Indiantelevision.com's TV Linx Reporter dated 01 September 2017 - links to broadcasting, cable, satellite, media, TV, television related news stories from India and abroad 11

01 September 2017 | Volume 70 - Issue No: 39

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Television | TV Channels

ET Now revamps to offer both, business and general news

	It's not just a cosmetic change that the Times Network is doing with its hitherto business news channel -- ET Now. Concurrent with a new logo and its tagline 'Rise with India,' the network is also repositioning it. continue reading...

DTH | DTH Services

Govt DTH channels may beam into Tier-II theatres & other areas

The human resources development ministry, through Swayam Prabha DTH, may plan to screen educational content in cinema halls if approved.
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Television | TV Channels

Sony: Tushar Shah now heads English cluster, Saurabh Yagnik shifted to new role

Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN has announced the following changes in the leadership team portfolio.
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Regulators | I&B Ministry

MIB show-causes MSOs on incomplete digitisation info

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has issued show-cause notices to those MSOs who have failed to provide digitization details to the government, including the number of boxes seeded in their areas of operation.
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Television | TV Channels

Zee TV elevates Azmat Jagmag as marketing head

Zee TV has elevated its VP - marketing Azmat Jagmag, who has been a part of the company for a decade and half now, as the marketing head.
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Cable TV | DAS

Arasu to formally launch DAS in Chennai on Sept. 1

The Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable TV Corporation, which is still to get a permanent digital licence necessary for an MSO, is formally launching its digital system on 1 September 2017.
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Regulators | People

MIB gets a new additional secretary - Ali Raza Rizvi

Senior Indian Administrative Officer Ali Raza Rizvi, a 1988 batch officer from the Himachal Pradesh cadre, has been transferred as the additional secretary and financial advisor to the information and broadcasting ministry.
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Television | TV Channels

GEC: Zee Anmol retains lead in two markets, Colors tops in urban

Zee Anmol has retained its leadership position in two markets -- Hindi rural and Hindi (U+R) in week 34 whereas Colors continued to lead the urban market, according to Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC)'s all-India data.
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Television | TV Channels

C. Central leads, Sony Pix slips two slots & Zee Studio enters Top 5

Zee Studio has made an entry in the top five English movies channels list, and HBO exited from the list, according to BARC's week 34 all-India data.
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Television | TV Channels

DSport acquires India broadcast rights of ICC World XI Tour of Pakistan

DSport, a sports TV channel launched by Discovery Communications India, has acquired the exclusive broadcast rights of the upcoming ICC World XI tour of Pakistan.
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	SoftBank Vision Fund hopes to make Ola and Uber ride together in India
	TRAI to go the whole hog on data privacy, protection
	Source: ET

	Spotify Says Head of Video and Podcasting Operations Is Out
	Source: BQ

	IMG concludes report on telecom woes, some relief on plate
	Source: Live Mint

	Time Inc shifts toward video as eyeballs move online
	Source: Reuters

	Cameroon Arrests Cable TV Distributors Over 'Separatist' Broadcasts
	Source: New Delhi Times

	HRD ministry plans to screen educational content in cinema halls
	Source: HT

	TRAI Net Neutrality decision next month, but telecos spar with Internet firms
	Source: IE

	Trai extends industry feedback deadline on MNP rules discussion paper
	Source: ET Telecom

	Flipkart arm Myntra private labels now in profit; online fashion retailer eyes $300 mn in revenues
	Source: FE


	Bromans: these Caesar geezers need Terry Pratchett's steamroller treatment
	Transgender teenager who killed himself 'was angry at school' over name change
	Source: The Guardian

	Apple Joins Latest Battle Over Net Neutrality
	Vox Media, CBS Interactive CEOs to Speak at Variety's Entertainment and Tech Summit
	Source: Variety

	Google's Transformer solves a tricky problem in machine translation
	Spotify's head of video and podcasts departs amid strategy shift
	Source: TC

	Discovery Making Programs For Facebook's Watch Tab
	How Fans Embraced the Return of the Weird World of David Lynch's 'Twin Peaks'
	Source: Broadcasting Cable

	Disney/ABC TV Group reportedly eyes cost cuts of up to 10%
	Comcast's Cohen: Congress should end FCC's 'Groundhog Day' on net neutrality
	Source: Fierce Cable

	Freesat RFP to include HbbTV and UHD
	Altice USA names Philippe Le May CTO
	Source: Broadband TV News

	Pay TV Industry Rallies to Help Harvey Victims
	Communications Subcommittee Schedules Repack Hearing
	Source: Multichannel

Movies | Hindi

A Gentleman: Sundar, Susheel, Risky: Dream native and act Hollywood

The title of the film needs some elaborate explaining. A film's title says a lot about the film. When did you last hear somebody use the word Gentleman? It is a phrase from history, the British era.
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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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