The Hoot’s ANALYST* : Articles

BY The Hoot’s ANALYST*| IN MEDIA BUSINESS |01/04/2018

DB Corp has had some misses but has been chugging along comfortably overall. However latest figures suggest improving profitability will get harder.

Sun TV: In search of the next big idea?

BY The Hoot’s ANALYST*| IN MEDIA BUSINESS |28/11/2017

Profitability has never been an issue for this Southern giant, but the growth rate of net profits has been coming down.

The rise and rise of Jagran Prakashan

BY The Hoot’s ANALYST*| IN MEDIA BUSINESS |16/09/2017

The company that publishes Dainik Jagran goes from strength to strength ten years after its 2006 IPO.

NDTV: A legal mountain to climb

BY The Hoot’s ANALYST*| IN MEDIA BUSINESS |31/07/2017

The strenuous legal defence mounted by NDTV against the IT Department’s claims of irregularities, could be prolonged.

Unravelling the tax travails of NDTV

BY The Hoot’s ANALYST*| IN MEDIA BUSINESS |22/06/2017

Does income in the books of a subsidiary count as profit accruing to the main company?

Roger Ailes and the Fox News disclosure

BY The Hoot’s ANALYST*| IN MEDIA BUSINESS |23/05/2017

If Fox chose to disclose that it paid $45 million over nine months to settle sexual harassment claims, including those against Ailes, it had good business reasons for doing so.

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Amazon resisting voluntary censorship

The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.

Let the games begin

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.