Here is a compilation of links that comprised our coverage of the restructuring of NDTV Networks that played out over several months. The cash burn by the general entertainment channel was becoming too much to bear for the parent company and NBCU shut the tap on funding (and also had…

Turner Asia, a unit of Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), today said it has agreed in principle to acquire a 92% stake in general entertainment channel NDTV Imagine. Turner will buy a 76% stake from NDTV Networks Plc. for $67 million and will also invest $50 million in the business against…

NDTV Networks CEO Vikram Chandra, also a key anchor for the group’s news channels, spoke to contentSutra from New York shortly after his company’s strategic partnership with Scripps was announced. Excerpts: Congrats on the deal. What next for the company? Thanks. This is a very exciting partnership for us. Scripps…

Indian broadcaster NDTV Ltd and US-based Scripps Network Interactive today said they were forming a strategic alliance in the lifestyle broadcasting space in India. As part of the deal, Scripps will acquire 69 percent stake in NDTV Lifestyle Ltd, with the NDTV Group retaining the rest. Scripps will pay $55…

Harsh Rohatgi, executive vice president at NDTV Imagine, is leaving the company to join National Geographic Channel as MD, a person familiar with the development said. Rohatgi denied he was leaving Imagine. Rohatgi spent seven years at Star India and was GM and senior VP, content and communication, prior to…

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.…

Turner Broadcasting, a unit of Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), is close to acquiring a “very high level of holding” in general entertainment channel NDTV Imagine, according to a person familiar with the development, who asked not to be named. Turner could buy an 80-90% stake in the GEC, the person…

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…

Shivnath Thukral, who recently stepped down as business editor and adviser strategy at NDTV, will join industrial conglomerate Essar Group as group president, corporate branding and strategic initiatives. His appointment will be effective 12 October, the $14 billion group, with interests in sectors such as steel, energy, power, communications, infrastructure…

Shivnath Thukral, who was till recently managing editor of the business channel NDTV Profit, before being named business editor for all NDTV channels early in September, resigned on Saturday. His next destination is unclear. “I am leaving NDTV and moving on to a new phase of my career,” he wrote…

Infosys Technologies Ltd founder and chief mentor N.R. Narayana Murthy has stepped down from the board of NDTV Ltd, the broadcaster said today. The company said Murthy had expressed his inability to continue on the board “in view of increasing pressure on his time and due to his commitments within…

Broadcaster NDTV Ltd has decided to discontinue its ads-for-equities business, after striking deals with four companies, including Emaar MGF and the Delhi Stock Exchange. The firm holds a portfolio of Rs35-40 crore, according to a person with knowledge of the development, who asked not to be named. NDTV CEO K.V.L.…

Broadcaster NDTV Ltd and U.S.-based E.W. Scripps (NYSE: SSP) Co. are in talks for a strategic partnership in the lifestyle broadcasting business in India, a person familiar with the situation said. If a deal materializes, this will be the first venture in India for Scripps and the second international partner…

Business news channel NDTV Profit and business daily The Financial Express are in talks to forge a content partnership. NDTV Profit is run by Prannoy Roy-headed broadcaster NDTV Ltd and The Financial Express is published by The Indian Express Ltd, which also publishes the eponymous broadsheet. Spokespersons at both companies…

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…

It turns out NDTV Convergence won’t be hiring an external candidate to replace Sanjay Trehan who, in April, moved to MSN. Popular anchor and NDTV Networks CEO Vikram Chandra will hold additional responsibility as CEO of Convergence. NDTV Convergence is a subsidiary of NDTV Networks.

In exactly two months from launch, ET Now, the business news channel from Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd, has toppled NDTV Profit to become the second most viewed channel in Metros. According to latest data from TAM Media Research, for the week ended 15 August, ET Now had a 26%…