Share market update: Media shares slip; Dish TV down over 2%

NEW DELHI: Media shares were trading in the negative zone in Tuesday's afternoon session.

Shares of TV Today Network (down 2.67 per cent), Dish TV India (down 2.37 per cent), Zee Entertainment Enterprises (down 1.91 per cent) and Eros International Media (down 1.11 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

Sun TV Network (down 1.01 per cent), Jagran Prakashan (down 0.05 per cent), Navneet Education (down 0.88 per cent) and PVR (down 1.23 per cent) too were trading with losses.


The Nifty Media index was trading 0.25 per cent down at 2053 around 12:16 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 5.15 points at 11,351.35 while the BSE Sensex was up 20.69 points at 38,051.82.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 26 were trading in the green, while 24 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Indian Oil Corp, Ashok Leyland, Vodafone Idea, Dish TV India, PNB, SBI, IDFC First Bank, Bank of Baroda and ICICI Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.