With the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India having set March 1 as the deadline for broadcasters to unveil the revised tariff rates, some channels have now made public their new price lists.

For instance, Discovery Communications India has changed the MRP of 8 bouquets of pay channels of the network, saying this will be effective from March 5, 2020. It has also discontinued three bouquets priced at Rs 6 and Rs 8.

MUMBAI: The ministry of information and broadcasting (MIB) has granted 15 new multi-system operator (MSO) registrations in February. The total number of registered MSOs has jumped to 1645.

Four registrations have been granted to firms from West Bengal followed by Karnataka (2), Andhra Pradesh (2), Uttar Pradesh (2) and one each in Kerala, Manipur, Telangana, Maharashtra, and Jammu & Kashmir.

The firms that have been registration include Haur Cable Network, Nabadiganta Cable Network, Krishna Enterprises, Lamjingba Times, Sneha Digital Networks, Bangabhumi Cable and Broadband, AIS Cable & Broadband, Durga Digital (OPC), Asian Cable Network, GTPL Vijayaraya Network, VSN Network, Sri Srinivasa Cable Network, City Cable Network, Star Digital Services, and Mak Infrapromoters.

BENGALURU: Network18/Viacom18’s flagship Hindi GEC Colors became the most watched Hindi GEC on the pay platform across genres in week 2 of 2019. The channel continued its most watched pay Hindi GEC channel across genres streak in week 7 of 2020 (Saturday, 15 February 2020 to Friday, 21 February 2020, period or week under review) according to Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly data for the top 10 channels across genres on all platforms and top 10 pay channels across genres. Hence week 7 of 2020 was the sixth consecutive week that the channel was the most watched pay Hindi GEC across genres. It must be noted that Enterr10 Television’s free-to-air (FTA) Hindi GEC Dangal continued its run as the most watched channel across genres on all platforms as well as on the FTA platform.

Mumbai: With Bombay and Madras High Courts refusing any immediate reprieve to Broadcasters and DPOs from implementing the amendments to new TRAI rules, they were forced to face the comply with the order of the industry regulator with effective from 1st March 2020. While most of the DPOs and Broadcasters are still clueless on their rollout strategy leading DTH operators Tatasky and Airtel DTH had partially implemented the amended tariff order to the effect of NCF charges while they haven’t implemented any visible changes to their existing packs.

MUMBAI: The viewership of news broadcasters is very much dependent on events. And, this has become quite evident in week seven of Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) as news channels failed to maintain the shine, tumbling largely in impressions compared to week six. In the current week, Hindi news channels declined by over 20 per cent, whereas English news channels fell by nearly 40 per cent in terms of weekly impressions as compared to the past week.

MUMBAI: In week 7 of BARC India ratings, Star Jalsha grabbed the leading position in the Bangla market with 333409 weekly impressions (000s).  Zee Bangla slipped down to the second position. Sony Aath entered the list at the fifth position by replacing Zee Bangla Cinema. In the Bhojpuri market, Bhojpuri Cinema regained its leading position. For the past two weeks Zee Biskope was seen at the first position but the channel slipped down to second this week. No significant changes were observed in Marathi, Kannada and Gujarati markets.  

MUMBAI: In week 7 of BARC India ratings, Sony SAB jumped to second position in the urban market and on the pay platform. Last week, the channel had slipped down to fourth position on pay platform but this week it has grabbed second position with 488383 weekly impressions (000s). In the urban market it attracted 687312 weekly impressions (000s). Star Plus slipped down to third position on pay platform and urban market whereas Colors led the pay platform and urban market. 

According to BARC Ratings of South GEC for week 7, The following are the ranking of various Regional GECs.

Malayalam:

As usual we see no change in the order of the top 3 with Asianet leading the Malayalam All Platform Top 5 channels category with 309mn impressions followed by Mazhavil Manorama with 90mn impressions. Flowers TV on the 3rd position with 80mn impressions we see that Zee Keralam moves up on the 4th spot with 64mn impressions and Surya TV secures the 5th spot with 59mn impressions.

The Week 7th data of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India has been released. In the across genre category, Sun TV bagged the second position among top 10 channels with 895 million impressions. Star Maa bagged the fifth spot with 708 million impressions. Zee Kannada with 520 million impressions came 8th and Zee Telugu with 476 million impressions in the across genre category. Zee Kannada, Asianet, Star Maa, SUN TV retained their positions in their respective markets.

MUMBAI: Music has become the top gainer in week 07, 2020 of Chrome Data Analytics and Media data. The genre grew by 0.85 per cent. In this genre, MTV Beats channel gained the highest OTS with 93.2 per cent in HSM excluding <1 lakh market. 

OTS is the actual census-based percentage connectivity of a channel spread across 81 million homes, as reported by Chrome DM, across analogue cable, digital cable, and DTH.