NEW DELHI: Media shares were trading in the red in Wednesday's afternoon session.
Shares of Dish TV India (down 2.29 per cent) , Inox Leisure (down 1.84 per cent) , Balaji Telefilms (down 1.55 per cent) , Music Broadcast (down 1.05 per cent) , Zee Media Corporation Ltd (down 0.83 per cent) , Jagran Prakashan (down 0.8 per cent) , PVR (down 0.8 per cent) , Hathway Cable - Datacom (down 0.74 per cent) , Saregama India (down 0.61 per cent) , Sun TV Network (down 0.34 per cent) and DB Corp (down 0.15 per cent) were the top losers in the index.
The Nifty Media index was trading 0.37 per cent down at 1797.0 around 11:47 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 10.15 points at 12178.6 , while the BSE Sensex was up 39.74 points at 41293.48 .
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 22 were trading in the green, while 28 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, JSPL, Tata Motors, SAIL, SBI, Tata Steel, Bank of Baroda and BHEL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.