News Broadcasting
BSE, Zee News launch investor awareness show
MUMBAI: To bring the common man closer to the stock market, BSE Training Institute and Zee News will launch a new weekly program Talking Stock- An Investor Awareness Series from the 4 January 2003. The program will be telecast at 2:30 PM, every Saturday, with repeat telecast on Monday at 3:30 PM This is the first time that the Bombay Stock Exchange has teamed up with a news channel to educate viewers on the nuances of the stock market. The programme will try and educate, inform and create awareness amongst the investing public
Investor education and training has been one of the most critical areas, which demand attention and response from all major participants in the capital market. BSE has been in the forefront in providing Investor Education and Training. The agenda is to not only educate the vast investor community but also to increase the number of investors.
Zee News, the country’s first a premier Hindi new channel provides an ideal platform to carry this message to the nook and corner of the country. Apart from having the largest viewership in the country, Zee News is also watched in 79 countries across the globe.
Talking Stock is designed to educate the viewer and bring him closer to the capital market. Each episode will begin with the market movements of the past week. The aim is not just to academically list the gainers and losers of the week but also relate the movements to events that could have influenced the change. Post this the show will deal with various aspects relating to the capital market. Some of the aspects being Primary Markets, Secondary Markets, Investment Procedures, Clearing and Settlement Procedures, Risk Management, Debt Markets, Mutual Funds, Demarterialisation and Depositories, Fundamental and Technical Analysis, Derivatives, Investor Grievances and Redressal System, Corporate Governance and Global Markets.
Experts from the respective fields will address the intricacies involved in all the above issues. Each episode will have a quiz and invite queries from viewers. An expert panelist will address the queries.
News Broadcasting
CNN-News18 to air live counting day coverage for five state election results on May 4
The channel is rolling out its biggest election coverage machinery yet for results day on 4th May
NOIDA: The votes have been cast. Now comes the reckoning. CNN-News18 is pulling out all the stops for results day on 4th May, when counting begins across five battleground states — West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Puducherry — in what promises to be one of the most closely watched electoral verdicts in recent memory.
The channel’s coverage, titled Battle for the States: The Verdict, kicks off at 7am and runs through the day across linear TV, connected television and YouTube. It is the culmination of CNN-News18’s multi-format editorial initiative, Battle for the States, which has tracked the polls from the beginning under the theme Road to Power.
At the operational heart of the coverage will be the Live Results Hub, the channel’s central command centre built to collate, verify and process real-time data flowing in from reporters stationed at counting centres across constituencies. The hub combines newsroom intelligence, analytics and on-the-ground reporting to deliver what the channel promises will be the fastest and most accurate results coverage in English news.
Leading the on-air charge will be primetime anchors Rahul Shivshankar, Anand Narasimhan, Aman Sharma, Nabila Jamal and Shivani Gupta. They will be joined by a wide panel of commentators including author Chetan Bhagat; GVL Narasimha Rao, senior leader of the BJP; Smita Prakash, editor of ANI; activist Saira Shah Halim; political analyst Sumanth C Raman; Abhijit Iyer Mitra, senior fellow at IPCS; Amitabh Tiwari, founder of VoteVibe; columnist Abhijit Majumdar; Nalin Mehta, managing editor of MoneyControl; political analyst Tehseen Poonawalla; senior journalist Subir Bhaumik; and political analyst Manojit Mandal.
Shivshankar, who serves as editorial affairs director at CNN-News18, set out the stakes plainly. “Counting day is one of the most watched events in the electoral cycle, where speed and credibility are tested in real time,” he said. “Battle for the States: The Verdict is built on that promise, combining ground reporting, sharp analysis and cutting-edge election technology to give viewers the clearest and fastest route to the verdict. On May 4, CNN-News18 will once again be the nation’s most trusted channel to witness democracy in action.”
Smriti Mehra, chief executive of English and Business News at Network18, framed the coverage in broader terms. “Elections are defining national events, and audiences turn to brands they trust in moments that matter,” she said. “CNN-News18 has consistently led from the front in every election coverage, and this special programming reflects the scale of our ambition and editorial strength.”
The channel has form here. It claims to have been India’s most preferred English news destination for election results for the past 20 years, covering everything from the 2024 general elections to the Delhi, Maharashtra, Bihar and BMC polls on the back of what it calls an “Always First, Always Right” record. Five states, one day, and a nation waiting for answers. The clock starts at 7am on 4th May.
