News Broadcasting
Channel Guide in the red in 2001-2002 fiscal
Channel Guide has incurred losses worth Rs 15.28 million for the year ended 31 March 2002.
According to the financial results released by the company, its “income from operations” has decreased from Rs 12.8 million to Rs 11.5 million over last year’s figures thereby showing a drop of about 10 per cent. This, according to Channel Guide COO Ravi Deshmukh, is due to the stoppage of various leasing activities that were undertaken by the organisation in the past. At present, the company says it is concentrating solely on the recovery of outstanding dues.
The total expenditure of the company has risen by a whopping 300 per cent from Rs 8.77 million to Rs 23.94 million. This has been mainly attributed to the fact that last year’s balance sheet figures indicated business activities that were mainly non-media activities while the present balance sheet contains media activities.
Company sources attribute the drop of 30 per cent in the amount of depreciation from Rs 5.2 million to Rs 3 million to the same factor i.e. change in the mode of business. However, it is being reported that there has been no further leasing or no new purchase or sale of assets in the current year.
The company however hopes to reach break-even by the third quarter of the current fiscal.
News Broadcasting
Times Network to air JVC Exit Poll across 5 regions on April 29
Four-hour broadcast spans states and Puducherry with data-led analysis
MUMBAI: Times Network is set to roll out what it calls one of its most expansive election programming efforts yet, culminating in the JVC Exit Poll on 29 April, with a multi-hour broadcast spanning key poll-bound regions.
The exit poll will air across Times Now and Times Now Navbharat, beginning at 5pm and 4pm respectively. Co-powered by Vedanta and Jindal Stainless, the programming aims to combine on-ground reportage with data-driven projections across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry.
The network has deployed over 50 journalists across these regions, gathering voter sentiment and local insights in the run-up to polling. The effort builds on its ongoing election formats such as Election Yatra and Election Premier League, which have tracked campaign narratives and community-level issues.
In parallel, Times Now Navbharat has focused on constituency-level reporting in West Bengal through its Jan Gan ka Mann series, capturing voter opinions across diverse segments.
The coverage has also featured interviews with prominent political leaders. Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Congress leaders Ramesh Chennithala and V D Satheesan have appeared on the network’s election specials. From Tamil Nadu, voices including deputy chief minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran, BJP leader K Annamalai and NTK’s Seeman have also featured in discussions.
On the day of the exit poll, the network’s primetime anchors, including Navika Kumar, Zakka Jacob and Sumit Awasthi, will lead the coverage. They will be joined by a panel of political analysts, psephologists and senior journalists offering real-time insights and interpretation of trends.
The programming will integrate grassroots reportage with analytics from the JVC Exit Poll, aiming to give viewers an early sense of electoral outcomes ahead of the official results on 4 May.
With its combined English and Hindi broadcast reach, Times Network is positioning this effort as a comprehensive look at voter sentiment, blending field reporting, data and debate to decode what could lie ahead when the final mandate is revealed.
