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FIPB clears Jagran TV, Bloomberg’s FDI proposals
MUMBAI: The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has cleared Jagran TV and Bloomberg’s foreign investment proposals.
Jargan TV proposal entailed offloading around 25.7 per cent stake in the news television venture to the Mauritius-based New Vernon Bharat Ltd,which is a fund.
The company had applied to the FIPB for approval of the deal worth approximately Rs. 300 million.
Jagran TV, part of the Kanpur-based Jagran group, has started a TV news channel with an initial investment of about Rs. 700 million.The channel is operated under the brand name Channel 7.
Contacted by Indiantelevision.com over phone, Jagran TV’s director Siddharth Gupta confirmed that the development.
Jagran and Bloomberg were amongst the 19 proposals, worth about Rs. 4,450 million, cleared by the FIPB for the finance minister’s final approval.
In case of Bloomberg, FIPB cleared the proposal to set up a wholly-owned subsidiary for starting up a television software operation in India. Bloomberg is active in providing financial information and services via terminals. It also runs a TV channel under the brand name Bloomberg TV.
Bloomberg’ s proposed subsidiary would produce and distribute television programmes related to business and financial news in English to Indian television channels.
Bloomberg proposes charge its new Indian entity $300,000 in the first year of operations towards technical services fee. Consequently, the company will charge it $100,000. Furthermore, Bloomberg may also charge the Indian arm for access to Bloomberg data, news and other facilities.
The new Indian entity will also build and operate a data screen in the style used by Bloomberg in its international television operations.
The Bloomberg datascreen, which is generated by a proprietary software application, when connected to the feed of Bloomberg market data and news, populates a display area allowing viewers to see the data and video programmes on a unique screen.
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EPIC Company unifies all brands under single EPIC identity
IN10 Media rebrand aligns TV, digital and films into one ecosystem
MUMBAI: The EPIC Company, formerly known as IN10 Media Network, has announced a sweeping brand consolidation, bringing its television channels, digital platforms and content IPs under a single identity, EPIC.
The move is aimed at simplifying the company’s structure while creating a more connected content ecosystem spanning television, digital and films. By aligning multiple verticals under one umbrella, the company is looking to present a sharper, more cohesive face to both audiences and partners.
As part of the transition, several channels have been rebranded to align with the EPIC identity. EPIC will now operate as EPIC TV, while Nazara becomes EPIC Bharat, Filamchi is now EPIC Bhojpuri, Gubbare transitions to EPIC Kids, and ShowBox is reintroduced as EPIC Music. Ishara will continue under the identity EPIC Parivaar, maintaining its core positioning.
The company has also refreshed EPICON, its streaming platform, to reflect a more unified and modern brand experience. The overhaul is designed to improve content discovery and create a seamless experience across platforms.
This consolidation follows the recent launch of EPIC Studio, a unified production arm that brings together Juggernaut Productions and MovieVerse Studio, as the company expands its footprint across films, OTT and television.
The EPIC Company managing director Aditya Pittie said, “As our scale has grown, it has become important to simplify how we operate and how we present ourselves to the ecosystem. This consolidation gives us a clearer, more future-ready structure to partner, invest, and build at scale, while ensuring that for viewers, the experience is more seamless and intuitive.”
With the rebrand, The EPIC Company is positioning itself as a platform-agnostic content network, focused on scale, simplicity and integrated storytelling. By bringing everything under one banner, it is aiming to make its content universe easier to navigate and harder to ignore.
