Indiantelevision.com's TV Linx Reporter dated 25 September 2018 - links to broadcasting, cable, satellite, media, TV, television related news stories from India and abroad 07

25 September 2018 | Volume 70 - Issue No: 58


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Television | TV Channels

Viacom18's Colors Kannada Cinema aims to break even within 3 years

	Viacom18 is making moves in the regional space. Its latest bet was to launch a movie channel for the Kannada market called Colors Kannada Cinema. The conglomerate has a Hindi movie channel called Rishtey Cineplex which broke even in two years. Similarly, the idea is to get the Kannada movie channel to break even within three years too. continue reading...

iWorld | Social Media

India's internet market is no longer male, metro, millennial: Rajan Anandan

Lightning speed - that's how India's internet adoption can be described. With an abundance of growth opportunities, India's rural areas are leading the way for every company wanting to make a mark in the digital space.
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iWorld | OTT

Facebook appoints Hotstar's Ajit Mohan as India MD & VP in major coup

Social media giant Facebook's hunt for its India head has finally ended. The Mark Zuckerberg-led company appointed Ajit Mohan as managing director and vice president of its India operations today. He will join Facebook early next year.
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Television | TV Channels

Comcast outbids 21st CF in Sky deal with $40 bn offer

US cable giant Comcast made a winning bid against 21st Century Fox and the Walt Disney Co for European pay-TV operator Sky by offering nearly $40 billion. The rare three round auction was managed by UK's Takeover Panel.
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	Punit Goenka of Zee Entertainment elected President of IAA India chapter
	Source: BS

	Won't use 'dalit', can't beep it out in talks: TV Channels
	Source: ET

	DSport to broadcast 'Ryder Cup' golf in India
	Source: Inside Sport

	Sirius Steps Into Lion's Den of Silicon Valley With Pandora Deal
	Source: Bloomberg Quint

	Don't Pull the Plug, Yet: Here's Why the Rise of Netflix is Not the End of Indian Television
	Source: News18

	We knew our original content and digital premieres were enough to make people pay - Vishu Mohta, Hoichoi
	Source: Medianama

	DoT for gradual drop in long-distance call rates
	Source: The Hindu Businessline

	India's ministry of information and broadcasting in UN Global Media Compact
	Source: TOI

	Rathore comes out in complete defence of government
	Source: India Today

	Internet speed test: 100 Gbps by 2019! ISRO says these 4 satellites will make it possible
	Source: Financial Express


	British media's Brexit coverage sows division - EU commissioner
	No 'lone wolf': media urged to take care over terrorism vocabulary
	Source: The Guardian

	Facebook India Hires Former Head of Fox's Hotstar Streaming Service
	RockYou Media Buys Mom.me From Whalerock Industries as Part of Roll-Up Strategy
	Source: Variety

	Instagram's founders are reportedly resigning from Facebook
	MetroPCS is now Metro by T-Mobile
	Source: Techcrunch

	A+E Claims Five Upfront Deals Based on Performance
	Tamron Hall Daytime Talker Cleared on ABC Owned TV Stations for Fall 2019
	Source: Broadcasting Cable

	Q&A - Vimeo CTO Mark Kornfilt talks shift from media toward tech
	Comcast takes beating from analysts for overvaluing Sky
	Source: Fierce Video

	Ovation TV Secures 'Inside The Actors Studio'
	Rogers to Turn Vancouver College Campus into 5G Testing Facility
	Source: Multichannel

	Heyou Media appoints Wendy Bernfeld and Pete Bryant
	Telekom Slovenije settles in court
	Source: Broadband 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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