MUMBAI: Aadhar, Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Reliance Jio were the most read topics of 2017, according to Times Internet study titled ‘What India read online in 2017’.

MUMBAI: PCCW-owned Vuclip’s premium video-on-demand (VOD) service Viu is entering the Tamil market in the second quarter with six original shows. Apart from the originals, Viu has also acquired Tamil movies and shows.

MUMBAI: Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Pema Khandu has inaugurated a cable TV company Arunachal Cable Communication and also launched an English daily ‘The Arunachal Herald’.

After a stint in advertising and filmmaking for four years, Sameer Nair entered the nascent television industry in the early 90s with Star TV taking charge of Star Movies. Over a 12 year career at Star, he went on to handle a variety of portfolios. In 2014, Nair overlooked the strategy, operations and expansion at Balaji Telefilms as its group CEO, driving growth in television production, streamlining the movie studio and successfully launching the OTT-SVOD platform ALT Balaji.

With Indian Premier League (IPL) underway, Hindi General Entertainment Channels (GECs) have recorded a decline in their viewership numbers. While in the urban market, Colors topped the genre with an improvement in the rating, other major players in the top five slots witnessed a decline in their viewership numbers.

While the country is engulfed watching the nerve wracking IPL matches, Sanjay Gupta, the Managing Director of Star India, is counting numbers.

MUMBAI: Telecom operator Bharti Airtel has said that it will continue to expand its direct to home (DTH) business under Bharti Telemedia. The DTH brand is known as Airtel Digital TV.

MUMBAI: The Madras High Court will pronounce its verdict in the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) broadcast tariff order and interconnection regulation matter in two weeks.

MUMBAI: Video streaming platform Hotstar gets 75-80% of its watch time from TV shows and movie content even as sports continues to be a big driver of consumption on the platform.

MUMBAI: The nine matches in second week of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2018 have garnered 211.5 million impressions on Star India network and DD Sports compared to 199.6 million impressions in IPL 10 on Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI) for equal number of games, as per BARC India data for All India market 2+ TG.