MUMBAI: As India braces itself for the football fever ahead of FIFA World Cup 2018, Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI), the official broadcaster of the event, is eyeing ad revenue of Rs 200 crore from the event. The ad revenue target is both from TV broadcast and digital on SonyLIV.

MUMBAI: With the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) tariff order and interconnect regulation moving closer to reality in light of the Madras High Court judgement, direct to home (DTH) Dish TV India is doing short-term deals in anticipation of the tariff order implementation.

MUMBAI: ALTBalaji, the OTT platform of Balaji Telefilms, has made all the right noises since its inception in April 16, 2017. With 2.5 million subscribers on the ALTBalaji platform, the company now wants to scale up its investments in the digital domain with two major plans – double the original shows in the next 10 months and enter into international markets.

BENGALURU: The Sun TV Network’s flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV was back at the pole position in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly list of top 10 channels across genre - All India (U+R): 2+ individuals for week 22 of 2018 Saturday, 26 May 2018 to Friday, 1 June 2018 (week under review).

MUMBAI: With a growth of 1.24 per cent as compared to last week (21), the Hindi News genre marked the highest opportunity to see (OTS) among all categories in week 22 of Chrome Data Analytics & Media.

MUMBAI: The Indian over the top (OTT) video is expected to move into the top ten global OTT video markets in 2022 with revenue of Rs 5595 crore registering a growth of 22.6% CAGR, according to PwC’s Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2018-2022 (Outlook)

The report further stated that the OTT video market has grown rapidly in recent years to reach Rs 2019 crore in 2017.

The growing competition among international and regional Subscription on Demand Video (SVOD) platforms is evident with over 70% of revenue in 2017 attributable to subscription services. This trend will grow and by 2022, 79.4% of total market revenue is expected to be from SVOD.

MUMBAI: With no major launch taking place, TV18’s new initiative losses in FY18 was Rs 45 crore. This is a huge decline from the new initiative loss of Rs 366 crore that the company incurred in FY17.

In FY18, TV18’s major launch was in the entertainment space. The company launched regional GEC Colors Tamil in February. In national news space, no new channels were launched.

The company defines the new initiative losses as the operating losses of any major new launch or project which is declared for a period of four quarters from the launch at an aggregate entity level.

MUMBAI: With the 2018 FIFA World Cup set to kick off on June 14, Sony Pictures Sports Network (SPSN) is gearing up for the company’s most-anticipated event of the year. Banking on the rising popularity of football in India, the formidable FIFA brand and a viral ad campaign, the sports cluster of Sony Pictures is aiming to double up its viewership this year.... http://www.indiantelevision.com/television/tv-channels/sports/sony-bets-big-on-2018-fifa-world-cup-180607

MUMBAI: Over a year since flagging off his app-based digital news venture GoNews, journalist-turned-entrepreneur Pankaj Pachauri is now looking at scaling up the operations, spend more on marketing activities and also explore foraying in other Indian languages having got some traction in Hindi and English.... http://www.indiantelevision.com/television/tv-channels/news-broadcasting/gonews-wants-to-become-the-netflix-of-news-says-pankaj-pachauri-180606

Vivek Malhotra, Group CMO, India Today Group has reportedly resigned from the position ending his tenure with large media group. He heads the marketing functions for the group’s television, radio, digital as well as print businesses.