BENGALURU: News is event driven. Events can be of two types – planned and unplanned. Among the planned events are elections, public events, etc.Unplanned events include deaths of celebrities, calamities, accidents and disasters, acts of terrorism, etc.

Mumbai: Megha Tata, chief operating officer of business news channel BTVI , has stepped down from her role, Indiantelevision.com has learnt. 15 March 2019 will be her last day at the organisation, Tata informed colleagues via an email last week.

MUMBAI: TAM Media Research - a joint venture between global media research organisations, Nielsen and Kantar has released the very first and one-of-its-kind, comprehensive go-to-market AdEx study for South India. ‘The Southside Story 2018’ shows a sharp increase in the advertising potential in the southern market as media outlets are growing at an exponential rate. One third of all India advertisers are spending in the southern market.

Social media and the issues related to it are not confined to newsrooms. It is something that challenges the society as well. It’s an opportunity and a challenge at the same time.

At the 11th edition of exchange4media News Broadcasting Awards (enba), a panel discussion was held on ‘The challenges faced by the TV industry in India: How social media is radically changing the newsroom’. The session was moderated by Sudhir Mishra, Founder & Managing Partner, Trust Legal. The panellists were Varun Kohli, CEO, iTV network and Chetan Sharma, Founder CEO and Editorial Director, India Ahead News.

MUMBAI: TV18 Broadcast, which operates 20 national and regional news channels, has approached Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) against Arnab Goswami’s ARG Outlier Media for placing its recently launched Hindi news channel Republic Bharat outside the Hindi news genre to drive up viewership.

Atria Convergence Technologies-owned internet service provider (ISP) ACT Fibernet has launched its new brand identity with the unveiling of the logo and tagline ‘Feel the Advantage’. The re-branding initiative is a strategic component of ACT Fibernet’s intention of becoming the most admired in-home entertainment and interactive internet services provider in India.

MUMBAI: Direct to home (DTH) operator Dish TV is confident of becoming debt free in the next two years based on the quarterly cash flows being generated by the company.

Dish TV chief financial officer (CFO) Rajeev Dalmia said that the company could become debt-free if it generates Rs 25-300 crore every quarter. In Q3 FY19, the company’s free cash flow was Rs. 225 crores, which was utilised for the dividend payment and repayment of bank loans. For 9M FY19, the cash flow was around Rs. 700-750 crore.

MUMBAI: The ongoing flux in the broadcast sector due to the new TRAI tariff order implementation has had a significant impact on the connectivity of pay channels in the country. After the new regulatory framework kicked in on 1 February, pay channels’ connectivity witnessed a drop ranging from 61 per cent to 0.5 per cent across genres. Free-to-air (FTA) channels, however, seem to have benefitted under the new regime so far.

MUMBAI: Sony Sab is all set to launch its new show, Baavle Utaavle, #Gufu Ki Visfotak Love Isstory, produced by Director’s Kut production house Rajan Shahi. The show will go on air on 18 February, every Monday to Friday at 10 pm.The show is set against the rustic backdrop of a Madhya Pradesh landscape that captures the quirks of society in a small town in India where there is a subtle acknowledgment that marriage fulfills the desire for physical intimacy and love follows later.

MUMBAI: TV9 News Network is all set to launch its national Hindi channel, TV9 Bharatvarsh, next month in Delhi. The channel is ready with its largest news studio in the country, which will use the best of AR and VR technologies, and BOT news tracker in its presentation.