NDTV 'Profits' from CNBC TV18
The recently launched biz channel of NDTV, NDTV Profit is a mirror image of CNBC TV 18. Quite literally, while CNBC TV 18 is left aligned (most of the time) NDTV Profit is right aligned.
Profit's screen shade resemble the CNBC blue, the stock ticker format and colours are the same and lastly the image window during trading hours is the same size too. Some thing to crib about originality or lifting-- plagiarism in journalistic terms.
The reason is quite simple. Gossip with ex CNBC TV 18 employees revealed that a bunch of the people who run NDTV Profit are from CNBC TV 18.
Another trivia on the same subject. Headlines Today, it is said, is a close take of CNBC SAW (South Asia World)
2 Comments:
That was interesting. Yes, Indian TV chaneels ripping off each other's looks seems a bit wierd. But our newspapers have been copying from the West for quite some time. While The Telegraph is said to be modeled on The Guardian, Asian Age is said to follow the style of the International Herald Tribune. Probably with the exception of The Hindu most other dailies are "inspired" by some foreign daily or the other.
Tridib,The Hindu is increasingly being inspired by Guardian, cos N Ram loves Guardain. In fact, he told a training program (i wa a part of) that The Hindu should look to appear a Guardian.
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