"The fashion of predicting the death of newspapers should be exposed for what it is
-- nothing more than a fashion, based on common assumptions that are belied by the
facts."
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Afternoon
Afternoon 90,000
Total 90,000
Bombay Samachar
Mumbai Samachar, Gujarati 130,360
Total 130,360
Express Group
The Indian Express 178,463
The Financial Express 29,753
Loksatta, Marathi n.a.
Samakaleen, Gujarati 16,986
Lokprabha, Marathi n.a.
Indian Express(Ahmednagar) n.a.
Loksatta(Ahmednagar) n.a.
Total 225,202
Janmabhoomi
Janmabhoomi n.a.
Total n.a.
Mid-Day Group
Mid-Day 110,326
Inquilab, Urdu 28,833
Mid-Day Gujarati n.a.
Sunday Midday 135,000
Total 274,159
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Navabharat
Navbharat n.a.
Total n.a.
Navakal
Navakal 332,564
Total 332,564
SAAMNA
SAAMNA(MARATHI) n.a.
Total n.a.
Sakal
Sakal-Mumbai n.a.
Total n.a.
Times Group
The Times of India 536,166
The Economic Times 103,846
Navabharat Times, Hindi n.a.
Maharashtra Times, Marathi n.a.
Total 640,012
Vrut Manas
Vrut Manas n.a.
Total n.a.
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The Times of India was founded on November 3, 1838 as The Bombay Times and
Journal of Commerce[4], and served the British colonists of western India. It
adopted its present name in 1861. Published every Saturday and Wednesday, The
Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce was launched as a bi-weekly edition. It
contained news from Europe, the Americas, and the Subcontinent, and was
conveyed between India and Europe via regular steamships. The daily editions of
the paper were started from 1850 and by 1861, the Bombay Times was renamed
The Times of India. In the 19th century this newspaper company employed more
than 800 people and had a sizable circulation in India and Europe. Originally
British-owned and controlled, its last British editor was Ivor S. Jehu, who resigned
the editorship in 1950. It was after India's Independence that the ownership of the
paper passed on to the then famous industrial family of Dalmiyas and later it was
taken over by Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain of the Sahu Jain group from Bijnore, UP.
Times of India is published by the media group Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. This
company, along with its other group companies, known as The Times Group, also
publishes The Economic Times, Mumbai Mirror, the Navbharat Times (a Hindi-
language daily broadsheet), the Maharashtra Times (a Marathi-language daily
broadsheet).
In January 2007, the Kannada edition of the paper was launched in Bangalore.
The company has launched a controversial new business initiative, called “private
treaties” offering to take an equity stake in a company in exchange for advertising
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GUJARAT SAMACHAR
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The Indian Express is owned by the Indian Express Group, which also owns other
newspapers in India such as the Financial Express, a newspaper focused on the
Indian economy, stock markets, and fiscal policies. The group has other
publications such as Screen weekly, the Marathi-language daily Loksatta, and the
Hindi daily Jansatta.
Indian Express was started by an Auyurvedic doctor and Congress Party member
Varadarajulu Naidu in 1932 at Chennai (then Madras) published by his “Tamil
Nadu” press. But soon under financial difficulties he sold it to S.Sadanand, founder
of the Free Press Journal, a national news agency.
In 1933 The Indian Express opened its second office in Madurai and launched the
Tamil edition Dinamani. Sadanand introduced several innovations and reduced the
price, but was later forced to sell part of the stake in form of convertible debentures
to Ramanath Goenka due to financial difficulties. Later when the free press journal
collapsed in 1935 Sadanand lost the ownership of Indian Express after a long
controversial Court battle with RNG, where blows were exchanged between some
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of the parties[citation needed]. Finally a year later RNG Ramanath Goenka to buy
the rest of the 26% stake from Sadanand, and the paper came under Goenka's
control who took the already anti-establishment tone of the paper to greater heights.
[citation needed] Also at that time it had to face stiff competition from a well
established The Hindu and the Mail besides other prominent newspapers. In late
1930s the circulation was no more than 2000[citation needed].
In 1939 it also bought out Andhra Prabha, another prominent Telugu Daily. Later it
gained the name Three Musketeers for the three dailies[citation needed]. In 1940
the whole premises were gutted by fire. The Hindu, its rival, helped considerably in
re-launching the paper, by getting it printed temporarily at one of its
Swadesimithran’s press and later offering its recently vacated premises at 2, Mount
Road later to become the landmark Express Estates[citation needed]. This
relocation also helped the Express obtain better high speed printing machines,
while some claimed the Goenka had deliberately set fire to escape financial
embarrassment.
In later years Goenka started the Mumbai edition with the landmark Express
Towers as his office when the Morning Standard was bought by him in 1944.
Two years later to become it became the Mumbai edition of The Indian Express.
Later on editions were started in several cities like 1957 the Madurai edition, the
1965 Bangalore edition, and the 1968 Ahmedabad edition.The Financial Express
was launched in 1961 from Mumbai, Kannada Prabha (Kannada Daily) from
Bangalore in 1965 and a Bangalore edition of the Telugu Daily Andhra Prabha, and
Gujarati dailies Lok Satta and Jansatta in 1952, from Ahmedabad and Baroda.
The Delhi edition started was when the Tej group's Indian News Chronicle was
acquired in 1951, which from 1953 became the Delhi edition of Indian Express. In
1990 it bought the Sterling group of magazines, and along with it the Gentleman
magazine.
After Ramanath Goenka’s demise in 1991, two of the family members split the
group into Indian Express Mumbai with all the North Indian editions, while the
Southern editions were grouped as Express Madurai Ltd. with Chennai as
headquarters.
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The Economic Times, launched in 1961, is India's largest financial daily and the
world's second largest financial daily[citation needed] after The Wall Street
Journal, with a daily readership of over 650,000 copies. It is published by India's
largest media group, Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd, (This company along with its
other group companies is more popularly known as The Times Group), which also
publishes The Times of India, the Navbharat Times, the Maharashtra Times,
Femina, and Filmfare.
The Economic Times has its offices in Mumbai outside Victoria Terminus railway
station. Its main content is based on the Indian economy, share prices, prices of
commodities as well as other matters related to finance. The Founder / Editor of the
paper when it was launched in 1961 was P.S. Hariharan. The current Executive
Editor of The Economic Times is Rahul Joshi.Rahul Joshi is known for his mastery
over the conception as well as expression of thought.
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Business Standard
Business Standard is a financial daily from Business Standard Ltd (BSL). It is
published from twelve centres in India - Mumbai (formerly Bombay), New Delhi,
Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), Bangalore,Chennai (formerly Madras), Ahmedabad,
Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Pune, Lucknow, Bhubaneswar and Kochi - and reaches
readers in over 800 towns across the country.
Started in 1975 by the Ananda Bazar group in what was then Calcutta, the paper
was hived off as a separate company in 1996, and then bought by Mumbai-based
financial investors, after which it began a phase of rapid expansion with the launch
of new editions. The Financial Times of London took an equity stake in BSL in
2004.
The current editor is T.N. Ninan, who was also an earlier editor of The Economic
Times. The paper sells 143,000 copies daily, and has a reputation for responsible
journalism and for its stimulating editorial page. It has pioneered the ranking of the
wealthiest Indians (in the Billionaire Club), and offers along with the paper free
monthly magazines on motoring and aviation. The paper recently started its Sunday
edition from three publishing centres.
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Sandesh
Sandesh started its journey in the world of Journalism in 1923. Since than it has
flourished into 5 editions and has played a critical and vital role in the upliftment
and welfare of five crore Gujaratis. It covers the latest news and deals with the day
to day situation with equanimity and fare judgment . Sandesh provides information
and entertainment through its supplements dealing with almost all the subjects.
The Sandesh Limited is a listed and public limited company with Head Quarter at
Ahmedabad. Till 1984, Sandesh was a single edition newspaper published from
Ahmedabad. Then under expansion programme new editions were launched
Baroda, Surat, Rajkot & Bhavnagar in 1985, 1989, 1990 and 1998 respectively.
Initially in 1923 Shri Nandlal Bodiwala started Sandesh daily on a small scale,
But in 1958 when late Shri Chimanbhai Patel was at the helm of affairs ; his
vision , foresight and business acuemenship changed the destiny of Sandesh and its
circulation began to increase by leaps and bounds. His unique contribution was
‘Sunday Sanskar Poorti’ in Gujarati journalism, that included many celebrities as
columnists . Thus he was the pioneer of Sunday Supplements in Gujarati
journalism. He was always in search of new talents and new ideas to make Sandesh
a unique and dynamic daily. It was this missionary zeal that made Sandesh a
household name in Gujarat. Present CMD and the Editor of Sandesh Shri
Falgunbhai Patel joined the organization in 1979 after completing his MBA in
USA.
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His close collaboration with his father made a rare combination of wide experience
and youthful dynamism that added a rare spirit of adventure and calculated
business viewpoint in the development of Sandesh as a giant entity. The company
went public in 1994 with a premium of Rs.90/- on the face value of Rs. 10/- per
share. The issue was oversubscribed by 15 times.
“The Sandesh Limited” thus became the first media house to become a public
limited company But destiny sometimes plays cruel game and in March 1995 Shri
Chimanbhai Patel succumbed to a massive heart attack and Falgunbhai lost his
best friend, philosopher and guide in the person of his beloved father. It was a sad
sorrowful day for the entire Sandesh Pariwar . Since his father’s demise,
Falgunbhai had to shoulder additional responsibilities of editorial section in
addition to his managerial duties . He took all the challenges with the help of his
professional assistants with great skill and acuemenship. His noteworthy
contribution to the progress of Sandesh can be summarized as under :
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NEWS CHANNELS
News programmes have suddenly become hot property and are vying for attention
with other popular programmes telecast in different channels. All major television
broadcasters are including at least one news channel to their bouquet. The biggest
headache for launching a satellite channel is programme software for round the
clock. In this juncture, newsgathering is a major task for the 24-hour news channels.
To cater this task, the emerging electronic channels have always made an attempt to
cover all the incidents irrespective of position, location and time. These channels not
only revolutionized the concept of news on Indian television but also changed the
news formats. Before 1990s, Doordarshan had monopolized newscast on Indian
television and also turned the news programs into a dowdy exercise. Now the
private channels made the news an essential commodity like food, cloth and shelter.
The strong point of all today’s news bulletins is their topicality, objectivity, glossy
editing and high-quality visuals. News has traveled a long way from the DD era.
From Local events to International events, breaking news to news analysis,
television soap to page3 news, every happening comes under purview of news. In
this article, we have covered some significant changes in news broadcasting in India
before and after the Gulf War.
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1) Doordarshan News
2) NDTV
3) Zee News
4) Aaj Tak
5) CNBC
Zee News
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2006 to Zee News Limited and it was renamed Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd.
[1]
Besides that Zee News Ltd (ZNL) is a also a part of the Essel Group, which operates
news and regional entertainment channels and is listed on stock exchange. It was
demerged from Zee Entertainment Enterprises ltd in 2006.[2], and following are the
list of channels that Zee News Ltd operates:
Zee News Limited (ZNL) de-merged from Zee Telefilms Limited on March 31st
2006 in pursuance of scheme of arrangement approved by the Hon. Bombay High
Court on 17th November 2006. The company became a listed entity on January 10,
2007.
Zee News Limited(ZNL) touches the lives of millions of Indians thorough a clutch
of news and regional entertainment channels. Our mission is to “Inform. Entertain.
Empower”. The specific channels operated by Zee News Limited are Zee News,
Zee Business, Zee Marathi, Zee Bangla, Zee Punjabi, Zee Gujarati, Zee Telugu, Zee
Kannada and Zee 24 Taas, the first 24-hour Marathi news channel. 24 Ghanta, a 24
hour Bangla news channel is operated by a subsidiary company known as Zee
Akaash News Private Limited.
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Zee News Limited also supplies content to the international broadcasting business
of Zee in USA, Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific. It has 1000
employees and had revenues of Rs 200 crore in FY 2006.
Zee News, the news and current affairs channel of the ZNL, is the oldest channel of
the bouquet and has taken giant strides ever since its inception in 1992. Reaching
millions of viewers in five continents, the channel revolutionised the way news was
brought home to the viewers.
Zee News created history in 1999 by becoming the 24-hour Hindi current affairs and
news channel in the country. Since its inception it has consolidated its position in
the country and in spite of being the only pay channel in its genre, it maintains its
position among the top 3 Hindi News channels in the country. In North India, Zee
News is a strong contender for the No.1 position in the market.
Its programme The Inside Story on synthetic milk, won an award at the New York
Festivals, a first for India. Besides, Zee News has been consistently winning awards
for its programming and marketing activities, including awards at the EMMVIES
2004, Indian Telly Awards and The Indian Marketing Awards.
The Zee Business channel was launched in November , 2004 and is already rated as
the No 1 Hindi Business News Channel. Besides updated news bulletins by the
hour, there is a lot to watch out for whether it is information related with the stock
market, investments, mutual funds, corporate world, real estate, travel or leisure.
It has been winning the Consumer Award for the Best Business Hindi News channel
for the last two years.
Aaj Tak
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Country India
Aaj Tak is a 24-hour Hindi news television channel run by TV Today Network Ltd.
Aaj Tak loosely translates as "Till Today" or "Up to the Minute". Watched by some
45 million viewers in India’s cable and satellite universe, Aaj Tak is India’s largest
privately owned news channel. Aaj Tak is a free-to-air channel in India, while it is
being offered as a pay channel in the overseas market. In the United States, it is
available on EchoStar’s DISH Network.
Despite serving Infotainment, Aaj Tak has been awarded Indian Television
Academy’s Best News Channel award for six consecutive years. In a recent
BBC/Reuters/Media Center Poll, Aaj Tak was voted the most trusted and most
important news source in India surpassing even the Government sponsored channel
Doordarshan and expansively beating news sources like Star News,Dainik Jagran,
Sun TV, NDTV, AIR (All India Radio) and The Times of India
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DD-News Channel
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Country India
Availability National
Website www.ddindia.gov.in
DD News is the first and the only terrestrial news channel in the country
reaching approximately half of the population. The channel was launched in
November, 2003 and within a year of its launch; it has emerged as a force to reckon
with in the fiercely competitive business of TV news channels. It is the undisputed
leader in terms of absolute viewer-ship with about 50 per cent share among TV
news channels.
The bi-lingual (English and Hindi) DD News follows a half an hour dynamic
wheel of programming. Besides round the clock telecast of news bulletins, several
programmes covering business, sports, health, art & culture are broadcast regularly.
Panel discussions are held on topics of current affairs. The DD News Channel is run
by the Doordarshan News Centre at the Asian Games Village in New Delhi
supported by a network of 23 Regional News Units (RNUs) spread across India.
Doordarshan News gives extensive coverage to all important news events that
taking place in India and abroad. DD News mounts several informative
programmes on the General Budget, demystifying the economic terminology for the
common people. The Budget speech of the Finance Minister is also telecast live.
The visits of foreign dignitaries to India and the visits of Indian leaders abroad are
also extensively covered.
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Kendras in North East with dedicated SNG for news feeds are: Shillong, Imphal,
Kohima, Itanagar, 5. Agartala, 6.Aizwal
The following RNUs produce news bulletins for the DD News channel for insertion
in Metro Scan and State Scan and Rajyon Se Samachar, in addition to their regional
bulletins.
NDTV
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Country India
Availability National
Website www.ndtv.com
NDTV
History
After producing numerous news and current affairs programs including the highly
successful "The World This Week", NDTV formed a production agreement with
Rupert Murdoch's STAR to set up India's first 24-hour news channel (STAR News,
English/Hindi News) launched in February 1998. The parties parted ways after five
years over issues related to editorial independence.[3] Subsequently, NDTV
launched its own channels, NDTV 24x7 (English News) and NDTV India (Hindi
News) and later launched NDTV Profit (Business News) and much later NDTV
Good Times (Lifestyle). STAR retained the STAR News brand, but the channel
continued in Hindi.
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Indian Television -
Television in India is undergoing significant changes in the current liberalized
environment. To understand these changes, one needs to have some brief idea of the
road covered by the television channels so far. The journey started as an
experimental basis with a financial grant from UNESCO in 15th September 1959.
The makeshift studio at Akashvani Bhavan in New Delhi was chosen for location of
the experiment. The experiment started with one-hour program, broadcast twice a
week, on community health, citizen rights, education and traffic sense etc. As far as
news is concerned, it was launched exactly six years after the inception of television
broadcasting. Daily one-hour program with a news bulletin was served to the Indian
viewers. But one major drawback of television was that you could not enjoy the
original colour of the objects because of black and white transmission. First multi-
color programme was the Prime Minister’s address to the nation from Red Fort in
Delhi on India’s 35th Independence Day. In the same day, DD National channel was
launched. The aim of launching the National channel is nurturing national
integration, and inculcating a sense of pride in Indians. Indian viewers also enjoyed
the colored version of the Asian Games hosted by New Delhi in their drawing room.
The coverage of major events and different occasions lend a big hand behind the
infiltration of television signals to the nook and corners of the subcontinent.
Indian Government had taken all possible steps to expand the television
broadcasting demographically and geographically. In 1983 television signals were
available to just 28% of the population, this had doubled by the end of 1985 and by
1990 over 90% of the population had access to television signals. In 1984, DD
Metro channel was added to provide an exclusive entertainment for the urban
viewers. In the beginning, this channel was confined to metropolitan cities. As a
public broadcaster, Doordarshan presented the news in naturalized manner. All
controversial issues were pushed under the carpet. The ruling government had a
strong hold on the television broadcasting. Doordarshan news bulletins were unable
to provide the international news to the national viewers. Objectivity had been the
first casualty as news was invariably slanted to suit the party in power. The news
was liberated from the confines of the DD newsroom and gained in objectivity and
credibility when New Delhi Television (NDTV) produced ‘The World This Week’
in 1988. Everyone was waiting for the Friday night to watch ‘The World This
Week’. This was the only India-based programme, which looked out at the rest of
the world. The World This Week was the best current affairs programme on the
international scenario and carried good stuff of news, which the regular DD news
was failed to carry out. This program is ranked as one of the country’s finest and
most popular television shows. In 1989, NDTV produces India’s first live televised
coverage of the country’s general elections. The critical and commercial success of
the coverage sets a new standard for Indian television. After the Gulf War the media
panorama has changed forever.
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Large number of viewers across India had been watching Aaj Tak as a daily habit
because of its innovative style of news presentation. Besides that Nalini Singh’s
five-minute fast paced, condensed daily news capsule Ankhon Dekhi, TV Today
Network’s Business Aaj Tak and Newstrack was aired on the Metro channel of
Doordarshan. This is the period when satellite channels concentrated on
entertainment programmes for their respective channels. Doordarshan was still ruled
the most wanted area ‘news’.
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Major Players
After The India Show, TV18 produced a weekly business news program India
Business Report for BBC World. Indian viewers had very limited options (like
public service broadcaster Doordarshan, BBC and CNN) for watching the television
news. For televised news, the viewers had to watch Dordarshan and some
international news channels like BBC or CNN. In this race to provide more news,
more information, Zee Television jumped into the battlefield by launching the news
channel Zee News in 1995. This News and current affairs channel revolutionized the
way news was delivered to the viewers. Since its inception Zee News has
endeavoured to be the fastest to provide news, working towards a single goal of
Sabse Pahle (Always First). The other round-the-clock news channel, the Murdoch-
owned Star TV beamed its exclusively 24-hour news channels, Star News in 1998.
Star made a contract of five year with Prannoy Roy-owned NDTV (New Delhi
Television Company) to provide news content for this news channel. The untiring
exhaustive coverage of the Kargil war between India and Pakistan gained more
publicity and attracted more viewers towards the electronic channel. This televised
conflict also sets a news benchmark for wartime journalism. During the Kargil war,
common citizens witnessed how their brave Jawans fought despite in hostile
conditions and watched the war front live by the exclusively news channels, Star-
TV and Zee-News. The live coverage of the battlefield helped to create a euphoria
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of patriotism among the Indian masses, which later facilitated into collecting huge
funds for the welfare of the families of Kargil martyrs. Every news programme
draws the attention of large number of viewers but Kargil war attracts private
broadcasters to invest more money in the broadcasting business by launching a news
channel.
In November 1999, TV18 entered into a 49:51 joint venture with CNBC Asia to
launch CNBC India. TV18 is the sole program provider to CNBC India, and
produces 12 hours of local content per day on this 24-hour satellite channel. After
the huge success of news programme ‘Aaj Tak’, TV Today group launched a 24-
hour Hindi news channel with the same name ‘Aaj Tak’, in December 2000, which
covers India with insight, courage and plenty of local flavour. Within 11 months of
its launch, Aaj Tak emerged as India’s number one news channel and was awarded
Best News Channel award from Indian Television Academy Awards. Some mega
events apart from regular interesting items (such as Kandhahar hijack, September 11
attacks, Afghanistan war, attack on Parliament, Iraq war, Godhra carnage and riots)
have driven up the viewership. As time passed, NDTV’s five years contract with
Star group for outsourcing of news and related programming expired on March
2003. With the expiry NDTV forayed into broadcasting business by simultaneously
launching two 24-hour news channels; NDTV 24X7 – English news channel and
NDTV India – Hindi news channel, which targets the Indian diaspora across the
world. News crazy Indians received more news at faster speed from different
channels. Any unusual happening can be caught by the television camera anywhere
form Rastrapati Bhawan to bedroom. The power of TV journalism was become
more visible by the major sting operations like Operation West End and Shakti
Kapoor Case. This style of investigative journalism has brought about a change in
the way we look at news, amidst new notions of editorial freedom.
The world’s largest family ‘Sahara India Parivar’ launched a 24-hour national Hindi
news channel, Sahara Samay, in March 28, 2003. It is the first ever city-centric
satellite news channels covering 31 cities in India with their own city news bulletins.
Keeping the demand of news in mind, the Union cabinet approved the
proposal to convert the DD Metro to DD news in a meeting held on 3 October 2003.
Consequent to these decisions, DD-News channel was launched on 3 November
2003. You might have noticed that the news channels are language specific. But
DD’s news channel contains the round the clock news bulletins in Hindi/ English
are also telecast twice a day on the National Network of DD National. ‘Aap Ki
Adalat’ fame Rajat Sharma, Sohaib Ilyasi, the man behind the highly successful
‘India's Most Wanted’ and Taun Tejpal, editor-in-chief of Tehelka roped together
and launched a free-to-air Hindi news and current affairs channel India TV on May
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20, 2004. Indian viewers had more expectations from this channel. The much-
awaited news channel hopes to set itself apart from the existing ones by setting new
benchmarks of responsible journalism. Speaking on the occasion of the launch,
Rajat Sharma, chairman, India TV, said, “We aim to change the way broadcast news
reporting is being conducted in the country. India TV will set new benchmarks by
maintaining international standards of responsible and credible news reporting. We
will stay away from graphic depictions of violence and sensationalism of news. We
will uphold the viewer's right to correct information and their right to truth and
verity. India TV is not just a news channel, it is a movement.” NDTV as a pioneer in
Indian television news, set to create a fresh revolution in high-quality business news
with the launch of NDTV Profit. NDTV launched this 24-hour business channel on
January 17th, 2005.
There is no saturation point in launching of news channel, just booming like sky as
the limit. Entertainment channel to infotainment channel, infotainment channel to
news channel, news channels to business channel and Business channel to lots more.
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Regional Leaders
To cater the interest among the Indians, Doordarshan televises programmes in Hindi
and associate Official languages. It has launched a number of Regional Language
Satellite Channels (DD - 4 to DD - 11 and DD - 13) and telecast programmes in
Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Kashmiri,
Oriya and Tamil.
The Regional channels relayed by all terrestrial transmitters in the state and
additional programmes in the Regional Language in prime time and non-prime time
available only through cable operators. The Doordarshan regional satellite channels
telecast major news programme with some entertainment programmes. If you think
about the private regional channels, they have followed the path of the Big brother
(i.e Doordarshan). They are neither completely entertainment channel nor
exclusively news channel. They are following the middle path and claiming
themselves an infotainment channels. The private channels televise through the state
dominant languages. Rising advertising revenues and increasing numbers of viewers
have provided the impetus for many big players to enter into the business. Some
regional media leaders like ETV, Sun TV, Asianet have a strong grip over the
regional market. Some major players tried their luck in different states. Zee
television has three regional channels; Zee Marathi, Zee Punjabi and Zee Bangla.
Star Network entered into Tamilnadu by launching Star Vijay, one of the most
popular entertainment channels in India broadcasting in Tamil. Besides that ETV
Network is a part of the well-established Ramoji Group, has created 12 dedicated
infotainment regional channels. ETV network is the source of rich entertainment of
eight different languages. Those are: Telugu, Bangla, Marathi, Kannada, Oriya,
Gujarati, Urdu; and Hindi to viewers in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar and Madhya
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Pradesh. Every ETV Network channel focuses exclusively on its audience’s unique
cultural identity, its aspirations and its distinct socio-political character. Let us think
about the south Indian language Telugu, there are around twelve satellite channels
are roaming around the sky with different taste and different flavour.
These channels include three news channels, one song-based channels and
rest are infotainment channels. When we confine ourselves into news, three channels
(ETV2, TV 9 and Teja News) exclusively devoted to news programmes. Sahara
India Pariwar is proud to have five news channels as the bouquet of Sahara Samay.
These channels are: Sahara Samay NCR, Sahara Samay Mumbai, Sahara Samay
Bihar & Jharkhand, Sahara Samay Madhya Pradesh & Chattisgarh, and Sahara
Samay Uttar Pradesh & Uttranchal. Sahara Samay has already managed to gain a
loyal audience in India through a bouquet of National & Regional News Channels
since its launch. These channels are youthful and vibrant channels targeting students
and women, besides that hardcore news stuff.
The regional news channels covers the entire spectrum of genre with
specific programs on lifestyle, fashion, food, shopping, health and fitness, sports,
education, career and city issues, besides giving user-friendly information on traffic
updates, city events, train and air timings, etc. Now national news channels cannot
confine its boundary to national level. They cannot ignore the regional news because
of the stiff competition form the regional cannels. Regional news channels are
entering into the competition with a strong will power and also with an aim to
portrait regional issues in national and international level.
Conclusion
Now the television industry becomes more specific. In this competitive market,
channels are targeting specific viewers. News channels attract more viewers beyond
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NEWS MAGAZINES
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depth into stories than newspapers, trying to give the reader an understanding of the
context surrounding important events, rather than just the facts.
La Repubblica (Italy)
Outlook (India)
Frontline (India)
Veja (Brazil)
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INDIA TODAY
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With the publication of its 30th Anniversary issue in December 2005, the magazine
which had commenced publication in 1975 with a circulation of 5000 copies,
currently has five editions and a circulation of over one million copies with a
readership of over 20 million. The group recently released a daily newspaper "Mail
Today”
Business Today
Design Today
Along with this, the group also comes out with several supplements for all their
magazines. New magazines, including one called 'Wealth Today' are also on the
anvil.
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Apart from a number of publications, the group also controls TV Today, which
owns the popular Hindi news channel Aaj Tak in December 2000. TV Today, whose
CEO is G Krishnan is a listed company whose shares are traded on the Bombay
Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange. Other than Aaj Tak they also run
three other channels – 'Headlines Today' an English language news channel, which
has not been able to dent the lead of channels like NDTV, 'Tez' a snappy-format
news channel, using a concept borrowed from CNN Headline News but in Hindi and
Aaj Tak Dilli a local news channel for Delhi. A Business news channel in
collaboration with Bloomberg is also expected shortly.
BUSINESS TODAY
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Held in New York City each fall, the Business Today International Conference
provides a unique and valuable opportunity for college students to meet, interact,
and learn from high level executives and political leaders.
It brings together 150 students from across the US and around the world to
discuss and share perspectives on relevant business issues, and to benefit from the
knowledge and experience of current world leaders. Organized by students at
Princeton University, it is the largest conference of its kind in the US and has been a
perennial success throughout the recent decades.
Ever since its inception in 1992, it has set one benchmark after another in business
reporting. It was the first to do serious reporting on management theories. And then
again, it’s the first to bring a whole new genre of business journalism—more
upclose and more incisive. Today, BUSINESS TODAY commands the highest
circulation and readership among all business magazines in India.
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OUTLOOK
Outlook has been famous for many of it's sensational stories like the "Kargil
Bungle" and the "Match Fixing controversy" but many view its editorial tilt as being
against the right like the RSS , often highlighting opposing sections in negative
light.
In early 2007 however, Outlook was leading in reporting on the Ottavio Quattrocchi
arrest in Argentina, which may be very embarrassing to Congress President Sonia
Gandhi, a close friend of Quattrocchi from the 1970's[1].
In 2007, Outlook claims a readership of 1.5 million in India. Its main competitor is
India Today.
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BUSINESS WORLD
Businessworld is part of the ABP Group, one of India's largest media groups and the
brand leader in eastern India. ABP also publishes Ananda Bazar Patrika, a widely
popular Bengali daily, and The Telegraph, the largest read English daily in the
eastern region. It also co-owns Star News television channel along with Rupert
Murdoch's Star Group.
Businessworld is the largest selling Indian business magazine, and the only business
weekly in the country.
Leveraging on its brand leadership, Businessworld has now moved into other media
platforms like publishing and events. Its recent publications include Doing Business
in Asia, The Marketing Whitebook, Understanding Behaviour, and Businessworld
Mega B-School Guide . The Businessworld Roundtables and Great Place to Work
seminars, which attract the best minds from the corporate and economic world, have
become important forums to set agendas and address crucial issues. The magazine's
Most Respected Companies Awards and the BW-NID Design Award are considered
as benchmarks of corporate excellence by Indian corporates.
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BROADCASTING
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video signals (programs) to a number
of recipients ("listeners" or "viewers") that belong to a large group. This group may
be the public in general, or a relatively large audience within the public. Thus, an
Internet channel may distribute text or music world-wide, while a public address
system in (for example) a workplace may broadcast very limited ad hoc soundbites
to a small population within its range.
Television and radio programs are distributed through radio broadcasting or cable,
often both simultaneously. By coding signals and having decoding equipment in
homes, the latter also enables subscription-based channels and pay-per-view
services.
When broadcasting is done via the Internet the term webcasting is often used.
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News Portals
Yahoo News
Google News
CNN (worldwide)
AP (Associated Press)
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As per Alexa rating [1], Rediff is the No. 5 Indian web portal. One of the notable
features of Rediff are its breaking news stories.
It is the only India-based website to appear in first 100 websites. It has more than
250 employees.[2] Rediff.com also offers one of the oldest and largest Indian
weekly newspapers, India Abroad, which it acquired in 2001.
Rediff products
Rediff Mail: Web based e-mail which has around 43 million online users.[3] It
offers unlimited free storage space. Rediff recently launched an AJAX based mail
interface.
It also offers various other web based services such as web search, shopping, airfare
search, hotel search, job search, classifieds, matrimonial service (Rediff
Matchmaker), social networking (Rediff Connexions), blogging (Rediff iLand),
stock update and porfolio (Rediff MoneyWiz), video-music-photo sharing platform
(Rediff iShare) and a community-driven knowledge base (Rediff Q&A).
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We are India's pioneer & leader in Internet, Networking and e-Commerce services,
and the first Indian Internet company to be listed on the Nasdaq National Market in
the US. We provide integrated end-to-end solutions for both corporates &
consumers, with a range of products and services delivered over a common Internet
backbone infrastructure.
Everything that Sify has done or achieved since we began commercial operations in
April 1998 stems from our Purpose and Vision. A key aspect is Sify being an
enabler and catalyst of the Internet for positive change in India- a responsibility that
we continue to carry.
Sify began by developing India's first TCP/IP network and offering multiple
services on a common backbone infrastructure for an integrated Internet, networking
and eCommerce business model. This was the first such business model in the
world, and appropriate for catalyzing the growth of the Internet and networking in
an infrastructure starved market. It also enabled a virtuous cycle, where each
business supported the other, while catalyzing the market to growth.
Fortune magazine, in their December 2000 issue, selected Sify (then Satyam
Infoway) as one of the world's ten hot technology companies to watch out for based
on this innovative business model! From the start of commercial operations in April
1998, Sify has become the market leader in most lines of business, winning global
recognition for its expertise, performance, customer focus and standards along the
way. In doing this, Sify pioneered services and set standards for the Industry in
diverse areas.
Sify is a leader in every line of business and has won national and international
recognition for both market leadership and the quality of our services. We are
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unmatched in Internet and network services expertise and technology, with the best
tools, software and processes in the business.
Sify is India’s only ISO 9001:2000 certified service provider for network operations,
data center operations and customer support and has been certified ISO 9001:2000
for provisioning of VPNs, Internet bandwidth, VoIP Solutions and integrated
security solutions.
Recently, Sify was awarded the prestigious Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership
Award for IP VPN markets for the year 2003.
To enable world class hosting services in India, Sify commissioned the country's
first Level 3 Internet Data Center of 20,000sq feet at the Vashi Infotech Park, Navi
Mumbai in September 2000. Sify now has two more such data centers, one in Tidel
Park, Chennai and the other in Electronics City, Bangalore.
The company was awarded the Frost & Sullivan Marketing Engineering Award for
Business Development for 2001 in Data Center markets for its innovative approach
to developing the market. Today, Sify is the only company in the country to offer
Disaster Recovery and Business Process Continuity between its major datacentres in
Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore. Sify also offers these services to overseas clients
with the increasing availability of quality international bandwidth.
Consumer Services:
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In keeping with its purpose of empowering Indians with the Internet, Sify launched
the iWay chain of cyber cafes across many cities in India. This initiative is helping
bridge the digital divide with an ever-increasing number of Indians accessing the
Internet for information, communications and entertainment in a cost-effective
manner. Thousands of users from over 3500 iWay cyber cafes across 158 cities in
the country use this service, with more planned as the demand for them increases.
iWays have redefined the standards for branded cyber café chains, with
standardized, air-conditioned, well-designed interiors, with broadband connectivity
and promoted as a branded service.
To ensure easy and reliable Internet Access, Sify has established a world-class
network using the best of the equipment manned by a highly trained group of
engineers. An ISO 9002 certified Customer Care Centre is also available around the
clock to provide any assistance required. In addition, the Sify Online Internet
connection comes with a unique dialer called Intellidial. Sify has also set up
International Gateways and continually adds
bandwidth to ensure faster downloads. Thousands of digital access lines enable Sify
users get connected to the network easily.
Today, not only is the portal used by thousands of people, it is earning Sify as much
revenue as a good business magazine in India does.
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Based on its rich experience in India, Sify has launched global Infrastructure
Management Services aimed at international corporations having global IT
infrastructure. Sify’s services include remote monitoring and management of
networks, servers, applications and managed security services. Sify’s services are
based on a customized on-site / off-shore delivery model that aims at minimizing the
risks of off-shoring infrastructure management processes while achieving targeted
objectives such as cost savings, process improvement and service level
enhancements. Sify’s infrastructure management services use best-of-breed carrier
class network operations and conform to the highest global standards. Sify’s service
tools and processes are ITIL compliant.
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Established over 160 years ago, this group has entered the mainstream of Indian life
in every possible way. A dynamic group, it has entered the 21st century as a
complete media house, with a turnover that is the highest in the country
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It's new ventures include Times International Media Marketing with the role of
attracting International business to India through a developmental approach.
International Media Representation represents select mainline and business
publications worldwide. With a network of over 50 offices across the country and a
field force of 1000 the coverage of India is most comprehensive and perhaps
unparalleled.
When infotainment became the buzz word Times Entertainment , Times New
Media, Times Music and Radio Mirchi entered this lineage. Times Retail with
Planet M outlets staging merchandise from music to designer watches, books &
cafes. An offshoot of its highly rated Economic Times Intelligence Group is
timesofmoney.com, a bank solutions that empowers Indians & Non Resident Indians
to make the best financial decisions.
The Times Group has created a galaxy of stars of different genres from Femina Miss
Worlds and Femina Miss Universes all by products of Femina Miss India contests;
and played hosts to a galaxy of stars at the Filmfare Awards. Also saluted the best &
the brightest at The Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence or the Brand
Equity Quiz. It has touched the lives of its readers & consumers through Exhibitions
& Fairs - a spectrum from Times Utsav Consumer fairs to Education Events.
Your career counselor, advisor, influencer and guide anytime anywhere. The first
Indian education portal for all education needs is here. This portal will cater to the
ever-expanding student community and learning experience.
The philanthropic arm of the group, the Times Foundation, offers Non Government
Organisations , institutions & others all over India, a platform to converge and
address the country's developmental needs.
As a publishing house, it has not only sought to bring news but to portray the
country's changing social scene. Through its incisive editorials, The Times of India
Group has effectively moulded public opinion and is indeed an accurate barometer
of the nation today.
Its publications are printed using state-of-the art technology at the country's most
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modern printing presses, offerings not only comparable to black and white but
superior quality colour printing as well... the best in the world.
The Times of India Group is the only media house to give advertisers maximum
value for their money and minimum wastage. The range of publications, each with
its own specific target audience, helps advertising managers plan the ideal media
mix, optimising the advertising budget.
NEWSREELS
A newsreel is a documentary film that is regularly released in a public presentation
place containing filmed news stories.
Created by Pathé Frères of France in 1908, this form of film was a staple of the
typical North American, British, and Commonwealth countries (especially Canada,
Australia and New Zealand), and throughout European cinema programming
schedule from the silent era until the 1960s when television news broadcasting
completely supplanted its role.
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An example of a newsreel story is in the film Citizen Kane (which was prepared by
RKO's actual newsreel staff), which includes a fictional newsreel that summarizes
the life of the title character.
ONLINE JOURNALISM
Online journalism is reporting and other journalism produced or distributed via the
Internet.
An early leader was The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
Many news organizations based in other media also distribute news online. How
much they take advantage of the medium varies. Some news organizations, such as
the Gongwer News Service, use the Web only or primarily.
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The Internet challenges traditional news organizations in several ways. They may be
losing classified ads to Web sites, which are often targeted by interest instead of
geography. The advertising on news Web sites is sometimes insufficient to support
the investment.
Even before the Internet, technology and perhaps other factors were dividing
people's attention, leading to more but narrower media outlets.
Online journalism also leads to the spread of independent online media such as open
ssDemocracy and the UK, Wikinews as well as allowing smaller news organizations
to publish to a broad audience, such as mediastrike.
By covering news, politics, weather, sports, entertainment, and vital events, the
daily media shape the dominant cultural, social and political picture of society.
Beyond the media networks, independent news sources have evolved to report on
events which escape attention or underlie the major stories.
In recent years, the blogosphere has taken reporting a step further, mining down to
the experiences and perceptions of individual citizens.
Radio
A.I.R. rules the air waves - at least for now
As far as India is concerned, radio is AIR and AIR is radio. A.I.R. which stands for
All India Radio, has a network of 283 broadcasting centres with 146 medium
frequency(MW) transmitters, 50 high frequency (SW) transmitters and 87 FM
transmitters. With broadcasts in 24 languages and 146 dialects (home services), and
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As of now, the Government-owned A.I.R. controls radio in India. But the next few
years are expected to change the face of radio as a medium in India.
For more than 4 decades, the Government of India did not permit private radio
stations to broadcast in India. Then history changed its course. In 1993, the
Government in its wisdom, allowed private FM operators to 'buy' blocks (chunks)
on All India Radio, prepare programming content, book commercials from
advertisers and broadcast the whole lot. Within 4 years, (1997-98), the FM Radio
advertising & sponsorship business grew to Rs 93 crores with Times of India's
Times FM & Mid-Day Group's Radio Mid-Day becoming the main (only?) players.
History was destined to change course once again. In June 1998 the Government,
through its electronic media regulatory body Prasar Bharti, decided not to renew
contracts of private FM operators. Not surprisingly, the advertising revenue fell by
50% within a year!
As destiny would have it, history changed course once again. This time, the
Government gave the green light to privatize radio in India. July 6, 1999 was the
historic day when the Government announced that 150 new FM channels would be
licensed across 40 cities.
And in 2000, the Government auctioned licences for private FM channels to bolster
the revenue. 'The highest bidder wins' was the order of the day. And the focus on
metros was evident in the bidding. Expecting to collect Rs 800 million from
auctioning 108 licenses, the government had to actually face mass withdrawal of
bidders because of the huge license fee. A handful of serious bidders chose to
remain.
In 2001, radio in the U.S.A. grew by 15% even as television ad revenue slumped.
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History is set to repeat itself once again. Private players will unlock the latent
potential of Indian radio, just like they did for Indian television.
With privatization, radio is expected to follow the growth curve of the television
industry, which grew rapidly following the entry of private players. TV ad spend
grew at an annual compounded rate of 30% for 8 years after privatization, while TV
penetration more than doubled.
And the market share of private radio stations is expected to increase (from 0% in
2001) to 80% within 6 years of their entry. (Private TV players have taken 5 years
to corner 50% of the TV ad rupee.)
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Future Projections
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The future is FM
FM Radio is present in 128 cities, has a footprint which covers 30% of Indian
population. As per current plans, coverage will extend to 60%.
AIR expected to earn Rs 530 crores from the first-round auction of 101 FM stations
in 40 cities. This is a recurring income which is expected to grow at 15% every
year.
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has completed the bidding process
for 101 FM channels in 40 centres for a total value of Rs. 425 crores,
Wherever there is 'license raj', there are speculative bidders. FM Radio bidding has
had its share of speculative bidding. This is evident from the number of defaulters
who have not paid their commitment monies. (The government has collected nearly
Rs 180 million from these defaulters.) Here is a list of companies have defaulted –
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Research Methodology
1. Introduction
Nowadays many new ways for capturing news have entered into the market
and the competition has increased in this industry. Customer can get news from
various options like news paper, news channels on television, internet etc. We are
intending to find out changes in behavior of customers towards news papers and the
reason behind consumer preferences for particular news paper against other ways of
getting news, hence we are going to carry out research for this and the main
instrument for this response will be a questionnaire.
To study the overview of news industry and various sources of getting news (news
papers, news channels, internet, news magazines, radio etc.)
3. Research methodology
Population consists of
1) Business class people
2) Students
3) Others
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Quota sampling
Descriptive
Survey method
Individuals
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Analysis of Data
Quota sampling
Students -25
Employee – 25
Professionals – 25
Retired – 25
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News papers
DO you read Newspaper?
From all quota we have concluded that only 16% of employee do not read news
paper.
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R e a d N e w s p a p e r?
120%
100% 100% 100%
100% 84%
80%
No. of readers
60%
40%
16%
20%
0% 0% 0%
0%
Y es No Y es No Y es No Y es No
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From the graph we can say that “Times of India” get first
preference, Economic times get second, Business Standards get
third and Indian Express get last preference.
Preference
0.8
72%
0.7 64%
0.6
48%
0.5
% of readers
40%
0.4 36%
32%
28%
0.3 24% 24% 24% 24%
20%
0.2 16%
12% 12%
ss 8%
0.1
0
Times of India
Times of India
Times of India
Times of India
Indian Express
Indian Express
Indian Express
Indian Express
Economic Times
Economic Times
Economic Times
Economic Times
Business Standard
Business Standard
Business Standard
Business Standard
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0.8 68%
0.6
0.4 26%
0.2 12%
0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
0
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Never
Never
Never
Never
Whenever
Whenever
Whenever
Whenever
available
available
available
available
Sometimes
Sometimes
Sometimes
Sometimes
Students Em ployees Profes s ional R etireds
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TimeSpent
80%
70%
70%
No. of readers
60%
52%
48%
50% 44%
40%
40% 36%
28%
30%
20% 20%
20% 16%
12% 12%
10%
0% 0% 0%0%
15-30min
15-30min
30-60min
30-60min
15-30min
30-60min
15-30min
30-60min
>60min
<15min
>60min
<15min
>60min
<15min
<15min
>60min
0%
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Rate
news .
0.5
1.5
2.5
3.5
0
1
2
3
4
5
Times of India
4.5 4.3
Indian Express
2.7
Economic Times
4.6
3
Business Standard
Students
Gujarat Samachar
2.7
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2
Times of India
Indian Express
Economic Times
3.43.5
Business Standard
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Employees
Gujarat Samachar
2.82.9
4
Times of India
Category
Quality of Content
Indian Express
3.6
4
Economic Times
3
Business Standard
Gujarat Samachar
3.2
Professionals
Times of India
4.2
Indian Express
3.2
Economic Times
4.5
Retireds
Business Standard
4 4
Gujarat Samachar
Gujarat Samachar and Times of India has highest Speed for capturing latest
Rate
0
1
2
3
4
5
0.5
1.5
2.5
3.5
Times of India 4.5 4.2
3
Indian Express
Economic Times
4.2
Students
Gujarat Samachar
4.5
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Times of India
3.8
Indian Express
3.1
Economic Times
Business Standard
2.7
Gujarat Samachar
Employees
2.9 2.9
Speed
82
Times of India
Category
Indian Express
3.53.5
4
Economic Times
Business Standard
Gujarat Samachar
3.53.4
Professionals
Times of India
3.6
Indian Express
Economic Times
4.54.5
Business Standard
Retireds
3.6
Gujarat Samachar
3.2
Rate
0
1
2
3
4
0.5
1.5
2.5
3.5
Times of India
Indian Express
4.5 4.14.1
Economic Times 3.8
Business Standard
2.6
Students
Gujarat Samachar
2.3
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Times of India
3.5
Indian Express
2.75
Economic Times
3.2
Business Standard
1.8
Gujarat Samachar
Employees
2.75
Accuracy
83
Times of India
Category
Indian Express
3.43.5
Economic Times
Times of India has the best accuracy in its news.
3 3
Business Standard
2
Gujarat Samachar
Professionals
Times of India
3.6
Indian Express
Economic Times
3.8
Business Standard
Retireds Gujarat Samachar
3.63.6
Rate
0.5
1.5
2.5
3.5
4.5
0
1
2
3
5
Times of India
4 3.8
Indian Express
2.7
Economic Times
4.4
Business Standard
Students
Gujarat Samachar
2.42.5
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Times of India
3.1
Indian Express
2.6
Economic Times
3.9
Business Standard
1.8
Employees
Gujarat Samachar
3.9
84
Times of India
Category
Supplements
2.9 3
Indian Express
Economic Times
2.3
3
Business Standard
4
Gujarat Samachar
Professionals
Times of India
3.6
Indian Express
1.5
4
Economic Times
3
Retireds
Business Standard
Economic Times and Gujarat Samachar has the best supplements.
Gujarat Samachar
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News Channels
Do you watch news on Television?
80%
60%
40%
20% 12%
0% 0% 0%
0%
Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No
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Form the graph we can say that AajTak is overall the most preferred news
channel. NDTV get second preference and Zee News get the third preference.
NDTV
NDTV
DD
DD
DD
DD
Zee
Zee
Zee
Zee
Aaj
Aaj
Aaj
Aaj
Students Employee Professionals Retired
Category
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Frequency
1
0.8 64% 60%
0.6
36%
0.4 28%24%
16%12%12%
0.2 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
0
Whenever
Whenever
Whenever
Whenever
Never
Never
Never
Never
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Sometimes
Sometimes
Sometimes
Sometimes
available
available
available
available
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From all quota most of the people spend less then 1 hour for watching news
channels.
TimeSpent
60%
48%
% of viewers
50% 46%
44%
40% 40%
40% 36% 36%
32%
30%
20% 18% 20%
20%
12%
8%
10%
0% 0% 0%
0%
2-3hr
1-2hr
2-3hr
1-2hr
2-3hr
1-2hr
2-3hr
1-2hr
<1hr
>3hr
<1hr
>3hr
<1hr
>3hr
<1hr
>3hr
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Quality of Content
6
5 4.8
4.5 4.55 4.45
4.35
4.1 4 4
4 3.85 3.8
3.6
3.3
3
Rate
0
ZEE news
ZEE news
ZEE news
ZEE news
DDnews
DDnews
DDnews
Aaj Tak
Aaj Tak
DDnews
Aaj Tak
Aaj Tak
NDTV
NDTV
NDTV
NDTV
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DD news has still the highest credibility and also AajTak has good credibility.
Crediblity
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
ZEE news
ZEE news
ZEE news
ZEE news
DDnews
DDnews
DDnews
Aaj Tak
DDnews
Aaj Tak
Aaj Tak
Aaj Tak
NDTV
NDTV
NDTV
NDTV
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AajTak is the best for its speed of capturing the latest news.
Speed
5
4.5
4.5 4.3
4 4.1 4
4
3.53.58 3.5 3.5
3.5 3.33.3
3.1 3
3 2.8 2.8
2.5
Rate
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
ZEE news
ZEE news
ZEE news
ZEE news
DDnews
DDnews
DDnews
Aaj Tak
DDnews
Aaj Tak
Aaj Tak
Aaj Tak
NDTV
NDTV
NDTV
NDTV
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5 4.8
4.6 4.5
4.24.1
3.9 3.8 3.8
4 3.6 3.6
3.43.3
3
Rate
0
NDTV
NDTV
NDTV
NDTV
Aaj Tak
Aaj Tak
Aaj Tak
Aaj Tak
ZEE news
ZEE news
ZEE news
ZEE news
DDnews
DDnews
DDnews
DDnews
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INTERNET
DO you access internet for getting news?
From results of all quota we can say that professionals and employees has
highest no. of accessors for getting news through internet.
60%
50% 44%
36% 32%
40% 28%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No
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Preference
70%
60% 58%
50%
% of Accessors
40%
37%
30%
25% 25% 25%
22% 22%
21%
20% 19%
14%
13%
11% 11%
10%
7%
India Express
India Express
India Express
India Express
India Times
India Times
India Times
India Times
Rediff news
Rediff news
Rediff news
Rediff news
Samachar
Samachar
Samachar
Samachar
0%
0%
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Never
Never
Never
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Whenever
Whenever
Whenever
Whenever
available
available
available
available
Sometimes
Sometimes
Sometimes
Sometimes
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Quality of Content
5
4.5 4.5
4.5 4.4 4.3 4.2
4.1 4 4 4 4 4
4 3.8
3.6
3.3 3.4
3.5
% of Accessors
3
3
2.5
1.5
0.5
0
India Express
India Express
India Express
India Express
India Times
India Times
India Times
India Times
Rediff news
Rediff news
Rediff news
Rediff news
Samachar
Samachar
Samachar
Samachar
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Crediblity
5
4.4 4.54.5 4.5
4.5 4.2 4.3 4.2
4
4
3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5
3.5 3.4
3.2
% of Accessors
3 2.8
2.5
2.5
1.5
0.5
0
India Express
India Express
India Express
India Express
India Times
India Times
India Times
India Times
Rediff news
Rediff news
Rediff news
Rediff news
Samachar
Samachar
Samachar
Samachar
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India times and Samachar are the best for its speed.
Speed
4.1 4.2
4
4 3.6 3.6 3.5
3.2
3
1
India Express
India Express
India Express
India Express
India Times
India Times
India Times
India Times
Rediff news
Rediff news
Rediff news
Rediff news
Samachar
Samachar
Samachar
Samachar
0
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India times and Rediff news are best for its specific categorized news.
Specificity
5
4.6 4.6
4.4
4.5 4.2
4 4
4 3.8 3.8
3.5 3.5
3.4 3.4
3.5
% of Accessors
3 3 3
3
2.5
2
2
1.5
0.5
0
India Express
India Express
India Express
India Express
India Times
India Times
India Times
India Times
Rediff news
Rediff news
Rediff news
Rediff news
Samachar
Samachar
Samachar
Samachar
100
% of Accessors
0
1
2
3
4
6
Rediff news
India Express
India Times
5 4.84.64.7
Samachar
Students
4.5
Rediff news
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4.7
4
India Express
India Times
4.6
Samachar
3.9
Employees
3
Rediff news
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Category
India Express
3.5
Woeld wide Availablity
India Times
4.5
Samachar
4.2
Professionals
Rediff news
4.5
4
India Express
India Times
4.5
Retireds
Samachar
4.2
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News Magazines
Do you read news magazines?
72% 76%
80% 68%
70% 64%
% of readers
60%
50%
32% 36%
40% 28%
30% 24%
20%
10%
0%
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Preference
50% 45%
45% 42%
40% 37%
33% 32%
35%
% of readers
28% 26%
30%
25% 22% 21% 21% 22% 22%
20% 17% 16%
15% 11%
10% 5%
5%
0%
Today
Today
Outlook
Today
Today
Outlook
Outlook
Outlook
Business
Business
Business
Business
Business
Business
Business
Business
India
India
India
India
Today
Today
Today
Today
World
World
World
World
Students Employees Professionals Retireds
Category
103
% of readers
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
0%
Daily
10% 8%
Sometimes
40%
Whenever available
20%
Never
Students
32%
Daily
0%
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Sometimes
40%
Whenever available
32%
Never
28%
Frequency
Daily
0%
Category
Sometimes
36%
104
Whenever available
40%
Never
24%
Daily
0%
Sometimes
33%
Whenever available
67%
Quality of Content
5 4.6
4.5 4.3
3.93.9 4 4 4 4 4 4
4 3.7 3.7
3.4 3.4 3.5 3.5
3.5
% of readers
3
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
India Today
India Today
India Today
India Today
Outlook
Outlook
Outlook
Outlook
Business Today
Business Today
Business Today
Business Today
Business World
Business World
Business World
Business World
105
% of readers
0.5
1.5
2.5
4.5
0
1
2
3
4
5
India Today
3.5 3.3
Outlook
Business Today
3.9
Business World
3.4 3.4
Students
India Today
4.3
Outlook
3.8
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Business Today
4.3
Business World
3.3
Reliablity
India Today
Category
Outlook
4
Business Today
106
Business World
3.43.5 3.5
4
India Today
Outlook
4
Business Today
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4.5
5
0
1
2
3
4
5
0.5
1.5
2.5
3.5
ndia Today India Today
4 3.7
Outlook Outlook
ess Today 3.4
3.93.9
Business Today
4.5 4.3 4.3
ness World
3.4
Business World
3.7
Students
ndia Today
4.7
India Today
Outlook
3.7
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Outlook
4.1
ess Today
3.9
Business Today
4.6 4.5
ness World
3.4
Business World
3.1
Accuracy
ndia Today
3.8
India Today
4.2
Outlook
Cate gory
Outlook
3.5
4 4
ess Today
Detailed Information
Business Today
107
4.5
ness World
3.5
4
Business World
ndia Today
4.3
India Today
4.3
Outlook
4
Outlook
4 4
ess Today
Business Today
4.5
ness World
3.5
4
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4.5
5
India Today
Outlook 4 3.7
Business Today
3.93.9
Business World
3.4
Students
India Today
4.7
Outlook
3.7
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Business Today
3.9
Business World
3.4
Accuracy
India Today
3.8
Category
Outlook
4 4
Business Today
108
Business World
3.5
India Today
4.3
Outlook
4 4
Business Today
0.5
1.5
2.5
3.5
4.5
0
1
2
3
5
India Today
Outlook 4 3.63.8
Business Today
4.3
Business World
2.3
Students
India Today
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Outlook
Business Today
3.53.43.6
Business World
2.8
Specific Area
India Today
3.8
Category
4
Outlook
109
Business Today
4.5
Business World
India Today
Outlook
3.53.5
Business Today
4.5
Business World
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Recommendations
News paper
Times of India is good in all criteria like quality of content, credibility, speed
etc. but it should improve its quality of supplements because is is only one
area where its lake something.
Indian Express should improve its quality of content and accuracy of news.
In this two area Indian Express get very less preference.
Gujarat Samachar is very old newspaper so its credibility is very high but it
should improve its quality of content of news. It should also improve
accuracy of news. In this two area it need to be improve.
News channels
From the above graphs and results we can say that AajTak is the best news
channel in all attributes and criteria. So it is on top condition.
DD news is government owned channel and very old. Still today there are so
many homes which do not have cable connection in television. So DD news
has lot many viewers and it has good credibility but it lakes in Live video
coverage and quality of content. So it need to improve in this area.
Zee news is good at live video coverage but should try to improve its
credibility for getting top position.
NDTV has its particular group of viewers. So it should try to improve its
target market and should aim new market by adding some extra types of
news in its current channel.
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News portals
News portals have not so much awareness among the people. Very less part
of the population access internet for getting news.
Every news portal should first try to increase awareness about internet as
source of news among people by more advertising.
News magazines
News magazines have less awareness among the people so first they should
try to improve their awerness by advertising and more availability.
The main reason for less awareness is less availability of the news
magazines.
From above results and findings we can say that business today is the best
news magazines among all other.
India today is also good but it need to improve in reliability and specificity
of content of yhe news for getting top most position.
Business world need to improve in almost all the attribute but mostly it
should try to improve accuracy and detailed information.
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