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Viewers to showcase travel videos in Zee News show
MUMBAI: Zee News is launching a travel show Raahi Matwale. The programme will show homemade videos of the viewers.
“Aapki baari” is the tagline of the show, which will invite people to send in their home video footage. Zee News will select one or two good home videos and re-edit them as per program needs. It would make the program more interactive.
The effort is to make its viewers endeavor to explore their surrounding to know and to feel one with the world outside. This show will give it’s viewers a boost to do a better videography which means now they will be able to see on Zee News the scenes captured by handycam on their leisure visitsBy a rough industry estimate, almost one million Indians use a handy-cam.
Commenting on the initiative, Zee Telefilms director News Group Laxmi N.Goel says, “Zee News is now presenting this unique show with a big difference from other travel shows. Zee News, in a bid to increase interactivity with its viewers, will delight it’s viewers by showing their home videos which they have shot while traveling to a place that is yet unexplored.”
Raahi Matwale will be having different segments to make the viewers enjoy every moment of it. The Big Bara Break will focus on a known tourist destination, be it a hill station, some religious centres, some seaside locations or some historical towns. Choti Chutti will take the viewers through to some lesser-known locations.
Top Stay – information about the prominent hotels. Local Bazar – showcase the local markets, the local food, handicrafts etc. Travel Tips – help the viewers in selecting things to take to the travel location like medicine pouch, playing cards. The quiz section Sawaal ek Chutti Ka for the viewers offers opportunity to answer and win prizes. Travel Facts will reveal some lesser-known facts of the known Indian travel sector, informs an official release.
The series will begin Sunday 3 April at 12:30 pm and repeat on Saturday at 2:30 pm only on Zee News.
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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.
