Week 24 of BARC Ratings saw the Top 5 channels in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada genre maintain status quo with no changes in the positions.

According to BARC Ratings of South GEC for week 24, the following are the ranking of various Regional GECs.

Malayalam:

Asianet leads the Malayalam GEC category followed by Surya TV on the 2nd spot. Mazhavil Manorama moves up and secures the 3rd spot and for the last two spots we have Flowers TV and Zee Keralam.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has granted registration to 18 new multi-system operators (MSOs) in the last three months (March 13, 2020 to 24 June, 2020).

The total number of registered MSOs now stands at 1664.

Among those to have got the registration are - Cloudnet Infocom Pvt. Ltd, Global Vision Cable TV & Internet, -Digital Network Pvt. Ltd, Digicast Network Pvt. Ltd, Bongaon Cable T.V. Network, FM Video, Uma Cable, Baroda Cable Network, Star Digital Cable TV Network, Smart India Digital Services and RK Digital Cable Network.

Mumbai: After a brief hiatus following the nationwide lockdown in India owing to the COVID-19 situation, Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) has obtained all relevant government permissions to resume production for its television, film and OTT businesses in India.

The network is working closely with its production partners to ensure shoots resume in a controlled environment with strict compliance to all necessary government rules, regulations and safety protocols.

At SPN, health, hygiene and sanitisation are taken very seriously, and the network is doing all that it can to ensure the safety of its cast, crew and production partners. Other than cast and crew members, visitors will not be allowed on the sets.

BENGALURU: Television consumption decreased slightly (reduced 0.6 percent) in Week 23 of 2020 (Saturday, 6 June 2020 to Friday, 12 June 2020) to 16.3 billion weekly impressions as compared to the previous week which had scored 16.4 billion weekly impressions according to Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly data. BARC had reported viewership of 16.3 billion impressions for week 21 of 2020. This number is still 12.4 percent higher than the viewership of 14.5 billion impressions reported for week four of 2020.

At the company board meeting, the re-appointment of Dr Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy as Whole-Time Directors designated as Executive Co-Chairpersons was also announced 

The NDTV Group is announcing its best result in ten years with a profit after tax of ₹ 24.22 crores for 2019-2020. For the second year in a row, NDTV Limited, the broadcast section of
the Group, is also closing the financial year with profit after tax.

At the Group level, the profit after tax has increased by ₹ 14 crores over the last financial year. The Group’s focus on furthering its synergy of operations and resources continues.

In the previous financial year, NDTV Consolidated reported a profit after tax of Rs 10.2 crore. 

NEW DELHI: After months of standstill, GECs across some states have been permitted to resume indoor shooting of serials with strict guidelines. Regional channels are slowly treading the path to normalcy, Malayalam GECs being one. 

Malayala Manorama Television COO Satheesh PR shares, “Traditionally, most Malayalam fiction has been indoors. There are some arrangements through the government-owned Chitranjali studios to enable outdoor shoot in a controlled environment and we have a large studio floor of our own which will be put to use for non-fiction with all the guidelines being followed.

As feared, the New Tariff Order of TRAI has turned out to be the death knell for English entertainment channels. With revenues hitting rock bottom, Star India is contemplating to do away with a few niche channels, including Star World and Fox Life The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s New Tariff Order is proving to be the death knell for niche channels sooner than later. While AXN, AXN HD and FYI TV18 have announced their decision to discontinue their operations, Star India is slated to wrap up India’s oldest English general entertainment channel Star World and lifestyle channel Fox Life. Highly placed multiple sources confirmed the development with BestMediaInfo.com.

Industry players say discounted ad rates, absence of fresh content on TV and lack of new campaigns have been some of the hurdles but revenues are expected to pick up on the back of the festive season While broadcasters are seeing positive growth in advertising volume, industry players say the increase has not really converted into meaningful revenues for the TV industry as the ad spends are still lower than pre-COVID times.

Siti Cable network is reviving itself. KOLKATA: Amid the Covid2019 crisis, several districts of West Bengal including Kolkata had been devastated by powerful cyclone Amphan last month. Cable TV and broadband service providers are reeling across the state due to huge infrastructural losses. Although the players are putting high effort to normalise connections, many areas are still in dire straits. Siti Cable director Suresh Sethia estimates that 1-1.5 lakh set-top boxes and fibres of few crores have been damaged across the state.

BARC India data for week 23 for the rankings of the Top 10 Brands and Advertisers across all genres and all platforms are as follows:

Brands:

In the category for Top 10 brands we see LUX Toilet Soaps leading the chart this week followed by new entrant PolicyBazaar.com on the 2nd spot and Sunsilk Black Shine that led the 7th spot last week has secured the 3rd spot this week.