Nasdaq-listed Rediff.com (NSDQ: REDF) India Ltd today said net loss for the quarter ended 30 September widened by 84% to $2.61 million, from $0.41 million during the corresponding quarter last fiscal.  Total revenues dropped 43% year-on-year to $4.19 million. Revenues from India Online dropped 45% y-o-y to $3.08 million. 2Q…

Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd, publisher of dailies such as Deccan Chronicle, The Asian Age and Financial Chronicle, posted a net profit of Rs99.9 crore for the three months ended 30 September, up 120% year-on-year. Revenues grew 10.78% y-o-y to Rs250.85 crore. The company made significant reduction in costs, especially in…

Multiplex chain PVR Ltd today said net profit for the three months ended 30 September was Rs5.21 crore, up 10.3% from the year-ago period. The growth in PAT came from cost control as total expenditure was 4.14% lower year-on-year at Rs70.15 crore. Total revenues fell 3.4% y-o-y at Rs80.13 crore.…

Broadcaster NDTV Ltd today posted a standalone net loss of Rs11.85 crore for the three months ended 30 September, down 9.12% year-on-year. Total revenue fell 6.16% y-o-y to Rs69.35 crore. Total expenditure was lower by 13.18% at Rs78.15 crore. Subscription revenue grew 23% y-o-y, the company said in a statement.…

Chennai-headquartered Sun TV Network Ltd today said net profit for the quarter ended 30 September was at Rs130.56 crore, up 21% year-on-year. Revenues grew 35% y-o-y to Rs320.39 crore. For the half year ended 30 September, net profit rose 18.74% to Rs250.36 crore. The company operates 20 television channels in…

Direct-to-home service provider Dish TV today posted a net loss of Rs56.13 crore for three months ended 30 September, down 63% year-on-year on a nearly 50% growth in sales. Revenues for the first half of the fiscal were at Rs504.18 crore, up 49% y-o-y. During the quarter under review, the…

Publisher Jagran Prakashan Ltd posted net profit of Rs50.27 crore for the quarter ended 30 September, up 120% from the year-ago period on strong growth in ad revenues. While ad revenues were up 19.45% year-on-year at Rs171.6 crore, subscription revenues grew 15.06% y-o-y to Rs54.28 crore. Revenues from out-of-home and…

Broadcaster TV Today Network Ltd today said net profit for the three months ended 30 September was Rs10.61 crore, up 40.15% year-on-year. Total sales were lower by 3.51% y-o-y at Rs64.54 crore. The company, which broadcasts channels such as AajTak and Headlines Today, reported total expenditure of Rs56.11 crore, down…

Publisher HT Media Ltd today said net profit for the quarter ended 30 September was Rs31.41 crore, up 92% year-on-year from 16.28 crore. While the uptick when compared with the depressed sales of the year-ago period is not surprising, net profit for the quarter under review is only marginally (1%)…

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd today posted Q2 net profit of Rs110.95 crore, down 37.72% year-on-year. Total sales was down 5.44% to Rs540.48 crore. Ad revenues declined 11% y-o-y to Rs247.6 crore, while subscription revenue grew 8% to Rs243.47 crore. The company posted lower revenues on all three segments of its…

Diligent Media Corp. Ltd (DMCL), the Mumbai-based publisher of Daily News and Analysis, or DNA, posted losses of Rs150 crore for the fiscal ended 31 March 2008. This information about the privately held firm is from a recent Sebi filing made by DB Corp. Ltd, whose promoters and promoter group…

TV Today Network Ltd, broadcaster of news channels such as Aaj Tak and Headlines Today, today posted a net profit of Rs16.64 crore for the quarter ended 30 June, up 81% year-on-year. Total revenue rose 10.7% to Rs71 crore. The company achieved a 15% reduction in marketing and distribution expenses,…

UTV Software Communications Ltd, a diversified media company with interests in broadcasting, TV software, films, new media and gaming, today posted a net loss of Rs23.33 crore for the quarter ended 30 June, swinging from a profit of Rs19.88 crore for the year-ago period. UTV promoter Ronnie Screwvala told Reuters…

Zee News Ltd today said net profit for the quarter ended 30 June grew 27.8% year-on-year to Rs11.91 crore on strong advertising growth. Advertising revenue grew 22.7% from the year ago period to Rs109 crore. Compared with the quarter ended 31 March, net profit grew 35.9%. While total revenues grew…

Television Eighteen India Ltd has posted a consolidated net loss of Rs40.6 crore, more than four times from the net loss of Rs9 crore during the corresponding quarter last fiscal on higher expenditure. Revenues in the flagship news operations fell 24% to Rs56.8 crore. Total expenditure grew 41% to Rs103.5…

Dish TV India Ltd, India’s largest direct-to-home service provider by subscribers, today said net loss for the quarter ended 31 March was down 31% y-o-y at Rs78.66 crore on higher revenues. Total income grew 51% y-o-y to Rs207.13 crore. For the fiscal ended 31 March, consolidated net loss widened by…

Publisher Jagran Prakashan Ltd today said net profit for the quarter ended 31 March was up 40.89% year-on-year at Rs21.81 crore on stronger ad sales. Net sales was up 6.59% at Rs197.57 crore. Total income grew 5.92% to Rs201.2 crore, even though it contracted marginally from Q3’s Rs207 crore. JPL…

NASDAQ-listed Rediff.com India Ltd. (NSDQ: REDF) publisher of Rediff.com and US-based India Abroad newspaper, today posted a net loss of $8.86 million (Rs41.89 crore @ Rs47.29/dollar), compared with a profit of $0.90 million during the year ago period on decline in online advertising and depreciation of the Indian rupee vis-a-vis…

Publisher HT Media today said net profit for the quarter ended 31 March dropped 44% from the year-ago period to Rs23.43 crore on account of higher newsprint prices, adverse currency movement and slowing ad revenue growth. Net sales grew 7% y-o-y to Rs333.82 crore, and total income grew 6% y-o-y…