Mumbai: Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd’s Y21 revenues remained suppressed due to the impact of COVID in H1FY21.

The consolidated net profit for the quarter ended in March 2021 stood at Rs 272.36 crores. The revenue declined by 4.9 per cent to Rs 7,729.92 crore as compared to last year. In Q4FY21, the Consolidated revenue grew by  0.8 per cent year-on-year to Rs 1,965.8 crore.

The Zee network witnessed a strong recovery in domestic advertising, and it is continuing.

Sony Pictures Network India (SPNI) is all set to launch its two new channels in the sports genre- TEN4 and TEN 4HD. The network revised its Reference Interconnect Offer (RIO) for the launch of its new channels that is priced at Rs 17 and Rs 19 for SD and HD feed respectively.

The company has mentioned on its official website that the revised RIO will be effective from June 1, 2021 (subject to final outcome of the Writ Petition No 118/2020 filed by the company before the Bombay High Court). 

Mumbai: Star Plus’ show – ‘Ghum Hai Kisikey Pyaar Meiin’ has topped the viewership charts across all shows on television and grabbed the No 1 spot in the Hindi GEC category.

‘Ghum Hai Kisikey Pyaar Meiin’ has received an overwhelming response and interest from young women viewers (aged 15 to 21) in recent months. These young women audiences resonate with the show’s characters like Sai (played by Ayesha Singh) and Virat (played by Neil Bhatt). Sai embodies virtues like being fearless, self-reliant, contemporary, having the freedom to make choices, following modern age principles and she exude emotions like self-confidence, self-respect, empowerment and aspires to make it big in life. While the male lead Virat is the perfect example of a modern age hero who doesn’t shy away from showing & acknowledging his emotions. In a true sense, he is one hero who strongly values the worth of his word, and tries to keep it.

KOLKATA: NXTDigital has turned its business profitable by raking in Rs 13.66 crore profit after tax (PAT) for the fourth quarter. The company has reported Rs 277.96 crore consolidated revenue for the quarter.

It posted Rs 0.32 crore PAT in the previous quarter and a loss after tax of Rs 43.43 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous year. The revenue also grew by 6.95 per cent over the previous quarter of Rs 259.90 crores and by 22.38 per cent over the corresponding quarter of the previous year.

The Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization (EBITDA) for the quarter at Rs 67.54 crores was higher by 8.10 per cent over the EBITDA of the previous quarter of Rs 62.47 crores and a 167 per cent growth over the EBITDA of the corresponding quarter of the previous year.

KOLKATA: Television advertising is expected to bounce back this year, courtesy a power-packed live sports line-up. While the January-March period has been exceptionally good for the industry, there has been a sudden reversal since then – IPL 2021 has been halted midway, partial lockdown has been imposed in several states, and the augury of a third wave of the Covid2019 pandemic have raised the question whether the year will pan out as initially forecast. It is for certain that this quarter will be under stress, experts said in a virtual roundtable organised by Indiantelevision.com.

One of the major talking points at The Television Ad Room, moderated by Indiantelevision.com founder, CEO & editor-in-chief Anil Wanvari, was how the spend on IPL would be reallocated. As the cricket festival is a high-profile media event, cancelling it would result in a massive setback, Madison Media Sigma CEO Vanita Keswani acknowledged. However, it should be taken in true spirits by the advertisers and stakeholders involved due to health and safety concerns.

After successfully establishing its network across India, ShortsTV, a channel dedicated to short films, has entered into Nepal in partnership with DTH platform DishHome and the cable TV operator SimTV.

With this partnership, ShortsTV becomes the first-ever curated platform for short stories and films in Nepal, providing over 900 hours of unconventional and captivating short-format stories.

The service will be available to all subscribers as part of the Basic Pack and will feature a promising line-up of 4000+ premium titles, including the best of Oscars, Bafta and Cannes along with popular Indian Short films. Subscribers can look forward to an exciting mix of award winning and nominated short films covering a variety of genres including comedy, drama, thriller, mystery, crime and adventure amongst others in specially curated one-hour programming blocks. This premium offering will be available to subscribers as a linear channel on their television and the buddy mobile app of DishHome.

KOLKATA: The direct-to-home (DTH) subscriber base in India has reached a base of around 70.99 million in 2020, according to the Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicator Report October-December 2020 published by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). This points to an addition of around one million subscribers in the year.

While the total active DTH subscriber base stands at 70.99 million as of 31 December 2020, the segment had reported a base of 69.98 million for the last quarter of 2019.

NEW DELHI: With India engulfed in the firestorm that is the second wave of Covid2019, journalists in the country are putting their lives on the line to keep the public informed and abreast of the latest developments regarding the fatal pathogen, and the measures that should be taken to curb its spread. But in spite of these noble efforts from the news media community, the government has not classified scribes as frontline workers who are entitled to priority Covid vaccination. It’s a fact that while working round the clock to provide Covid updates from the frontlines, several journalists have lost their lives. 

According to data released by the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), a non-profit organisation focused on press freedom and journalist safety, 51 Indian journalists have died due to coronavirus. The data released by PEC was dated 29 December, and the current death toll among the news media community could be much higher, especially at this time where the resurgent virus is on a killing spree through India. 

Colors Tamil, a Tamil GEC from Viacom18, will launch a fiction show named ‘Bommi B.A, B.L’, which will address deep-rooted prejudice and bias against women. Starting May 3, Bommi B.A, B.L will air at 6:30 pm from Monday to Saturday on Colors Tamil.

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Set in pre-independence Calcutta, Bommi B.A., B.L. traces the journey of eight-year-old Bommi (played by Aura Bhatnagar) who is married to a 60-year-old man. But as fate would have it, her life takes a sudden tragic turn. While she becomes prey to social injustice, fate leads her to her husband Anirudh, a London-returned Barrister who wishes to liberalise women and unstrap them from cultural stereotypes. As her husband, Anirudh helps Bommi to get out of this gloomy tradition of social discrimination. This leads them to embark on a journey together where Bommi goes on to become a Barrister and challenges the system with her tough and thought-provoking arguments.

A total of 907 private satellite TV channels have been permitted by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) for uplinking only/downlinking only/both uplinking and downlinking, as of 31st December 2020, states The Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators October – December 2020 by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

As per the report, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), in March 2017, notified the new regulatory framework for Broadcasting and Cable services. The framework comprises Tariff Order 2017, Interconnection Regulations 2017 and Quality of Service & Consumer Protection Regulations 2017. As per the Telecommunication (Broadcasting and Cable) Services (Eighth) (Addressable Systems) Tariff Order, 2017 dated 3rd March 2017 as amended, every broadcaster has to offer all its channels on the a-la-carte basis to all distributors of television channels and declare maximum retail price, per month, payable by a subscriber for each of its pay channel offered on an a-la-carte basis. Further, it is also permissible for a broadcaster to offer its pay channels in the form of a bouquet and declare the maximum retail price, per month, of such bouquet payable by a subscriber.