28 May2018 | Volume 70 - Issue No: 56   Facebook Twitter YouTube YouTube
 
   
 
iWorld | OTT
Hotstar creates record of 10 mn plus concurrent viewers for IPL finale
They helped Hotstar hit a world record for concurrent online viewing a few days ago with 8.26 million viewers in the IPL first qualifier game on 22 May. Once again, the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) helped Hotstar create a new record of over 10 million concurrent users for the Vivo IPL 2018 finale that witnessed CSK's Shane Watson hit a century and safely take the team to its third trophy.
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Television | TV Channels
Star Plus unveils new look, Alia Bhatt as brand campaign face
Star India is continuing to glitter, what with a successful IPL season just concluding. And just as the IPL finale was underway, it unveiled a new look for its lead general entertainment channel Star Plus. Not only does it have a new red logo but it also has a new tagline - Rishta wahi, baat nayi. Interestingly, the GEC has got youth icon Alia Bhatt as the channel face.
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Television | TV Channels
Raj TV aims to climb ratings chart with 5 new primetime shows
Tamil general entertainment channel (GEC) Raj TV has given the channel a makeover by introducing five new shows in its primetime starting today, 28 May. The five new fiction shows will air between 7 pm to 9.30 pm starting with Kadal Kadanthu Udhyogam followed by Gangadharanai Kanoam at 7.30 pm.
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MAM | Media and Advertising
Video content will be the game changer in 2019: Shrenik Gandhi, White Rivers Media
A young professional just graduated from an MBA college would be thrilled to join a reputed company like Future Group. But Shrenik Gandhi's entrepreneur blood wouldn't allow him to work under someone else.
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- Altice USA shares could rise by 50 percent: Barron's
  Source: Reuters
   
- Proud moment! Pune boy leads team to design satellite EQUiSat for NASA
  Source: Financial Express
   
- Isro: Trial of sat-based warning system at unmanned railway crossings satisfactory
  Source: TOI
   
- Fulham back in Premier League with playoff win over Villa
  Source: The Hindu
   
- IMD teams up with BSNL to send extreme weather warnings
  Source: ETTelecom
   
- Govt may tell Tata Tele to settle dues before deal with Tata Communications
  Source: Livemint
   
- DoT may ask Idea to liberalise spectrum held by Vodafone worth Rs 45 bn
  Source: BS
   
- Tencent chairman pledges to advance China chip industry after ZTE "wake-up" call, says report
  Source: cnbctv18
   
   
- Andrew Davies to defend John Updike with Rabbit TV series
- STV is making a profit. So why take the axe to its excellent current affairs output?
 

Source: The Guardian

   
- Customer opinions of ISPs somehow drop even lower
- Vermont passes first first law to crack down on data brokers
 

Source: Tech Crunch

   
- Amazon Picks Up 'The Expanse' After Syfy Drop
- Showtime Exec Gary Garfinkel Dies at 55
 

Source: Multichannel

   
- US needs to keep China from meddling with North Korea sanctions
 

Source: Fox Business

   
- Aira taps AT&T as global data provider
 

Source: Telecomasia

   
- WIN Network to launch Sky News channel after securing supply deal
 

Source: Ad News

   
   
   
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
India News Manch - Modi Sarkar Kitni Asardaar? India News Conclave to Analyze Modi Government's Four Years in Power
 
iWorld | OTT
Hotstar and Akamai create internet history
 
Television | TV Channels
How relevant is the age old Lakshman Rekha in today's times; questions &TV with Mitegi Lakshman Rekha!
 
 
Cable TV | LCO
GTPL Hathway board moots 10% dividend for fiscal 2018
 
DTH | DTH Operator
Dish TV offers SD channels at Rs 8.5 per month
 
Satellites | Satellites Operators
Did govt pressure nudge ABS-2 to shutter Indian TV channels on FTA DTH service?
 
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