17 channels across GEC, Movies, Music and Devotional genres secured a slot each on DD Freedish as the first round of bidding concluded on day one of e-auction for MPEG-2 slots. The successful bidders will get a slot on the government-owned free DTH service for the period of one year starting April 1, 2022, to March 31, 2023.

ABP News has won the most popular Hindi news channel award at the 21st Indian Television Academy (ITA) Awards.

The award was presented by Shashi Ranjan, Chairman and Managing Director, GR8 Entertainment, and veteran Indian actor and politician Shatrughan Sinha.

Talking to BestMediaInfo.com, NDTV’s Group President Suparna Singh denied that they have decided to pull out from BARC data because the channel saw a ray of hope in RPD data coming from Airtel Xstream Connected TV Days before the scheduled return of the ratings for news genre, the consensus is far from building in the TV news industry. On Saturday, NDTV announced it was exiting BARC India, just two weeks before the ratings were to be released.

BARC is considering postponing the data of resuming release of TRP ratings for news channels, PTI has reported.

Various news channels have submitted to the audience measurement body suggestions on the period of release, media reports said.

The Broadcasters Audience Research Council (BARC) India has published its updated policy for genre and language classification of TV channels. Titled 'Policy for Genre and Language Classification of TV Channels', the document outlines the policy and the complete process of the classification exercise performed at BARC India.

Malayalam news channel MediaOne has moved the Supreme Court against Kerala High Court’s order which upheld the ban on the channel.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Kerala HC had dismissed the channel’s plea against a single judge order which upheld a ban on the channel by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

With 2543.31 AMA, Sun TV has regained the top position in the Broadcast Audience Research Council's (Barc) most-watched channels list for the seventh week of 2022 (12 to 18 February). The Tamil GEC was behind Star Maa and Star Utsav last week with 2496.27 (‘000s).

In Week 7 of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India, Sun TV regained its top spot in the across genre category with 2543.31 (000) AMA. Star Maa slipped to the second spot with 2392.09 (000) AMA. Star Plus shifted one spot up and claimed the 3rd position with 2244.78 (000) AMA. Star Utsav slipped two spots down and stood at 4th position with 2243.28(000) AMA as compared to week 6. Dhinchaak retained its 5th spot with 1784.54 (000) AMA. Zee TV with 1692.82 (000) AMA and Star Vijay with 1585.94 (000) AMA exchanged their positions and claimed the 6th and 7th spot respectively. Sony Palshifted one spot up and stood at the 8th position with 1517.04(000) AMA. Star Jalsha dropped from 8th spot to 9th spot with 1478.66 (000) AMA. Sony Sab retained its 10th spot with 1453.47 (000) AMA.

The pay DTH platform has started delivering RPD data for live TV coming through Xstream set-top-boxes on household-level. However, India’s top advertisers seek entire viewership data that includes the connected TV and digital Airtel’s commercial launch of Return Path Data (RPD) for television viewership coming through its Xstream set-top-boxes (STB) has evoked mixed reactions from advertisers. 

On the occasion of ‘Rajasthani Bhasha Diwas’ on February 21, 2022, Khamma Ghani Entertainment launched Satellite general entertainment channel in Rajasthani — ‘Gangaur Television’.

The channel will air each program in Rajasthani language: music videos, movies, reality shows, fictions, mythos, comedy gags, and more.