6 February 2019 | Volume 70 - Issue No: 66 Facebook Twitter YouTube YouTube
 
 

Television | TV Channels

Disney makes direct-to-consumer biz top priority after strong Q1 earnings

The Walt Disney Company (Disney) started financial year 2019 on a strong note by smashing Wall Street expectations. Sales increases in media networks and theme parks businesses helped the giant media conglomerate to post total revenue of $15.30 billion. However, the revenue came in slightly lower than the first quarter of 2018.
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DTH | DTH Operator

Dish TV repeats profits in Q3 2018 post merger
Indian direct to home (DTH) behemoth Dish TV India Ltd (Dish TV) reported profit after tax (PAT) of Rs 152.69 crore for the quarter ended 31 December 2018 (Q3 2019, quarter under review) as compared to loss of Rs 168.29 crore in the corresponding year ago quarter and a profit of Rs 19.73 crore in the immediate trailing quarter Q2 2109.
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Regulators | I&B Ministry
Sahara's Tamil news channel Bharat Today awaits MIB nod
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB)published the status of application for new channels in regional languages on 5 February 2019. In the last two quarters of 2018, six companies applied for 10 regional channels in total.
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Regulators | I&B Ministry
MIB makes online mode mandatory for new channel applications
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has issued a notice informing all broadcasters that the online module for submitting applications for new TV channels is now operational on web portal www.broadcastseva.gov.in dated 4 February 2019.
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Television | TV Channels
Manav Sethi joins Eros International as group CMO
Former ALTBalaji chief marketing officer Manav Sethi has joined content powerhouse Eros International, Indiantelevision.com has reliably learnt. In his latest gig, the senior executive has been handed the role of group chief marketing officer, reporting into CEO Eros Digital Rishika Lulla.
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- Dish TV to invest Rs 3,000 crore in its subsidiary Dish Infra Services
- India's 40th communication satellite GSAT-31 launched successfully
- DoT to seek Trai view on allocating spectrum to Railways without auction
  Source: BS
   
- Viacom's Netflix deal highlights content strategy; earnings mixed
- Oprah interview fuels talk of O'Rourke's U.S. presidential ambitions
  Source: Reuters
   
- TV Actor Shilpa Shinde Joins Congress
  Source: News18
   
- TRAI's new DTH, Cable TV rules: Netflix, Hotstar to strike gold; content to be the king, says report
  Source: Financial Express
   
- Pre-paid mode queers the pitch for cable migration
  Source: TOI
   
- As Disney Enters Streaming Era, Plain-Old TV Helps Ease Shift
  Source: Bloomberg Quint
   
- VEON says aims to buy out Egypt's Global Telecom for $600 million
- BSNL, Ciena team up for 5G trials
  Source: ETTelecom
   
- TDSAT Exempts RCom Spectrum From Levies, Asks Telecom Department To Return Rs 2,000 Crore
  Source: Bloomberg Quint
   
- Five Sports Leagues which ran into the dead end in 2018
  Source: Inside Sport
   
   
  Sky News Raw: a meta live stream of a newsroom? What a mad gamble
  How to Train Your Dragon soars over Green Book at UK box office
 

Source: The Guardian

   
  UTA Acquires Digital Media Firm DBA
  Snap Shares Skyrocket on Better-Than-Expected Earnings, User Growth Still Flat
 

Source: Variety

   
  Talia Goldberg just became the newest partner at Bessemer Venture Partners
  Google's still not sharing cloud revenue
 

Source: Tech Crunch

   
  Iger Doesn't See Disney Getting Into Gambling
  FCC Creates Fraud Unit
 

Source: Broadcasting Cable

   
  CBS Super Bowl draws average streaming audience of 2.6 million, up 31% year over year
 

Source: Fierce Video

   
  Virgin Media trials multi-gigabit home broadband
  Sky celebrates 30th anniversary
 

Source: Broadband Tv News

   
  Ooyala, DPP Partner For News Industry Metadata Standards
  Lawo CEO Recovering From Stroke
 

Source: Tv Technology

   
  beIN Files Add-on Carriage Complaint Against Comcast
  Hill Bill Backstopping ZTE Deal Reintroduced
 

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
MNX announces 'King of Hollywood'
MNX, Hollywood's wild child, launches its biggest property 'King of Hollywood', starting December 17, 2018, Monday to Friday @9pm. MNX, the channel that resonates with the youth through its stylish, edgy, fast-paced, new-age, premium content has crafted the property, 'King of Hollywood' with an aim to find the biggest Hollywood movie buff of all time.
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Hulu Japan CCO Kazufumi Nagasawa shares insight on Japanese OTT market
 
iWorld | OTT
Cricket fever: Mumbai Indians to start streaming on Netflix from march 1, 2019
 
Television | TV Channels
ABP news strengthens editorial team ahead of elections
 
 
MAM | Marketing
Budweiser Experiences x VH1 Supersonic back for another edition of music fiesta
 
MAM | Media and Advertising
Society Tea combines taste of cinema and chai in new TVC
 
MAM | Media and Advertising
Balance Hero India gets Victor Choi as new CEO
 
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