15 June 2018 | Volume 70 - Issue No: 72   Facebook Twitter YouTube YouTube
 
   
 
Television | TV Channels
With four elections due, networks with regional news channel set to benefit

With four key assembly elections lined up towards the end of the year, India's regional news channels could be laughing their way to the bank. In a bid to maximize their revenues, channels are in the process of sprucing up their programming and hiking ad rates.
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Television | TV Channels
Sun TV, Zee Anmol almost neck-to-neck in across genres
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zeel) free to air (FTA) Hindi general entertainment channel (Hindi GEC) Zee Anmol entered the bastions held by either the Sun TV Network's flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV or the channel that aired the Indian Premier League (IPL) in week 21 of 2018.
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Television | TV Channels
Sony partners with Markscan to tackle illegal streaming during FIFA World Cup
The 2018 FIFA World Cup kicks off today with the host nation Russia taking on Saudi Arabia. While the world's top teams will battle it out on the pitch, Sony Pictures Network India (SPNI) is tackling a different set of opponents off it. Broadcasters have been dealing with the menace of illegal streamers for quite some time now.
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Television | TV Channels
Polimer TV, Gemini Movies make presence felt in BARC's week 23 data
Polimer TV, Tamil language satellite television channel and Gemini Movies, a Telugu movie channel of Sun Network, were the two new entrants in the Tamil and Telugu markets after BARC released its ratings for week 23. Star Jalsha and Zee Marathi topped their respective markets.
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DTH | DTH Operator
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala picks up Dish TV shares worth Rs 93 crore
Indian billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala-owned Rare Enterprises on Wednesday picked up 1.30 crore shares in the direct to home service provider Dish TV. Following the move, the Dish TV India's share price rallied as much as 3.5 per cent on Thursday morning.
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iWorld | Telecom
AT&T, Time Warner's merger cleared by court
20 months after AT&T's announced its potential deal for Time Warner, the US District Court for the District of Columbia has cleared the merger between the two giant companies. The ruling will now enable AT&T to purchase Time Warner for $85 billion.
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- Bharti Airtel's capex push drives stock up 2%
- Zee's Reliance Broadcast deal may trip again, over price 'renegotiation'
- New telecom policy promises stability, but will fail to attract new investors
  Source: ET
   
- Is it advantage wireless tech again?
  Source: The Hindu Businessline
   
- Disney under gun to respond to Comcast's $65 billion Fox bid
  Source: Livemint
   
- Xiaomi Mi TV users can get 3 months free broadband internet, here's how
  Source: India Today
   
- Facebook now has 1,000 WiFi hotspots in India
  Source: Medianama
   
- Facebook used less for news as youngsters turn to WhatsApp: Reuters Institute
  Source: TimesNow News
   
- TDSAT Directs Multi Reach Media, Sony Pictures Networks To Enter Into RIO Based Agreement
  Source: Exchange4Media
   
- MTNL revival is on cards, reveals CMD PK Purwar
  Source: Zeebiz
   
- IPR in Digicomms era: An essential constant amidst welcome changes
  Source: Financial Express
   
   
   
   
   
- Slaven Bilic shines but it's never all right on the night for ITV
- 'Jacqui took a bullet for us': the women with key World Cup reporting roles
 

Source: The Guardian

   
- Facebook Communications Head Elliot Schrage Is Leaving
- Nicole Kidman's Blossom Films Sets Amazon Deal
 

Source: Variety

   
- Netflix's latest hit 'The Kissing Booth' is a Wattpad success story
- Telemundo, Universal and TreasureHunt are launching a shootout game in time for the World Cup
 

Source: Techcrunch

   
- Discovery Moving Headquarters to N.Y.'s Flatiron District
- AT&T Completes Acquisition Of Time Warner
 

Source: Broadcasting Cable

   
- Will Comcast's 'Symphony' strategy work on Fox assets that aren't in last place?
- The 'peak TV' theory is overrated as the 'TV day' gets longer
 

Source: Fierce Cable

   
- Ian Whiting Tapped to Head Up Ruckus Networks
- WAPA Channels Are Back on DirecTV in Puerto Rico
 

Source: Multichannel

   
- DAZN launches in Italy following Serie A rights acquisition
 

Source: Broadband Tv News

   
- Five Ways 5G Will Change Television
 

Source: Tv Technology

   
   
   
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
Get on Deck for the premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge
 
MAM | Marketing
Launch of 5-screen PVR Cinemas at Velocity, Silk Mill, Vellore
   
Television | TV Channels
Nickelodeon Celebrates Father's Day with Mumbai Dabbawalas and their kids
 
 
iWorld | OTT
SonyLIV lines up an innovation filled FIFA World Cup 2018
 
Television | TV Channels
Colors emerges leader in GEC urban in BARC's week 23 data
 
iWorld | PPV
Comcast makes sweet $65 bn offer for Fox's entertainment assts
 
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