MUMBAI: Rachana Television, the company that owns and operates three Telugu channels, has seen a 17.44% jump in its net profit to Rs 14.34 crore for the fiscal ended March 2017 compared to Rs 12.21 crore in the year-ago period.

MUMBAI: Even as Indian Premier League (IPL) is two weeks away from conclusion, Hindi GECs have started chalking out plans for the post-IPL phase. The Hindi GECs generally lie low during the two-month IPL window as the tournament draws a bulk of the viewership share, particularly during the prime-time slot.

MUMBAI: UFC and ESPN have entered into a distribution agreement this month according to reports. As a result of this deal, ESPN and its subscription-based broadband service, ESPN+, will offer mixed martial arts fans a new array of UFC matches and special programming under a new rights deal unveiled on Tuesday.

MUMBAI: NDTV has posted a consolidated net loss of Rs 18.15 crore for the quarter ended 31 March compared to a net profit of Rs 7.5 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal.

SUN TV Network Limited has reported better numbers across all significant parameters for the quarter ending March 31 2018, as compared to the corresponding quarter last year. The Board of Directors declared an interim dividend of Rs 2.50 per share (50%) each at their Board meetings held on August 11, 2017, November 10, 2017, February 9, 2018 and March 12, 2018.

BENGALURU: The Sun TV Network’s leading Tamil GEC Sun TV was ranked first in Broadcast Audience Research Council’s (BARC) weekly list of top 10 channels across genres - All India (U+R) : 2+ Individuals in week 18 of 2018 (Saturday, 28 April 2018 to Friday, 4 May 2018), the fourth week since the commencement of cricket world’s largest local cricket league – IPL 11. In the previous week, it was one of the 10 Star India channels, Star Sports 1 Hindi, which had taken the pole position in BARC’s across genres weekly list.

MUMBAI: Speaking during an analyst call focusing on 21st Century Fox’s investments in India, James Murdoch has said that this year’s investment by Star India into its streaming service Hotstar would be $50 million.

BENGALURU: Sun TV Network Ltd (Sun TV) reported improved numbers across all important parameters for the year ended 31 March 2018 (FY 2018, year or the year under review) as compared with the previous year (FY 2017). The company reported 10.9 per cent higher consolidated total income of Rs 3,105.29 crore as against Rs 2,799.52 crore in FY 2017. Consolidated operating revenue increased by 12 per cent to Rs 2,963.02 crore from Rs 2,645.72 crore.

Zee Anmol continued to lead the overall market in week 18 albeit with a dip in ratings with 769222 Impressions (000s) against 771888 Impressions (000s) from last week, followed by Rishtey on second spot with 642114 Impressions (000s) as against 672774 Impressions (000s) in week 17. Meanwhile, Star Bharat too witnessed a dip but maintained its third spot with 603720 (Impressions) against 638431 Impressions (000s), according to BARC data of week 18.

On February 12, Discovery Communications India entered the world of Hindi general entertainment channels (GECs) with promising five hours of programming band daily but only in a span of three months, the channel decided to put a full stop to its original programming.