Very distressing news indeed. I do not mourn the death of root less, direction less media outfits whose sole concern is to make money, but my heart goes out to the men and women who have become jobless in these hard times. -- Nitish chakravarty
>________________________________ > From: Manoj Kumar Das <[email protected]> >To: Nava Thakuria <[email protected]>; A Mailing list for people >interested in Assam from around the world <[email protected]> >Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; >"[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, 7 October 2013, 20:35 >Subject: Re: [Assam] Death of a news channel > > >Very sad indeed. > >Surprisingly one expected a deep pocketed group like BI to run it profitably >after the regular gestative periods, which in case of TV channels is long. > >Feel sorry for the large group of media persons suddenly rendered jobless. > >MKDas > > > >Sent from my iPhone > >On 07-Oct-2013, at 7:07 PM, Nava Thakuria <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Death of a news channel >> >> There is sad news for television viewers in Assam. On 1 October, the >> management of Prime News, a Guwahati-based 24x7 privately-owned TV channel, >> notified its employees that it had decided to shut down because of heavy >> losses. The decision comes as a jolt to the Assam media fraternity because >> only last April the Seven Sisters’ Post, an English daily, and Sakalbela, a >> Bengali daily with its prime edition in Kolkata, had stopped publication. >> Prime News was started by a chit fund company called Jeevan Surakhya Group >> about three years ago. The two dailies were launched by the now-collapsed >> Saradha Group of Companies. >> Recently, Prime News (http://www.primenews./com) was taken over by >> Brahmaputra Infrastructure (Pvt) Ltd. It engaged over 170 “direct” >> employees, including journalists, and another 100 “partial” or “indirect >> employees” across Assam. >> >> http://thestatesman.net/news/18657-death-of-a-news-channel.html >> _______________________________________________ >> assam mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > > >_______________________________________________ >assam mailing list >[email protected] >http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > > > _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
