03 December 2018 | Volume 70 - Issue No: 16 Facebook Twitter YouTube YouTube
 
Television | TV Channels
Future will belong to those who can create compelling content: Raj Nayak

He's known as the risk taker who has never been afraid to experiment. After twenty years in the media industry, exiting Viacom18 COO Raj Nayak is grateful to it all. Speaking at the stage of Indiantelevision.com's Video and Broadband Summit 2018 for more than an hour, Nayak spoke of his journey, best memories at Viacom18, the development in the media industry and its future.
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Television | TV Channels
Football contribution to total TV viewership increased from 5% in 2016 to 7% in 2018
After Star India took the initiative to boost a variety of sports in India, other broadcasters also picked up their shovels to dig deep. It has made a sincere effort in the turnaround of Indian football with participation (to build culture), incentivisation (to build careers), and commercialisation model (to drive in viewership) which are the three building blocks to development.
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Television | TV Channels
Only non-Hindi GECs Sun TV, Star Maa among top 10 channels across genres
Week 47 of 2018 (Saturday, 17 November 2018 to Friday, 23 November 2018, week under review) had an all GEC roster in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly list of top 10 channels across genres. Further, Sun TV Network's flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV and Star India's flagship Telugu GEC Star Maa were the only non-Hindi GECs in the across genres list during the week under review.
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Resources | Technology supplires
Amazon qualifies Mybox's AVS provider with set-top-box solution
MyBox Technologies, a Hero Electronix venture, specializing in the research and development and manufacturing of set-top boxes, has announced that it is now an Alexa Voice Service (AVS) solution provider and has collaborated with Amazon.
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- India's heaviest satellite that will boost net speed to be launched on December 5
- Cable TV worker electrocuted
  Source: TOI
   
- Olympic broadcasters gear up for the biggest show on earth
- TN Min urges film industry stakeholders to join hands to fight
  Source: BS
   
- Nexstar clinches $4.1 billion deal to acquire Tribune Media
  Source: Reuters
   
- TRAI DND app now available on iPhones: Here's how to block spam messages and telemarketing calls
  Source: Times Now News
   
- Israeli police recommend indicting Netanyahu in telecom case
  Source: CNBCTV18
   
- BSNL employee unions defer strike
  Source: ET
   
   
   
- BBC in hot water over debate – and an unlikely pastor
- Corbyn calls on May to go head to head against him in TV Brexit debate
 

Source: The Guardian
   
  Celebrities Duped by White Supremacists Into Making Anti-Semitic Messages Using Video App
  Amazon Prime Launches First Tamil Series 'Vella Raja'
 

Source: Variety
   
  AWS wants to rule the world
  Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian brings Armenian brandy to the US
 

Source: Tech Crunch
   
  Tegna and Dish Reach New Carriage Agreement
  President Bush Saluted For Commitment to Service
 

Source: Broadcasting Cable
   
  Paul Sherwen, SBS Tour de France broadcaster and former cyclist, dies aged 62
  Nine and Fairfax shed jobs after companies merge
 

Source: ABC
   
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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BBC World service director Jamie Angus on fake news and regional language market
 
Television | TV Channels
BTVI's 'The autoX Show' team competes in the Volkswagen Ameo Cup final round
 
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