Seven years after launching in the country TravelxpPrashant Chothani-promoted Celebrities Management Pvt Ltd (CMPL) is planning to launch a 4K HDR channel in India. It is also planning to add new regional language feeds to increase the sampling of its content.

MUMBAI: A group of more than 100 journalists and other professionals related to online media have written to the information and broadcasting minister Smriti Irani to express their concerns over the ministry’s proposal to extend traditional broadcasting rules and restrictions to the internet.

Ajit Mohan is not your flashy kind of guy. Quiet, unassuming normally, he opens up and the words flows easy when it comes to talking about his pet project—the fast-growing Star India-owned OTT service Hotstar. Over the past three years, he has gradually—with the support of Uday Shankar and Sanjay Gupta and, of course, the Murdochs—grown the service, setting new download, watch time and quality records.

zee-entertainment-enterprises_1328.html">Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) Chief Financial Officer has resigned from the services of the company on April 28. The company informed BSE on April 30.

MUMBAI: The informitv Multiscreen Index's top 100 TV services added a total of 4.33 million pay-TV subscribers in the last quarter of 2017 as compared with 3.70 million in the previous quarter and 4.03 million in the last quarter of 2016. India lead the top 10 services in the Asia Pacific region, which cumulatively added a total of 1.65 million. Dish TV and Videocon d2h, which have since merged, added 360,000 subscribers between them.

MUMBAI: Broadcasters today are experimenting with a new type of show ownership–that of allowing the creators to hold the intellectual property (IP) rights. Most recently, Swastik Productions decided to own 100 per cent of its magnum opus Porus, which airs on Sony Entertainment Television in India, setting a benchmark in the industry as it went around the world gathering new broadcasters in new countries.

MUMBAI: Den Networks has an ambitious plan charted out for its cable and broadband business for the coming two to three years. In an interview to Bloomberg Quint, Den Networks CEO SN Sharma highlighted the company’s plan to increase revenue and subscription.

MUMBAI: To add a pinch of fun, Dish TV has added a new value-added service on its Videocon d2h platform. Comedy Active service is being offered in partnership with Comedywalas, a division of Shemaroo Entertainment. Comedy Active service is being offered to the subscribers with a free preview of two months after which they can continue to enjoy at a nominal subscription price of Rs 35 + GST.

MUMBAI: Hindi GEC Sony Entertainment Television (SET) has launched the first ad film for the third season of game show ‘Dus Ka Dum’ which is coming back after a hiatus of nine years.

MUMBAI: Sony Corporation’s revenue from the media networks division within the pictures segment has jumped to $2.49 billion during the financial year ended 31 March compared to $2.01 billion in the year-ago period.