News Broadcasting
Bloomberg partners with NDS for interactive broadcast
Bloomberg Television, the global financial broadcast network, has signed an international strategic agreement with NDS Group, a News Corp company.
The first interactive broadcast combining Bloomberg’s services with NDS’ applications will launch on UK’s Sky Digital platform in 2002. Other countries will follow next year, says a company release. Key to Bloomberg’s strategy is NDS’s proven Value@TV suite of applications, an interactive infrastructure for television.
The partnership with NDS, a technology solutions company, will enable Bloomberg, a 24 hour global financial news network, to enhance its interactive services, already deployed in the UK and US cable markets. Initially, says the company, viewers could customize their personal stock portfolios, look up latest share prices, vote on stock market issues, create personalised financial news headlines and view stock market indices, whilst watching the Bloomberg broadcast channel. Future versions may introduce further services by synchronizing activity with the broadcast content and could include options such as fantasy stocks and shares, says the release.
Bloomberg says it chose NDS as its preferred global development supplier as the latter’s multi-platform approach to development is in line with Bloomberg’s own objectives of rolling-out worldwide interactive services on multiple middlewares, says the company.
NDS is currently a key strategic service provider for broadcasters including MTV, QVC, Discovery Europe, Nickelodeon, Music Choice and the UK’s Channel 4 and Teletext.
News Broadcasting
Network18 Q4 revenue grows 9.7 per cent, EBITDA at Rs 30 crore
PAT improves to Rs 306.6 crore, margins steady amid cost pressures.
MUMBAI: Not all news is breaking, some of it is quietly improving. Network18 Media & Investments Limited appears to be doing just that, tightening losses and stabilising margins even as costs continue to weigh on the business. For FY26, the company reported revenue from operations of Rs 1,955.1 crore, up from Rs 1,896.2 crore in FY25, signalling modest top-line growth in a challenging media environment. Total income stood at Rs 1,978.2 crore, compared to Rs 1,913 crore a year earlier.
Profit after tax came in at Rs 306.6 crore for the year, a sharp turnaround from Rs 3,225.4 crore in FY25, largely reflecting the absence of large exceptional items that had inflated the previous year’s numbers. On a more comparable basis, the company’s operating performance showed signs of gradual stabilisation.
However, the quarterly picture remained under pressure. For the March quarter, Network18 reported a loss of Rs 53.1 crore, narrower than the Rs 98.1 crore loss in the same period last year, but still indicative of ongoing cost challenges.
Expenses continued to track high. Total expenses for FY26 stood at Rs 2,235.7 crore, up from Rs 2,197.8 crore in FY25. Key cost heads included operational expenses of Rs 765.9 crore, employee benefits of Rs 475.9 crore, and marketing, distribution and promotional spends of Rs 427.1 crore, underlining the continued investment required to sustain reach and engagement.
At an operating level, margins remained under strain. Operating margin stood at 2.33 per cent for FY26, marginally higher than 1.77 per cent in FY25, while net profit margin remained negative at -13.02 per cent, though improved from -14.89 per cent.
On the balance sheet, total assets rose to Rs 8,957.6 crore as of 31 March 2026, from Rs 8,317.5 crore a year earlier. Equity strengthened to Rs 4,958.7 crore, while borrowings increased to Rs 3,112.8 crore, reflecting a higher reliance on debt to support operations.
Cash flows told a mixed story. While financing activities generated Rs 83.9 crore, operating cash flow remained negative at Rs -24 crore, highlighting ongoing pressure on core cash generation. Cash and cash equivalents, however, improved to Rs 33.9 crore from Rs 1.8 crore.
The numbers point to a company in transition growing revenues, trimming losses, but still grappling with structural cost pressures. In a sector where scale often comes at a price, Network18 seems to be inching towards balance, one quarter at a time.
