Top Television channels in India

Television Audience Media (TAM) research data released top television channels across various segments for the week ended March 8. NDTV Imagine dropped to fifth place after its successful debut while DD1 gained massively along with NDTV 24×7. Times Now also lost viewership ratings in the english news space.

TAM Ratings:

English News channels:

1. NDTV 24×7
2. Times Now.

Hindi general entertainment:
1. Star Plus is in massive lead.
2. Zee TV.
3. Doordarshan1.
4. Sony Entertainment.
5. NDTV Imagine.

Hindi movie segment:

1. Sony Max (31.5%)
2. Zee Cinema.

CNBC remains top business channel while TV9 is the number one telugu news channel.

Source: TAM and Business Standard.

Top TV news channels in India

Top English TV news Channels: NDTV is the most popular English news channel in India followed by CNN IBN. Times Now is closely following the leaders. Top 3 channels command more than 85% of English news viewership.

Market share of English news channels:

1. NDTV – 31%.
2. CNN IBN – 30%.
3. Times Now – 25%.
4. Headlines Today – 14%.

Top Hindi TV News Channels:

Aaj Tak is the leading Hindi news channel in India followed by Star News. Sensational tactics pushed India TV to No.3 slot.

1. Aaj Tak – 22% market share.
2. Star News – 19%.
3. India TV – 15%.
4. Zee News and IBN – 10%.
5. NDTV India – 8%.

Is there any space for more news channels in Indian Television space?

Source: TAM and Business World.

Indians netizens are addicted to Sex sites

According to the Alexa Ranks or Google trends, Indians are either sex starved or addicted netizens in the world. Among Indians, Telugu and Bengali people occupied top 2 slots. This is a surprise to many conservative Indians. Indian net users are spending more time on porn sites compared to the western liberalised societies.

Alexa.com provides information on the top sites in the world according to the country and language.

In India Alexa rankings,

No.1 adult blog “Debonair blog” is at 14th place. This is also the number one blog in India.

Other top sex sites in India:

2. X Board – 21st place.
3. Masala Talk – 25th place.
4. Free sexy Indians – 42nd place
5. Dadesi Forum – 48th place.
6. Indian Sex stories – 70th place.
7. Adult Friend Finder – 84th place.
8. Masala4 India – 96th place.

I have excluded partial sex sites like Rapidshare, Mega Upload and other dating and file sharing sites.

In Australia Alexa rankings,

No.1 sex site “Adult matchmaker” is at 69th place while no.2 sex site “Adult Friend Finder” is at 94th place. These are the only two adult sites in the top 100 Alexa rankings in Australia.

In Canada Alexa Rankings,

No.1 dating site “Plenty of Fish” is at 28th place while “Adult friend finder” is at 70th place. Only 3 sites are in the top 100 Alexa rankings in Canada.

In United Kingdom Alexa rankings,

Adult Friend Finder is at 66th place and only 3 adult sites are in the top 100 list.

In United States,

Only 3 adult sites are in the top 100 list with Adult friend finder at 32nd place.
Note: Indians generally use term “Sex” for adult content while American and Europeans use “Porn” for searching adult material.

If we analyse these trends and rankings, Indians are no.1 searchers for adult content. Most of these sites are running from foreign countries where pornographic sites are not officially banned.

Net users are wasting atleast 30% of their quality time on porn sites and Dating sites. It is a sad thing.

Please share your opinion.

Best hospitals in India

The Week-IMRB Survey selected 10 best hospitals in India. The survey was done in 15 cities and 15 specialisations. It represented the views of 1,239 specialists and 609 general practitioners.

Top 10 hospitals in India:

1. All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi.

2. Apollo Hospitals, Chennai

3. PGIMER, Chandigarh.

4. Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai.

5. NIMHANS, Bangalore.

6. Sankara Nethralaya – Chennai.

7. Lilavati Hospital – Mumbai.

8. Apollo Hospitals – Delhi.

9. Christian Medical College – Vellore.

10. Escorts heart Institute – Delhi.

Major High Lights of the survey:

1. AIIMS is the best Orthopaedic, Paediatric and Gynaecology hospital in India.
2. Sankara Nethralaya is the best eye hospital.
3. Apollo is the top hospital in Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad.

4. Manipal is the top hospital in Bangalore.
5. Escorts is the top choice for cardiology.
6. Tata Memorial is the number one Oncology hospital in India.

7. Gap is more widened between the top hospitals and others.
8. Nagpur hospital is the only government hospital in the first rank in any city.

For more information, read The Week magazine dated May 6, 2007.

Google's domination over Indian webspace

Compared to the world, Google's domination is complete over Indian web space. In the Alexa rankings, Out of the top four, three sites are from Google network. Though Yahoo is in the first place, Orkut, Google India and Google are occupied second, third and fourth places respectively.Orkut became the "My Space of India". Every Indian teenager hooked to Orkut for networking. 90% of Indian search market is occupied by Google and its Indian arm.

Other Google Sites like Blogger (11 th place), and Youtube (13 th place) are gradually gaining ground among the Indian netizens.

If this trend continues, In 2007, Google will have five sites in the top 10 Indian websites list.

Please share your opinion on Google's Domination.

Top 10 News Channels In India

Indian Viewers are now spending more time watching News than reading news. TV Channels are competing with each other for more viewership.

As per Latest TAM ratings, Aaj Tak is the number one news channel in India with 23.5% market share. Zee News is in second place with 16.4% market share. NDTV India is the number one English news channel with 13% share. IBN 7 is in fourth place with 9% share. India TV is in the fifth place with 9% share.

TV9 is the number one Telugu News channel with 8.2% market share followed by another Telugu channel with 6.6% share. So, Andhra Pradesh viewers are spending more time watching news.

Sahara Samay, DD News and Awaaz occupied other places. With ZeeTV, TV9 and ETV are planning to launch more news channels in regional languages, Indian News Space is in the hot zone. Read this blog for more Breaking news.

Source : Business World

India's top 5 Business houses

These are the results of an exclusive survey conducted for Business Barons among CEOs and senior managers by Market Resonance. The clear winner: The Reliance Industries group, followed by the Tata group and Wipro.

India's largest private sector business house, the Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries group, is perceived as the most respected business house in India with score of 9.42.

Ranked second in the Business Barons-Market Resonance poll is the house of Tata (8.04), followed by Wipro (7.37), the Aditya Birla group (7.33) and the resurgent house of Bajaj (7.08).

In the parameter "ability to raise funds", the Aditya Birla group (8.09), however, scores over Wipro (7.79) and is ranked third after Reliance and Tata.

Overall, it is clear that Reliance is regarded as India's top business house in aggregate terms as well as on the five individual parameters.

CONCLUSION:

Reliance Industries was voted as the no. 1 business house rated at 9.42 on the basis of world scale growth, speed of project implementation, vision, ability to raise funds and leadership as the 5 considered parameters.

It was followed by Tata rated at 8.04 on a scale of 10 in the No. 2 spot. The No. 3 spot was occupied by Wipro which scored 7.37. The No. 4 and 5 positions were occupied by A.V. Birla with a score of 7.33 and Bajaj with a score of 7.08 respectively.

Source : Business Barons

Jet Airways - India's number one airlines

Jet airways followed by Indian are flying high in Indian skies.

But, slowly low cost airlines are capturing market share.

Airlines - Type - July-Sept - Jan-March

Jet Airways - Normal - 30.4% - 34.9%

Indian - Normal - 21.6% - 23.9%

Aie Deccan - Low Cost - 19.3% - 15.2%

King fisher with 8.3% ,Sahara with 8.8% and Spice Jet with 6.9% market share lagging behind.

But, Spicejet slightly gained market share.Air Deccan is biggest gainer.

So, it seems to be that real war is happening in the year.