New Delhi: Government has decided to show BTV World, a channel owned by Bangladesh TV, on the Doordarshan Free Dish which will be available for the viewers of Doordarshan in our country.

At the same time, DD India would be made available in Bangladesh for being viewed by the people in that country. An official release said this arrangement is a result of an MoU signed between Prasar Bharati and Bangladesh TV (BTV) on 7th of May.

The channel – BTV World would be of special interest to the viewers of Eastern India. The decision marks an important watershed in the strengthening of ties between the two countries and follows with an earlier decision taken by the two Governments to co-produce a film on Banga Bandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, which will be directed by eminent film Director and Producer Shyam Benegal.

Government has also approved the proposal of Prasar Bharati for making available the KBS World, an English 24×7 channel of South Korean government on the DD Free Dish for Indian viewers. Simultaneously, people of that country would be able to view DD India.

This week, infotainment genre gained second position and grew by 5.35 per cent in all India 1 lakh+ market. In this genre, History TV18 gained the highest OTS with 82.5 per cent. Kids genre stood in the third position by gaining 4.67 per cent in all India 1 lakh+ space. Discovery Kids secured the highest OTS with 85.1 per cent.

Mumbai : Carrying on with its winning momentum, Publicis Capital has bagged the creative mandate of ZEE5 India, India’s fastest growing OTT platform. The agency will manage the creative duties for the leading OTT brand across their AVOD, SVOD, Regional SVOD and Trade (B2B) verticals.

The account will be serviced out of Mumbai.

ZEE5 is a leading OTT player in India offering 12 navigational and featured languages across original features, live TV, catch up TV, lifestyle shows, children's programmes, exclusive short series and acclaimed plays. It offers an exhaustive array of content; with 80+ live TV channels and 1.25 lac+ hours of viewing across the languages of English, Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Oriya, Bhojpuri, Gujarati and Punjabi making it a complete video destination for OTT viewers.

MUMBAI: DTH player Dish TV is looking at various ways to stay strong in the market. The latest move is to reduce the price of its set top boxes. Dish TV has slashed the rate of its most premium STB. Now, Dish TV NXT STB will be available for Rs 1590, which is Rs 50 less than the previous cost.

Usually, the price would only cover the cost of the STB but now the DTH operator is also offering a free one-month subscription, lifetime warranty and coupons worth Rs 2000, according to reports. This means that subscribers won’t have to pay a penny for HD channels for one month.

BENGALURU: Viacom18 has taken over where Star India left off – the Kannada version of Kaun Banega Crorepati – Kannadada Kotyadipathi or KK will start airing on Viacom18’s flagship Kannada GEC Colors Kannada and its HD counterpart Colors Kannada HD starting Saturday 22 June.

It’s a strategic move as far as Viacom18’s Kannada entertainment cluster head Parameshwar Bhat is concerned – Colors Kannada has a strong lineup of programmes for the week. More often than not, more than half of the programmes in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) list of top 5 Kannada 

MUMBAI: OTT subscription fatigue is a myth in India for now. While subscribing to multiple OTT services, Indian subscribers rely on content as the driving force. There are three primary reasons for this - demand for more content options (42 per cent), satisfying the content needs for an entire family (42 per cent) and all content not being available on one single OTT service (42 per cent).

“Our research findings suggest that the online TV consumer in India sees the value in TV content whether they are paying with greater focus and attention, or with their money,” says Brightcove India sales director Janvi Morzaria.

ringing back Puneeth Rajkumar as the quiz master on the extremely popular KBC format named Kannadada Kotyadipathi, Colors Kannada aims to strengthen their weekend FPC.

Premiering on Saturday June 22, Kannadada Kotyadipathi will air every Saturday and Sunday at 8:00pm on Colors Kannada and anytime on the network’s OTT platform VOOT.

The channel has also partnered with JIO to bring alive the JIO Play along to increase the interactivity.

Kannadada Kotyadhipathi is produced by Studio Next, the production house of Sony Pictures Networks. It holds the license of the format, for all Indian languages and has produced more than 1,800 episodes of the show across nine language

Mumbai : Carrying on with its winning momentum, Publicis Capital has bagged the creative mandate of ZEE5 India, India’s fastest growing OTT platform. The agency will manage the creative duties for the leading OTT brand across their AVOD, SVOD, Regional SVOD and Trade (B2B) verticals.

The account will be serviced out of Mumbai.

ZEE5 is a leading OTT player in India offering 12 navigational and featured languages across original features, live TV, catch up TV, lifestyle shows, children’s programmes, exclusive short series and acclaimed plays. It offers an exhaustive array of content; with 80+ live TV channels and 1.25 lac+ hours of viewing across the languages of English, Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Oriya, Bhojpuri, Gujarati and Punjabi making it a complete video destination for OTT viewers.

MUMBAI: Media veteran Raghav Bahl will be investing $21.5 million in his digital media venture Quintillion Media Pvt Ltd, as per the regulatory filings sourced by paper.vc.

The investment will be made in three tranches with the company already receiving the first tranche of $7.2 million. The financial news platform stated that this is the largest infusion of capital by Bahl into the company.

It further stated that Quintillion Media had received two consecutive investments in March and April this year totalling $14.36 million.

“In total, Bahl appears to be deploying $36.13 million in capital, an unprecedented investment, especially when you take into consideration the cumulative investment since the founding of the company amounts to $21.5 million,” said paper.vc founder Vivek Durai.

MUMBAI: Siti Networks Ltd has appointed Suresh Kumar Arora, who was non-executive non-independent director, as a whole time director of the company with effect from 14 June 2019.

The appointments have been done on the basis of recommendations of Nomination and Remuneration Committee, confirming that Arora is not debarred from holding the office of director pursuant to any SEBI order or any other authority.

Arora has experience of about 34 years in various fields and in particular finance and accounts, export/import procedures and documentation and sales and marketing. His last assignment was with Pan India Network Ltd (PINL) at a senior position in sales and marketing department.