Doon School alumnus Nikhil Deogun will start the new year as the managing editor for business day programming at CNBC (NYSE: GE), Media Decoder reported. He is currently international editor at The Wall Street Journal. Deogun is among the highest ranking journalists of Indian origin in American journalism and will…

Now that the deal is done for Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) to acquire 51 percent of NBC Universaal from GE, pending regulatory approval, here’s a look at how it all unfolded: —Reaction To The Comcast-NBCU Deal In Tweets—Comcast-NBCU: Hulu Board Meetings Could Get Interesting; Premium Hulu ‘Not In The Cards’?—Video: Comcast-NBCU…

NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) paid $150 million in May 2008 for a 26% stake in NDTV Networks Plc., a holding company for the non-news businesses of broadcaster NDTV Ltd. Now, a little more than a year later, the American media firm is selling the stake back to NDTV. And how…

Indian broadcaster NDTV is in talks with two overseas companies—Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) and Malaysia’s Astro—to come in as an investor in its lifestyle business, according to a person familiar with the development. Today morning, NDTV said it will buy back a 26% stake in its non-news subsidiary NDTV Networks…

Broadcaster NDTV Ltd will buy back a minority interest in its non-news subsidiary NDTV Network Plc. from NBC Universal (NYSE: GE). The company had sold a 26% stake in the UK-incorporated subsidiary, which acts as a holding company for the group’s non-news businesses, to the American media conglom in May…

NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), which is in the midst of talks to combine with the content assets of Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), may need to do a serious rethink of its digital talent at the corp level. They haven’t replaced George Kliavkoff, the chief digital officer who left the company in…

NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) has entered into a strategic partnership with Ten Sports to launch a sports video portal. For the first time perhaps, cricket crazy Indians from everywhere can enjoy a free live webcast of key cricket matches—a service that was previously available, but behind a paywall. We first…

NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) is close to launching a sports video site in India, focused on live streaming, we have learned. Sab Kanaujia, the VP of Digital Product Strategy & Development, confirmed as much in a tweet last week, and for now it is doing closed trials with cricket streaming…

HT Media Ltd’s business daily Mint and CNBC (NYSE: GE) TV18 have announced a content alliance whereby the two outlets will feature content from the other. Mint announced the partnership in a front page note to readers today, which points to the CNBC-branded inside page. Today’s featured content has two…

CNBC (NYSE: GE) TV18, India’s top business news channel in terms of ratings, and Mint, HT Media Ltd’s business daily, are entering into a marketing and editorial alliance under which CNBC will feature some editorial content from Mint and vice-versa, according to a source at one of the companies. We…

Well, at least big Hollywood names can still get a line of credit in these trying times. The heads at DreamWorks SKG have firmed up a $1.2 billion deal to leave Viacom’s Paramount Pictures and form a new venture funded by Indian telecom and media conglomerate Reliance ADA Group, WSJ…