Mumbai: Dish TV has rejected minority shareholders request for holding an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM), according to media reports. This is the second time Dish TV has rejected such a request.
In June, Dish TV rejected requests from a specific group of 77 shareholders to hold an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to oust two independent shareholders over concerns about their independence.
Mumbai: Prasar Bharati has invited applications for the allotment of MPEG-4 slots on DD Free Dish on a pro- Rata basis for the period from 18 July 2023 to 31 March 2024. The auction will be tentatively held on 11 July.
The pubcaster has said the e-auction will be conducted in accordance with the e-auction methodology for allotment of DD Free Dish slots to private TV channels.
Bidding in the e-auction of MPEG-4 slots will be open to all genre channels at a starting reserve price of Rs 1.24 crore.
Mumbai: Colors Rishtey has bagged a slot on the DD Free Dish for Rs 19.26 crore. Prasar Bharati invited applications for allotment of vacant MPRG-2 slots of DD Free Dish for the period July 11, 2023, to March 31, 2024, through the 70th e-auction.
The reserve price for the bucket A+ which comprises GEC (Hindi) channels is priced at Rs 17.41 crore.
The channel bagged the slot when the pubcaster invited applications for allotment of DD Free Dish MPEG-2 slots on a pro-rata basis for the period on 1 December 2022 to 31 March 2023 through the 63rd online e-auction that was held on 18 November 2022.
Mumbai: Prasar Bharati has invited applications for allotment of vacant MPRG-2 slots of DD Free Dish for the period 11 July 2023, to 31 March 2024, through the 70th e-auction, to be tentatively held on 4 July 2023.
The e-auction will be conducted in accordance with the online methodology for the allotment of DD Free Dish slots to private TV channels.
The pubcaster has categorised TV channels in different buckets in accordance with the genre/ language of the channel.
The reserve price for the bucket A+ which comprises GEC (Hindi) channels is priced at Rs 17.41 crore. Bucket A, which comprises – movie( Hindi) channels, teleshopping channels (all languages), has a reserve price of Rs 15.27 crore.
Bucket B, which includes Music (Hindi) channels, sports (Hindi) channels and all channels of Bhojpuri language, has a reserve price of Rs 14.66 crore.
Bucket C reserve price is Rs 14.37 crore which includes news and current affairs (Hindi) channels. Bucket D reserve price is Rs 11.58 crore which includes all other remaining genres of Hindi, devotional/ spiritual/ Ayush, all genres of Marathi, Punjabi, and Urdu channels, and news & current affairs (English) channels.
Bucket R1, which includes all channels in the language genre, not covered in any other bucket is priced at Rs 2.20 crore.
Mumbai: DISH Media has launched DISH Connected, a first-of-its-kind solution that allows DISH TV’s live linear inventory to be programmatically executed. This delivers real-time, targeted advertisements to internet-connected DISH set-top boxes, providing advertisers access to DISH inventory in the same manner as a SLING TV campaign.
Advertisers are now able to programmatically transact on premium DISH set-top box inventory through private auctions set up with demand-side platforms (DSP) like The Trade Desk and Yahoo DSP, as well as the sell-side platform (SSP) Magnite. As viewers watch content on their DISH internet-connected set-top boxes, advertisers can bid on and deliver advertisements to them in real-time. This allows advertisers to extend their reach to an expanded footprint and to make a single buy programmatically across both SLING and DISH inventory.
CTV ad spend continues to surge and with this new effort DISH Media combines CTV and linear advertising accessibility, delivering new inventory, expanded reach, and added scale to advertisers like Horizon Media, Havas Media, Stagwell and Camelot Strategic Marketing & Media.
Mumbai: Shorts TV, a short entertainment destination, is available on Tata Play Binge. For the discerning audiences, this latest addition will bring the best of short format content – films, series & documentaries from across the world under the Tata Play Binge unified platform.
ShortsTV has more than 300 titles featuring renowned and critically acclaimed artists across the globe. It hosts over 1000 hours of content across genres including star-studded, award-winning short films, with subtitles in English. The platform, in collaboration with top short film production houses, will bring short-format movies with star cast such as Devi, Harvie Krumpet, Out of Darkness, Spam, Gadhedo, Caroline, and many more.
Commenting on the addition of the new partner app, Tata Play’s Chief Commercial and Content Officer, Pallavi Puri, said, “We want to provide diverse content choices to our viewers and create experiences that are varied. ShortsTV’s popularity has grown in India over the years, and we are happy to be bringing them onboard Tata Play Binge. With a total of 23 popular apps under one roof, we have created a platform that makes content accessibility and discovery easy and convenient for all.
Adding to this, Carter Pilcher, CEO of ShortsTV “ShortsTV is thrilled to be strengthening our partnership with Tata Play, bringing our addictive Short movie experience to Binge. Short format content consumption is exploding and ShortsTV is a one-stop destination for crazy animations, amazing stories, big stars, and deep dive documentary shorts that bring our Binge audience the biggest variety of films from around the globe.”
ShortsTV will join the band of 22 other popular OTT platforms on Binge like Disney+ Hotstar, ZEE5, MX Player, SonyLIV, ReelDrama, Voot Select, hoichoi, Planet Marathi, NammaFlix, Chaupal, SunNxt, Hungama Play, Eros Now, ShemarooMe, Voot Kids, manoramaMAX, Koode, Tarang Plus, Curiosity Stream, EPIC ON and DocuBay. Content from all these platforms is available to viewers of Tata Play Binge through a single subscription and single user interface. Free gaming is also available on Tata Play Binge as another point of engagement. Netflix and Amazon Prime Video plans are available for Tata Play DTH subscribers. Viewers can enjoy all the 23 apps on large-screen connected devices through Tata Play Binge+ Android Set Top Box, Tata Play edition of the Amazon FireTV Stick and www.TataplayBinge.com.
Mumbai : During the recently concluded 5th Annual e-auction of MPEG-4 slots, Prasar Bharati sold 11 slots. The DD Free Dish slots have been sold for a year, from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024.
Aastha Bhajan, Aastha Tamil, Bansal News, Chardikla Time TV, MH ONE DIL SE, News 18 UP/UK, News State UP/UK, RT, Sudarshan News, Swadesh News, and Vedic are the 11 channels that have won the slots.
The auction took place on 16 February 2023. All genre channels were invited to bid, with a reserve price of Rs 50 lakh per year.
During the 4th annual/57th e-auction last year, Prasar Bharati earned Rs 15.24 crore from the sale of 12 MPEG-4 slots on DD Free Dish.
Mumbai: Prasar Bharti’s free direct-to-home (DTH) platform announced the return of two general entertainment channels, Sony Pal and Colors Rishtey, effective from 1 December. The free-to-air platform has unveiled the comeback news of big media giants via a tweet shared on 21 November.
Sony Pal and Colors Rishtey will be available on DD Free Dish platform from 1.12.2022 @prasarbharati
— DD FreeDish (@freedish_dd) November 21, 2022
Colors Rishtey and Sony Pal won the 63rd e-auction process, which was conducted on 18 November 2022.
Recently, the public broadcaster has invited applications for allotment of vacant MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 slots of DD Free Dish platform on a pro-rata basis for the period from 1 December 2022 to 31 March 2023.
In April 2022, four big broadcasters—Zee Entertainment Enterprises, Viacom18 Network, Sony Pictures Networks, and Disney Star India—withdrew their flagship channels from bouquets. The decision came in January 2020, when the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) announced NTO 2.0, which capped a bouquet channel price at Rs 12 instead of Rs 19 (as per the first NTO).
In order to increase their advertising revenue and gross rating points (GRPs), the broadcasters decided to rejoin the DD Free Dish platform, as it has a lesser number (176+) of TV channels to compete with than private DTH (500+) services.
Earlier, when the big players decided to quit the platform, they were completely aware that they had taken on the risk of losing subscribers and ad revenue through that move. Broadcasters knew that if they did not bring back their channels on the platform, then they may have to shut down these channels, as at present, free users are shifting to DD Free Dish for free entertainment and paid DTHs are moving towards OTT streaming apps.
Mumbai: The new findings from Chrome Data Analytics and Media’s July Subscriber Establishment Survey (SES) reported a significant drop in cable and satellite (C&S) homes, where the subscriber base has dropped from 201.2 million to 165.1 million households since 2019.
This is based on a pan India ground survey that was done between January and July 2022; the sample included one out of every 175 households and included over 219 million TV households across the nation.
Chrome DM surveys regularly, and it plays an important role in shaping our understanding of the changing TV landscape.
Speaking on these findings, Chrome DM CEO and founder Pankaj Krishna said, “The reason for the decline is that the medium is changing. In television, in terms of content, it will keep booming, but the modes of consumption are changing so it is affecting Cable and Satellite (C&S) homes.”
He further added, “This is the great race to entertainment, and OTT looks to be the reigning champion. I believe this trend will continue till ‘streaming’ is cemented as the new alternative in this turn of transition.”
Pankaj believes with 5G coming in, we will witness a lot of disruption as well on how people consume content. “So the reason for the decline in cable and satellite homes is that the homes are wired through a cable and satellite connection but the overall consumption is increasing through the broadband internet (Connected TV) consumption. TV shows are increasing as well,” he added.
Pay DTH and digital cable
According to the Chrome Data Analytics and Media July report, pay DTH has a market share of nearly 38 per cent and digital cable is close to over 37 per cent.
Digital cable experienced a significant decline of 18.5 per cent, whilst Pay DTH experienced a more restrained decline of 5.1 percent in the same findings. Pay DTH continues to have a significant presence in southern markets, where Andhra Pradesh reigned supreme with considerable share growth of 11.9 per cent.
In terms of its total subscriber base, Tamizhaga Cable TV Communication (TCCL) was the leading gainer by a sizable margin of 33.2 per cent.
Covid Impact
The report stated that it would be an understatement to say that Covid-19 disturbed the market economy. The pandemic ushered in a new period of hesitation and unpredictability when any fleeting sense of assurance was purchased on the cheap.
The markets fell, and the major players warned that the economy was on the verge of a devastating downturn.
According to the report, the commercial sector was completely destroyed by the Covid-19 outbreak, and the cable and satellite industries were just one of the numerous victims.
Before the first economic downturn, the profits appeared to be guaranteed, but after Covid, it served as a foreshadowing of what was to come. The numbers foretold the end of this once-dominant sector.
The pandemic caused changes in social and cultural dynamics, which quickly followed as the economy began to slow down in the backdrop. The lockdowns forced a lot of migratory workers to return to their small rural villages, which caused a huge flood of subscribers to leave urban marketplaces, the report mentioned.
The report found that to combat rising inflation and the economic slump, many people unsubscribed to curtail domestic expenditure, which includes keeping a TV set and paying for cable subscriptions.
Freedish
Freedish was the only one to experience a positive increase of 5.4 per cent while continuing to ascend north in rural areas.
The other transmissions were impacted by the pandemic’s dwindling market share, but Freedish managed to hold onto its lead while the others did not.
Again, this was largely the result of it being provided for free and having a substantial market share in rural India, which was untouched by the migrant issue. Odisha continued to be a top gainer, with its rural market growing by only about 16.8 per cent throughout this time.
OTT impact
Similar to this, urban residents were losing interest in cable TV and rapidly shifting their viewing preferences online. Many people have joined the growing number of cord-cutters and are now satisfying their watching needs online. Thus, the cord-cutting epidemic has ushered in a streaming-era digital revolution.
The report stated that cable and satellite subscriptions have consistently decreased as viewers’ interest in traditional linear TV has declined, but a further rise in streaming usage is increasing.
According to the survey, many cord-cutters still find this to be an appealing alternative because they don’t want to pay extra for the cable or digital subscriptions that are usually included with standard TV equipment.
MUMBAI: Dish TV, the DTH service provider has announced that director Jawahar Lal Goel has resigned from the board of the company. “Jawahar Lal Goel, Director…. has tendered his resignation from the company’s board of directors and committee/s thereof with effect from the close of business hours of September 19, 2022,” Dish TV informed in a regulatory filing.
He is no longer the chairman of the company. Goel will vacate his position at the upcoming company’s AGM on 26 September, 2022.
After the announcement, the share price rose by 10 per cent and hit the upper circuit.
In June, over 75 per cent of shareholders voted against the reappointment of Goel as board’s managing director at the company’s extraordinary general meeting. After it happened, Goel had agreed to resign as Dish TV chairman ahead of the AGM.
Yes Bank holds around 25 per cent stake in the company. It had been pushing for a board reconstitution and wanted the promoter family led by Goel to be removed. Yes Bank had cited corporate governance issues and Goel stepped down after engaging in a legal battle for a long time with Yes Bank.
Earlier this month, Dish TV had agreed to appoint three of the seven independent directors, which were proposed by Yes Bank.
The Goels own a six per cent stake in the company. They lost control over the company after banks seized the promoter’s pledged shares.