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BARC India’s counter comments on TRAI’s review of audience measurement CP
MUMBAI: The Broadcasters Audience Research Council (BARC) India has submitted its counter-comments in response to comments submitted by various stakeholders on the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) consultation paper ‘Review of Television Audience Measurement and Ratings in India’.
In its counter comment, BARC India observed that some submissions are identical and motivated against the interest and functioning of BARC India.
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Republic TV continues almost uninterrupted run as top pvt English news channel
BENGALURU: Right since its launch in week 19 of 2017, ARG Outlier Media Private Ltd’s Arnab Goswami-headed Republic TV has been the most watched private English news channel. Over the past 23 months since its launch, the channel lost is numero uno private English news channel label only once to Goswami’s former channel Times Now, that was for one week – week 31 of 2018.
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Tata Sky removes lock-in period
MUMBAI: When the new TRAI tariff order came into the picture, DTH operators started churning out various packs to ensure customers don’t cut off their connections. The move didn’t go down well with customers. Now, Tata Sky has removed the lock-in period condition.
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IRS Q1 2019 data: print continues to expand; total number of readers touches 42 crore
MUMBAI: MRUC today released its IRS Q1 2019 data. The Q1 2019 Report is a Moving Annual Total, combining Q2+Q3+Q4 data of IRS 2017 and Q1 fieldwork of IRS 2019, which began in December 2018 and successfully completed in Q1 2019. The reporting sample size for this release is 3.24 lakh households.
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We will be a separate media entity within Publicis Groupe: Paul Davies, Epsilon
Publicis Groupe recently announced the acquisition of Epsilon. We caught up with Paul Davies, Senior Vice President Asia-Pacific Epsilon, and Ashish Sinha, SVP Epsilon India, to talk about the company’s plans post acquisition, future of digital marketing in India and more.
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Asianet News Media elevates Appachoo NK as Business Head - Suvarna News & Kannada Prabha
Asianet News Media & Entertainment Pvt Ltd has elevated Appachoo N K, General Manager, Product & Operations, as Business Head. He will now be heading the business functions of Suvarna News and Kannada Prabha.
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No changes in Bhojpuri, Tamil, Telugu markets in BARC week 16
MUMBAI: In the Bengali market, Sony Aath and Aakash Aath swapped their fourth and fifth positions respectively in BARC data week 16. No changes were observed in Bhojpuri, Tamil and Telugu segment. Udaya Movies and Star Suvarna interchanged their fourth and fifth positions in the Kannada space. In the fifth position, Asianet Movies emerged as the new player by replacing Kochu TV in the Malayalam market. In the Marathi space, Zee Marathi and Fakt Marathi interchanged their first and second positions respectively.
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Four Zeel GECs amongst most watched channels across genres
BENGALURU: Four channels – two Hindi GECs and one channel each from the Tamil and the Telugu genres from the Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel) stable were amongst the 10 most watched channels across genres in week 16 of 2019 as per Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) data. Besides Zeel, there were three channels from Star India and one channel each from Enterr 10 Television, Sun TV Network and Viacom18 in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres. From the genres perspective, there were five Hindi GECs, two channels each from Tamil and Telugu and one channel from the sports genres in week 16 of 2019 (Saturday, 13 April 2019 to Friday, 19 April 2019, week or period under consideration or review).
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Dish TV launches OTT platform Watcho with 20 original shows
With Watcho, Dish TV becomes the first DTH company in India to launch a dedicated OTT platform with its own original content. The platform is focusing on new-age content like original series, short films, on-the-go snackable video content, celebrity collaborations and infotainment videos
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Colors Infinity returns with the third season of BFFs with Vogue
Colors Infinity is back with the latest season of its homegrown show BFFs with Vogue. Premiering on April 27, the third season of the show airs every Saturday at 9 pm. While Jeep has returned as Presenting Sponsor, the channel has also roped in RealIsADiamond.in as Powered By sponsor.