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BTVI endeavors to increase financial literacy across India through Money Mantra
MUMBAI: Business Television India (BTVI), India’s Premier English Business News Channel, introduces a multicity initiative – Money Mantra which is an effort to expand the financial awareness and literacy by bringing together, personal financial experts and mutual fund experts close to the common man and investors.
Money Manta is an on-ground activity where our panel of experts will throw light on the basics of personal finance management, current market trends and address the problems which individuals face while investing.
It will be an interactive session. Which will be held across Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Surat and Kolkata over a span of next four months.
Money Mantra will kick-start in Mumbai on 17th October – P. L. Deshpande Maharashtra Kala Academy (Ravindra Natya Mandir), Prabhadevi 3:30 PM. Channel has invited Kalpesh Ashar, Founder, Full Circle Financial Planners & Advisors and Dhruv Rawani, Founder, GoalSIP.com
and the session will be moderated by Muralidhar Swaminathan, Channel Director, BTVI
Speaking on the same, Megha Tata, COO, BTVI said “Money Mantra is our effort to further our credo of Save, Invest & Prosper. It is a well thought activity to help individuals as well as investors to manage their wealth. These series of events will also give us an opportunity to interact with our viewers and understand them better. At BTVI, we have always believed in empowering our viewers by educating them and with Money Mantra we are re-enforcing the same.”
Adding to that, Anuj Katiyar, Head of Marketing, Research and Branded Content, BTVI shares
“Money Mantra is BTVI’s initiative to share expert advice with its loyalists and viewers and empower them to make the right financial decisions. With the huge response we received from our audiences for MF Guide and Call BTVI, we decided to get closer to our loyalists by covering 8 major cities in the first phase and seeping even deeper in its second phase. We have designed our 360-degree marketing campaign to reach out to everyone who wishes to comprehend the various aspects of financial literacy and intricacies of sound decision making.”
The event has been supported by IIFL Securities, Business Standard & Big FM.
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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.
