MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Networks India’s (SPN) sports segment is highly focusing on niche segments and so Tennis Australia and SPN have extended their broadcast deal by three years at the official Australian Open 2020 media launch. SPN sports business head-marketing and on-air promotions Neville Bastawalla said ‘massification’ is the only way to grow viewership for niche sports while the segment has huge opportunity.

MUMBAI: Network18 Media and Investment has posted 43 per cent YoY growth in subscription revenue in Q2 2020, continuing the 48 per cent growth YoY witnessed in Q1. The company’s digital revenues grew by 10 per cent YoY to Rs 46 crore. Sharp display advertising growth in News18.com (especially vernacular) boosted revenues even amidst a tepid environment.
TV18’s Q2 viewership share in news increased further to 10.9 per cent, up from 10.1 per cent in Q1 consolidating its leadership. As election tailwinds witnessed in Q1 tapered off, Q2 operating revenue for News declined 2 per cent YoY. Weakness in financial markets, lack of government ad-spending and limited international advertising compared with last year dragged growth.

BENGALURU: Two channels – Enterr 10 Television’s free to air (Free or FTA) Hindi GEC Dangal and the Sun Tv Network’s flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV having been vying for the top slot in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly lists of Top 10 Channels across genres as mentioned by us earlier.
During the Indian cricketing bonanza tourney, the IPL, it is Star India Hindi Sports channel Star Sports 1 Hindi that often held onto the numero uno status. Between week 13 and week 40 of 2019, it is Dangal that has held first rank in BARC’s weekly lists for 16 of the 28 weeks. Dangal has held on to first place for four consecutive weeks until week 40. Further, since B4U Movies exited BARC’s weekly list across genres on all platforms in week 38 of 2019, Dangal is the only FTA channel in its fold. The other 9 channels have been pay channels. Dangal retook the numero uno mantle in BARC’s Across Genres on all platforms weekly list.

ABP News concluded Shikhar Sammelan, a detailed talk show accentuating the sentiment on the upcoming #MahrashtraAssemblyPolls. The event was conducted at ITC Maratha, Mumbai.

This knowledge-sharing platform was attended by various dignitaries from ruling and opposition parties of Maharashtra to deliberate on the expected outcome of the Maharashtra assembly elections.

Making the summit informative for the voters, the summit played host to dignitaries such as Devendra Fadnavis (Chief Minister, Maharashtra), Raj Thackeray (President, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena), Sanjay Nirupam (Spokesperson, Congress), Gaurav Bhatia (National Spokesperson, BJP), Sambit Patra (National Spokesperson, BJP), Priyanka Chaturvedi (Spokesperson, Shiv Sena) and Bhupendra Yadav (General Secretary in charge of the State’s polls).

Network18 Media & Investments' net loss in September quarter narrowed to Rs 24.68 crore as tax expenses reduced sharply. The company had reported a loss of Rs 66.90 crore in the corresponding quarter of last fiscal.

Consolidated operating revenue for the quarter fell by 5.1% year-on-year to Rs 1,174 crore on soft advertising revenue, but subscription revenue increased sharply by 43% YoY to Rs 461 crore in Q2.

At the operating level, the company's consolidated earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) dropped 17% to Rs 77 crore compared to year-ago.

Extending their relationship for three years, Tennis Australia and Sony Pictures Networks India announced that viewers would continue to enjoy Australian Open on the Sony Sports cluster and their OTT platform, Sony LIV. SPNI will provide over 200 hours of coverage for each edition of the Australian Open.

Leander Paes, India’s tennis pride shared his tennis journey and passion about the sport and the association he shares with Australian Open at the media launch.

On the sidelines of the launch, Medianews4u caught up with Neville Bastawalla, Head – Marketing & OAP, Sony Sports Cluster, SPNI for a brief chat on Australian open and other things.

MUMBAI: While Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India had appointed an oversight committee in June 2019 to review its data validation and outlier policy which identifies and eliminates outliers including reach outliers, the two-member committee led by Nakul Chopra and Praveen Tripathi has successfully submitted its report to the board. The committee conducted an extensive review of the entire process and presented a detailed assessment of the ongoing practice.  The committee stated that the current process is accurate and unbiased and recommended BARC India to continue to follow the process as it is.

Mumbai: India’s sole television measurement company, Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India, had appointed an oversight committee in June 2019, to review its data validation and outlier policy which identifies and eliminates outliers including reach outliers. The two-member committee led by Nakul Chopra and Praveen Tripathi has successfully submitted its report to the board. The committee conducted an extensive review of the entire process and presented a very detailed assessment of the on-going practice.

The oversight committee appointed by television measurement company Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India to review its data validation and outlier policy has submitted its report. The committee has stated that the current process is accurate and unbiased and recommended BARC India to continue to follow the process as it is, BARC said in a statement.

According to the committee, there is no manual intervention in the process for treating outliers. The entire process is driven by robust algorithms and rules which makes the process unbiased. This is applied to all channels in a fair manner which in return helps BARC India give transparent and reliable data to its subscribers.