The un-audited financial results of New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV ) on a standalone and consolidated basis for the quarter and six months ending September 30, 2019, show the company has incurred a net loss of Rs 10.16 crore and Rs 1.17 crore for the period.

The report also says that the company’s current liabilities have exceeded its current assets by Rs 88.92 crore. “These conditions indicate that a material uncertainty exists that may cast significant doubt on the ability of the Company to continue as a going concern. Management has stated that the Company has initiated certain strategic and operational measures to mitigate the uncertainty,” a statement by NDTV’s auditing firm BSR & Associates LLP said.

MUMBAI: Free to air (FTA) channels aren’t expected to rule BARC charts. But beating all odds, Enter10 Television has managed to break that stereotype over and over. With five FTA channels in its bucket - Dangal TV, Bhojpuri Cinema, Fakt Marathi, Enterr10 and the newly-launched Enterr10 Bangla, the network is ruling the rural market and continues to expand in the urban and regional markets as well.

While Dangal TV has been a chart-topper for several months as per BARC ratings in the across genre and GEC categories, Bhojpuri Cinema also commands a leading position. Going forward, the company anticipates high growth for Enter10 as well with the launch of 52-week world television premiere.

Sharing the roadmap for the channel, Enterr10 CEO Joy Chakraborthy said, “We will continue to invest in good library, innovative programming and of course distribution and I foresee a huge growth coming for this channel in the future.”

“We have launched 52-week world television premiere. So, every week the channel has a world television premiere,” he said, adding that this will further aid in consolidating its position in both rural and urban markets.

“The USP of Enterr10 is that it delivers consistent ratings through the day, making it a very lucrative choice for advertisers. Now with world television premieres, we expect further spikes in viewership, which will lead to higher rates for the said slot,” he added. “While we are in leadership position in rural India, our strength in the urban market is also evident and this gives us a strong saleable reach.”

Enter10 has also very successfully monetised South dubbed films, which are now a regular feature on the channel.

“Southern dubbed movies, actually, work very well in the Hindi heartland,” quipped Chakraborthy adding that the channel has a vast content library of movies which are a healthy mix of Hindi language as well as South dubbed films. He stated that the channel has a variety of genres - action, romance, family and drama.

MUMBAI: TV broadcaster Sun TV Network is eyeing Rs 100 crore revenue from its over the top (OTT) service Sun NXT in FY21. The company also plans to spend Rs 150 crore in the OTT business in the next 18 months.

These are the highlights of Sun TV Network‘s Q2 earnings conference call. The conference was addressed by Sun TV Network President, MD & Additional Director Rajaraman Mahesh Kumar, Sun TV Network Group CFO SL Narayanan, and Sun TV Network CFO VC Unnikrishnan.

During the conference call, the management said that the company has made significant gains on the digital front from October. After striking a deal with leading media group’s ad-based OTT platform, the number of subscribers for SunNXT is now at 11 million. The OTT platform was garnering Rs 50 crore revenue.

Well known TV anchor and Executive Editor of Hindi News Channel Aaj Tak- Nishant Chaturvedi, has stepped down from his role.

In his almost two decade long career, Chaturvedi has served stints with news organisations like Zee News, Doordarshan, News 24, India TV and Sahara News in the past. Chaturvedi began his career with Zee News in 2000 as anchor and reporter and in 2004, he joined Aaj Tak as Principal Correspondent.

His longest stint has been with Aaj Tak where he has been part of some of the biggest national and international stories.

MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Network's leading Hindi GEC-Sony Entertainment Television has slipped down to the third position in week 45 of BARC India ratings. Last week the channel was observed in the second position. Sister GEC Sony SAB continued to hold the leading position in urban market and pay platform for three consecutive weeks.

Star Plus, which was observed in the third position last week, jumped to the second place this week. 

Sony SAB, Star Plus, Sony Entertainment Television, Colors, Zee TV,  Dangal, Star Bharat, Big Magic, &TV and Star Utsav were seen at first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions in the urban market.

MUMBAI: In week 45 of BARC India ratings, no changes were observed in Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu and Tamil. In Bangla, Bhojpuri, Gujarati and Marathi genres. But the pecking order of the top five channel has seen slight changes. 

Zee Bangla, Star Jalsha, Jalsha Movies, Sony Aath and Colors Bangla were the top five Bangla channels in week 45 of BARC India ratings.

Zee5, the digital entertainment destination from Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited, has partnered with Tata Sky, the content distribution platform, to offer Zee5’s premium content for their subscribers via the Tata Sky Binge platform.

Tata Sky Binge is a platform that aggregates premium content from OTT apps, including Hotstar, SunNXT, Eros Now, Hungama Play and now Zee5 through a single subscription fee of Rs 249 per month. Tata Sky Binge is accessible to customers through the Amazon FireTV Stick – Tata Sky Edition.

Mumbai: ZEE5 has partnered with Tata Sky to offer ZEE5’s premium content for their subscribers via the Tata Sky Binge platform. Tata Sky Binge is a unique platform which aggregates premium content from OTT apps including Hotstar, SunNXT, Eros Now, Hungama Play- and now ZEE5 through a single subscription fee of Rs. 249/- per month. Tata Sky Binge is accessible to customers through the Amazon FireTV Stick – Tata Sky Edition.

New Delhi: TRAI’s latest recommendations on Platform Services offered by DTH Operators came as a blow to the industry that is already tottering under the Post NTO scenario with subscribers junking the platforms to switch to OTT owing to high cost. Despite this DTH operators had an edge over others by offering an array of Platform Services that helped them towards increasing their ARPU.

TRAI in its recommendation to the ministry of information and broadcasting recommended the ministry to stop the broadcasting of delayed feeds of existing channels, branded as +1 channels, on DTH and cable platforms, and also suggested a cap of 15 such services per platform thus advising the ministry in favour of preventing DTH operators from carrying popular serials, films and other licensed content through an array of Value added services on their in-house channels.

Putting an end of all apprehension around what changes TRAI is about to introduce in the NTO, the secretary of the body on Thursday confirmed that there is going to be no major change in the Tariff Order.

SK Gupta, Secretary, TRAI, said, “We are not against bouquet. We are not planning to get rid of it. There is no reason for broadcasters or consumers or anyone to worry. There will be only minor tweaking and modifications made to address the consumers’ complaint of the NTO not being consumer friendly.”