MUMBAI: Star India’s bet with the Indian Premier League (IPL) seems to have made a dent in its pocket for the financial year ending March 2019. The company reported a loss of Rs 1216.13 crore as against a profit of Rs 287.69 crore a year ago, according to a report by Economic Times. Star India booked IPL expenses of Rs 4000 crore. Even though the company’s revenue increased by 35 per cent, it was hit by the IPL expenses. Economic Times also quoted a Tofler report which indicated that Star India’s total revenue from operations was Rs 12,314 crore in FY19 which was Rs 9149 crore a year ago. Ad revenue was up by 49 per cent while distribution revenue saw a hike of 9 per cent.

MUMBAI: Hindi news genre has become the top gainer in week 47 of Chrome Data Analytics and Media data. The genre grew by 1.05 per cent. In this genre, ABP News channel gained the highest OTS with 99.3 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.

MUMBAI: How is the new tariff order (NTO) impacting the broadcast and video distribution landscape in India? How can broadcast networks effectively partner with LCOs and MSOs to successfully navigate the post-NTO environment? These are some of the key themes which will be discussed at the Video and Broadband Summit 2019. Running in its sixteenth year, the summit will be held in Mumbai on 11 December and will bring together stalwarts from television broadcasting, internet and distribution sectors under one roof to discuss and deliberate key issues facing the sector and recognise the accomplishments of key stakeholders.

MUMBAI: Five MSO applicants and registered MSOs participated in an open house meeting to ascertain the status of their MSO application for grant of registration along with other queries.

Representatives from TJ  Cable Network, World Phone Infrastructure Services, Haur Cable Network, Lamjingba Times Pvt Ltd, Yadav Cable Network were present in the meeting.

Innovated and curated by ABP News, the journey of the show has been remarkable and has garnered tremendous popularity in the industry.

Since its inception in 2004, Sansani has held a special place in the hearts and minds of its viewers. The show deals with exposing criminals, making viewers aware of the current crime scenario, and providing solutions on how to deal and cope with the rising crime in the country.

MUMBAI: Live sports, premium content, and originals are the three key pillars of growth for Sony Pictures Networks India’s (SPNI) OTT platform SonyLIV, which has seen a change in the management following the departure of its former head Uday Sodhi.

SonyLIV, which is being headed by Sony Entertainment Television (SET) business head Danish Khan, has a new team which includes Ashish Golwalkar, Aman Srivastava, Amit Raisinghani, and Amogh Dusad.

MUMBAI: Despite the debt crisis of the promoter group of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel), foreign fund investors aren’t shying away from betting their money. New York-based BlackRock has increased its stake in the Indian media conglomerate. Before 21 November, BlackRock held 4.77 per cent stake which has now crossed 5 per cent.

Before the acquisition, BlackRock had 45,837,578 shares carrying voting rights in the company. Now, it has increased by 0.24 per cent in an on-market transaction reaching 48,191,811 shares. Post the acquisition, the total diluted share of BlackRock in Zeel stands at 960,483,235, as per a listing in the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).

The day the Supreme Court delivered its verdict on the Ayodhya land dispute, TV news channels witnessed more than a 2.5x surge in their viewership. While Hindi news TV grew 2.5x, English news TV registered a 2.7x growth on November 9, 2019, when the apex court pronounced the historic judgement.

The long-awaited verdict also got the country glued to their television sets as the Hindi TV news genre saw a major uptick in viewership with most channels seeing an increase between 100% and 300%.

The digital arm of Times Group - Times Internet - has posted an increase of 9.4 per cent in its total revenue for the year ended March 31, 2019. The company has recorded a total revenue of Rs 1526.51 crore as compared to Rs 1394.42 crore in FY2018.

During FY19 the network’s loss after tax has increased by 45.68 per cent to Rs 102.36 crore

BENGALURU: Three channels from the Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel), two channels each from Sony Pictures Network India (SPN) and Star India, and one channel each from Enterr 10 Television, the Sun Tv Network and Viacom18 were present in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly list of Top 10 Channels Across Genres on All Platforms in week 46 of 2019. Zeel earlier had three channels in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres on all platforms in week 42 of 2019. Zeel’s Kannada GEC Zee Kannada joined the acquired Hindi GEC and free to air (FTA) Big Magic and flagship Hindi GEC Zee TV in week 46 of 2019 (Saturday, 9th November 2019 to Friday, 15th November 2019, week or period under review).Over the past few weeks, only one channel from the Zeel stable was present in BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 Channels Across Genres on All Platforms.

Seven of the channels were Hindi GECs, and there was one channel each from the Kannada, Tamil and Telugu genres in the list in week 46 of 2019. All the channels (including the non-Hindi ones) in BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 Channels on All Platforms Across Genres were general entertainment channels or GECs. Eight of the channels in the list were pay TV, two, both Hindi GECs, were FTA.