19 June 2018 | Volume 70 - Issue No: 75   Facebook Twitter YouTube YouTube
 
   
 
Television | TV Channels
Zee TV to launch the third season of 'India's Best Dramebaaz'

Locked in a see-saw battle with Colors for top billing in the Hindi GEC space, Zee TV has made its latest move. Puneet Goenka-led channel's latest offering to the Indian audiences is season three of 'India's Best Dramebaaz'. Having enjoyed a successful run during the first two seasons, the third instalment of the show will go on air starting 30 June 2018.
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iWorld | OTT
Paytm Inbox makeover includes addition of cricket, entertainment
Vijay Shekhar Sharma has always believed in changing the game. On Monday, Paytm made another significant announced that's in line with its founder's motto. With a complete makeover of its Inbox, Paytm is now set to offer a multitude of services including live TV, real-time news and cricket updates, popular videos, and games to its users.
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Cable TV | MSO
DEN Network fixed-line b'band biz plan hinges on partnerships & leveraging present infra
With telcos handing out data at cheap rates in various package sizes under innovative schemes, mobile data consumption has increased rapidly in India in the last few years, while the growth of fixed-line broadband (FLBB) users has been tepid, if not completely static.
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Television | TV Channels
Sports dominated OOH viewership in April-May: BARC
Contributing more than half of the total TV viewership during the April-May period, the sports genre topped charts in Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India's Out of Home (OOH) measurement report. Sports accounted for 70 per cent of viewership, while movies and music enjoyed 10 per cent and 8 per cent respectively.
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Television | TV Channels
Sony to soon launch Indian Idol season 10
Indian Idol, one of Sony's most acclaimed reality shows, is all set to come back on small screen with its tenth installment. Considering that all its previous seasons have done exceedingly well, there are great expectations this year as well.
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Television | TV Channels
Saral Jeevan adds three new programs to its prime time offering
Saral Jeevan, a Kannada infotainment channel, is launching three shows today. While one of them is season two of Jnanapada (based on folk songs), the other two programs are based on factual content. With a focus on non- fiction programming like history, mythology, travel and insights from Indian heritage and culture,
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Television | TV Channels
Abhishek Upadhyay joins &TV as marketing head
Abhishek Upadhyay, who headed marketing for OLX until recently, has joined &TV, the Hindi language GEC of Zee Entertainment Enterprise Limited (ZEEL). He's been appointed as marketing head.
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- Tussle between cable TV operators and MSOs leaves consumers in a fix
- Rajnath Singh seeks to strengthen capabilities to check social media misuse
  Source: New Indian Express
   
- Vodafone - Idea merger: The new telecom king may take throne today
- Supreme Court to hear plea on social media hub
  Source: TOI
   
- Five booked for illegally showing Sony channels
  Source: The Hindu
   
- Airtel India Bows Down to Bigotry, Complies With Customer's Demand For 'Hindu Representative'
  Source: News18
   
- I&B Ministry to study impact of government advertisements on people
  Source: Deccan Chronicle
   
- 7.5 million users consumed 7,100 terabytes over WiFi at 370 railway stations in April
  Source: Medianama
   
- Telemundo Says World Cup Broadcasts Were Stolen in Middle East
  Source: Bloomberg Quint
   
- Big step forward! India to have own GPS-like satellite navigation system
  Source: Financial Express
   
- Rajnath Singh seeks to strengthen capabilities to check social media misuse
  Source: Financial Express
   
   
   
   
- 'Ripe for disruption': female film-makers rally for industry overhaul
- David Dimbleby to step down as chair of BBC's Question Time
 

Source: The Guardian

   
- Merger Perks! WarnerMedia Employees Treated to 'Robust' Discounts On AT&T Products
- Universal Music, All Def Media Partner for Series Featuring Rae Sremmurd, Pusha T
 

Source: Variety

   
- BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron
- Prisma co-founders raise $1M to build a social app called Capture
 

Source: Techcrunch

   
- FCC Preps for T-Mobile-Sprint Merger Review
- BET Founder Robert Johnson Sees Room for Indies on OTT Frontier
 

Source: Broadcasting Cable

   
- Turner CEO, DirecTV Now critic Martin out as Time Warner becomes WarnerMedia
- Comcast launches X1 into the hospitality market
 

Source: Fierce Cable

   
- FIFA World Cup rights war escalates in Middle East
- Single Netflix billing comes to Virgin Media
 

Source: Broadband Tv News

   
- HBO Checks In With Marriott Deal
- Pai Hits Digital Highway
 

Source: Multichannel

   
- ATSC 3.0: The Time To Deploy Is Now
- Ross Video CEO Inducted Into Canadian Academy Of Engineering
 

Source: Tv Technology

   
- Amazon Prime serves up first tennis coverage
- Viacom scores first mobile deal for Paramount+
 

Source: Tvb Europe

   
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
VIVO IPL: VIVO IPL on Star Sports register highest ever engagement
 
Mam | Media And Advertising
UC Browser's Miss Cricket Campaign Makes Debut on billboard at New York Times Square
   
 
Television | TV Channels
Time Warner to be renamed Warner Media, Turner CEO exits
 
Television | TV Channels
Discovery joins hands with BYJU'S for quiz show
 
Television | TV Channels
Sports dominated OOH viewership in April-May: BARC
 
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