23 July 2018 | Volume 70 - Issue No: 3   Facebook Twitter YouTube YouTube
 
   
 
Television | TV Channels
A'Colors'ful decade

It seems just like yesterday. How oft we have heard that phrase being spoken. So much so that it appears banal. However, in the case of Colors – the general entertainment channel from the now Reliance Industries majority-owned Viacom18 – it is so apt. 10 years have gone by since it started. .
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Regulators | I&B Ministry
TRAI suggestions on uplink, downlink norms under consideration, says MIB
The Indian government has said broadcast and telecoms regulator TRAI's recommendations on ease of doing business and uplink/downlink norms, some of them quite radical, are under consideration.
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Television | TV Channels
ZMCL reports almost fivefold profit for Q1; DNA loss lower
The Essel group's television news broadcasting arm Zee Media Corporation Ltd (ZMCL) reported a 386.3 per cent growth (almost five fold) in consolidated profit after tax (PAT) for the period ended 30 June 2018 (Q1 2019, quarter or period under review) as compared (year-on-year comparison, y-o-y) to the corresponding year ago quarter (Q1 2018, year ago quarter).
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iWorld | OTT
Netflix unveils new interface for TV
Netflix has unveiled a new design that makes it easier for people to discover stories through the TV. The new interface is called App Menu, which aims to offer simpler and easier browsing using fewer buttons on the remote control.
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- Reliance Jio's broadband onslaught
  Source: Financial express
   
- Mehbooba Questions Ban on Over 30 Pakistani TV Channels in Valley
  Source: News18
   
- Web series: The dawn of a new era
  Source: New Indian Express
   
- Trai recommends no auction for walky-talky service spectrum allocation
- Sold 4k satellite phones in past year; targeting 10k units by March 2019: BSNL chief
  Source: ET
   
- Central government in process to frame net neutrality rules, amend telecom licence: Manoj Sinha
  Source: Indian Express
   
- Soon, desi solar cells to power satellites in space
  Source: TOI
   
- Ambani brothers, Salman, Priyanka in top 500 global entertainment leaders
  Source: BS
   
- Lucky Number 13: SpaceX Sends Telstar Satellite Into Orbit
  Source: Bloomberg Quint
   
   
   
- BBC Cliff Richard v BBC has set a terrible precedent – the media must fight back
- Four million Virgin Media customers lose UKTV channels
 

Source: The Guardian

   
- Alibaba Looking at Expansion in Advertising, Media Sectors
- YouTube Streams Over 180 Million Hours to TV Screens Every Day
 

Source: Variety

   
- Snapchat will shut down Snapcash, forfeiting to Venmo
- Ellen Pao memoir adaptation among 7 new Shonda Rhimes projects for Netflix
 

Source: Techcrunch

   
- Viacom Gets Price Gains In Upfront Ad Deals
 

Source: Broadcasting Cable

   
- Swedish telco Telia acquires Bonnier's TV business
- NASA launches channel on Roku
 

Source: Tvb Europe

   
- Durban Tourism partners with DFM and DIFF to support emerging filmmakers
- The National Film and Video Foundation at DIFF 2018
 

Source: Screen Africa

   
- Ditch your cable box and switch to the new voice controlled TiVo Bolt Vox
 

Source: BGR

   
   
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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Viacom's unique initiative to train technology startups with its property, VStEP.
 
Television | TV Channels
STAR Maa announces call for entries for a brand new reality show PelliChoopulu
 
Television | TV Channels
Zee Telugu announces auditions for all new season of its legendary dance reality show, Aata Juniors
 
iWorld | OTT
Zee Telugu announces auditions for all new season of its legendary dance reality show, Aata Juniors
 
iWorld | OTT
No. 1 Bhojpuri Channel, ZEEL's Big Ganga collaborates with foremost Bhojpuri superstar Ravi Kishan for a 7-movie deal
 
 
Television | TV Channels
"We focus on digital to promote non-film music" - Vinit Thakkar
 
iWorld | OTT
Hungama to live stream Khazana ghazal concert
 
Television | TV Channels
Viacom signs deal with pocket.watch for small screen content
 
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