Mumbai: Animal Planet,India’s number 1 wildlife channel that immerses viewers in entire spectrum of life in the animal kingdom with high quality content, willkickstart 20th anniversary celebrations in India on July 15, 2019.  As a part of the celebrations, the channel will adopt a new Animal Planet mark incorporating a fresh and distinctive image of a leaping elephant.  The new identity aims to keep the childhood joy and wonder of animals alive by bringing people up close to animals in every way with content that explores undeniable bond forged between animals and humans. Further, Animal Planet aims to galvanize people power to promote animal conservation in a big way. The channel will launch multiple initiatives through the year to achieve this objective.

MUMBAI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has not received any complaints against direct-to-home (DTH) companies not sticking to its new tariff order, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry told the Lok Sabha last week.

“No incidence indicating that the DTH operators are not adhering to the TRAI’s norms with regards to pricing of channels has come to the notice of TRAI.

“As per the new regulatory framework, every broadcaster is required to offer all its channels on a-la-carte basis and declare maximum retail price per month payable by a subscriber,” said Union I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar in response to a written question.

The new tariff order had original come into force on 29 December 2018.

MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television (SET) is increasing its programming hours from 15th July. The channel will be launching a new show ‘Ishaaron Ishaaron Mein’ in the 8 pm slot.

It is also launching a new season of its crime anthology series titled ‘Crime Patrol Satark’. The show will air Monday-Friday in the 10.30 pm slot. ‘Yeh Un Dino Ki Baat Hai’, which aired in the 10.30 pm slot, will now fill the vacant 10 pm slot.

‘Ishaaron Ishaaron Mein’ will replace ‘Chandragupta Maurya’ which will move to a new time slot of 7.30 pm. ‘Vighnaharta Ganesh’, which was airing at 7.30 pm, will move to the 7 pm slot. Consequently, ‘Mere Sai’ will now occupy the new time slot of 6.30 pm. It was airing in the 7 pm slot earlier.

Apart from these changes, the channel is also increasing the duration of ‘Patiala Babes’ and ‘Ladies Special’ to 45 minutes. ‘Patiala Babes’, which was airing in the 9 pm slot, will now take the 8.30 slot while ‘Ladies Special’ will move from 9.30 pm to 9.15 pm.

The channel’s weekend line-up includes ‘Superstar Singer’ (8 pm) and ‘The Kapil Sharma Show’ (9.30 pm).

Through its latest offering ‘Isharon Isharon Mein’, SET is all set to bring forth a story of a spirited boy, Yogi. What makes Yogi unique is not his hearing impairment, but his normalcy in maneuvering life’s daily humdrums enthusiastically and with a smile on his face. Yogi cannot hear or speak but communicates easily with his gestures.

MUMBAI: Information and Broadcasting (I&B) minister Prakash Javadekar has said that has been no incidence indicating that the direct to home (DTH) operators are not adhering to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) norms with regards to the pricing of channels.

“No incidence indicating that the DTH Operators are not adhering to the TRAI’s norms with regards to the pricing of channels has come to the notice of TRAI,” Javadekar said in the Lok Sabha, in response to a question.

He further stated that the government that the DTH operators have, in general, implemented the TRAI’s new regulatory framework for broadcasting and cable services.

Javadekar also pointed out that the new regulatory framework has been implemented with effect from 29th December 2018. However, keeping in view the consumer convenience and to provide sufficient time to consumers to exercise the options for the new tariff packs, TRAI provided time until 31st March 2019 to consumers for conveying their informed choices to service providers.

As per the new regulatory framework, every broadcaster is required to offer all its channels on the a-la-carte basis and declare maximum retail price (MRP), per month, payable by a subscriber for each of its pay channel offered on an a-la-carte basis.

Further, all the Distribution Platform Operators (DPOs) including DTH operators are mandated to display of prices of all channels on Electronic Program Guide (EPG), which are visible to all the consumers watching TV.

New Delhi: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has told the Lok Sabha last week that the Telecom Regulator TRAI has not received any complaints about DTH operators not adhering to channels pricing norms during the implementation of New Tariff Order (NTO).

In response to a written question, Union I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar said, “No incidence indicating that the DTH operators are not adhering to the TRAI’s norms with regards to pricing of channels has come to the notice of TRAI.

“As per the new regulatory framework, every broadcaster is required to offer all its channels on a-la-carte basis and declare maximum retail price per month payable by a subscriber,” he said.

The TRAI had notified the new regulatory framework for broadcasting and cable services to be implemented with effect from December 29, 2018.

“However, keeping in view the consumer convenience and to provide sufficient time to consumers to exercise the options for the new tarrif packs, TRAI provided time until March 31, 2019, to consumers for conveying their informed choices to service providers,” he said.

Week 27 has been quite a landmark week for both broadcasters and advertisers. With BARC India having decided to report viewership from Free and Pay platforms separately, it is apparently going to be a fair shuffle in revenue channels for broadcasters. Advertisers, according to experts, are going to be most benefitted from this move.  
 

“The move by BARC India removes a layer from the data that changes the whole picture around viewership,” said a highly placed source in a top broadcasting company.
 

“The move gives the advertiser the advantage of judgment and also helps them understand the degree of affluence of an end user. This is the only authorised way to understand the true nature of the market. Overall viewership always has the scope of misleading the advertiser. Now, advertisers will be able to target their audience better by planning better,” he said.
 

Combined ratings of top 5 Hindi news channels increased just 7.8 percent.

BENGALURU: Like the English News genre, budget week (week 27 of 2019, week under review, Saturday, 29 June 2019 to Friday, 5 July 2019) did not spring too many surprises in terms of spurt in viewership for the Hindi news genre either. The Hindi news genre fared a little better than its smaller English sibling in terms of ratings. The combined ratings of the top 5 Hindi news channels in week 27 of 2019 as Broadcast Audience Research Council of India weekly data increased 7.8 percent or by 31.223 million weekly impressions during the week under review as compared to its immediate trailing week in the combined urban (U) and rural (R) Hindi speaking market or HSM (U+R). The list of channels in HSM (U+R) during week 27 of 2019 differed by one channel as compared to the previous week – ABP News entered BARC’s weekly list pf top 5 Hindi news channels in HSM (U+R) at the cost of the Arnab Goswami-led Republic Bharat.

India's SF loss in ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 to impact brand visibility in the final

Star Sports will also witness a dip in its ad revenues as the finals slots will find fewer takers.

MUMBAI: The ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2019 started off with a lot of hopes pinned on the Indian team to lift the trophy for the third time. Not just international fans but many international experts had the ‘men in blue’ as the likely winners. The tournament was, therefore, quite popular amongst the Indian brands who were advertising heavily during the matches. It was predicted that broadcaster Star India will manage to clock in revenues of around Rs 18,000 crore  in the World Cup.

However, India’s loss in the semi-final stage has shattered these hopes and has left the advertisers and the broadcaster in a lurch. It is expected that Star will record a significantly lesser amount in ad revenues in the final stage than expected. However, the greater impact will be on the advertisers who had purchased the ad slots in advance at exorbitant rates of Rs 25 lakh.

New Delhi: India Today Group has become the no. 1 General News group in the digital domain, well ahead of all its rivals.

With over 600 Million internet users, and a closing gap between traditional media and online journalism, India is set to witness a boom in the digital domain. If any news platform wishes to stay relevant, they need to maintain a keen eye on the ever changing audience and their preferences.

Here’s how India Today Group has stayed on top of this change, among all verticals of the digital segment:

Desktop

India Today Group has attained the top spot in the Desktop segment. With 10.2 Million Unique Visitors on Desktop, it has become the go-to news source across the country, providing the most relevant and topical news with well-researched opinions and polls. (Comscore MMX – General News, Unique Visitors, May 2019, India)

New Delhi: Aaj Tak and India Today TV, the Hindi and English news channels of India Today Group were the Budget Day’s most preferred news destinations, perched pretty well atop the news viewership table.

The 2019 budget presented by the Indian Government on 5th July had millions tuned in. Throughout the reporting of the budget, India Today TV and Aaj Tak helped all sections of the populace decipher the various complexities of the budget, and delivered key insights regarding the state of the country’s economy.