NEW DELHI: Media shares were trading with losses in Tuesday's afternoon session.Shares of Zee Media Corporation (down 3.97 per cent) , Jagran Prakashan (down 3.36 per cent) , Zee Entertainment Enterprises (down 3.09 per cent) and TV Today Network (down 1.19 per cent) were trading in the red.DB Corp (down 0.81 per cent) , Hathway Cable - Datacom (down 0.75 per cent) , Sun TV Network (down 0.35 per cent) and Navneet Education (down 0.05 per cent) too were trading lower.
The Nifty Media index was trading 0.68 per cent down at 1803.40 around 11:59 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 46.15 points at 11,930.65 while the BSE Sensex was up 160.91 points at 40,445.10.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 26 were trading in the green, while 24 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, SBI Life Insurance Company, Bharti Airtel, SBI, Ashok Leyland, Glenmark Pharma, Bharti Infratel and ICICI Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.