MUMBAI: Bharti Airtel on Monday posted its fourth quarter results for the fourth quarter of financial year 2019-20. While revenue was up seven per cent at Rs 23,723 crore on a quarter-on-quarter basis, it has registered a consolidated loss of Rs 5,237 crore year-on-year. Mobile services revenue has increased 21.8 per cent YoY and 16 per cent quarter to quarter.

Airtel's journey as a digital business continued strongly in Q4’20. The company has over 160 million Monthly Active Users across digital assets – Airtel Thanks, Wynk and X Stream. It has over 1.1 million retailers transacting and making payments every day on our Mitra App.

Today over 60 per cent of its entire business goes through digital channels, and with share of AirtelThanks platform growing strongly to now become the second largest platforms for user payments online.

Confirming the development, the Hindi news channel said the newsroom, office and studio have been sealed for sanitisation. 

Twenty-eight employees of Zee Media have tested positive for Covid-19, the company said in a statement. The fresh cases come after one of the employees tested positive last Friday.

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Sudhir Chaudhary, Editor-in-Chief, Zee News, said, “The global pandemic has now become a personal story for Zee Media. Last Friday, one of our colleagues tested positive for Covid-19. As a responsible organisation, we initiated mass testing of all those who could have been in direct or indirect contact with the said individual.”

“So far, 28 of our team mates have tested positive. Fortunately, most of them are asymptomatic and not complaining of any discomfort. We believe this is because of early diagnosis and pro-active intervention,” he added.

Free-To-Air (FTA) channels need to invest in newer content for constant engagement, said industry experts on an Shemaroo TV-e4m webinar while discussing 'Exciting Opportunities in Free to Air Television Space'.

The webinar was presented by Shemaroo TV. The panel included industry leaders like Rajiv Dubey, Head of Media, Dabur; Jai Lala, COO, Zenith India; Hema Malik, COO, Lodestar UM; Mohit Joshi, MD (India), Havas Media; K Srinivas Rao, National Director Buying, Mediacom; and Sandeep Gupta, COO- Broadcast Business, Shemaroo. The discussion was chaired by Nawal Ahuja, Director and Co-founder, exchange4media.

Ahuja started the discussion by asking the panellists about what they think of the current scenario and their prediction of the future. The panel unanimously believed that these are uncertain times and nobody knows where things are headed.

Zee Media released a statement on Monday, saying 28 of Zee News employees have been tested positive for the coronavirus. The newsroom has been sealed for sanitation and the team has been shifted to an alternative facility for the time being.

“Last Friday, one of our colleagues tested positive for COVID-19. As a responsible organisation, we initiated mass testing of all those who could have been in direct or indirect contact with the said individual,” Sudhir Chaudhary, Editor-in-Chief, Zee News said in the statement.

He credits the organisation’s early diagnosis and proactive intervention as the reasons why most of those who tested positive were asymptomatic. Chaudhary wrote that Zee has been following best practices to break the cycle and to contain the infection in line with the official protocol.

BENGALURU: Enterr10 Television’s flagship free to air (FTA)-cum pay TV Hindi GEC Dangal had to normally battle it out with either the Sun Tv Network’s flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV, or with the Hindi sports channel that aired India’s cricketing bonanza – the Indian Premier League or IPL live since the implementation of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) New Tariff Order (NTO) in early 2019. The lockdown during Covid2019 changed all that. The edition of the IPL for 2020 has been postponed with no firm date of its playout being announced until the writing of this paper. However, Lockdown 4.0 may provide some relief to the public and the broadcaster – sports grounds will be opened with restrictions and without spectators. 

Mumbai: ZEE Biskope takes the rein to bring the festive cheer of Vat Savitrito every household with “Saajan Ke Pyaar…Senurwa Ke Tyohaar”, a handpicked blockbuster movie line-up from May 18 – May 22 at 9:30 am to celebrate the magic of love.

Enthralling its audience with a special movie line-up, the channel will commence the festival with ‘Ghulami’ starring superstar Nirahua with gorgeous actress Madhu Sharma, who despite having lost everything in life does not lose the hope of bringing her husband back. The audience will soak in the fathoms of love on Tuesday as Zee Biskope will treat its viewers with a movie that’s true to its title, ‘Mohabbat’. The romantic blockbuster features Chintu Pandey and Kajal Yadav who profess their never-ending faith on each other. Namit Tiwari, Rani Chatterjee and Monalisa will make for a wonderful Wednesday in ‘Gharwali Baharwali’ which beautifully portrays the love a wife has for her husband that remains strong under all circumstances. Delighting viewers to their heart’s content, the superhit movie Leke Aaja Band Baaja Aye Pawan Raja starring Pawan Singh perfectly showcases how the lead couple stands by each other’s side knitted together by the spirit of love & affection. Wrapping up the festivity with a power-packed performance by Nirahua and Anjana Singh in pivotal roles, ZEE Biskope will bring the mass entertainer ‘Jigar’.

BENGALURU: Overall broadband internet subscribers in India grew by 1.866 crore or 2.98 per cent  in the month ended 31 October 2019 (Oct-19) from the numbers reported by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India for the month ended 30 September 2019 (Sep-19). TRAI reported 62.542 crore (625.42 million or 6,254.2 lakh) broadband internet subscribers across all segments for Sep-19. This number grew to 64.408 crore (644.08 million or 6,440.8 lakh) in Oct-19 as per the latest numbers published by Trai.

 

Two producers have thanked the channel for the gesture. 

MUMBAI: Tamil-language GEC Vijay TV has provided a relief amount of Rs 75 lakh to the production workers who produce content for the channel. Two content producers have thanked Vijay TV for the gesture. In separate social media posts, they have expressed gratitude to the channel for providing financial help to distressed producers who have been out of work since the lockdown.

“In the time of Covid2019 lockdown, where no shoot or no media activities have been taking place for the past one month, the livelihood of numerous workers and technicians became a question mark. Considering these stressful circumstances, Star Vijay has provided Rs 75 Lakhs (approx) through its production houses to distribute this amount to all the workers and technicians working in their respective projects. Star Vijay has also ensured that the money reaches each one of them.

The 8th edition of BARC and Nielsen’s report shows the difference in consumption patterns of consumers from the Pre-COVID period (11th Jan’20 to 31st Jan’20) and during-COVID period (2nd May ’20 to 8th May ’20).

The total TV viewership grew by 24% and stood at 1.10 Trillion viewing minutes in week 18. Daily Average reach in millions saw a 10% increase from Week 18 vs Pre-COVID period followed by the weekly viewing minutes during the pre-Covid-19 period were 887 Bn and 1101 Bn minutes during Week 18. The total number of channels watched grew by 25% in week 18 over pre-COVID 19 and daily ATS grew by 13%. The Daily

Bhojpuri Genre amongst the regional languages in the entertainment space is one of the oldest, going back in time the genre was very different than, it was popular for having below the belt content exposing itself to a long list of criticism in its aesthetics. In recent times, Bhojpuri has changed its concept and content mix to a large extent, thereby seeing an increase in its popularity. Bhojpuri industry is evolving as a genre and one of the contributors for enhancing the image of the genre is B4U Bhojpuri. B4U Bhojpuri was launched on 15th May 2019 by the B4U Network. The vision of B4U Bhojpuri was to ensure that the image of the genre changes dramatically to entertain family audiences and give it an array of clean content.

The Network comprises of popular channels like B4U Kadak, B4U Movies, and B4U Music, both in India & International B4U Aflam B4U Plus in the Mena Region and has its footprints across 100 countries in the world.