HT Media Ltd
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HT Media Limited is an India-based company. It publishes Hindustan Times, an English daily, and Mint, a business paper daily except on Sunday. The company is also engaged into the business of providing entertainment, radio broadcast and all other related activities through its radio stations operating under brand name Fever 104 in cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore.
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.
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 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
A part of HT Media Ltd, the group's Hindi newspaper Hindustan ranks as the second largest-read daily in India. Hindustan has 13 editions across the Hindi belt. It is the fastest growing Hindi newspaper with almost 9 million readers and expanding rapidly across the Hindi belt.
Mint Newspaper
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
HT Media has entered the FM radio market in key Indian cities through a consulting partnership with Virgin Radio
. Fever 104 FM is available in Delhi (since October’ 06), Mumbai(since January ’07), Bangalore (since March ‘07) and Kolkata (January ‘08).
In a short span of three years, the channel's rise has been meteoric. It has gained the No. 1 position in Mumbai and Bangalore leaving behind all the other FM channels in these cities. In terms of TSL, Fever 104 FM has surged ahead with a total time spent listening of 386 minutes. It is No.2 FM station in Delhi on the popularity charts.
guidance, resume
services and industry information. Shine partners candidates not only through the recruitment
process but through their career lifecycle. Shine.com has been developed by Redmatch, an Israel
based company.
By becoming the repository of the audience reviews on movies , Desimartini.com aims to become people's voice on cinema, in the language of the people.
HTCampus.com provides the students with a comprehensive, updated and reliable information for over 25000 colleges in India across various courses and streams. The site also has certain value added tools for students like the Test Preparation section, where students can come and take free sample tests online for various exams, Future Salary Calculator, which helps the student map out his earnings after pursuing a particular course from a particular college, a unique Compare Colleges feature and access to Expert Counseling (http://www.htcampus.com/ask) from Industry Experts for instant help. They also guide students for any admissions related help for MBA, Engineering, Hotel Management and other courses. They have a very active articles and news section which provides updates on education news in the nation.
A unique feature launched by HTCampus.com, is Common Application Form (http://www.htcampus.com/collegeapplications) , which is first of its kind initiative in India, where the complete admission process has been shifted from offline to online, reducing hassles for students at minimal costs. This concept enables a student's reach of applying to more number of colleges by letting them apply at economized rates to partner institutes, hence increasing his application being short listed by more colleges. They have more than 500 colleges partnered accepting applications online across categories for BBA, MBA, Engineering & Hotel Management admissions with the likes of Great Lakes etc.
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.
History
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
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 outsourcingBusiness process outsourcing in India
The business process outsourcing industry in India refers to the business process outsourcing services in the outsourcing industry in India, catering mainly to Western operations of multinational corporations ....
, HT Syndication obtains information from the United States Congress
United States Congress
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C....
and other bodies within the federal government of the United States
Federal government of the United States
The federal government of the United States is the national government of the constitutional republic of fifty states that is the United States of America. The federal government comprises three distinct branches of government: a legislative, an executive and a judiciary. These branches and...
and generates original content for Indian citizens who have migrated to another
Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin
A Non-Resident Indian is an Indian citizen who has migrated to another country, a person of Indian origin who is born outside India, or a person of Indian origin who resides permanently outside India. Other terms with the same meaning are overseas Indian and expatriate Indian...
and distributes that content to databases and other dataports worldwide. HT Syndication's portfolio includes:
- Hindustan TimesHindustan TimesHindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded in 1924 with roots in the Indian independence movement of the period ....
(HT) - an Indian English-languageEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
daily newspaper founded in 1924 with roots in the Indian independence movementIndian independence movementThe term Indian independence movement encompasses a wide area of political organisations, philosophies, and movements which had the common aim of ending first British East India Company rule, and then British imperial authority, in parts of South Asia...
of the period ("HindustanHindustanHindustan or Indostan, literal translation "Land of River Sindhu ", is one of the popular names of South Asia. It can also mean "the land of the Hindus"...
" being a historical name for Northern India). - HT City and other supplements - HT Syndication adds publishing supplementsSupplement (publishing)A supplement is a publication that has a role secondary to that of another preceding or concurrent publication.A follow-on publication complements its predecessor, either by bringing it up-to-date , or by otherwise enhancing the predecessor's coverage of a particular topic or subject matter, as in...
to its newspapers that have secondary roles to the newspaper, such as HT City covering local city interests and weeklies covering cinemaFilmA film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
, real estateReal estateIn general use, esp. North American, 'real estate' is taken to mean "Property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals, or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this; an item of real property; buildings or...
, neighborhood, and job careers. - HT Next - A newspaper targeting college students and others who have not yet reached adulthood.
- Indian Government & Business News - an executed contracts clearinghouse for contracts executed by sectors of the Government of IndiaGovernment of IndiaThe Government of India, officially known as the Union Government, and also known as the Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of the union of 28 states and seven union territories, collectively called the Republic of India...
, including aviation, construction, energy, infrastructure, power, railways, and telecom. - US Federal Contracts - an awards clearinghouse for all U.S. federal contract awarded each day.
- US Federal News - a public comments clearinghouse for United States Congress and United States Executive branch.
HindustanHindustanHindustan or Indostan, literal translation "Land of River Sindhu ", is one of the popular names of South Asia. It can also mean "the land of the Hindus"...
A part of HT Media Ltd, the group's Hindi newspaper Hindustan ranks as the second largest-read daily in India. Hindustan has 13 editions across the Hindi belt. It is the fastest growing Hindi newspaper with almost 9 million readers and expanding rapidly across the Hindi belt. Mint NewspaperMint (newspaper)Mint is a business newspaper from HT Media Ltd, launched in collaboration with The Wall Street Journal on 1 February 2007. It is a premium business news publication aimed at decision makers and policy makers of the country and it is the first newspaper in India to be published in the Berliner...
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
Chennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
edition on 13 July 2009, Mint now has a national footprint that includes Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad and Pune.
Fever 104 FMFever 104 FMFever 104 FM is an FM radio station in India. It is available in Delhi , Mumbai , Bangalore and Kolkata, India ....
HT Media has entered the FM radio market in key Indian cities through a consulting partnership with Virgin RadioVirgin Radio
Absolute Radio is one of the UK's three Independent National Radio stations. The station rebranded to its current name at 7.45am on 29 September 2008.The station is based in London and plays popular rock music...
. Fever 104 FM is available in Delhi (since October’ 06), Mumbai(since January ’07), Bangalore (since March ‘07) and Kolkata (January ‘08).
In a short span of three years, the channel's rise has been meteoric. It has gained the No. 1 position in Mumbai and Bangalore leaving behind all the other FM channels in these cities. In terms of TSL, Fever 104 FM has surged ahead with a total time spent listening of 386 minutes. It is No.2 FM station in Delhi on the popularity charts.
Shine.com
HT Media launched its innovative job portal Shine.com in June 2008. It has a unique job-matching technology along with careerCareer
Career is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as a person's "course or progress through life ". It is usually considered to pertain to remunerative work ....
guidance, resume
Résumé
A résumé is a document used by individuals to present their background and skillsets. Résumés can be used for a variety of reasons but most often to secure new employment. A typical résumé contains a summary of relevant job experience and education...
services and industry information. Shine partners candidates not only through the recruitment
Recruitment
Recruitment refers to the process of attracting, screening, and selecting qualified people for a job. For some components of the recruitment process, mid- and large-size organizations often retain professional recruiters or outsource some of the process to recruitment agencies.The recruitment...
process but through their career lifecycle. Shine.com has been developed by Redmatch, an Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
based company.
DesiMartini.com
Desimartini.com is a movie reviews and ratings website by Firefly eVentures, HTMedia's internet subsidiary. It is a platform to share movie reviews and ratings, covering both Bollywood and Hollywood movies and has a host of audience reviews and ratings on the latest movies. The website has details on thousands of movies including information on the plot, photos, trailers and lots more. It invites users to not only read and write reviews, but also connect with like minded movie goers. It empowers the average movie goer to express his verdict on the box office .By becoming the repository of the audience reviews on movies , Desimartini.com aims to become people's voice on cinema, in the language of the people.
HTCampus.com
HTCampus.com is an education portal from the house of Firefly e Ventures, the internet subsidiary of HT Media Ltd. The site is aimed at students passing out from school and college to help them take the right decision about their higher education.HTCampus.com provides the students with a comprehensive, updated and reliable information for over 25000 colleges in India across various courses and streams. The site also has certain value added tools for students like the Test Preparation section, where students can come and take free sample tests online for various exams, Future Salary Calculator, which helps the student map out his earnings after pursuing a particular course from a particular college, a unique Compare Colleges feature and access to Expert Counseling (http://www.htcampus.com/ask) from Industry Experts for instant help. They also guide students for any admissions related help for MBA, Engineering, Hotel Management and other courses. They have a very active articles and news section which provides updates on education news in the nation.
A unique feature launched by HTCampus.com, is Common Application Form (http://www.htcampus.com/collegeapplications) , which is first of its kind initiative in India, where the complete admission process has been shifted from offline to online, reducing hassles for students at minimal costs. This concept enables a student's reach of applying to more number of colleges by letting them apply at economized rates to partner institutes, hence increasing his application being short listed by more colleges. They have more than 500 colleges partnered accepting applications online across categories for BBA, MBA, Engineering & Hotel Management admissions with the likes of Great Lakes etc.
External links
- HT Media Ltd. Official Website
- HindustanTimes Official Website
- HindustanDainik or Hindustan Official website
- LiveMint Official Website
- Fever Official Website
- DesiMartini: Social Networking Website
- HT City: Lifestyle Supplement
- Shine: A Career Website
- About Hindustan newspaper
- HTCampus: An Education Portal