22 October 2018 | Volume 70 - Issue No: 80 Facebook Twitter YouTube YouTube
 
   
 
Television | TV Shows
Infotainment genre's steady shift towards localisation

It's home! That's the cry that almost every broadcaster is uttering today when it comes to wooing viewers with content. Even as kids', lifestyle and GECs are witnessing an uptake in local content, the infotainment genre isn't going to be left behind.
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Television | TV Channels

Sun TV, Star Maa only non-Hindi GEC channels in across genre list
For the second consecutive week in a row, the Sun TV Network's flagship Tamil GEC and Star India's flagship Telugu GEC Star Maa were the only non-Hindi GEC channels in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly list of top 10 channels across genre.
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iWorld | OTT
Facebook planning smart STB for TVs with video calling support
According to a United States news website, Cheddar, social networking company Facebook is working on smart set-top boxes for TV. And according to the sources, the set-top box will be camera equipped. It will also allow video calling along with entertainment services like Facebook's YouTube competitor.
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Television | TV Channels
No changes in Bhojpuri, Kannada, Marathi segments in BARC week 41
In the Bengali space, Jalsha Movies and Colors Bangla swapped their third and fourth positions in BARC data week 41. No changes were observed in the Bhojpuri, Kannada and Marathi segments. Moreover, Gemini TV and Zee Telugu swapped their second and third positions in the Telugu sector.
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- Airtel faces more pressure from RIL
- Tata Sons writes off Rs 28,651 crore on Telecom
- BSNL cautious in partnering with ZTE to Set up 5G network, says Shrivastava
  Source: ET
   
- '75 per cent HD channels in India are already available with Dolby audio'
  Source: Indian Express
   
- #MeToo in India: NCW urges I&B ministry to direct print publications and production houses to form internal complaints committees
  Source: First Post
   
- Received 2,900 complaints against news broadcasters since 2008: NBSA tells Supreme Court
  Source: TOI
   
- The moonshot has paid off, but ISRO still has a long way to go
  Source: The Hindu Businessline
   
- Telecom department to allow data service initially under in-flight connectivity
  Source: Indian Express
   
   
- ITV chief: now is last chance to build British challenger to Netflix
- Channel 4's future lies in young, diverse and bullish Birmingham
 

Source: The Guardian

   
- Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner's Lenny Letter Is Shutting Down
- Sony's Funimation Ends Anime Licensing Pact With Crunchyroll
 

Source: Variety

   
- Early-bird pricing to Disrupt Berlin 2018 flies away in four days
 

Source: TechCrunch

   
  Charlie Collier Named Fox Entertainment CEO
 

Source: Multichannel

   
  BBC iPlayer leads way for UK OTT providers
 

Source: Tvb Europe

   
  Cash Converters settles class action for $16.4 million
 

Source: ABC net

   
  Consumers in the US are hungry for next-gen broadcast TV
 

Source: Rapid Tv news

   
   
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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BBC World service director Jamie Angus on fake news and regional language market
 
iWorld | OTT
ZEE5 and PhonePe join hands for an amazing cashback offer
 
Television | TV Channels
BIG Ganga Goes All Out to Delight Its Audience This Festive Season, Launches Engrossing Range of Shows
 
 
Regulators | MIB
MIB proposes to change mandatory sports feed sharing norms
 
iWorld | OTT
Netflix subscriptions to get cheaper in India
 
DTH | DTH Services
Tata Sky to launch Telugu and Tamil cinema
 
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