Electronic Media

I. Major Indian Production Houses

1. Dharma Productions

Dharma Productions is a film production company founded by Late Yash Johar in 1976. The first film to be produced by the company was Dostana in 1980.

Headquarter
Dharma Productions is based in Mumbai.

Present Management
With the release of Kuchh Kuchh Hota Hai in 1998, Yash Johar’s son Karan Johar made his directorial debut. Presently he is the Managing Director and his mother Hiroo Johar is the Chairperson of the company.

Major Productions
Some other films produced by the company include:

l	Muqaddar Ka Faisla (1987)
l	Agneepath (1990)
l	Gumrah (1993)
l	Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998)
l	Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham (2001)
l	Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003)
l	Kaal (2005)
l	Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006)

2. Balaji Telefilms


Balaji Telefilms is one of the leading production houses of India. It is run by the Kapoor family, with Jeetendra as its Chairman. The production house is mainly into producing television serials.
Headquarter
Balaji Telefilms is based in Mumbai.

Present Management
Ms. Shobha Kapoor is the Managing Director and CEO of the company while her daughter Ekta Kapoor is the Creative Head of the company.

Major Productions
Some of the major serials produced by Balaji Telefilms are:

l	Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii
l	Kahiin To Hoga
l	Karam Apnaa Apnaa
l	Kasamh Se
l	Kasautii Zindagi Kay
l	Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi

3. United Television (UTV)

United Television is a leading media and entertainment company of India with offices in South East Asia, US and UK. UTV is into producing content for television, motion pictures and broadcasting. The company was established 18 years ago by Ronnie Screwvala in 1990.

The company has 4 subsidiaries:

l	United Entertainment Solutions Ltd (India).
l	UTV Communication (USA) LLC
l	UTV Communication (UK) Ltd.
l	UTV Communication (Mauritius) Ltd.

Headquarter
UTV is headquartered at Mumbai.

Present Management
Mr. Ronnie Screwvala is the CEO of UTV.

4. Adlabs

Adlabs is the largest entertainment company in India. Adlabs was founded by Manmohan Shetty in 1978 along with Vasanji Mamania as a small film processing unit catering to ad films. In 1989, the firm entered mainstream cinema processing. Today, the company processes more them 70 percent of all Hindi films produced in India. In June 2005, Anil Ambani who owned Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) became a majority stakeholder (51%) in Adlabs. In 2006, Adlabs had also entered into television content creation by becoming a majority stakeholder in Siddhartha Basu’s Synergy Communication. Adlabs cinema is also one of the largest motion picture exhibitors in India.

Headquarter
Adlabs is headquartered at Mumbai.

Present Management
Mr. Manmohan Shetty is the Chairman and Managing Director of the company and his daughter Ms. Pooja Shetty is the whole-time Director of the company.

5. Sahara One Media and Entertainment Ltd (SOMEL)

Sahara One Media and Entertainment Limited (SOMEL) is the media company of the Sahara India Parivar. It operates two television channels “Sahara One” a general entertainment channel and “Filmy” (2006 Feb) a Hindi movie channel.

Sahara One Motion pictures is one of India’s largest movie production houses in the business of producing, marketing, and distributing motion pictures in Hindi and other Indian regional languages.

Headquarter
Sahara One Media and Entertainment Ltd. is headquartered at Mumbai.

Present Management
Mr. Subrata Roy is the Managing Worker and Chairman of the Sahara One Media and Entertainment Ltd.

6. Yash Raj Films

Yash Raj Films is a multi–product company set up by Yash Chopra in 1970. Apart from producing motion pictures in Hindi language, the company is also in the business of distributing films. It has also launched a music label by the name “Yash Raj Music” and also produces DVD’s, VCD’s and videos under the label “Yash Raj Films Home Entertainment”. In 2001, Yash Raj films became the first Indian production company to create a Corporate Structure.
In 2004, an International film magazine Hollywood Reporter, rated Yash Raj Films as the 27th Biggest Film Distribution House in the World and the largest production company as in 2006. Recently it has started a new state-of-the-art studio at Mumbai.

Headquarter
Yash Raj films is based in Mumbai.

Present Management
The present Chairman of the company is Yash Chopra.

Major Productions of Yashraj Productions

l	Kabhi Kabhi (1976)
l	Silsila (1981)
l	Lamhe (1991)
l	Dilwale Dulhaiya Le Jayenge (1995)
l	Dil to Pagal Hai (1997)
l	Mohabbatein (2000)
l	Saathiya (2002)
l	Kabul Express (2006)
l	Chak De! India (2007)

II. Major Internet Companies

1. Google Inc.

Google was started by Sergey Brin and Larry Page as a research project while undergoing their Ph.D. at Stanford University, California. The search engine was initially nicknamed “Back Rub”. The domain name google.com was registered on Sep 15, 1997. The company has its office in Menlo Park, California. The total initial investment raised for the new company was US $1.1 million, including a cheque of $ 1 million from Andy Bechtolscheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems.

Headquarter
The head office of Google inc. “The Googleplex” is situated at Mountain View, California.

Present Management
Eric E. Schmidt – CEO/Chairman
Sergey Brin – President, Technology
Larry Page – President, Products

Products and Services offered
The major product offerings of Google include the Google Search Engine, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, Jot Spot, Adwords, Google Notebook, Orkut, google Groups, Picassa-Web albums, Google Earth, Google Maps and You Tube.

2. Yahoo! Inc

Yahoo! Inc was founded by David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. students of electrical engineering at Stanford University, in January 1995. The website was initially named ‘Jerry and David’s guide to the world wide web’, but eventually got the name ‘Yahoo! – Yet another hierarchical officious oracle’.

Headquarter
The present headquarter of Yahoo! Inc is at Sunnyvale, California, USA

Present Management
Roy J. Bostock – Chairman
Carol Bartz – CEO
David Filo – Co-Founder

Products and Services offered
The major product/service offering of Yahoo include - Ask Yahoo!, Blogs, Flickr – a public photo album for users, Geocities – a web hosting service, My Yahoo – personalized homepage for users,
Yahoo 360° - social networking domain for users, Yahoo Education, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Games, Yahoo Gallery, Yahoo Greetings, Yahoo Groups, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messages, Yahoo Search and Yahoo Video.

3. eBay Inc.

The online auction site, eBay was founded in San Jose, California on September 3, 1995 by computer programmer Pierre Omidyar as auction web. The first item sold by the website was a broken laser pointer for which Omidyar earned $14.83. The name of the service was changed from auction web to eBay in September 1997.

Headquarter
The company, eBay Inc is headquartered at San Jose, California.

Present Management
Pierre Omidyar – Chairman
John Donahoe – CEO

Services Offered
eBay is an online auction portal having a varied range of products for sale on the portal. Some of the items sold on the website include Apparel and Accessories, Books and Magazine, Camera and Optics, Cars and Bikes etc.

4. Amazon.com Inc.

Amazon.com Inc is an American e-commerce company. The company was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994. Amazon.com offers services for access to its catalogue as well as for integration with retailers.
Amazon.com provides search engine services to the website. Amazon.com went live on April 14, 2004. Its results derive from Windows Live Search, supplemented by Alexa (a subsidiary of Amazon.com) and other engines for specific search types.

Headquarter
The company is presently headquartered at Seattle, Washington, USA

Present Management
Jeffrey Bezos – Chairman, CEO and President

Products and Services Offered
Amazon.com began as an online bookstore, but it soon diversified into other product areas which includes DVD’s, CD’s, computer software, videogames, electronics, apparels, furniture, and food. It also facilitates integration with retailers like Target and Marks & Spencer. Kindle launch in Novemeber 2007 is an ebook reader and amazon mp3 was started in January 2008

5. Microsoft Corporation Inc.

Microsoft Corporation was founded by two students from Harvard University, Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975. The name became a registered trademark on November 26, 1976. The company started its operations from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Its first international office was opened in Japan on November 1, 1978. The company underwent a restructuring on June 25, 1981 to become an incorporated business in the state of Washington. Kindle – Nov 2007 – ebook reader Amazon MP3 – Jan 08

Headquarters
Microsoft Inc. is headquartered at Redmond, Washington, USA

Present Management
Bill Gates – Co-founder and Executive Chairman
Steve Ballmer – CEO
Ray Ozzie – Chief software Architect
Craig Mundie – (CRSO)

Products and Services offered
Some of the major product/service offerings of Microsoft include Ultra Mobile PC, Windows operating system MS Office, Windows Series System, Developer Tools, Xbox 360 and MSN, Business Solutions Zune.

6. AOL LLC.

Formerly America Online, Inc., is an American global Internet services and media company formerly operated by Time Warner and headquartered in New York, New York. It has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world, or set up international versions of its services.

Headquarters
New York, USA

Present Management
Tim Armstrong, CEO

Products and Services
ICQ, AIM, Compuserve, Goowy, Netscape, Winamp, Weblogs, INC. and etc. First chatroom base text role playing game Black Bayou (2004).

III. Major Television Channels

Company	Owner
NDTV	Prannoy Roy
Sony Entertainment Television	Kunal Dasgupta (CEO)
Star Group	Uday Shankar (CEO)
Synergy Communication	Siddharths Basu
Network Eighteen	Raghav Behl (MD)
TV Today Group	Living Media
UTV	Ronnie Screwvala (CEO)
Zee Network	Subhash Chandra

IV. Major Radio Stations

Station	Owner
Radio City	Star Group
Radio Mirchi	Bennett Coleman & Co.
Radio One	Mid-Day
Big FM	Adlabs
Red FM	Value Labs, Malaysian media group – Astro & NDTV
Radio Tadka (95 FM)	Rajasthan Patrika
Fever 104 FM	Fever 104 FM