Zee, STAR top list of India media groups

The Times group gets an estimated 60% of its revenues from its very profitable print business

Zee, STAR and Times continue to dominate the list of top 10 media groups in India.

The march of TV distribution firms has been one of the biggest changes the listing has seen in five years. Tata Sky and Bharti Airtel are now firmly entrenched in the top 10.

This follows the global norm wherein some of the largest media firms are the ones with a hold on distribution. Comcast, the world’s biggest media company at $80.4 billion or Rs 514,560 crore in revenues, is a distribution monolith. 

The second change? Except for Times, HT Media and Jagran,