Indiantelevision.com's TV Linx Reporter dated 6 August 2018 - links to broadcasting, cable, satellite, media, TV, television related news stories from India and abroad 07

6 August 2018 | Volume 70 - Issue No: 15


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iWorld | OTT

Spuul's Bhojpuri bet for growth

	Every over the top (OTT) platform is raging about India's diverse market and untapped opportunity. While others are testing the water with Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and Marathi apart from the regular fanfare of English and Hind shows, Singapore based Spuul is going the Bhojpuri way as well. continue reading...

iWorld | OTT

Miss Malini Entertainment's digital play with first long form video content

With data becoming cheaper and more affordable, Indian market saw a high jump in online video consumption. Millennial audience is especially craving for more digital video despite the emergence of several OTT players.
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MAM | Marketing

Google most influential brand: Ipsos study

Ipsos, an independent market research company controlled and managed by research professionals, has released a study on Most Influential Brands (MIB) in India. Affluent Indians have chosen their winners. Google has emerged as the MIB of circa 2017.
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Television | TV Channels

Sony SAB to launch new show 'Super Sisters'

Sony SAB is all set to launch a new show named Super Sisters. The show will premiere on 6 August and will air every Monday to Friday at 7:30 pm. The show tells an extraordinary story of the undying love between two sisters and their secret enchanted life.
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	Amid James flap, Melania Trump again charts her own course
	Global telecom gear companies find Trai's 'Make in India' call unrealistic
	Source: ET

	Television viewership and ownership of TV sets on the rise, rural India dominates growth
	Source: Financial Express

	PM Modi to launch India Post Payments Bank on August 21
	Source: India Tv News

	Telecom gear makers applaud TRAI recommendations to boost local manufacturing of equipment
	Source: Indian Express

	TRAI Chief Defends Pesky Calls Rules, Says Has Mandate to Save Customers
	Source: News18

	Isro's heaviest sat launch from French Guiana on Nov 30: Sivan
	Source: TOI

	Social media platforms closed almost 700 URLs: Ravi Shankar Prasad
	Source: ETBrandEquity


	Viewers turn to Freeview after Virgin Media-UKTV dispute
	Rupert Murdoch must make £26bn-plus Sky bid to thwart Comcast
	Source: The Guardian

	Original Content podcast: The end is in sight on 'Orange is the New Black'
	Source: Techcrunch

	Former Media Mogul, Philanthropist H.F. Lenfest Dies at 88
	Source: Multichannel

	CBS Committed to 'Collaborative, Inclusive, Safe' Workplace, Says Kahl
	CBS All Access Has 2.5 Million Subscribers
	Source: Broadcasting Cable

	Business boost changing tide on Merthyr's 'no jobs image'
	Source: BBC

	Charter spectrum new york cable told to leave state: is new Tv, internet provider needed immediately?
	Source: News Week

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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