MUMBAI: Public service broadcaster Doordarshan (DD) has turned operationally profitable by recording the highest revenue in the last five years. According to information revealed by DD director general Supriya Sahu, the pubcaster’s gross revenue rose to Rs1113.7 crore and net revenue to Rs 943.8 crore in the year 2018-19.

Youth brand MTV has launched its ‘MTV Ka #TVKahaanGaya’campaign, showcasing the channel’s strength on Viacom18’s digital platform Voot. With the insight that good content is platform-agnostic, the MTV ka #TVKahaanGaya campaign is a pragmatic showcase of how the youth is attracted to consuming relevant content at their own pace and time.

Pitaara TV is one of the Top 5 channels in Punjab in terms of viewership, according to BARC India ratings for Week 13. It's also the only movie channel in Punjab and falls under the FTA category. 

Sandeep Bansal, Managing Director of 9X Tashan and Director of Pitaara, tells exchange4media that the benefit for free-to-air channels from TRAI's New Tariff Order will be temporary. 

In Week 12 of the RAM Ratings, Fever FM continued to lead in Mumbai and Delhi, while Radio City and Radio Mirchi held on to the top spots in Bangalore and Kolkata respectively.

Fever FM led in Mumbai with 18 per cent share in a universe of 12.2 million listeners. Radio Mirchi held the second position, while Radio City took the third spot. Early morning, followed by mid-morning and afternoon time band observed the highest listenership on total radio.

MUMBAI: Enterr10 Television’s free to air (FTA) Marathi entertainment channel Fakt Marathi has sprung a surprise by ascending to the top position in the Marathi GEC genre.

As per the week 13 data released by BARC India, Fakt Marathi was the number one Marathi GEC with 35.5 crore impressions. In the process, the FTA channel humbled pay channel biggies like Zee Marathi, Colors Marathi, and Star Pravah.

MUMBAI: Video streaming giant YouTube will launch more original content on its platform in a bid to strengthen its grip on the Indian market. The platform also revealed that its India business is growing at a breakneck speed.

Last year, the platform had launched its first original show in India with music reality show ‘Arrived’, which had composer AR Rahman as one of the judges. “We are planning to launch more YouTube Originals in the coming year that will be advertising supported,” YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki while speaking at the YouTube Brandcast 2019.

MUMBAI: ABP News Network (ANN) is set to re-enter the Punjab market more than five years after it dropped plans to launch a Punjabi news channel. The BBC Worldwide is also bringing back Cbeebies after shutting it down more than six years back due to high carriage fee.

With the cable TV digitisation more or less done and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) levelling the field by introducing the new regulatory framework, the broadcasters are feeling emboldened to revive their shelved plans.

MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued a consultation paper on entry level net-worth requirement of multi system operators (MSOs) in Cable TV services.

The Rule 11(3) of Cable Television Network Rules, 1994 mentions about financial strength of the applicant for grant of MSO registration without explicitly details thereof.

In this regard, the regulator received a reference from the ministry of information and broadcasting (MIB) vide letter dated 16th May 2018 seeking recommendations of TRAI on the appropriate levels for fixation of entry level net-worth of the MSOs for operationalising cable TV digitisation across the country.

At its annual flagship event - Brandcast, YouTube shared insights on the exponential growth of the online video ecosystem and how it is interlinked to India's internet growth story. Kicking off the keynote, YouTube's CEO, Susan Wojcicki announced that the platform has more than 265 million monthly active users in India (ComScore). She said, "India is now both our biggest audience and one of our fastest growing audiences in the world. YouTube, today, has become the first stop for users to consume content, whether they're looking for entertainment or information. It is this incredible variety of content combined with the growing reach that makes YouTube a perfect platform for brands to drive personalised engagement."

BENGALURU: In week 5 of 2019 (Saturday, 26 January 2019 to Friday, 1 February 2019), the last week that Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) had published data on its website before the implementation of the new TRAI tariff regime, pubcaster Doordarshan’s English news channel DD News had sprung a surprise. DD News had run ahead of all its private peer genre channels and was the most-watched English news channel based on viewership data with 1.503 million weekly insertions in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 English news channels  (All India (U+R) : NCCS AB : Males 22+ Individuals). The private English news channel Republic News was the second most-watched channel in the English news genre with 0.725 million weekly insertions. Both the top English news channels, public as well as private, in week 13 of 2019 are free-to-air (FTA).