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Taking the 'Remote' to the Remote ANNUAL REPORT 2014-15 Taking the ‘remote’ to the remote TV18 Broadcast Limited CIN: L74300DL2005PLC137214 503, 504 & 507, 5th Floor, ‘Mercantile House’, 15, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi - 110 001. Contents 01 02 04 Corporate information Taking the ‘remote’ to the TV18 Broadcast Ltd. remote 06 08 12 Delivering meaningful Leveraging the ‘remote’ for International footprint choices to the ‘remote’ popular leadership 13 14 16 Financial highlights Powered by digitalisation, Empowered leadership driven by innovation 18 38 69 Management’s Discussion Directors’ Report Corporate Governance & Analysis Report 92 137 191 Standalone Financial Consolidated Financial Notice Statements Statements Corporate information BOARD OF DIRECTORS REGISTRAR & SHARE TRANSFER AGENT Mr. Adil Zainulbhai LINK INTIME INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED Independent Director & 44, Community Centre, 2nd Floor, Chairman of the Board Naraina Industrial Area, Phase-I, Near PVR Naraina, Mr. Manoj Mohanka New Delhi – 110 028 Independent Director Tel : +91 11 4141 0592 Mr. Raghav Bahl Fax : +91 11 4141 0591 Non-Executive Director Email: [email protected] Mr. Rohit Bansal Non-Executive Director COMPANY ADDRESS Registered Office COMPANY SECRETARY 503, 504 & 507, 5th Floor, Mr. Deepak Gupta Mercantile House, 15, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, STATUTORY AUDITORS New Delhi – 110 001 Tel : +91 11 4981 2600 Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP, Fax : +91 11 4150 6115 Chartered Accountants Email : [email protected] Website: www.network18online.com BANKERS ICICI Bank Limited CORPORATE OFFICE Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited Express Trade Tower, Yes Bank Limited Plot No. 15 & 16, Sector 16A, Noida - 201 301, U.P. Tel : +91 120 434 1818 Fax : +91 120 432 4110 Corporate Overview | Management Discussion and Analysis | Directors’ Report | Corporate Governance Report | Financials | Notice Taking the ‘remote’ to the remote ANNUAL REPORT 2014-15 3 For the TV viewer, there is no bigger liberator than the remote control. A TV remote offers unprecedented ‘freedom’ to surf across channels and genres, as also to view and indulge in favourite programming without leaving the acclaimed “couch”. It clearly is the epitome of choice for the viewer. TV18, through its broadcast and multicast In many ways though, choice is dictated and initiatives, connects people in far greater controlled by the number of channels available numbers across places, creating a network to the viewer. that is truly national and international in reach, while being local and regional in tastes …effectively taking the TV remote to IN A country WITH A multitude OF LANGUAGES, THE CHOICE gets LIMITED IN the remote THE ABSENCE OF REGIONAL programming populations of CATERING TO local TASTES AND languages. India. In remote areas of India, far from the metros and towns, a meaningful connect with television will happen when programming speaks a viewer’s language. Corporate Overview | Management Discussion and Analysis | Directors’ Report | Corporate Governance Report | Financials | Notice TV18 Broadcast Ltd. CHANNELS THAT ARE Motion Pictures, the group’s film Oriya. To reach foreign audiences and a REGIONAL IN TASTE AND entertainment business. sizeable Indian diaspora abroad, TV18 LANGUAGE; UBIQUITOUS IN launched News18 India, a 24-hour English REACH television news channel designed to give T V18 - A LEADER IN FACTUAL global audiences a window to the world’s TV18 is one of India’s leading television ENTERTAINMENT largest democracy. broadcast networks, housing multiple channels catering to specific regional and TV18 has also forayed into the Indian national audiences. factual entertainment space through T V18 - A CONTENT a joint venture with A+E Networks and DISTRIBUTOR manages and broadcasts the channel – TV18 and Viacom18 have formed a History TV18. T V18 - A LEADING NEWS strategic joint venture – IndiaCast, NETWORK a multi-platform ‘Content Asset Monetisation’, entity mandated to drive TV18’s bouquet of news channels include T V18 - REGIONAL IN TASTE, domestic and international channel marquee names such as CNBC-TV18, NATIONAL AND GLOBAL IN distribution, placement services and CNBC Awaaz, CNBC-TV18 Prime HD, REACH content syndication for the bouquet of CNN-IBN, IBN7 and IBN-Lokmat (a Marathi channels from TV18, Viacom18 and other With the successful acquisition of ETV, regional news channel in partnership broadcasters. with the Lokmat group). TV18 now houses a bouquet of 10 regional news channels – ETV Urdu, ETV With a rich content library that houses Rajasthan, ETV Bihar/Jharkhand, ETV over 15,000 hours across genres, T V18 - A LEADING MP/Chhattisgarh, ETV UP/Uttarakhand, IndiaCast syndicates this content from ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK ETV Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, ETV group channels to nearly 125 countries News Bangla, ETV News Kannada, ETV in over 25 different languages, including TV18 also operates a joint venture with News Gujarati and ETV News Odia. Apart in Hebrew, Russian, Serbian, Bosnian, Viacom – Viacom18, which houses a from the regional news channels, TV18 Albanian, Macedonian, Kazakh, Swahili portfolio of popular entertainment through its subsidiary also operates and English, amongst others. Apart from channels – Colors, Colors HD, Rishtey, 5 regional entertainment channels – TV shows, IndiaCast also offers Indian MTV, MTV Indies, SONIC, Comedy Central, Colors Marathi, Colors Kannada, Colors feature films (both Bollywood and VH1, Nick, Nick Jr., Nick Teen and Viacom18 Gujarati, Colors Bangla and Colors regional) on digital platforms. ANNUAL REPORT 2014-15 5 TV18 Broadcast Ltd. 30 plus TV channels Leader in the 25 per cent English and Hindi EBITDA growth Business News genre1 Numbers that define the network Catering to an average of 229 Growth @ million viewers 17 per cent across channels and across regions2 Total Revenue of ` 2,318.4 Crores 1 Source: TAM, CS AB Male 25+, 1st Apr ‘14 -31st Mar ‘15, 24 Hrs, All Days 2 Source: TAM, CS 4+, 01st Apr’14 – 31st Mar’15, All Days, 24 Hrs Corporate Overview | Management Discussion and Analysis | Directors’ Report | Corporate Governance Report | Financials | Notice Delivering meaningful choices to the ‘remote’ TV18 has played a reach out to audiences in English, Hindi, Its operative tenet is to be multi- Gujarati, Marathi, Bangla, Oriya, Urdu etc. channel, multi-genre and multi- pioneering role in redefining language. freedom that the remote Driven by diverse languages, culture control gives and in driving and traditions that are local, and hyper TV18 channels include Hindi and news and entertainment local in some instances, TV18’s channels regional entertainment channels provide entertainment options that in Hindi and regional languages; content to remote corners are truly differentiated. In this process, general news channels in English, of India, not as ‘a one size fits technology and diverse platforms play Hindi and regional languages; an important role, enabling device business news channels in English, all approach’, but tailored to agnostic and multi- platform access to Hindi and Gujarati languages; individual audience needs. the viewer. and music, kids, comedy and infotainment channels. Given the vast diversity of people in Today, the 30 plus channels that India, true freedom of the remote control constitute the TV18 network inform, can be manifested only through a vast entertain and engage with disparate number of channels, from which the audiences across genres and languages. viewer can make his choice. Cognisant of The network tailors programming for this reality, TV18 creates and broadcasts global, national and local audiences, regional content that is culture and with a clear focus on building digital and language specific while representing physical touchpoints and facilitating aspirations and traditions of ethnic access to content in an interactive audiences. TV18’s bouquet of channels manner. ANNUAL REPORT 2014-15 7 Driving the regional, national & global push TV18 today has 10 regional news channels, reaching the hinterland in the states of Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka, Gujarat and Odisha. Through its subsidiary, it also has 5 regional language entertainment channels broadcasting content in Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Bangla and Oriya. 30 plus Its news channel – News 18 India reaches the Indian channels diaspora abroad and serves as a window to the world’s The combined power of the 30 plus largest democracy. channels reaches 229 million3 viewers located across metros, towns, villages TV18 has business news channels in English, Hindi and and remote hamlets of the country. Gujarati and its general news channels are broadcast in Whilst the international footprint English, Hindi and Marathi. of the Group’s channels reaches 70 plus countries, the content footprint reaches 100 plus countries. Viacom18 houses a portfolio of popular entertainment channels – Colors, Colors HD, Rishtey, MTV, MTV Indies, SONIC, Comedy Central, VH1, Nick, Nick Jr. and Nick Teen. When one takes the ‘remote’ to the The Viacom18 film business is involved in the acquisition, production, syndication, marketing and distribution of full remote, there is no length feature films within India and distribution of Indian place left called films in several international markets. It has a strategic alliance with Paramount Pictures to distribute and market “remote”. Every its films in the Indian subcontinent. place is connected! It manages and broadcasts a factual entertainment channel – History
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