NEW DELHI: Media shares were trading in the red in Friday's afternoon session.

Shares of Den Networks (down 2.23 per cent) , Zee Entertainment Enterprises (down 1.96 per cent) , Inox Leisure (down 1.75 per cent) and TV Today Network (down 1.68 per cent) were trading lower.

Sun TV Network (down 1.63 per cent) , Zee Media Corporation (down 1.31 per cent) , PVR (down 0.83 per cent) and TV18 Broadcast (down 0.71 per cent) were trading with losses.

The Nifty Media index was trading 1.41 per cent down at 2418.95 around 02:11 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 56.90 points at 11,464.15 while the BSE Sensex was down 177.84 points at 38,208.91.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 17 were trading in the green, while 33 were in the red.

Shares of NTPC, YES Bank, ONGC, Indian Oil Corp, Bank of Baroda, SBI, ICICI Bank, SAIL, Ashok Leyland, Coal India Ltd, BEL, RIL, Motherson Sumi and Hindalco Inds. were among the most traded shares on the NSE.