MUMBAI: MM TV Limited (MML), the TV broadcasting arm of Malayala Manorama, has slipped in the red in FY19. The broadcaster has posted a net loss of Rs 5.84 crore in FY19 as against a net profit of Rs 3.58 crore in FY18.

The total operating income declined by around 9% YoY to Rs 127.65 crore from Rs 140.2 crore due to a decline in the ad revenue. The floods that hit Kerala in the months of July-August 2018 had impacted the advertisement revenue of the company during the Onam season which is the peak season for the company.

Profit before interest lease depreciation and tax (PBILDT) dropped to Rs 20.15 crore as against Rs 37.06 crore a year ago. The PBILDT margin of the company also declined from 26.42% in FY18 to 15.72% in FY19 mainly on account of increase in employee cost and promotional/donation expense compared to the previous year without any growth in revenue.

The company has recorded an operating income of Rs. 71 crore and PBILDT margin of around 20% till H1FY20.

Business news channel CNBC-TV18 is launching a new weekly show titled ‘Life Etc.’, to highlight the mind and driving force behind the young and aspirational entrepreneurs of the startup ecosystem in an interactive, fun and light-hearted manner.

The show aims to explore the person behind the business and bring to light the concealed story of their passion, struggles, and success. Slated to release on November 7, the show will be aired every Thursday at 10 pm, on Saturday at 10:30 pm and twice on Sunday at 1 pm and 8:30 pm.

Discovery Communications India has revamped DTamil into an entertainment channel that will have best of programming, curated for family audiences in Tamil Nadu, from across Discovery Network, including Discovery, Animal Planet, TLC, Discovery Kids, Discovery Science, Discovery Turbo and Scripps Networks Interactive.

DTamil will have a very different look and feel as compared to Discovery Channel — which continues to dominate India’s infotainment genre, with its highest quality non-fiction content available in eight language audio feeds, including Tamil, English, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi and Bengali.

SITI Networks Limited an Essel Group company has released its consolidated audited financial results for Q2 FY20, ending September 30, 2019, showcasing superlative growth across all metrics.

SITI’s Operating EBITDA surged 43% over the second quarter of last fiscal, a 16% sequential quarterly growth to Rs 97.5 crore. This jump has been due to strict control over operating efficiencies. SITI’s Operating EBITDA margin also expanded significantly by 1.3 times y-o-y to 23.4% in Q2FY20.

Subscription revenue grew 13.2% y-o-y to Rs 288.5 crore in Q2FY20, aided by the strong growth in Digital Subscription ARPU, which leapt 1.7 times to Rs.127 per month. Total revenue (excluding activation) also surged 11.3% y-o-y to Rs 417.1 crore.

Advertising on digital platforms offers diverse and innovative use of the medium to push brand engagement. If you thought only social media could be leveraged to hyper personalize and use interactive formats to engage with consumers, well think again, even OTT platforms are using influencers and stories on their Ad suite to partner with brands across their popular shows.

To better understand brand associations on AVoD platforms exchange4media profiled ZEE5 to get a sense of the innovative ways OTT platforms engage with its viewers through influencer marketing, social, hosted content, in-show brand integration, content marketing, sponsorships and more. The OTT platform has four active ad suite stacks like Ampli5, Ad Vault, Infonomix and their latest offering PLAY5.

MUMBAI: Eenadu Television has launched an over the top (OTT) platform ETV Win to offer all ETV Network content on a single platform. The OTT platform is currently free, however, a premium subscription will be rolled out later.

ETV Win is available on Android and iOS as well as a web version compatible with web browsers. Users of ETV Win can stream the content through PCs, Smart Phones, Tablets and connected TVs.

Eenadu Television is a regional Telugu TV network offering seven SD and five HD channels.

Apart from TV shows, serials, infotainment content, ETV Win also offers events (live & recorded), and movies. Currently, ETV Win provides video content in Telugu language only. ETV Win has content restrictions based on the geography and therefore the content is not available in all the countries.

MUMBAI: No significant changes were observed in the regional broadcasting market as per BARC week 43 data. In Bhojpuri space, Bhojpuri Cinema and B4U Bhojpuri exchanged their place at first and second positions and Colors Gujarati Cinema, Colors Gujarati also exchanged their place at the top two positions.

Tamil:

In Tamil space, Sun TV, Star Vijay, Zee Tamil, KTV and Star VIjay Super were the top five Tamil channels in week 43 of BARC India ratings.

MUMBAI: In week 43 of BARC India ratings, Sony SAB has emerged as the top player in the urban market. The channel has moved up to the top position on the pay platform as well. Sony Network's other Hindi GEC Sony Entertainment Television slipped down to the second position after continuously leading in the urban market for the four consecutive weeks. In week 43, Star Plus has retained its third position in the urban market.

In urban market Sony SAB, Sony Entertainment Television, Star Plus, 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 respectively.

Mumbai: ZEE5, India’s fastest growing ConTech brand, has announced the launch of PLAY5 – a unique tool which will let brands engage with their consumers through innovative and interactive experiences. Fourth in line offering from the ZEE5 India’s industry defining ad-suite, it is designed to boost engagement and talk to segment of ONE in a brand safe environment.

Society is saturated with so much information, and users need an incentive that, among all this vortex, will help to awaken their interest and their desire to read more information about a topic beyond the title of a post or email. In other words, they need something essential that motivates them, that will surprise them and help them to focus all their attention on what they are doing. PLAY5 is tailormade to address these issues and engage with the target consumer in a hyper-personalised way.

BENGALURU: Indian print, digital and radio media group HT Media reported 2 percent year-on-year (y-o-y) growth in consolidated revenue for the quarter ended 30 September 2019 (Q2 2020, quarter or period under review) as compared to the corresponding year ago quarter. The HT Media group revenue (includes HT Media Limited and another publicly listed subsidiary Hindustan Media Ventures Limited) increased by Rs 9 crore in Q2 2020 to Rs  580 crore from Rs 571 crore in Q2 2019.

HT Media Group consolidated operating margin (EBITDA) more than doubled (grew 139 percent) y-o-y by Rs 47 crore during the quarter under review to Rs 81 crore from Rs 34 crore in Q2 2019. Consolidated loss halved (declined 51 percent) y-o-y to Rs 22 crore in Q2 2020 from Rs 22 crore in Q2 2019.