Amid the din around the impending launch of three English dailies in Mumbai, the city’s second-most read general interest newspaper Mid Day is quietly gearing up for battle royale. Mid Day, in recent times, has seen an increase of about 22 per cent in circulation, primarily on the back of entertainment, city-centric, some amount of national/international, and sports news. The mix is doing so well...
Two years after the first foreign investment in India's print media, Indian publishers are raising record sums from private equity funds and public markets to finance ambitious growth plans. Newspapers in India are suddenly outgrowing other media -- unlike slumping readership and advertising at newspapers across the U.S. and Europe -- and investors like what they see. In the last fiscal year to...
Associated with 'courage' and 'the naked truth', Tehelka has made a resounding comeback. In 2001, the Tehelka news portal was put out of business for exposing corruption in high places in a sting operation on arms deals. Reborn almost three years later as a weekly newspaper, Tehelka has made a mark on the strength of its investigative stories, reaching a print run of 100,000 within one year of its...
The fight for the numero uno position between Businessworld and Business Today continues unabated. While one boasts of high readership, the other stakes its claims on circulation. Both ABC and IRS figures are grist to the mill for the two leading business magazines in this war of numbers. Businessworld, from the Anandabazar Patrika Group, prefers to stake its leadership claims on the basis of ABC...
Tehelka, the weekly English newspaper well-known for its hard investigative stories, now has a print-run of one lakh copies. The newspaper, which was launched on January 31, 2004, has a current circulation of 95,000. Total circulation is expected to touch 1.5 lakhs by September 2005. According to a Tehelka release, out of the print-run of one lakh copies, around 17,000 are advance paid subscribers...
NEW YORK: Newspapers' online operations grew to a $1.19 billion industry in 2004, according to a new report from Borrell Associates. While online sites represented about 3% of a newspaper company's revenue, the segment accounted for 45% of advertising growth. Newspaper sites are expected to reap $1.52 billion overall in 2005. Borrell Associates surveyed 719 daily and weekly newspapers (out of 2...
Newspapers' online operations grew to a $1.19 billion industry in 2004, according to a new report from Borrell Associates. While online sites represented about 3% of a newspaper company's revenue, the segment accounted for 45% of advertising growth. Newspaper sites are expected to reap $1.52 billion overall in 2005. Borrell Associates surveyed 719 daily and weekly newspapers (out of 2,177 media...
Ananda Vikatan has emerged as the largest-selling Tamil weekly. The average circulation of the weekly now stands at 4,30,534 copies for the period July-December 2004, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulation. This represents a 22 per cent growth over the previous half-year period. Founded and nurtured by the legendary S.S. Vasan, Ananda Vikatan displaces Kumudam as the largest-selling Tamil...
Amchi Mumbai is guaranteed to witness some hectic print media activity next fiscal with the launch of several new English dailies. Independent News from Bennett, Coleman & Company Limited (BCCL) is scheduled to debut in May, followed by Hindustan Times’ much talked about maiden Mumbai edition in June. Plus, the ZEE-Dainik Bhaskar combine will be launching its newspaper too. There's also talk about...
The Delhi markets and the Delhi & Urban Environs, as segregated in the IRS 2005 R1, throw various firsts for the readership trends in the Delhi market in totality. For the first time in the last four years, The Hindustan Times has recorded a growth in these market. The Times of India has declined in Delhi, even as it sees an increase in the Delhi & Urban Environs market. Looking at numbers, HT has...
