| KEY ACHIEVEMENTS |
| The NDTV News Network has delivered strong revenue growth and maintained its market leadership despite increasing competition. The English news channel, NDTV 24x7 remains the market leader as per the latest TAM figures for All universe, all India. 24 hours. NDTV Profit and NDTV India have both maintained their positions in market shares. |
| While commercial success of remaining the country's largest news network has been critical, NDTV has also received plenty of professional recognition in this year. The Business World 2007, survey, has recognized NDTV as India's most respected Media Company. |
| NDTV has also won 7 Indian Telly Awards, including the Best News Channel of the year award for NDTV 24x7, 4 Asian Television awards and CNN Young journalist awards. |
| BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS |
| This year was significant for NDTV. The company has raised the bar of growth several times and outlined a vision to build a global business. |
| NDTV Networks, a 100% subsidiary of NDTV was incorporated to seize opportunities in areas "beyond news"- entertainment, lifestyle, media technology and outsourcing. |
| NDTV Imagine has been incorporated to spearhead the group's foray into the biggest and most profitable section of television "� mass entertainment. Starting with General Entertainment, the company will expand into movies, regional youth and kids programming. NDTV Life will capitalize on the retail and consumer boom by providing an up-market lifestyle channel for the global urban Indian -- with world-class shows on fashion, food, travel and luxury. |
| The initial global portfolio of television channel includes the highly successful Astro Awani in Indonesia, a soon to be launched channel in Malaysia and another in the Middle East. Other Asian and African countries will follow. |
| The focus of the company from now is on the "triple play". NDTV Convergence will exploit the synergies between television, Internet and mobile. Its core advantage is the distinct content it draws from the NDTV channel of bouquets, to build robust TV-online synergies and powerful web 2.0 communities. |
| Another arm of NDTV Networks is NDTV Labs, which has been developing top quality media software and technology for captive use. This is now being globally marketed and commercially exploited. In the outsourcing space, the join venture company NGEN Media Services has received enthusiastic response from global media firms in areas of post production services and digital asset management. |
| These and other plans to take the NDTV brand global are being rolled out aggressively. |
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