Dangal TV is all set to uplift the divine spirit of its viewers with the launch of a magnum opus, a mythological show called ‘Devi Adi Parashakti’ that will be aired from November 9, every Monday to Saturday, at 9pm on the channel.

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Featuring Rati Pandey in the titular role of Devi along with Tarun Khanna, Dangal TV is bringing in a new narrative of Goddess Parvati and her incarnations. Creatively pieced together through extensive research into India’s deep culture, rituals and traditions, the epic tale, laden with visually spectacular grandeur and opulent themes, has been produced by Swastik Productions.

Zee TV invites its viewers to stay connected with their favourite members of the Zee kutumb across its primetime and take part in a grand celebration, Zee Wali Diwali, where they will stand to win a sunhera shagun every day.

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Spreading cheer and bringing families together in front of the tube this Diwali, Zee TV introduces a fresh and unique Shubh Shuruwaat contest that is being run all through its primetime from November 2 and will continue till December 19.

This festive season, India TV has launched a comedy show Diwali Dhamaaka - “Fakir-e-Azam”. Set in the Pakistani Prime Minister’s office Fakir-E-Azam is a political satire that focuses on the day to day struggles of the current Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, that he faces in his office.

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The show follows Khan, as he goes about his daily routine, calling heads of various countries trying to get his agenda across, but no one seems to take him seriously, instead they make fun of him, threaten him and humiliate him, the situation reaches a point where he gets frustrated and ends up making fun of himself.

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has set aside the order of the Disciplinary Committee of the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) against India Today TV. The Bombay High Court has also asked for the Rs 5 lakh deposited with the court registrar to be returned to the India Today Group in full.

India Today Group in a recent announcement said “Over 45 years, we have painstakingly built on the principle of credible journalism. Story by story. Edition by edition. Platform by platform. We have created a deep legacy of credibility, excellence, trust, and bipartisanship. We are widely recognised as the Gold Standard of Journalism in the country. In a landscape marked by shrill polarities, we have only one political alignment: the Indian Constitution. And we follow it without fear or favour.”

As the television industry grapples with the controversy over the TRP scam, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has decided to form a committee to review the guidelines on television rating agencies in India.

Making the announcement on Tuesday, the ministry said, "Based on the operation of the guidelines for a few years, there is need to have a fresh look on the guidelines particularly keeping in view the recent recommendations of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), technological advancements /interventions to address the system and further strengthening of the procedures for a credible and transparent rating system. A committee is hereby constituted to study different aspects of the television rating system in India as they have evolved over a period of time."

Prasar Bharati has announced the result of the 49th e-auction for allotment of MPEG-4 slots. The slots have been allotted to News State UP/UK and Popular TV.
The allotment will be valid for the period fro

m 10.11.2020 to 31.03.2021.

The auction was held on November 4, 2020.

Dish TV India Limited has reported consolidated subscription revenues of Rs 765.7 crore and operating revenues of Rs 846.4 crore for its second quarter of fiscal 2021.

EBITDA for the quarter stood at Rs 525.3 crore, up 0.9% Y-o-Y.

Operating revenues for the quarter were Rs 846.4 crore, down 5.2% Y-o-Y as lack of new content on entertainment channels made consumers wary of spending. EBITDA at Rs 525.3 crore was up 0.9% Y-o-Y. EBITDA margin at 62.1%, was up 380 bps Y-o-Y. Profit after tax was Rs 64.5 crore as against a loss of Rs 96.4 crore last year.

In the last six months, news channels lived off on corporate brand ads only as marketing budgets of local brands reduced to a trickle. Hit by the pandemic, local and regional brands froze their television advertising budgets for the most part of the lockdown and early unlocks phases. This brought down the ad bills from the sector by close to 70%-80% for news channels.

As per TAM data, national categories' ad volumes on news genre grew by 29% between August 2020 and October 2020 compared to same period last year. Whereas in regional categories, ad volumes declined by 5% during the same period.  Compared to the 300 plus categories that advertised on news channels (both national and regional) between August and October this, only about 80 categories came on board for news channels across board.

KOLKATA: The outstandings of Siti Networks and Dish TV has been one of the major concerns for Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zeel). While the DTH platform Dish TV is making payments on the line of the revised plan for recovering dues, Siti Networks has failed to play old subscription overdues.

During the Q2 earnings call of ZeeL, MD & CEO Punit Goenka said that the company has collected the receivables related to revenues in the first half of FY 21 from the cable network. But it has failed to pay subscription overdue in accordance with payment plan agreed earlier due to various challenges including Covid2019, the pressure to prioritise lender’s payments, Goenka added.

NEW DELHI: TV9 CEO Barun Das says he feels like an outcast. While he’s unsure whether BARC’s decision to hit the pause button on TRP for news channels will prove to be good or bad in the long run, he thinks singling out the news business in this way is cause for concern.

“When I find that only the news television ratings has been suspended, that makes me feel that I’m standing with a bunch of people who are possibly suspicious. I don’t think there’s something wrong with the industry per se, a few unscrupulous acts may happen here and there. But if it were my decision, I wouldn’t have cast the entire industry in the light of suspicion,” he said during a virtual foresight session with indiantelevision.com founder, CEO and editor-in-chief Anil Wanvari at the News Television Awards Summit 2020.