Category: Terrestrial

DD prime time slot winners to telecast from Feb ’17

NEW DELHI: Successful bidders in the third attempt by Doordarshan to attract producers to bid for prime time slots will have to commence telecast of their programmes in February 2017.

The last date for bids for the new content acquisition scheme by Doordarshan for its prime time is 25 November 2016, and the bids will be opened the same day. The final list of qualified bidders was announced on 9 December 2016.

Financial bids will be opened on 12 December, and the letter of award will be issued on 20 December 2016. Procedural formalities and agreement and PBG Submission will be completed on 7 February 2017.

Bidders will have to submit non-refundable tender document fee of Rs 5000 and processing fee of Rs 25000.

Earnest money deposit will be Rs 300,000 for each weekday slot. Bidders may apply for one or more slots (if applying for say three slots, the EMD will be Rs 900,000). For the weekend slots, the EMD will be Rs 6,00,000. Bidders may apply for one or more slots. However, the maximum EMD in either case will be Rs 1.5 million irrespective of any number of slots applied for.

The bidders will be responsible for the costs associated with the preparation of their bids and their participation in the bidding process.

While slotting programmes of successful bidders, DD will give due regard to ensuring a balanced content composition on the channel in respect of variety in formats, genres, themes etc.

There will be no increase in the telecast fee for a period of 12 months from the start of contract. However telecast fee will be increased by 5% of the then existing telecast fee after 12 months and in the event of any further extension after 24 months the telecast fee will be increased by 10% of the then existing telecast fee.

The production house should be an Indian entity (individual proprietorship, partnership, company, society, trust etc.) Incorporated/registered/recognised, as the case may be, under the respective applicable laws and in existence for the last 3 financial years.

The production house must have produced, for any broadcaster(s), at least 200 hours of general entertainment programming (including Feature Films) in any Indian language that has been telecast in the last three calendar years. Applicants for weekend slots in the genres of reality, game, quiz should have produced 100 hours of such content that has been telecast in the last three calendar years.

It should have in regard to TV and Film production a turnover of at least Rs. 30 million per annum in each of the last three financial years. d. The Production House should not be a defaulter in payment of dues to DD at the time of submission of the bid.

Consortium will not be allowed in any form.

A blacklisting order passed by the Central or State Governments/any PSU should not be in operation against a bidder at the time of the submission of the qualification bid.

Details of the sequence of slots On Prime Time of DD National Channel available For Bidding:

Slot Timings Sequence of slots available for Days of the week
1. 7.30 pm to 8.00 pm Monday to Friday
2. 8.00 pm to 8.30 pm Monday to Friday
3. 8.30 pm to 9.00 pm Monday to Friday
4. 9.00 pm to 9.30 pm Monday to Thursday
5. 9.30 pm to 10.00 pm Monday to Thursday
6. 10.00 pm to 10.30 pm Monday to Thursday
7. 10.30 pm to 11.00 pm Monday to Thursday
8. 7.00 pm to 8.00 pm Sunday
9. 8.00 pm to 9.00 pm Saturday & Sunday

Bids can be offered for any number of slots, but once a bidder is declared the winner of three slots from Slot 1 to 7, their bids for any other weekday slots further will not be considered. Similarly if a bidder is declared the winner of two slots (from Slot No 8 to 9), their bids for other weekend slots will not be considered.

Successful bidder(s) will produce fresh programmes under category of general entertainment programmes, adhering to the programming code and all applicable laws.

The duration of each slot is 30 minutes including free commercial time (FCT) of six minutes as per following details::

Up to 24 Minutes: Programme (produced by the successful bidder)
240 Seconds: FCT (to be marketed by successful Bidder)
120 Seconds: FCT to be retained by DD for promotion of programme or channels, for advertisements of government departments and PSUs and for public service messages.

Banking of FCT:
a) Banking will be given to producers @ 60 seconds per slot in the first six months of the contract.
b) Redemption of banking will be allowed @ 30 seconds per half hour in the same slot within a period of 12 months beyond the first 6 months.
c) Banked FCT will lapse after the expiry of 18 months counting from the first telecast.

Successful Bidders may also purchase additional spots or commercial time from DD, depending on availability, on prevailing terms and conditions. Successful Bidders would be free to procure advertisements from all sources within their entitlement of FCT with the exception of Central and State Government clients. Thus bidders will not be allowed to solicit Central and State government advertisements in their allotted commercial time or in the extra time purchased by them. Both Successful Bidders and DD shall have the right to solicit business from PSU clients.

The marketing and promotion of the programme on all platforms will be done by the bidders at their own cost.

Successful Bidders will be offered cross channel promos of defined number and duration free of cost on DD Channels as decided by the Director General.

Successful Bidders will have to ensure the delivery of telecast material without commercials at least one week in advance for preview and technical clearance by Doordarshan. Doordarshan shall intimate the observations /clearance within 2 (two) working days of the submission of the telecast material in advance for preview and technical clearance. The delivery of final telecast copy in Blu Ray disk with commercials along with one copy without commercials must be made at least three days prior to the date of telecast of programme. The telecast copy must be provided with dope sheet containing all details and duration of programmes and commercials.

Successful bidders will be required to adhere to the look and feel of the channel and DD will provide necessary inputs for graphic designs and colour schemes and packaging wherever necessary. The successful bidders will be required to obtain all necessary packaging inputs before submitting its programme to avoid delay and inconvenience. DD may also ask the production House to carry graphics of upcoming programmes and super text including ‘coming up’, time check, etc.

Successful bidders will submit storyline/storyboard and all such information pertaining to the programme to be aired. Submission of pilot episodes may be sought if so required.

All programmes will be previewed by DD before telecast.

Telecast and repeat of programmes on DD Successful bidder will offer fresh programmes for telecast on assigned slot of DD National network. The programmes already telecast on any Doordarshan channel or any private channel will not be accepted.

DD shall have the right to make a repeat telecast of the programme within 24 hours of the original telecast in a non-prime time slot to be assigned by Doordarshan. The successful bidder shall be entitled to 150 seconds of FCT out of the total Commercial Time available with the repeat telecast, that it shall be entitled to market. The remaining commercial time shall be marketed by DD.

In case of emergency/extraordinary happenings including National mourning etc. if the repeat telecast is not made, the successful bidder will not be entitled to make any claim/seek compensation.

As value addition, successful bidders will be additionally allowed two slots on Regional Satellite Channel(s) for telecast of dubbed version of the programmes in respective Regional languages. Such dubbing will be done at the successful bidder’s own cost. The commercial time admissible to the successful bidder along with such slots will be the same as allowed for the first telecast on DD National.

The slots offered on DD National Network under Terrestrial Service would primarily cover the Hindi belt Markets. DD reserves the right to delink terrestrial transmitters of non-Hindi regions from DD National Network at its sole discretion.

Only the DD logo will be carried during the telecast of the programme.

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November 23, 2016
FYI TV18 enters lifestyle genre; Sony Pix rules English movies space

MUMBAI: FYI TV18 has made an entry in the Top 5 lifestyles channel list due to the exit of Travel XP HD. In the English Entertainment genre, all the channels except Comedy Central witnessed an increase in ratings. According to the week 45 ratings data of Broadcast Audience Research Data (BARC) India, Sony Pix toppled Star Movies thus dominating the English movies space.

The channels in both, factual entertainment and lifestyle genre observed mixed ratings. The genres continued to be dominated by Discovery and Living Foodz, respectively.

English Entertainment
Comedy Central with a decrease in the ratings continued at stood the number one position with 378 Impressions (‘000s) as compared to 398 Impressions (‘000s) in week 44. Star World sustained the second spot with 314 Impressions (‘000s) followed by Zee Cafe with 159 Impressions (‘000s) in the third place. The fourth position was secured by AXN with 146 Impressions (‘000s) while FX held the fifth position with 93 Impressions (‘000s).

English Movies

Sony Pix dominated the space with 2979 Impressions (‘000s) followed by Star Movies at the number two position with 2943 Impressions (‘000s). Movies Now stood at the third position with 2770 Impressions (‘000s). HBO with 1516 Impressions (‘000s) and Zee Studio with 1229 Impressions (‘000s) took the number four and five position respectively.

Infotainment

Discovery channel continued to dominate the space with a hike in ratings from 4769 Impressions (‘000s) in week 44 as to 5027 Impressions (‘000s) this week. History TV 18 sustained at the second spot with 4917 Impressions (‘000s). Animal Planet with 2855 Impressions (‘000s) and National Geographic channel with 2567 Impressions (‘000s) took the third and fourth position respectively. Nat Geo Wild stood at the fifth position with 2533 Impressions (‘000s).

Lifestyle

Living Foodz with increased ratings continued at the number one position with 1656 Impressions (‘000s) as compared to 1333 Impressions (‘000s) last week. Fox Life took the second berth with 740 Impressions (‘000s) followed by Food Food with 682 Impressions (‘000s). TLC with 579 Impressions (‘000s) stood at the fourth position. FYI TV18 entered the list at the fifth position with 342 Impressions (‘000s).

November 17, 2016
FYI TV18 enters lifestyle genre; Sony Pix rules English movies space

MUMBAI: FYI TV18 has made an entry in the Top 5 lifestyles channel list due to the exit of Travel XP HD. In the English Entertainment genre, all the channels except Comedy Central witnessed an increase in ratings. According to the week 45 ratings data of Broadcast Audience Research Data (BARC) India, Sony Pix toppled Star Movies thus dominating the English movies space.

The channels in both, factual entertainment and lifestyle genre observed mixed ratings. The genres continued to be dominated by Discovery and Living Foodz, respectively.

English Entertainment
Comedy Central with a decrease in the ratings continued at stood the number one position with 378 Impressions (‘000s) as compared to 398 Impressions (‘000s) in week 44. Star World sustained the second spot with 314 Impressions (‘000s) followed by Zee Cafe with 159 Impressions (‘000s) in the third place. The fourth position was secured by AXN with 146 Impressions (‘000s) while FX held the fifth position with 93 Impressions (‘000s).

English Movies

Sony Pix dominated the space with 2979 Impressions (‘000s) followed by Star Movies at the number two position with 2943 Impressions (‘000s). Movies Now stood at the third position with 2770 Impressions (‘000s). HBO with 1516 Impressions (‘000s) and Zee Studio with 1229 Impressions (‘000s) took the number four and five position respectively.

Infotainment

Discovery channel continued to dominate the space with a hike in ratings from 4769 Impressions (‘000s) in week 44 as to 5027 Impressions (‘000s) this week. History TV 18 sustained at the second spot with 4917 Impressions (‘000s). Animal Planet with 2855 Impressions (‘000s) and National Geographic channel with 2567 Impressions (‘000s) took the third and fourth position respectively. Nat Geo Wild stood at the fifth position with 2533 Impressions (‘000s).

Lifestyle

Living Foodz with increased ratings continued at the number one position with 1656 Impressions (‘000s) as compared to 1333 Impressions (‘000s) last week. Fox Life took the second berth with 740 Impressions (‘000s) followed by Food Food with 682 Impressions (‘000s). TLC with 579 Impressions (‘000s) stood at the fourth position. FYI TV18 entered the list at the fifth position with 342 Impressions (‘000s).

November 17, 2016
DD 24×7 north-east channel starts on 25 December; Rs 7 crore allocated

MUMBAI: Pubcaster Prasar Bharati is geared up to launch a 24×7 satellite television channel in northeast India on 25 December catering to the region’s cultural ethos. Prasar Bharati runs Doordarshan and All India Radio.

The information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry has allocated Rs 7 crore to the broadcaster for launching DD Arun Prabha.

Indiantelevision had reported that Prasar Bharati had in April last year proposed that the existing North-East channel be trifurcated by launching two additional 24X7 satellite channels for North Eastern Region designated as Arun Prabha Itanagar and ‘Ma-Mi-Na’ Aizawl. DD North-East telecasts entertainment and information-based programmes in Assamese, Bengali, English and other languages of the north-east region.

The channels are expected to provide a strong platform to rich cultural and linguistic identity of the region.

Arun Prabha channel was proposed to cater to the states of Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim, the second channel will cater to the states of Nagaland, Mizoram and Manipur and the third to Assam and Meghalaya.

Now, DD Arun Prabha will showcase programmes on the diverse culture of the northeastern states. The ministry has already sanctioned money for this channel, said Prasar Bharati chairperson A. Surya Prakash said.

The proposal to launch DD Arun Prabha was announced in Narendra Modi government’s first budget. This step comes as a part of Doordarshan’s initiative to strengthen its plans in the northeast.

November 5, 2016
DD 24×7 north-east channel starts on 25 December; Rs 7 crore allocated

MUMBAI: Pubcaster Prasar Bharati is geared up to launch a 24×7 satellite television channel in northeast India on 25 December catering to the region’s cultural ethos. Prasar Bharati runs Doordarshan and All India Radio.

The information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry has allocated Rs 7 crore to the broadcaster for launching DD Arun Prabha.

Indiantelevision had reported that Prasar Bharati had in April last year proposed that the existing North-East channel be trifurcated by launching two additional 24X7 satellite channels for North Eastern Region designated as Arun Prabha Itanagar and ‘Ma-Mi-Na’ Aizawl. DD North-East telecasts entertainment and information-based programmes in Assamese, Bengali, English and other languages of the north-east region.

The channels are expected to provide a strong platform to rich cultural and linguistic identity of the region.

Arun Prabha channel was proposed to cater to the states of Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim, the second channel will cater to the states of Nagaland, Mizoram and Manipur and the third to Assam and Meghalaya.

Now, DD Arun Prabha will showcase programmes on the diverse culture of the northeastern states. The ministry has already sanctioned money for this channel, said Prasar Bharati chairperson A. Surya Prakash said.

The proposal to launch DD Arun Prabha was announced in Narendra Modi government’s first budget. This step comes as a part of Doordarshan’s initiative to strengthen its plans in the northeast.

November 5, 2016
Digital India: IITians to coach students via free DTH

MUMBAI: It is not just for entertainment. It’s for education too. Professors from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) will be giving coaching classes to engineering aspirants through four DTH channels from January 1, taking the concept of Digital India to another level and reducing the dependency on coaching institutes.

These channels will be available free of cost through Doordarshan’s FreeDish DTH platform, and the aspirants will only have to secure a Set-Top Box to watch these channels, PTI has reported.

IIT-PAL (Professor Assisted Learning) initiative will reduce dependence on coaching centres and also reach out to the students who are living in rural areas and cannot afford to pay the fee for expensive crash courses.

IIT Delhi Director V Ramgopal Rao said that a team of 40 professors from various IITs had compiled 200-hour lectures for each subject covering the entire syllabus of Joint Entrance Examination (JEE). There were several coaching institutes claiming to be providing easy tricks to crack the exam and not every aspirant could afford to join them, he added.

He added that the faculty members would be joined by teachers from various Kendriya Vidyalyas in imparting these lessons to the aspirants and the focus will be more on concepts.

November 5, 2016
Digital India: IITians to coach students via free DTH

MUMBAI: It is not just for entertainment. It’s for education too. Professors from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) will be giving coaching classes to engineering aspirants through four DTH channels from January 1, taking the concept of Digital India to another level and reducing the dependency on coaching institutes.

These channels will be available free of cost through Doordarshan’s FreeDish DTH platform, and the aspirants will only have to secure a Set-Top Box to watch these channels, PTI has reported.

IIT-PAL (Professor Assisted Learning) initiative will reduce dependence on coaching centres and also reach out to the students who are living in rural areas and cannot afford to pay the fee for expensive crash courses.

IIT Delhi Director V Ramgopal Rao said that a team of 40 professors from various IITs had compiled 200-hour lectures for each subject covering the entire syllabus of Joint Entrance Examination (JEE). There were several coaching institutes claiming to be providing easy tricks to crack the exam and not every aspirant could afford to join them, he added.

He added that the faculty members would be joined by teachers from various Kendriya Vidyalyas in imparting these lessons to the aspirants and the focus will be more on concepts.

November 5, 2016
DD relaxes norms for prime time slot bidders as incentive

NEW DELHI: In a third attempt to attract producers to bid for prime time slots, Doordarshan has announced a series of concessions once the programmers come on board, including lowering base price for a 30-minute slot to Rs. 150,000.

DD sources told indiantelevision.com that the only eligibility criterion that has been relaxed is that the basic price for auction has come down to Rs 150,000 (Rs 1.5 lakh) for a 30-minute slot. It was Rs 250,000 when the auction was announced in June this year, and was then decreased to Rs 200,000 when the new date was set for the second auction in early September 2016.

The details of the criteria for bidders likely to be made public sometime later today and the prospective bidders can apply by 22 November 2016. Most of the other eligibility norms remain the same as earlier in the New Content Acquisition Scheme that has been approved by Prasar Bharati Board.

Producers/production houses that have produced at least 200 hours of general entertainment programming, including feature film productions in any Indian language in the last three years, and have a turnover of minimum Rs. 30 million per annum in the field of TV and film production in the last three financial years are eligible to apply.

Applicants for weekend slots in the genres of reality, game and quiz are required to have produced 100 hours of such content in the last three years. However, DD sources told indiantelevision.com that certain changes had been made for successful bidders to promote their programmes.

Successful bidders will now also be allowed to approach and obtain advertisements from public service undertaking for their programmes on Doordarshan, which was not permitted earlier. Doordarshan has also laid down a compulsory number of promotional commercials, which will be free, on various channels of Doordarshan network.

In addition, successful bidders will be allowed to ‘bank’ their free commercial time. That is, in case a successful bidder has not exhausted the number of promotional commercials (totalling 240 seconds) permitted before the telecast of a particular programme, the balance can be used as and when the programme picks up in popularity.

The exit option has also been relaxed: in case a producer decides to opt out of the scheme, he will need to give only 45 days notice instead of three months. The lock-in period for this has also been reduced from one year to six months.

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November 1, 2016
DD relaxes norms for prime time slot bidders as incentive

NEW DELHI: In a third attempt to attract producers to bid for prime time slots, Doordarshan has announced a series of concessions once the programmers come on board, including lowering base price for a 30-minute slot to Rs. 150,000.

DD sources told indiantelevision.com that the only eligibility criterion that has been relaxed is that the basic price for auction has come down to Rs 150,000 (Rs 1.5 lakh) for a 30-minute slot. It was Rs 250,000 when the auction was announced in June this year, and was then decreased to Rs 200,000 when the new date was set for the second auction in early September 2016.

The details of the criteria for bidders likely to be made public sometime later today and the prospective bidders can apply by 22 November 2016. Most of the other eligibility norms remain the same as earlier in the New Content Acquisition Scheme that has been approved by Prasar Bharati Board.

Producers/production houses that have produced at least 200 hours of general entertainment programming, including feature film productions in any Indian language in the last three years, and have a turnover of minimum Rs. 30 million per annum in the field of TV and film production in the last three financial years are eligible to apply.

Applicants for weekend slots in the genres of reality, game and quiz are required to have produced 100 hours of such content in the last three years. However, DD sources told indiantelevision.com that certain changes had been made for successful bidders to promote their programmes.

Successful bidders will now also be allowed to approach and obtain advertisements from public service undertaking for their programmes on Doordarshan, which was not permitted earlier. Doordarshan has also laid down a compulsory number of promotional commercials, which will be free, on various channels of Doordarshan network.

In addition, successful bidders will be allowed to ‘bank’ their free commercial time. That is, in case a successful bidder has not exhausted the number of promotional commercials (totalling 240 seconds) permitted before the telecast of a particular programme, the balance can be used as and when the programme picks up in popularity.

The exit option has also been relaxed: in case a producer decides to opt out of the scheme, he will need to give only 45 days notice instead of three months. The lock-in period for this has also been reduced from one year to six months.

ALSO READ:

Suresh Panda may be Prasar Bharati interim CEO; liberal DD auction criteria recommended

E-auction for DD National Prime Time slots set for next month

November 1, 2016
Share all World Cup, T-20 feeds with Prasar Bharati, rights holder told

NEW DELHI: The telecast of all official one-day and Twenty-20 matches played by the Indian Men’s Cricket Team will henceforth have to be shared by the rights holder with the public broadcaster Prasar Bharati under the Sports Broadcasting Signals (Mandatory Sharing with Prasar Bharati) Act 2007.

A Gazette notification issued on 22 October 2016 and placed on the Information and Broadcasting Ministry website today also states that this includes “such Test matches as are considered to be of high public interest by the Central Government.”

In addition, the notification says this also includes semi-finals and finals of Men’s World Cup and International Cricket Council Championship Trophy will also figure among the the sporting events of national importance with respect to cricket.

The notification has been issued by the Government under Section 2 (1) of the Act read with Rule 6(1) of the Sports Broadcast Signals (Mandatory Sharing with Prasar Bharati) Rules 2007. The notification issued by the joint secretary Anju Nigam, says this is in supersession of the notification of the Government of 23 August 2012.

A Ministry source told indiantelevision.com that the notification had been issued in view of some cases filed earlier in the different courts and to avoid further litigation with regard to sharing the feed with All India Radio and Doordarshan with regard to cricket.Motion Pictures Association, MPA, Netflix, RedBull Media House, torrent, forensic watermarking, online piracy

October 25, 2016