There's a lot happening at Star India at the moment with its integration into the media and entertainment giant Disney underway. A crucial aspect of that arrangement played out on Thursday as president 21st Century Fox, Asia and chairman and CEO of Star India Uday Shankar was named chairman Star and Disney India, and president The Walt Disney Company Asia Pacific as part of an international business unit restructuring. continue reading...
Star Plus climbed to the second position from fourth position as compared to the previous week in the Hindi (U+R) genre in Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) data for week 49 of 2018. Star Plus and Big Magic interchanged their eighth and ninth positions in the rural market. Zee Anmol and Sony Pal swapped their eighth and ninth positions in the urban market. continue reading...
Aaj Tak yet again stood on top in all the three Hindi news genres in BARC week 49. Republic TV continued to dominate the English news genre. Zee News took the third position in Hindi News (U+R) after replacing ABP News which slipped down to the fourth place. continue reading...
The Zee Media Corporation Ltd, part of the Essel Group, today took a path-breaking step in television journalism by formally making its Hindi news channel Zee Hindustan anchor-less.
Rajya Sabha MP and founder of Zee Dr Subhash Chandra said, "The anchors who appear on news channels often appear to give colour to a particular story. continue reading...
"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..)". continue reading...
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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