Kolkata : Star Jalsha is all geared up to impress upon the importance of family values and traditions with its upcoming show Kunjo Chaya at 9 PM, the channel attempts to rekindle the spirit of family ties and values in a dysfunctional family whose members have seemingly progressed in life but have forgotten their core values. In the pursuit of individual goals and ambitions, people often tend to stray away from our family values. We seldom forget that values are the thread which connects us to our roots, they lay the foundation to a happy and prosperous family.

Kunjo Chaya is a story of Subhash Sanyal (Dadu), an idealist teacher in a village far away from his family, who live in the city. Subhash helps in shaping lives of young villagers with his principles and moral values.  Although he stays away from his family, he is proud of his kin because he believes, every member follows the values taught by him. His illusion is broken when post retirement, he comes to Kolkata only to discover that home is not what he had imagined it to be. The story progresses when Dadu, with the help of a bubbly girl Shalik, who travels with him from the village, attempts to instill the values once again in his family.

MUMBAI: Sun TV Network has put the launch of its proposed Marathi GEC Sun Marathi on hold due to the slowdown in the economy.

The channel with an estimated investment of Rs 150 crore was expected to launch by end of the calendar year 2019. The company’s management had indicated that the launch of Sun Marathi might get delayed.

“See, that is because of the kind of situation which now exists. Because we all had our view of the Indian economy booming and firing on all cylinders, so we are treading with caution now. We’re unlikely to go and make a big splash at this point in time. So — well, please wait until we — you’ll hear from us. For the time being, it’s put on hold,” Sun TV Network Group CFO SL Narayanan told analysts during Q1 earnings conference call when queried about the delay in Sun Marathi launch.

MUMBAI: SITI Networks Limited, an Essel Group company, on Monday released its consolidated audited financial results for Q1 FY20.

Continuing with the strong performance from last fiscal, SITI reported growth in its Operating EBITDA by 1.5x to Rs.841 Mn in Q1 FY20. Capitalising on the growth opportunity provided by New Tariff Order, SITI has delivered by growing the revenue at a phenomenal rate while maintaining the strict control over the operational efficiencies. This manifested itself in Operating EBITDA Margin expanding significantly by 471 bps y-o-y to 21.4%

BENGALURU: Indian film and media company Eros International Media Ltd (Eros) reported a 15.9 percent decline in consolidated net sales/income from operations (Op Rev) for the quarter ended 30 June 2019 (Q1 2020, quarter or period under review) as compared to the corresponding year ago quarter Q1 2019 (y-o-y). Eros reported consolidated Op Rev of Rs 183.52 crore and Rs 217.93 for Q1 2020 and Q1 2019 respectively. The company’s consolidated simple operating EBITDA fell 64.7 percent to Rs 32.91 crore (17.9 percent of Op Rev) in Q1 2020 from Rs 93.33 crore (42.8 percent of Op Rev) in Q1 2019. Consolidated Profit after tax (PAT) during the quarter under review declined 54.9 percent y-o-y to Rs 27.05 crore from Rs 59.95 crore. Total comprehensive income or TCI declined 77.9 percent y-o-y to Rs 22.3 crore from Rs 100.91 crore in Q1 2019.

MUMBAI: TV viewership is growing in the regional market and TV broadcasters do not fear the OTT threat. Instead, regional players are looking at attracting younger audiences to television. Tele-Wise Tamil 2019, which was organised by Indiatelevision.com on 6 August 2019, gave the industry a platform to discuss the issues faced in the regional market.

The event witnessed a panel discussion on ‘Changing face of TV’ moderated by Horse Pictures partner and YuppTV former head Vijay Adhiraj with the panel as Colors Tamil business head Anup Chandrasekharan, Sun Life content acquisition and Sun TV Network Ltd Kids Entertainment Kavitha Jaubin, Trend Loud CEO Chidambaram Natesan, Star Network deputy business head for Vijay TV Balachandran Ratnavel, Bodhitree Multimedia Pvt Ltd co-founder and director Mautik Tolia, and Polimer TV strategic advisor and consultant Suresh Iyer were the panelists.

MUMBAI: Sun TV Network plans to invest Rs 150 crore on its over the top (OTT) platform Sun NXT over the next 1.5 years, the company Group chief financial officer (CFO) SL Narayanan told analysts during Q1 earnings conference call.

Narayanan said that the company wants to invest in the platform since it has started making money. Sun NXT’s subscription revenue has stabilised which has encouraged the company to invest in it and take it to the next level.

“We are going to make investments in OTT. We are looking at something like INR 150 crore outlay for the next 1.5 years. So we will phase it. Now that it’s actually started making money for us because the subscription revenues are now stabilized at a very predictable level, we want to now invest back into the platform and build salients because, so far, we’ve been using it only as another method of accessing regular content,” Narayanan stated.

MUMBAI: At Reliance Industries AGM today Reliance Industries CMD Mukesh Ambani announced that Jio Fiber services will be launched on a commercial basis on 5th September 2019.

This launch will mark the third anniversary of Jio’s launch. The plan is to list Jio within the next five years. “We will induct global partners in Jio and Reliance Retail and will move towards listing these two entities in the next five years.”

Meanwhile, its parent Reliance Industries’ aim is to become a zero net debt company by 31 March 2021. “We have a very clear roadmap to becoming a zero net debt company in next 18 months,” Ambani explained.

A series of announcements regarding Jio was made that will shake-up the market and make rivals rethink their gameplan. Jio GigaFiber’s rollout will be completed in the next 12 months. The aim is for Jio GigaFiber to reach 20 million residences.

“Today, I want to announce that starting September 5, 2019 - on the third anniversary of Jio's launch - we are launching Jio Fiber services on a commercial basis.” This announcement by the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, Mukesh Ambani was certainly the highlight of the company’s 42nd (Post IPO) Annual General Meeting.

Jio Fiber is Reliance Jio’s fibre-to-home service that promises to provide homes access to hi-speed internet and high definition entertainment. “Starting August 15, 2018, we invited registrations of interest from across India so that we could prioritise Jio Fiber rollout in localities with the highest interest. The response was simply overwhelming. We received over 15 million registrations from nearly 1,600 towns. Based on these registrations, we have drawn up a plan to reach 20 million residences and 15 million business establishments,” Ambani said.

fails to feature in most Aired list in Week 30.

Most Watched:

The Most watched ad category is led by ad campaign by kalyan jewellers which manages to retain its leadership position followed by Sanitary Brand pampers ad campaign for Pampers Baby Dry Pants and ad campaign by Everest ad campaign for its Shahi Biryani Masala in 2nd and 3rd places respectively. Online Job Portal Naukri’s recent ad campaign manages to occupy 4th spot while the Colgate Dental Cream Campaign for Colgate settles at 5th Position in Most Watched ad category in this week.

 

Most Liked:

Majority of the campaigns in Most Liked ad category happens to be fresh players in week 30. Ad campaign by Sanitary Brand Pampers for Baby Dry Pants secures the leadership position followed by colgate’s ad campaign for Colgate Dental Cream in Second position. Detergent Brand Ariel’s ad campaign takes leap forward and occupies 3rd position followed by ad campaigns by Surf excel and Google in 4th and 5th Places respectively. Campaigns by few previous week players like Cadbury, The Lion King ( film ), Amazon and Lux drops out of the list in this week.

MUMBAI: Marketers advocated for the need to create ads simultaneously for television as well as digital to penetrate deeper in regional markets like Tamil Nadu, at the recently concluded Tele-Wise Tamil 2019. The event was organised by Indiantelevision.com to acknowledge the vast pool of opportunities Tamil television has for brands and advertisers in Chennai on 6 August.

On the panel were Lodestar UM EVP Laya Menon, Matrimony.com AGM marketing communications Akhil Jain, Paytm Travel GM brand marketing Bhushan Walzade, TAM Media Research VP Tam Axis Vinita Shah, TVS Auto Assist India head marketing Mahima Singh, and Wavemaker general manager Rajendra J Prasad. It was moderated by Bodhitree Multimedia co-founder & Director Mautik Tolia.