HT Media

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HT Media Limited
Type Public
Traded as BSE: 532662, NSE: HTMEDIA
Industry Mass media
Founded 1924
Headquarters Delhi, India
Key people Shobhana Bhartia
(Chairperson)
Rajiv Verma
(CEO)
Products Publishing, FM Radio, Internet
Revenue Increase INR18.13 billion (US$330 million) (2011)[1]
Profit Increase INR1.78 billion (US$33 million) (2011)[1]
Employees 2,708 (2011)[1]
Website HTmedia.in

HT Media Limited (BSE: 532662, NSE: HTMEDIA) is an Indian mass media company based in Delhi, India.

HT Media operates 19 printing facilities across India with an installed capacity of 1.5 million copies per hour. HT’s internet business, under the HindustanTimes.com portal, is primarily a news website with 2 million unique visitors and 50 million page views per month.

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History [edit]

In 1924, This date marked the august beginnings of Hindustan Times with Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation inaugurating the newspaper. In 1927, Hindustan Times, was reborn as Hindustan Times Ltd., a limited liability company. In 1936, The Hindi daily Hindustan was launched, which remains the dominant newspaper in the core Hindi belt of northern India. In 1937, Devdas Gandhi was appointed the Managing Editor of the newspaper and remained the managing editor till his death in 1957. In 1942, The Hindustan Times was one of the few newspapers that stopped publishing the newspaper for four and a half months as it refused to accept the British imposition of censorship on all newspapers. In 1947, The year India gained its freedom, was also the year Hindustan Times attained the status of being the dominant newspaper in Delhi. In 1957, The newspaper circulation grew from 58,693 copies to 144,287 in 1970 after KK Birla took over the mantle from GD Birla. In 1960, The Hindi literary magazine Kadambini was launched. In 1964, The group started actively targeting the youth of India and launched the Nandan magazine.

In 1991, At the start of liberalization of India, Hindustan Times moved to becoming an autonomous power center in a mature democracy. In 1999, The Hindustan Times celebrated its platinum anniversary. In 2000, With a focus on localization, five new editions for Calcutta, Bhopal, Ranchi, Chandigarh and Jaipur were launched. In 2003, The media business of was de-merged and incorporated under HT Media Ltd. In 2004, HT Media Ltd was listed as a public company and attracted external funding. In 2005, Hindustan Times successfully entered the Mumbai market with a refreshingly new product and content mix. In 2006, Fever 104 FM is launched, in technical collaboration with the Virgin Group. Hindustan was relaunched re-establishing the company's prominent presence in the regional news space. In 2007, Mint, the business paper in partnership with the Wall Street Journal was launched in Delhi and Mumbai. In the internet space, Hindustantimes.com was relaunched and Livemint.com was introduced. In 2008, Firefly e-Ventures, an HT Media Company launched its first portal for job seekers, Shine.com.

HT Syndication [edit]

HT Syndication is a content syndication division of HT Media established in mid-2003 to repurpose and repackage U.S. originated material. By utilizing business process outsourcing, HT Syndication obtains information from the United States Congress and other bodies within the federal government of the United States and generates original content for Indian citizens who have migrated to another and distributes that content to databases and other dataports worldwide. HT Syndication's portfolio includes:

Hindustan [edit]

A part of HT Media Ltd, the group's Hindi newspaper Hindustan ranks as the third largest-read daily in India. Hindustan has 13 editions across the Hindi belt. It is the fastest growing Hindi newspaper with 12.205 million readers and expanding rapidly across the Hindi belt.

Mint Newspaper [edit]

In February 2007,HT Media has also launched a national business newspaper, Mint, with an exclusive agreement with Wall Street Journal to publish Journal branded news and information in India.

With the launch of the Chennai edition on 13 July 2009, Mint now has a national footprint that includes Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad and Pune.

Fever 104 FM [edit]

HT Media, through a consulting partnership with Virgin Radio launched the FM radio station Fever 104 FM in October 2006. Initiall covering the Delhi area, the station has opened in Mumbai (January 2007), Bangalore (March 2007) and Kolkata (January 2008).

Shine.com [edit]

HT Media launched its job portal Shine.com, in June 2008. The portal was developed by Redmatch, an Israel based company.

DesiMartini.com [edit]

Desimartini is a movie discussion website which includes information on movies as well as reviews, ratings, polls and discussions.

HTCampus.com [edit]

HTCampus.com is an education portal from Firefly e Ventures, the internet subsidiary of HT Media Ltd. The site is aimed at students graduating from school and college, to help them take the right decision about their higher education.

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c "2011 Form 10-K, HT Media Limited". HT Media. 
  2. ^ About Us. HT Media. Retrieved 2008-10-30.

External links [edit]

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