03 April 2018 | Volume 70 - Issue No: 09   Facebook Twitter YouTube YouTube
 
   
 
iWorld | OTT
Eros Now content to move entirely behind pay wall
Since the time OTT platforms began to flourish in India, there has been scepticism over whether viewers would pay for online content or not. Most of the players in the market, however, are unanimous in their belief that the audience is ready to pay for good content. Echoing the same sentiment, Eros Digital COO Ali Hussein, in an interaction with indiantelevision.com.
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Television | TV Channels
Sony Yay tests Bengali, Malayalam feeds
Sony Pictures Networks' kids channel is making strides within a year of launch. Sony Yay plans to add Bengali and Malayalam audio feeds. It already has feeds in Tamil and Telugu. The FICCI KPMG report 2018 states that there has been increased interest across broadcasters to be able to provide better quality and fresher content to regional consumers.
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Television | TV Channels
A+E Networks makes top-level APAC appointments
A+E Networks has announced a slew of management changes for the Asia Pacific region. Alan Hodges is exiting as managing director of Asia Pacific, with Saugato Banerjee selected to run North Asia and Leena Singarajah joining the company to oversee Southeast Asia and Australia.
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Television | TV Channels
MIB issues stringent norms on fake news in TV & print media
Even as the government announced amendments in the guidelines for accreditation of print and electronic or TV journalists outlining punishments for breaches on account of fake news, the intention is being termed by stakeholders as debatably honourable but an indirect way to muzzle media freedom.
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- Hyderabad: Telugu TV news anchor Radhika Reddy commits suicide; 'my brain is my enemy', her suicide note read
- Trai rule on tariff offers could cost telcos Rs 10-12,000 crore
  Source: Financial Express
   
- What makes 'The True Picture' most Union Ministers' favourite fact checker?
- After 4-day visit to Pakistan, Nobel winner Malala Yousafzai returns to Britain
  Source: India Today
   
- TDSAT asks Trai not to seek compliance from Airtel till April 17
  Source: : ET
   
- Trump Calls Sinclair Superior to CNN as Deal Awaits U.S. Nod
- Time Warner Used HBO as Leverage in YouTube Talks, U.S. Says
  Source: Financial Express
   
- Marathi films head to Cannes Film Market
  Source: The Hindu
   
- SpaceX or ISRO, Who's Winning the Race to Space?
  Source: The Quint
   
- Idea Cellular's independent director Alka Marezbhan Bharucha resigns
  Source: ETTelecom
   
- ATC completes Vodafone India's tower acquisition deal
  Source: BL
   
   
   
   
- Steven Bochco: the cop show pioneer who paved the way for The Wire
- Social media ad spend to overtake TV's in spite of Facebook woes
 

Source: The Guardian

   
- MPAA Leads Partner-Vetting Initiative to Cut Risk of Movie, TV Show Leaks and Hacks
- Spotify's Daniel Ek Quotes Daft Punk in Day-Before-IPO Blog Post
 

Source: Variety

   
- Instagram suddenly chokes off developers as Facebook chases privacy
- Google AI and search chief John Giannandrea steps down
  Source: Techcrunch
   
- ESPN Sets April 12 For Launch of ESPN+ Service
- Trump Defends Sinclair Broadcasting
  Source: Broadcasting Cable
   
- Comcast to see video revenue decline 0.7% in Q1: Macquarie
- New research shows 21% of pay TV households subscribe to online video service through their pay TV provider
  Source: Fierce Cable
   
- FAANG Stocks Lose Bite in Market Decline
- Mediamorph Scores Redbox Deal
 

Source: Multichannel

   
- Orange targets Romania's AKTA
 

Source: Broadband Tv News

   
   
Movies | Movies on mutiple platforms
Biopics & sports-based films help popularise sporting culture in India
"Sattar minute, sattar minute hai tumhare paas ... shayad tumhari zindagi ke sabse khaas sattar minute ... (Seventy minutes, seventy minutes is what you have ... may be the most important seventy minutes of your life..)".
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Movies | Hollywood
Special screening of Maharaja Duleep Hollywood biopic at Cannes
Even though no Indian feature film has been selected for the 70th Festival de Cannes this year, an award-winning historic film biopic on the poignant life story of the last King of Punjab - Maharajah Duleep Singh.
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'Distribution has always been the challenge for broadcasters'
 
 
 
Television | TV Channels
Zee Cinema will air World Television Premiere of Super Singh on Friday, 6th April 2018 at 8PM
   
Television | TV Channels
Hotstar releases Watch'NPlay to engage viewers
 
Television | TV Channels
ABP News Launches New Primetime show ' Masterstroke' with Punya Prasun Bajpai as its host
 
iWorld | Telecom
Viacom18 and Film Heritage foundation host power packed evening with Christopher Nolan and Tacita Dean
 
MAM | Media and Advertising
KWAN realigns its management team, readies itself for the next level of growth
 
 
MAM | Media and Advertising
Dream11 assigns creative mandate to Leo Burnett
 
MAM | Marketing
WROGN, IMARA are official lifestyle partners for RCB in IPL 11
 
Television | TV Channels
Star Bharat unveils promo of 'Mayavi Maling'
 
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