Star Sports 1 Hindi’s viewership has soared in BARC charts. The broadcaster says a mix of IPL, other popular sporting leagues and innovation storytelling and production value among other factors have fuelled the growth. BestMediaInfo.com analyses if the channel can maintain the growth story after the cricket league

As the saying goes, 'talking and discussing help find solutions'. Working on the same idea a young team of media professionals have launched - founderINDIA - India's first Talk TV Channel. founderINDIA that started as a humble digital magazine covering policy matters and business stories, grew up to become a one-of-its-kind TV channel within a short span of time.

MUMBAI: The 15 large multi system operators (MSOs) control close to 78% share of the cable TV market while the other smaller MSOs have just 22% share of the market. This information was provided by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in its white paper on benefits of ‘New Framework’ for small MSOs.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) believes that by "May-end" it will finalise its views on whether Over-The-Top (OTT) services should be brought under the regulatory regime. A PTI report quotes TRAI saying it has kept an "open mind". The report quotes the TRAI chairman as saying that the regulator studied global best practices like that of the European Electronic Communications Code and will keep those in mind while formulating its opinion.

MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has warned all cable TV and DTH players that those found to be flouting its new tariff order rules will be taken to task. As per a report by PTI, TRAI will also undertake an audit of the subscriber management and IT systems of operators that don’t abide by its rules.Speaking to PTI, TRAI chairman RS Sharma said, "We have received complaints about inconvenience to customers. These complaints relate to software and systems put in place by distributors not enabling true choice for consumers, which is the aim of the whole framework. If choice of channel is restricted then basic intention seems to be to push packs and bouquets and push your own agenda. 

MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued the Telecommunication (Broadcasting and Cable) Services Register of Interconnection Agreements Regulations, 2019.

MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has successfully rolled out its new tariff order (NTO) with the underlying objective of making the system more transparent and effective, giving the consumer the choice of channels as per their requirements and budgets.

For Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) CMO Prathyusha Agarwal, this tariff regime is an opportunity for the channels in its cluster to increase earnings from regions which were otherwise under-monetised.

MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has extended the date for receiving comments and counter comments on its consultation paper “The telecommunication (broadcast and cable) services digital addressable systems audit manual” to 29 April and 6 May respectively.

The earlier dates were fixed as 22 April for comments and 29 April for comments. The stakeholders sought time from the regulator. TRAI has said that there will be no further extensions beyond these dates.

Discoverability is said to be the next challenge for OTT platforms and the leading players are busy figuring out how to get maximum viewers’ discoverability for content.

In an interaction with BestMediaInfo.com, Ravi Desai, Director, Mass and Brand Marketing at Amazon India, shared how Amazon Prime is planning to get greater visibility for its content.

ABP News has appointed Mehraj Dube as the Head of Marketing. Dube was earlier with Zee Media as Vice-President, taking care of branding and product innovation activities for the media company’s news channels for almost three years.