MUMBAI: Independent creative house Creativeland Asia has appointed Venkat Balasubramanian as the chief financial officer (CFO).

News18 India is the Hindi news arm (both television and digital) of the Network18 Group. exchange4Media interacted with Prabal Pratap Singh, Managing Editor, News18 India, on the audience reaction after it underwent a revamp in 2016, news vs debate, mobile journalism and the idea of keeping news crisp and quick. Excerpts:

MUMBAI: All the Punjabi music lovers have a new destination to groove to the bhangra. ITV Network is launching a new music channel P Tunes. A source close to the development confirmed the news and revealed that the channel will be launched next month. “There will be two channels, HD which will be a paid channel and SD will be a free-to-air channel,” said the source.... http://www.indiantelevision.com/television/tv-channels/music-and-youth/itv-network-readies-punjabi-music-channel-180524

MUMBAI: TV Today Network’s standalone net profit for the quarter ended 31 March has fallen 12.47% to Rs 32.61 crore compared to Rs 37.26 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal.

MUMBAI: Multi system operator (MSO) Ortel Communications’ standalone net loss for the quarter ended 31 March has widened to Rs 80.1 crore as against Rs 6.56 crore in the trailing quarter.

MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television (SET) is revamping its prime-time programming line-up in June. The revamp will take place with the launch of three new shows – ‘Dus Ka Dum’, ‘Crossroads’ and ‘Dil Hi Toh Hai’.

MUMBAI: The closely fought Chennai Super Kings (CSK) vs Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) playoff game for Vivo IPL 2018 set a new record for India’s leading video streaming service - Hotstar. According to it, the match saw a massive 8.26 million concurrent users logging on to the service, which is a world record for any video app, says its Twitter handle.The earlier record was around seven  million concurrent users in the early part of the IPL.

MUMBAI: After being a leader in introducing mythological shows, Sony Entertainment Television (SET) is taking a different route. The channel’s latest offering is Zindagi ke Crossroads, a 39-episodic interactive show where the studio audiences will put forward their opinions on the challenges faced by the protagonists of the show.

In a recent reshuffle of his cabinet colleagues and their portfolios initiated by PM Modi, a surprise move was not Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) minister Smriti Irani’s removal, but handing the independent charge of the portfolio to her till-now junior, Rajyavardhan Rathore.

Hollywood, Calif: President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have entered into a multi-year agreement to produce films and series with Netflix, the world’s leading internet entertainment service.