24 November 2017 | Volume 70 - Issue No: 04   Facebook Twitter YouTube YouTube
 
 
 
Television | TV Channels
Sri Lanka's higher TV content import levy to hurt Indian TV channels
Ouch! India's content syndication executives are yelping in pain. Sri Lanka's (SL) finance & mass media minister Mangala Samaraweera, earlier this month, issued a set of regulations which increases the levy that the government will be imposing on imported dubbed teledramas, films and commercial programmes to SLRs 150,000 from SLRs 90,000 earlier.
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Television | TV Channels
Republic TV, Times Now viewership moves up as genre ratings fall
The two top-ranked channels of the Indian English news genre saw small increases in their weekly viewership in week 46 of 2017 (Saturday, 11 November 2017 to Friday, 17 November 2017, period, week under consideration) as compared to the nadir of the previous week.
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Regulators | TRAI
TRAI wants spectrum cap revised to 35 per cent
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has suggested the revision of overall spectrum cap from the current limit of 25 per cent to touch 35 per cent.
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Television | TV Channels
Vaishali Sharma takes charge of Sab, Sony Pal marketing
Vaishali Sharma, the marketing SVP for the Hindi movies cluster at Sony Pictures Network India (SPNI), is now taking a crack at comedy as she moves to handle marketing for Sab TV and Sony Pal. A source close to the development confirmed the news to Indiantelevision.com
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