05 March 2018 | Volume 70 - Issue No: 84   Facebook Twitter YouTube YouTube
 
 
   
 
Regulators | I&B Ministry
MIB calls for 'fiscal prudence' in Prasar Bharati
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) on Friday justified certain government directives to India's publicly funded national broadcaster Prasar Bharati Corporation by saying "fiscal prudence" was the need of the hour, while reiterating its commitment to safeguard interest of the organisation's employees.
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Specials | Event Coverage
Ficci Frames 2018: Smriti Irani for highlighting M&E's economic importance
Even as the Indian media and entertainment (M&E) sector is projected to cross $31 billion by 2020, Minister for Information and Broadcasting (MIB) Smriti Irani said yesterday it is imperative that the country as a whole projected the economic value that the industry lends to the country's economy.
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Television | TV Channels
Star Bharat continues to top Hindi GECs across genres
During the first eight weeks of 2018 (Saturday, 30 December 2017 to Friday, 23 February 2018), honours have been divided equally by two Hindi free-to-air (FTA) GEC channels as far as topping Hindi GECs in Broadcast Audience Research Council's (BARC) weekly lists of the top 10 television channels across genres goes.
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MAM | Media and Advertising
PNB Housing Finance's animated ad campaign a breakaway
Banks' television commercials are known to depict various services in a staid, old-fashioned way, forsaking creativity for efficacy. Animation, however, is changing that. The recent ads for PNB housing use the medium of animation to very interestingly explain the home loan services of the Punjab National Bank.
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- Trump Spends Night With `Crazy' Media at White-Tie Gridiron Ball
  Source: Bloomberg Quint
   
- Do ATMs deliver and meet needs of all customers?
  Source: The Hindu
   
- I&B ministry flags salary 'anomalies' at Prasar Bharati
- Expect spectrum auction recommendation within a quarter: Trai chief RS Sharma
  Source: ET
   
- Switzerland vote to retain licence fee for state broadcaster
  Source: : Reuters
   
- The answer to media and entertainment challenges lies in digital India: Smriti Irani
  Source: Livemint
   
- Isro gears up to launch 2 satellites before Chandrayaan-2 mission
  Source: TOI
   
- Govt harmonising spectrum for 5G: Telecom Secretary
  Source: : India Today
   
- Telangana BSNL employee database vulnerable to hacking: French researcher Robert Baptiste
  Source: New Indian Express
   
   
- Tony Hall: BBC must fight US tech firms to protect British values
- Sky bidder Comcast labelled 'worst company in America'
 

Source: The Guardian

   
- Netflix Stock Pops to New All-Time High, Company Now Worth More Than $130 Billion
- Spotify's RapCaviar Mastermind Tuma Basa Is Leaving for YouTube
 

Source: Variety

   
- Amazon Prime Video will now slake your thirst for bad but great reality TV
- Social media handed "one-hour rule" for terrorist takedowns in Europe
  Source: Tech Crunch
   
- Switzerland to keep TV/radio licence fee, SRG posts reform plan
- 20th Century Fox takes 4% share in Italy's T-VOD service Chili
 

Source: Broadband Tv News

   
- Harmonic adds two new customers for CableOS virtual CCAP
- Cable One proves that broadband price elasticity in cable business is greater than thought, analyst says
 

Source: Techcrunch

   
- Netflix Climbs to New All-Time High
- Harmonic Expands Deployments, Field Trials of its Virtual CCAP
 

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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'Distribution has always been the challenge for broadcasters'
 
 
 
Specials | Event Coverage
New initiatives at FICCI Frames 2018
   
Television | TV Channels
"A Taj Mahal Love Story" (A film by Madhureeta Anand) announced officially during Justin Trudeau's visit
   
Television | TV Channels
Celebrate 90 years of Oscar with a weeklong movie festival on Sony Le PLEX HD
 
Television | TV Channels
Designer Naeem Khan and Sabhyasachi Mukherjee to grace India Today Conclave 2018
 
 
 
Regulators | TRAI
Madras HC gives split verdict in Star India versus TRAI case
 
Television | TV Channels
TV18 completes acquisition of Viacom shares
 
Television | TV Channels
Guest column: Perception sales key to news channels' revenue
 
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