New Delhi: Prasar Bharati board has appointed five new part-time members on that includes music composer Salim Merchant, BJP leader Shaina NC, media personality Sanjay Gupta, veteran journalist Ashok Tandon and corporate personality Alok Agarwal.

Prasar Bharati, in the process to fill nine vacant positions in its 13-member board, the members will be on the board that oversees the functioning of Doordarshan and the All India Radio. Tandon has also been the media advisor to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has proposed bringing under its purview OTT content, media reports have said.

So far, content being streamed on digital platforms was coming under the IT ministry. I&B ministry Amit Khare has proposed a convergence of ministries.

Khare has been reported as saying that the country has no regulations for emerging media like OTT unlike the traditional forms of media

‘Thinkstr’ was established in January 2016 by Satbir Singh who quit as CCO from FCB Ulka. He described his solo venture as “Ideas for a digital world”. In the same breadth he also said, “Thinkstr is not a digital agency, but it will be at the core of our work. While communication is not going digital, consumers are, so what should be the communication to that audience”.

A Sardar who is a Bengali at heart, soft-spoken, man of few words with a great sense of humour. He still swears by Kolkatta, where he grew up and cut his teeth in advertising. He is also a great cook and a foodie! Like his first boss, Swapan Seth, who heads Equus. They belong to the boys of Calcutta who have over the years contributed a lot to the creative world.

The DTH provider emerged as the largest platform in terms of subscribers with 31.80% market share followed by Dish TV at 30.55%. 

The pay direct-to-home (DTH) segment has grown with 69.98 million active users among the four pay DTH service providers in the country, according to recent TRAI data. This is in addition to subscribers of DD Free Dish, the report said.

According to the report, Tata Sky leads with 31.80% market share, followed by Dish TV with 30.55%. Airtel and Sun Direct accounted for 23.31% and 14.35% share each. The report says Tata Sky is 1.5X the size of Hathway, Den and GTPL Hathway all combined.

The airing of original episodes for Malayalam GECs started from week 24 (weekdays), and week 22 (weekdays) for Kannada.

Mumbai: Good times seem to have returned for Malayalam and Kannada GECs with the original episodes being aired on television. The airing of original episodes for Malayalam general entertainment channels (GECs) started from week 24 (weekdays), and week 22 (weekdays) for Kannada GECs. In Kerala market, all prime time shows started airing from week 24.

TV9 Network is further beefing up its management team, adding momentum to its pan-network digital expansion plans. ZEE’s Executive Cluster Head, Innovation Studio and Custom Content, Raktim Das joins as COO to build and grow the Studio9 Business at the network and drive the convergence of Television and Digital revenue function.

Noida: TV9 Network today announced the appointment of Raktim Das as COO of Studio9, responsible for driving the convergence of TV and digital revenue function, with focus on branded content innovation. He will be mandated with setting up an independent profit centre that will design and monetizeWeb+TV custom content products across multiple language platforms. He will also be responsible for building talent relationships and strategic partnerships for nurturing new growth avenues.

Mumbai: Eros Now, the cutting-edge digital over-the-top (OTT) South Asian entertainment platform owned by Eros International Plc (NYSE: EROS) (“Eros” or “the Company”), a Global Indian Entertainment Company, today announced its partnership with Dish TV, the leading direct-to-home (DTH) offering the best of online entertainment. As part of the association, Dish TV & D2H users can access Eros Now’s massive content library including 12,000 plus movie titles, original shows, short-format content Quickie, music through their android set-top boxes – Dish SMRT Hub & D2H Stream, respectively.

KOLKATA: An unprecedented crisis has compelled producers to re-imagine the film distribution model suddenly. As theatres remain shut across the country, producers are developing camaraderie with over-the-top (OTT) platforms. While Amazon Prime Video was the first OTT platform to go aggressive over digital premieres of films, Disney+ Hotstar is taking the trend forward with the launch of Disney+ Hotstar ‘Multiplex’. From July, it will premiere seven Bollywood movies for its subscribers and this might escalate the conflict between producers and multiplex owners.

In a series of social media posts, #MTVWithPride used popular instances, characters and anecdotes from Bollywood movies to evoke the thought of choices that each individual can make in their lives To celebrate the spirit of World Pride Month, MTV India echoed the sentiments of millions to celebrate uniqueness in all forms and spread love, irrespective of sexual orientations, with #MTVWithPride.

Mumbai: Even as the entire human race collectively grappled with the pandemic over the past couple of months and with shoots stalled, viewers missed tuning into fresh episodes of their favourite fiction shows and are now eagerly waiting for the shows to make a comeback so they can once again take charge of their remote and reunite with their beloved characters.

So, with the lockdown gradually lifting and people across the country stepping out into the new normal, Zee TV is gearing up to resume shoots in line with government directives and bring all-new episodes of its popular shows back into the lives of its loyalists.