Indiantelevision.com's TV Linx Reporter dated 4 August 2018 - links to broadcasting, cable, satellite, media, TV, television related news stories from India and abroad 07

4 August 2018 | Volume 70 - Issue No: 14


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Cable TV | LCO

Higher content costs pull down Den Networks numbers in Q1

	Indian cable distribution network and broadband internet services (broadband) provider Den Networks Ltd reported flat consolidated operating revenue numbers for the quarter ended 30 June 2018 (Q1 2019, quarter or period under review) as compared to the corresponding year ago quarter (y-o-y, Q1 2018) and the immediate trailing quarter (q-o-q, Q4 2018). continue reading...

iWorld | OTT

Govt withdraws plan for social media hub

The government on Friday told the Supreme Court that it was withdrawing its notification proposing to create a social media hub. Some had alleged that this could become a tool to monitor the online activities of the citizens.
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iWorld | Social Media

Facebook cuts access to API platform for better security

Twitter users are no longer able to tweet and retweet automatically on their connected Facebook accounts, as Facebook is cutting off access to its API platform for hundreds of thousands of apps, according to Economic Times.
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Television | TV Channels

Discovery channel hunts for citizen heroes

Discovery Channel, a destination for factual entertainment, has started the search for citizen heroes who want to change India for the better. The channel has brought on board ex-military specialists who will shortlist and train 10 citizen heroes, aka change agents of the society.
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	Tailoring systems for Trai's pesky call rules to cost Rs 200-400 crore: COAI
	What led I&B ministry to decide on withdrawing the social media hub proposal
	Source: ET

	Social media platforms closed almost 700 URLs: IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad
	Source: New Indian Express

	Telecom gear makers applaud Trai recommendations to boost local manufacturing of equipment
	Source: FE

	India elected president of Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development
	Source: TOI

	Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Bags La Liga Broadcast Rights in India
	Source: News18

	GOP's Scott Bombards Florida Voters in Bid to Flip Senate Seat
	Source: BQ

	Reliance JioGigaFiber registrations begins August 15: Here is everything that you should know
	Source: BGR


	Rapper Giggs attacks the Sun over UK drill story: 'Your paper is so dead'
	Harvey Weinstein lawyers seek to dismiss sexual assault charges
	Source: The Guardian

	FX Boss John Landgraf Talks 'Narrative Exhaustion' in TV's 'Gilded Age'
	Dish Warns That Univision TV Blackout 'Could Become Permanent'
	Source: Variety

	Fanatics exec chairman Michael Rubin to speak at Disrupt SF 2018
	NASA names first astronauts for the inaugural commercial flights to the ISS
	Source: Techcrunch

	ESPN Knocks Out Seven Year Deal with Top Rank
	Locast in High Gear: TV Streaming Service Expands
	Source: Broadcasting Cable

	Why Hulu is gaining more mobile users but losing mobile revenue
	AMC CEO talks mitigating churn as company's DTC service footprint grows
	Source: Fiercevideo

	Turner Ups Audience Buys in Upfront Deals with Clients
	beIN Sports USA Channels Dropped From Fios
	Source: Multichannel

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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