14 January 2019 | Volume 70 - Issue No: 47 Facebook Twitter YouTube YouTube
 
 

Specials | Year Enders

Star India awaits cricket bonanza in 2019 after solid sports growth in 2018

Uday Shankar, who was recently promoted to president of The Walt Disney Company Asia Pacific and chairman of Star and Disney India after the Fox-Disney units combined, has disrupted the Indian sports broadcasting business in the last couple of years.
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Television | TV Channels
Sun TV continues as most watched channel across genres in first week of 2019
The Sun TV Network's flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV continued its almost uninterrupted run as the most watched channels across genres according to the Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly list for week 1 of 2019 (Saturday, 29 December 2018 to Friday, 4 January 2019).
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Television | TV Channels
Sony Sab to increase focus on fiction genre
Sony Sab, which has till now relied on Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashma to carry the torch of its vision as a general happiness channel, is all set to launch four new fiction shows. The new weekday and weekend fillers will explore new themes like dramedy, horror comedy and fantasy.
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Television | TV Channels
Oscar Movies Bhojpuri enters regional top 5 in BARC week 1 2019
In the Bengali market, Zee Bangla, Star Jalsha continued to be in first and second positions in BARC data week 1 for 2019. Oscar Movies Bhojpuri emerged as the new player in the market by securing fifth position in the Bhojpuri space. Zee Kannada and Colors Kannada swapped their first and second positions in the Kannada cluster. No changes were observed in Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu segment.
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Regulators | Supreme Court
SC upholds licence cancellation of Digi Cable Network, SCOD 18 Networking
Cancellation of licences granted to two MSOs Digi Cable Network and SCOD 18 Networking has been upheld by the Supreme Court on security ground. Before moving to apex court the petitioners had approached the Bombay High Court where their pleas challenging the cancellation order by Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB) were dismissed.
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Television | TV Channels
Brands with most integrated marketing plans to win as cricket season heats up
Franchises, brands, broadcaster and most importantly the fans were left delighted on Tuesday as news trickled in that the Indian Premier League 2019 will be played entirely in India. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) also announced that the 12th edition of the cash-rich league will commence from 23 March 2019.
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- Watch 100 pay channels for just Rs 154 a month
- India making giant strides in space research, says ex-Isro chief
  Source: TOI
   
- Backhaul spectrum: Reliance Jio, Sistema alloted access in 2015
- Broadband Effect? DTH Service Providers Added Only 80,000 Net Pay Active Subscribers In Q2 FY19, Says TRAI Report
  Source: Financial Express
   
- Niti Taylor joins the cast of Ishqbaaaz as the new lead; will she romance Nakuul Mehta? Find out!
- Sushant Singh Rajput posts a throwback video with MS Dhoni that you can't miss!
  Source: Times Now News
   
- Former New York Times editor Jill Abramson not happy with reporters' cable punditry
  Source: CNBCTV18
   
- Ahead of vote, May warns it would be catastrophic to halt Brexit
  Source: Reuters
   
- SpaceX Layoffs Include 577 Positions at California Headquarters
  Source: Bloomberg Quint
   
- After arrest, Poland could limit use of Huawei products
  Source: ETTelecom
   
   
  US TV networks put ratings over principle by airing Trump speech
  The Sopranos, glorious pioneer of today's TV golden age
 

Source: The Guardian

   
  Nowhere to Be Found: 5 Notable MIAs at CES 2019
  Apple Said to Release 3 New iPhones This Year
 

Source: Variety

   
  A first look at Twitter's new beta app and its bid to remain 'valuable and relevant'
  Why Silicon Valley needs more visas
 

Source: Tech Crunch

   
  Megyn Kelly Officially Departs NBC
 

Source: Broadcasting Cable

   
  CBS, Nielsen Bury the Hatchet
 

Source: Multichannel

   
  How a Cable News Blog Turned Into a Top Source for the Highs and Lows of Broadcast Media
 

Source: Ad Week

   
  Kia, ANZ, AGL and Uber Eats have taken the four top-tier partnerships for the Nine's coverage of the Australian Open tennis tournament, which kicks off today.
 

Source: B&T

   
   
   
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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Eros Now CCO Ridhima Lulla discussing the state of OTT content at Vidnet 2018
 
Television | TV Channels
Vh1 Supersonic Arcade treats Bengaluru to the beats of downtempoElectronica King – Bonobo
 
iWorld | OTT
Amazon.in announces Amazon Great Indian Sale
   
Television | TV Channels
VIVO Pro Kabaddi Season VI, Pushes Boundaries with Innovative Brand Integrations
 
MAM | Marketing
Duff & Phelps Launches Celebrity Brand Valuation Report 2018
 
 
MAM | Marketing
Dentsu Impact Digital ropes in Binodan Sarma as VP
 
DTH | DTH Operator
TATA Sky ShortsTV acquires much acclaimed short films from Terribly Tiny Tales
 
MAM | Marketing
LOTS Wholesale Solutions opens third store in India
 
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