MUMBAI: Along with focusing on reaching out to global audiences, digital content network One Digital Entertainment is also focusing on the niche regional ones. Meanwhile, localisation of content is a key focus area this year.

“Besides the content for Hindi and English speaking audiences, we have a lot of creators producing content in regional languages like Punjabi, Marathi, Bengali, Haryanvi, Bhojpuri, and Gujarati etc.  And we are strongly looking at expanding it. The localisation of content is a key focus area this year,” One Digital Entertainment (ODE) COO and co-founder Gurpreet Singh commented in an interview with indiantelevision.com.

MUMBAI: Recently, The Broadcast Audience Research Council India (BARC) announced that it is reverting to its earlier process of treatment of landing pages and filtering out outliers from the data as it released its week 23 ratings. This came just a week after the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) verdict allowing broadcasters and distributors of television channels to place registered satellite television channels (whose TV rating was measured by BARC India) on the landing page or boot up screen.

BENGALURU: The Sun TV Network’s flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV was ranked one in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India’s (BARC) weekly list of top 10 channels across genres in week 23 of 2019 (Saturday, 1 June 2019 to Friday, 7 June 2019, week under review). Enterr 10 TV’s Hindi GEC Dangal, the normal occupier of first place in non-IPL week’s after the implementation of TRAI’s new tariff order climbed down to second place during the week under review.

And now that ICC’s World Cup 2019 cricketing tourney is on, Star India’s Hindi Sports channel – Star Sports 1 Hindi re-entered BARC’s weekly across genres list at third rank in week 23 of 2019. Consequently, a number of channels dropped a rank in week 23 of 2019 as compared to their ranks in the previous week. Sony Pictures Network India (SPN) Hindi movies channel Sony Max also re-entered BARC’s across genres list on the back of SS Rajamouli’s Bahubali The Conclusion and old faithful Sooryavansham among other movies at tenth rank.

Puchong: India’s first digital millennial influencer and entrepreneur Malini Agarwal – founder of MissMalini Entertainment, eloquently addressed a distinguished audience at the Malaysia Social Media Week 2019. The gathering comprised digital professionals and business leaders.  This event was held at the Malaysia International Trade and Exhibition Centre (MITEC) at Puchong. The keynote of her presentation was about her social media legacy and how positivity is the new currency of the internet.. It was titled – ‘Social Media is broken and only we can fix it’.

Malini touched upon about her journey from being a blogger who covered Bollywood gossip to a digital influencer, author and entrepreneur. She also shared her experiences with social media platforms that enabled her to understand the impact it had on her audience.

ational: Soumik Datta along with his brother Souvid in the show, Tuning 2 You: India’s Lost Musicians,  to take viewers on a  journey to some of India’s remotest regions filming, recording and playing with amazing musicians. Their films bear witness to India’s incredible cultures and to music’s transcendent power.

They bring us close-up to musicians of extraordinary skill and sensitivity, musicians well known in their local communities but likely to be eclipsed by speeding urbanisation and modernity. Shot in Kolkata, Varanasi, Rajasthan, Nagaland, Goa and Karnataka, it is an adventurous travel and music show taking you through the unbeaten paths of India.

Tuning 2 You will be aired on Sony BBC Earth, Friday June 21, 11AM to 2PM

New Delhi: India News, one of the leading Hindi news channel by iTV Network today launches crime thriller show ‘India Alert’, the show will be aired from Monday to Saturday from 10:30 pm to 11: 00 pm.

Inspired from the real life crime incidents, the show will capture each and every detail of severe criminal cases happening in India.

India Alert will be anchored by Ms Misha Bajwa Chaudhary, the main objective of the show is to create awareness amongst the citizens to fought crime against women & children, cybercrime and others criminal offenses. The show will help citizens to be alert and safe to avoid any mishap.

Watch “INDIA ALERT” on India News from Monday, 17th June onwards from 10:30 pm to 11:00 pm

MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms’ content spend on creating original content for its subscription VoD platform ALTBalaji will be in the Rs 100 to 125 crore range. The company’s overall investment in the ALTBalaji business will be in the range of Rs 150 to 170 crore for the next couple of years.

“We are still aiming to be in that Rs.150 to Rs.170 Crores range, which we have always guided. The overall investment of which Rs100-125 crores will be the content,” the company’s management said during the Q4 earnings conference call.

ALTBalaji’s revenue split between direct and in-direct subscribers was Rs 15 crore and Rs 25 crore respectively. The company’s strategy is to increase direct subscriber in the coming years. The company is expecting ALTBalaji’s revenue to double in FY20.

“I think right now as we are 40% we see this value growth to more than 50% in times to come, right maybe 50%, 60% our purpose is to eventually expand our direct subscriber base, what the telco partnership does give us is ease of distributions, it distributes to many places,” the management stated.

MUMBAI: Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio Media has suggested that the minimum net worth criteria for a multi system operator (MSO) should be Rs 18 crore.

In its counter comment to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) consultation paper on ‘Entry Level Net worth requirement of Multi-system Operators in Cable TV services’, the Reliance Jio-owned MSO stated that the company has considered basic CAPEX requirements for establishing an MSO infrastructure have been considered to arrive at this amount.

The net worth amount is based on channel capacity of 300 and 50,000 subscribers which is the minimum number of subscribers for a viable MSO business.

BENGALURU: News18 India catapulted to first rank in week 23 of 2019 (Saturday, 1 June 2019 to Friday, 7 June 2019, week under review) from third rank in week 22 in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly list of top 5 Hindi news channels in the urban Hindi speaking market – HSM (U).  In the combined urban and rural Hindi speaking market – HSM (U+R), News18 India also jumped up two ranks in the week under review to second place from fourth in the previous week. Aaj Tak retained its first rank in HSM (U+R) and the rural Hindi speaking market – HSM (R) during week 23.

Kuala Lumpur : MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. (“MEASAT”) announced today an agreement with Celebrities Management Private Limited (“CMPL”) to distribute the Travelxp 4K HDR channel across the Asia Pacific.

The international travel channel will join MEASAT’s leading UHD video neighbourhood at 91.5°E, where it will be distributed to television platforms and operators in more than 100 countries across Asia.

Based in India, Travelxp 4K is India’s first 4K / UHD channel and the world’s first 4K/UHD HDR travel channel. It offers hundreds of hours of world-class travel programs from all over the world. Filmed in breath-taking imagery, Travelxp 4K brings the experience and excitement of travel closer to the viewer than ever before. It is produced by CMPL.