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barc week 12: colors grabs second position on pay platform and urban market
MUMBAI: Colors grabbed the second position in week 12 of BARC India ratings in the urban market as well as on the pay platform. For more than three consecutive weeks, Sony SAB led the urban market and pay platform. In this week on pay platform, Star Plus slipped down to fourth position from second in the last week; similarly, Zee TV has slipped down to fifth position from...
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Hindi Movie Channels gains significantly during Covid-19 Lockdown period
According to the TV viewership data released for week 12 by BARC, the Hindi Movies channels have seen immense growth mainly because of the countrywide lockdown. This growth is both in average impressions and reach, that too on a week-on-week basis. Our comparison of the past four weeks data shows the growth in the genre.
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AajTak Leads the Hindi News Genre with 66.3 CR Weekly Gross Impressions during Covid-19 coverage
According to the television viewership data released by BARC India, The news genre saw maximum growth among all genres in the week 12 of 2020. In Week 12 India recorded highest TV viewership in History of Television Data
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BARC WK 12: Sony moves up to the 3rd spot in the Hindi GEC Pay TV category
With the on-going COVID-19 pandemic and with the entire country been lockdown, it’s very obvious that people will now have enough time to watch and catch up their favourite content on their favourite channels, According to BARC data of HSM NCCS All India (Urban+Rural) for week 12 and we see major changes this week, just like SONY SAB leading this week too with 797mn impressions, Colors moves up from the 3rd spot to the 2nd spot with 524mn impressions.
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AIDCF to offer uninterrupted service of Doordarshan Channels for unpaid Subscribers
The All India Digital Cable Federation (AIDCF) has pledged its support to the Government of India in its fight against the pandemic of COVID–19 and lock down for it by assuring that members of AIDCF will offer uninterrupted service of Doordarshan channels for avoiding “Blank Screen” for subscribers.
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Discovery gets MIB approval to rename DSport as Eurosport
MUMBAI: The ministry of information and broadcasting (MIB) has approved Discovery India’s application to rename DSport and DSport HD as Eurosport and Eurosport HD.Eurosport is a sports network having a presence in Europe and Asia. In 2015, Discovery had acquired full ownership of Eurosport for $534 million.
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SPNI to realign its portfolio by discontinuing Sony Mix, Sony ESPN
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI) has decided to realign its channel portfolio. The company is set to discontinue its Hindi music channel Sony Mix apart from sports channels Sony ESPN SD and HD. The channels will be discontinued from 31st March.
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iTV Network discontinues Punjabi ent channel P Plus
MUMBAI: iTV Network has discontinued its Punjabi entertainment channel P Plus just over a year after launching it in February 2019.
Direct to home (DTH) operator Airtel Digital TV has informed its subscribers that the channel has been discontinued by the broadcaster. P Plus was available on channel no. 558 on the DTH platform. It was a free to air (FTA) channel.
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Doordarshan channels have seen good growth in viewership in 2019: I&B min
MUMBAI: Prasar Bharati’s Hindi general entertainment channel DD National and its regional channels have seen tremendous growth in viewership. According to BARC data, DD National’s viewership increased to 18.31 crore in 2019 while that of regional channels jumped to 19.33 crore in the same year.
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Asianet News Network FY19 net drops to Rs 6.35 crore due to decline in ad rev
MUMBAI: Asianet News Network Pvt Ltd (ANNPL) has posted a lower net profit in FY19 due to a decline in ad revenue. The net profit fell to Rs 6.35 crore for the fiscal ended 31st March 2019 as against Rs 8.35 crore in the previous fiscal.