Showing posts with label investment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label investment. Show all posts

8 December 2008

Realty TV check: Indian broadcasters in mounting losses

So it seems controversy is an expensive thing as well.

Media is a costly business, and like aviation,investors love it for the feel and prestige...money is just a pretension. A lot of funds ( I suspect) take strategic stakes in media companies because it offers a lever of sorts (conspiracy theories, anyone?). Anyway, here is a story on how broadcasters are in a crunch.

4 August 2008

Is the Net making media investment laws obsolete?


"A lot of countries have restrictions in the media, but with the expansion of the Internet, the rules are getting ridiculous."

"I think in time these rules will be done away with."

--Rupert Murdoch in Mumbai, quoted by Reuters

Here is the story