Indiantelevision.com's TV Linx Reporter dated 2 January 2019 - links to broadcasting, cable, satellite, media, TV, television related news stories from India and abroad 07

2 January 2019 | Volume 70 - Issue No: 38


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Specials | Year Enders

Ten events that shook television in 2018

	India's richest man Mukesh Ambani's RIL rode the telecom, media and technology convergence wave better than most. The billionaire kick-started the year with a bang as he intensified TV18's stake to 51 per cent by acquiring 1 per cent of Viacom18's equity from Viacom Inc. for a cash consideration of $20 million. continue reading...

Television | TV Channels

Zee Anmol most watched Hindi channel across genres in penultimate week of 2018

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel) free to air (FTA) Hindi GEC Zee Anmol was the most watched Hindi channel across genres in week 51 of 2018 (Saturday, 15 December 2018 to Friday, 21 December 2018, week or period under review).
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Television | TV Channels

Hindi news most benefited genre in Chrome DM week 52

With a growth of 8.13 per cent, the Hindi news genre marked the highest opportunity to see (OTS) among all categories in week 52 of Chrome Data Analytics & Media. In the Hindi news genre, India TV gained the highest OTS with 99.5 per cent in HSM excluding less than 1L-market.
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Television | TV Channels

MIB extends feedback deadline date on mandatory sports feed sharing norms till 15 Jan 2019

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has extended the deadline to give feedback on the draft sports broadcasting signals (Mandatory Sharing with Prasar Bharti) (Amendment) Bill, 2018 till 15 January 2019. The earlier deadline was 31 December 2018.
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Television | TV Channels

Dinesh Gautam joins ETV Bharat Network as news editor for five states

MUMBAI: Dinesh Gautam has joined ETV Bharat Network as News Editor for 5 States (MP,CG,Rajasthan,Bihar and Jharkhand). Ramoji Rao, the media baron from South India, encouraged with the phenomenal success of leading Telugu news daily Eenadu and television channel ETV, is now gearing up to launch ETV Bharat.
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	Cable TV to cost less: TRAI's tariff order allows you to choose cable channels
	Source: Financial Express

	Soon, rural India homes will have internet access via cable TV network
	Source: BS

	TRAI's new framework for DTH and Cable: Till January 31 to select TV channels, everything to know
	Source: Indian Express

	How media agency and planning industry is expected to go through an overhaul
	Source: ETBrandEquity

	Three untapped opportunities wearables present to health insurers, providers, and employers
	Source: Business Insider

	Share market update: Telecom shares bullish; MTNL surges over 16%
	Source: ET

	HRD Ministry has no plans to open satellite campus of JNU, IIT
	Source: News Nation


	Outrage after Netflix pulls comedy show criticising Saudi Arabia
	Is the end of Netflix's golden age in sight?
	Source: The Guardian

	How Ellen DeGeneres Translates Her TV Brand to Digital
	Baobab Studios Launches John Legend Facebook Karaoke Filter for 'Crow: The Legend'
	Source: Variety

	Netflix stops paying the 'Apple tax' on its $853M in annual iOS revenue
	What to expect from CES 2019
	Source: Tech Crunch

	CBS Starting New Year Without Ratings from Nielsen
	Source: Broadcasting Cable

	VodafoneZiggo publishes reference offer Wholesale Fixed Access
	Source: Broadband Tv News

	Tegna Stations Go Dark to Verizon Customers
	Charter, Tribune Agree to Extension
	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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