18 May2018 | Volume 70 - Issue No: 48   Facebook Twitter YouTube YouTube
 
   
 
Cable TV | MSO
Siti Networks revenue, operating profit up in fiscal 2018
Backed by higher subscription and a 95 per cent collection efficiency, Indian multi-system operator (MSO) Siti Networks Ltd (Siti) posted 16.8 per cent higher consolidated total income for the year ended 31 March 2018 (FY 2018, year under review) as compared to the previous fiscal year FY 2017.
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Television | TV Channels
Jio partners Screenz for interactive TV solution
Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio is wanting to capture every pie of the media and entertainment business. Even as it charters new growth avenues in digital, Jio has announced a partnership with Screenz to launch Jio Screenz.
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Television | TV Channels
Star Sports 1 Hindi back in lead as Zee Telugu enters across genres list
IPL 11 broadcasting Hindi Sports channel Star Sports 1 Hindi regained apex position in Broadcast Audience Research Council's (BARC) weekly list of top 10 channels across genre NCCS all India (U+R): 2+ individuals in week 19: Saturday, 5 May 2018 to Friday, 11 May 2018.
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iWorld | Broadband
Reliance Jio ready to disrupt wired broadband: Matthew Oomen
There's further disruption coming thanks to the Reliance Jio juggernaut. Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani has said this time and time again for the mobile space where price wars have seen call and data prices plummeting, making consumers rub their hands in glee.
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iWorld | OTT
OTT players see subscription revenue as India's future
Most Indian over the top (OTT) and even traditional mediums have assumed that Indian audiences aren't willing to pay for content. But of late, discussions have shown that monetisation is happening at a slow pace. Though the return on investment (RoI) is not for the foreseeable future, the business minds are highly optimistic that the scenario will change in the next five years.
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- Shemaroo's digital revenues up 40.2% YoY to Rs 34.7 crore in Q4 FY18
  Source: Medianama
   
- Should we do away with the I&B Ministry?
  Source: The Hindu
   
- Centre to Ensure Quality Mobile Network Services: Sinha
  Source: ET Telecom
   
- India Will Be One of the First Adopters of AI-Based Telecom Services: COAI
  Source: Telecom Talk
   
- Altice Soars as Turnaround in Sight on French Subscriber Gains
  Source: BQ
   
- I&B Ministry's social media hub to unleash publicity drive for BJP government's schemes
  Source: New Indian Express
   
- GCX, BMC UK to braodcast royal wedding on Saturday
  Source: BS
   
- Red tape is preventing 130 new TV channels from reaching India's homes
  Source: The Print
   
- Revealed: Storyful uses tool to monitor what reporters watch
- Channel 4 News host Jon Snow takes 25% 'gender pay cut'
 

Source: The Guardian

   
- Rooster Teeth Orders Animated Horror-Comedy Series From Rob McElhenney
- Hulu Inks Exclusive Deal With Vice for 150 Hours of Viceland Programming
 

Source: Variety

   
- Amazon picks up Nazi-hunting series produced by Jordan Peele
- PayPal confirms that it is buying payments startup iZettle for $2.2B in an all-cash deal
 

Source: Tech Crunch

   
- Upfront Week: Broadcast TV Overcomes Every Challenge, Says Moonves
- Buyers Want Better Measurement, but Will Use Old Metrics in Upfront
 

Source: Broadcasting Cable

   
- Comcast: You can avoid $90 tech visit bill with self-install
- Sling TV chief says OTA antennas are the cure to retransmission blues
 

Source: Fierce Cable

   
- Virtual Pay TV Market Set for a Shakeout: Analyst
 

Source: Multichannel

   
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'
 
Cable TV | MSO
SITI delivers Strong Profitable Growth
 
 
iWorld | Broadband
Reliance Jio ready to disrupt wired broadband: Matthew Oomen
 
Television | TV Channels
Zee TV leads GEC urban in week 19
 
iWorld | OTT
TV relevant for streamers too finds survey
 
Television | TV Channels
Aaj Tak garners top spot in all three genres in BARC week 19
 
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