Charter Communications announced the launch of new South Asian-focused video packages with up to 24 new channels as part of a programming expansion made possible in part by a distribution agreement for all of India's Zee channels.
On Monday, Aaj Tak announced its new campaign "Mera Swabhimaan" with its first segment on the channel's prime time show Black & White by Sudhir Chaudhary at 9 p.m.
While the fiscal second quarter June-September has been subdued due to the underperformance of Bollywood (apart from "Brahmastra"), multiplex operator PVR is counting on a much better performance during the festive season. It is planning a slew of initiatives to cash in on the season, which will see a return to normalcy in this period after a gap of two years.
Fantasy sports began in 1962 with a football fantasy league. Since then, its popularity has skyrocketed, mainly due to superior connectivity, dynamic needs for social interaction, the availability of avant-garde smartphones, enhanced demographics, a spike in disposable income, and an expansion in the youth population base.
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting ( MIB) has advised digital media publishers, OTT platforms and private TV channels to refrain from broadcasting advertisements of online betting platforms and/or their surrogate news websites or any such product/service depicting these platforms in a surrogate manner.
During the past two Covid infected years on-ground events took a severe hit. This had an extremely negative effect on the public performance music rights business. However with normalcy returning The Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS) CEO Rakesh Nigam is optimistic of generating revenue of Rs 60 crores for the festive season. This is an increase over the Rs 52 crores generated in the 2019 festive season which was the last pre-pandemic fiscal.
On Saturday, the company announced its bold and definite decision to stop participating in the Broadcast Audience Research Council (Barc) ratings. In a statement, Zee Media noted, "This decision is a milestone for the whole news media industry.