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  • Sony Entertainment Television continues to lead BARC urban areas in week 3

    Sony Entertainment Television continues to lead BARC urban areas in week 3

    MUMBAI: Zee Anmol continued to be on first position in the Hindi (U+R) genre in Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) data for week 3 of 2018. Sony Pal and Rishtey interchanged their fourth and fifth positions respectively in the rural market. Sony Entertainment Television maintained its first place in the urban areas.

    Hindi GEC (U+R)

    Zee Anmol continued to be in first position, followed by Zee TV that climbed a slot to second from third position as compared to the previous week. Star Bharat also climbed a slot upwards to the third position from fourth position as compared to the previous week. Star Plus that was on the sixth position, now stood at fourth position. On fifth, Star Utsav managed to retain its position.  Colors, Sony Entertainment Television, Sony Pal, Dangal TV and Rishtey stood at sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions respectively.

    Hindi Rural GEC

    Zee Anmol, Star Utsav and Dangal TV retained their first, second and third positions respectively.  Sony Pal and Rishtey interchanged their fourth and fifth positions respectively. Star Bharat, Zee TV and Colors also managed to retain their sixth, seventh and eighth positions respectively. Star Plus and Big Magic exchanged their ninth and tenth positions.

    Hindi Urban GEC

    Sony Entertainment Television and Star Plus continued to be in first and second positions respectively.  Zee TV and Colors swapped their third and fourth positions. Star Bharat, Sony Sab, Star Utsav, Sony Pal, Zee Anmol and &TV also retained their fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions respectively.

  • English GEC most benefited genre in Chrome DM week 3

    English GEC most benefited genre in Chrome DM week 3

    MUMBAI: With a growth of 2.56 per cent as compared to last week (2), the English GEC genre marked the highest opportunity to see (OTS) among all categories in week 3 of Chrome Data Analytics & Media. 

    In the English GEC genre, Colors Infinity gained the highest OTS with 60.1 per cent in six metro market.

    OTS is the actual census-based percentage connectivity of a channel spread across 81 million homes, as reported by Chrome DM, across analogue cable, digital cable and DTH. 

    The second position in the gainer’s list of OTS was grabbed by the Hindi news genre with the growth of 2.10 per cent in HSM excluding the less than 1L-market. India TV was the most benefitted channel in this category with 99.4 per cent.

    The third position in the gainers was garnered by the Hindi movies genre in HSM excluding the less than 1L-market with 0.72 per cent OTS. Rishtey Cineplex gained the highest OTS with 95.4 per cent.

    The kids' genre was at the fourth position in the list with 0.27 per cent growth and Nickelodeon catered to 91 per cent OTS in All India 1 Lakh+ market.

    The fifth position in gainers list was bagged by the Hindi GEC genre with a growth of 0.26 per cent. In this category, DD National topped the OTS chart with 94 per cent in six metros market.  

  • DD India enters English news top five in BARC week 3

    DD India enters English news top five in BARC week 3

    MUMBAI: When all the private news broadcasters are contesting for the pole position in English news genre, pubcaster DD India has made a surprise entry in the third week of BARC India rating at second position. Zee News and News18 India saw some movement in their position in both Hindi News (U+R) and urban market.

    English news

    With the entry of DD India, all players, except Republic TV that maintained its top spot, moved down a slot which resulted in NDTV 24×7's exit from the top 5 list.

    Week 3: Saturday, 12th January 2019 to Friday, 18th January 2019

    English business news

    The English business news genre saw no changes as always.

    Hindi news (U+R)

    Zee News dropped two slots to the fourth position compared to last week. News18 India and ABP News climbed a slot to second and third positions respectively.

    Hindi news rural

    The Hindi news (rural) genre saw no changes compared to previous week.

    Hindi news urban

    News18 India climbed two slots to the second position, whereas Zee News and India TV dropped to third and fourth spot respectively.

  • Sony SAB kick-starts 2019 on a happy note with two new limited format series

    Sony SAB kick-starts 2019 on a happy note with two new limited format series

    Adding a touch of happiness and laughter to the weekends, Sony SAB, is set to launch two new series – Band Baja Bandh Darwaza and My Name Ijj Lakhan. Exploring unconventional storylines and newer genres, both shows are limited format series that will add dollops of light-hearted entertainment to your weekend plans. Starting 26th January, welcome the best of Bollywood and television actors to the TV screens, Band Baja Bandh Darwaza at 7 PM and My Name Ijj Lakhan at 7:30 PM, every Saturday and Sunday only on Sony SAB.

    Highlighting the concept of ‘everyone has a bit of black and white to their personality’, My Name Ijj Lakhan traces the journey of the central character ‘Lakhan’ who is a leading rogue of Mumbai. Bollywood’s critically acclaimed actor Shreyas Talpade debuts on Hindi television with his portrayal of Lakhan, who shaken by an unexpected jolt in his life, vows to become the man his father always hoped he would be. Motivated by his new-found mission to mend his ways, he tries to commit good deeds in his own peculiar ‘andaaz’ often resulting in startling comical outcomes. Real-life and reel-life couple Parmeet Sethi (Dashrath) and Archana Puran Singh (Pammi) play Lakhan’s parents. This vibrant, action-packed show also stars Sanjay Narvekar and Esha Kansara in pivotal roles.

    Band Baja Bandh Darwaza, Sony SAB’s horror-comedy show is a tale of unfortunate ‘bhootiya’ twists that take place in the Khurana house whenever they get close to getting their son married. Bollywood’s favorite villain and comedian, Mukesh Tiwari dons the avatar of a ghost named Sanjeev Sharma. After living a life of solitude, Sanjeev returns as a ghost to haunt the lives of Sarita played by Neelu Kohli and Chandan played by Rajendra Sharma who are looking for a match for their young son, Rocky played by Amitosh Nagpal. What made Sanjeev return as a ghost and why is he adamant on Rocky living a life by himself – you will have to wait and watch, enjoy a new twist unfold every weekend!

  • Zeel channels most watched Hindi entertainment channels across genres

    Zeel channels most watched Hindi entertainment channels across genres

    BENGALURU: Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel) Hindi GEC channels – the free to air (FTA) Zee Anmol and flagship Zee TV were the most watched Hindi entertainment – be it GEC or Hindi movies channels, in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly list of top 10 channels across genres for week 2 of 2019 (Saturday, 5 January 2019 to Friday, 11 January 2019, week or period under consideration). Zee Anmol was ranked second in the list after the Sun Tv Network’s flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV and Zee TV was ranked fourth after Star India’s flagship Telugu GEC Star Maa.

    Seven Hindi GECs and one channel each from Hindi Movies, Tamil and Telugu genres made up BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres for week 2 of 2019. From the network’s perspective, there were four Star India channels, two channels each from Sony Pictures Network India (SPN) and Zeel and one channel each from the Sun TV Network and Viacom18.

    As mentioned above at its normal first rank in week 2 of 2019 was Sun TV with 932.480 million weekly impressions as compared to 1,103.433 weekly impressions in week 1 of 2019. Sun TV also led BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Tamil channels in the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry market and three programmes in BARC’s list of top 5 Tamil programmes during primetime in these markets based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week under review were aired on Sun TV.

    Zee Anmol was ranked second in week 2 of 2019 with 828.610 million weekly impressions in week 2 of 2019 as compared to 826.144 million weekly impressions in week 1 of 2019. Zee Anmol was also ranked first in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R) and HSM (R) and was ranked ninth in HSM (U). The Balaji Telefilms produced soaps Kumkum Bhagya and its spinoff Kundali Bhagya were ranked third and fourth respectively in BARC’s list of top 5 Hindi GEC programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week in HSM (U+R) and first and second respectively in HSM (R). Another two programmes aired on the channel – Mahek and Ek Main aur Ek Tu were ranked third and fifth respectively in HSM (R).

    Climbing up one place to third rank in week 2 of 2019 was Star Maa with 673.002 weekly impressions as compared with 888.726 million weekly impressions in week 1 of 2019. Star Maa was ranked first in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Telugu channels in the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana market. Four of the five programmes that were aired on Star Maa were present in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Telugu programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week in the same market.

    As mentioned above, Zee TV was ranked fourth in BARC weekly list of top 10 channels across genres in week 2 of 2019. The channel had 658.052 million weekly impressions during the period under review as compared to 680.504 million weekly impressions and fifth rank in week 1 of 2019. Zee TV was ranked third in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in HSM (U+R) and fourth in HSM (U), and was ranked seventh in HSM (R). Kundali Bhagya that aired on Zee TV was at fifth rank in BARC’s list of top 5 Hindi GEC programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in HSM (U).

    SPN’s flagship Hindi GEC Sony Entertainment Television (SET) moved up three places to fifth rank in week 2 of 2019 with 654.455 million weekly impressions as compared to 619.230 million weekly impressions in week 1 of 2019. SET was ranked second in BARC’s list of top 10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R) and first in HSM (U). The comedy show – The Kapil Sharma Show was ranked fifth and second in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi programmes during primetime in HSM (U+R) and HSM (U) respectively. Further the reality show Super Dancer Chapter 3-Auditions on the channel was ranked fourth in BARC’s list of top 5 Hindi GEC programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week in HSM (U).

    Star India’s flagship Hindi GEC Star Plus dropped three places to sixth rank in week 2 of 2019 with 627.380 million impressions as compared to 705.119 million weekly impressions and second rank in week 1 of 2019. Star Plus was ranked sixth in BARC’s weekly lists of top 10 Hindi GECs in in the combined urban and rural Hindi speaking markets or HSM (U+R) and was ranked second in HSM (U) and tenth in HSM (R).

    Another Star India Hindi GEC Star Bharat retained its previous week’s rank of seventh in week 2 of 2019 with 622.664 million weekly impressions as compared to 619.919 million weekly impressions in week 1 of 2019. Star Bharat was ranked fourth in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R) and sixth and fifth in HSM (R) and HSM (U) respectively.

    Viacom18’s flagship Hindi GEC moved up a place to eighth rank in week 2 of 2019 with 615.203 million weekly impressions as compared to 607.973 million weeky impressions in week 1 of 2019 . Colors was ranked seventh in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R), eighth in HSM (R) and third in HSM (U). The Balaji Telefim’s produced Naagin 3 and the reality show Fear Factor Khatron Ke Khiladi Jigar Pe Trigger were ranked first and second respectively in BARC’s list of top 5 Hindi GECs programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week in HSM (U+R).and third and first respectively in HSM (U).

    Star Indi’s Hindi GEC Star Utsav re-entered BARC’s list of top 10 channels across genres in week 2 of 2019 with 611.019 million weekly impressions. Star Utsav was ranked fifth, second and seventh in BARC’s list of top 10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R), HSM (R) and HSM (U) respectively.

    SPN’s Hindi movies channel Sony Max also retained its previous week’s tenth rank with 590.513 million weekly impressions as compared with 598.253 million weekly impressions in week 51. Sony Max was ranked second in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi Movies channels in HSM (U+R), first in HSM (U) and was ranked fourth in HSM (R). Hindi feature films (HFF) Sarrainodu and Sui Dhaaga were ranked first and second in BARC’s list of top 5 Hindi Movies programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week in HSM (U).

  • Dettol topples Trivago from top spot in BARC week 2 of 2019

    Dettol topples Trivago from top spot in BARC week 2 of 2019

    MUMBAI: The Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India has released its data for top advertisers and brands for week 2 of 2019.

    The data reflects top 10 advertiser and brands across genre on Indian television (U+R): 2+ Individuals demonstrating ads that were inserted the most from 5 January to 11 January 2019.

    Top Advertisers:

    Hindustan Unilever Ltd is still holding strong to the top advertiser spot. The owner of a vast product portfolio, including foods, beverages, cleaning agents, personal care products led the game with 120788 insertions.

    The maker of products like Dettol, Veet, Durex condoms, Strepsils, Air Wick, and Harpic, Reckitt Benckiser Ltd, has also maintained its last week position in the second spot with 114626 insertions. ITC, too, has once again ranked third as it made 44191 insertions in week 2.

    Procter & Gamble and Ponds India stood fourth and fifth, just like the last week, with 33604 and 28427 insertions, respectively.

    Top Brands:

    Dettol Liquid Soap made a fresh entry onto the top spot in the brands' category with 16819 insertions in week 2 of 2019. Dettol Toilet Soaps stepped up from the fourth position of the last week to rank second in the list with 11394 insertions.

    Trivago, which was maintaining the top position for past several weeks, slipped to the third position in the second week with 9929 insertions.

    Santoor Sandal and Turmeric came in fourth with 9879 insertions followed by PolicyBazaar.com with 9841 insertions. 

  • No changes in Marathi, Telugu segments in BARC data week 2

    No changes in Marathi, Telugu segments in BARC data week 2

    MUMBAI: In the Bengali market, Jalsha Movies and Aakash Aath interchanged their fourth and fifth positions in BARC data week 2. Bhojpuri Cinema and Big Ganga swapped their first and second position in the Bhojpuri space. Zee Kannada and Colors Kannada swapped their first and second positions in the Kannada cluster. Flowers TV and Mazhavil Manorama interchanged their second and third positions in the Malayalam space.  Star Vijay and Zee Tamil exchanged their fourth and fifth positions in the Tamil space.  No changes were observed in Marathi and Telugu segments.

    Bangla

    Zee Bangla, Star Jalsha and Colors Bangla continued to be in first, second and third positions respectively with 355433 impressions '000s, 297000 impressions '000s and 58134 impressions '000s. Jalsha Movies and Aakash Aath interchanged their fourth and fifth positions with 52016 impressions '000s and 51197 impressions '000s.

    Bhojpuri

    Bhojpuri Cinema and Big Ganga swapped their first and second position respectively with 40421 impressions '000s and 40241 impressions '000s. Bhojpuri Dhamaka Dishum, Housefull Action and Oscar Movies Bhojpuri continued to be in third, fourth and fifth positions respectively with 13976 impressions '000s, 5922 impressions '000s and 2909 impressions '000s.  

    Kannada

    Colors Kannada and Zee Kannada swapped their first and second positions respectively with 429314 impressions '000s and 420073 impressions '000s. Udaya TV and Udaya Movies retained their third and fourth positions respectively with 205229 impressions '000s and 183934 impressions '000s. Colors Super emerged as the new player with 147808 impressions '000s.

    Malayalam

    No changes were observed in the Malayalam segment. Asianet, the Malayalam general entertainment channel from Star TV, managed to be on first position with 286177 impressions '000s. Flowers TV and Mazhavil Manorama interchanged their second and third positions with 109369 impressions '000s and 104530 impressions '000s. Surya TV and Asianet Movies stood at fourth and fifth positions respectively with 77263 impressions '000s and 62530 impressions '000s.

    Marathi

    Zee Marathi, Colors Marathi, Star Pravah and Zee Talkies and Zee Yuva continued to be in first, second, third, fourth and fifth positions respectively with 422147 impressions '000s, 144346 impressions '000s, 120428 impressions '000s, 113656 impressions '000s and 45060 impressions '000s.

    Tamil

    Sun TV retained it leadership position with 861645 impressions '000s. Star Vijay and Zee Tamil exchanged their second and third positions respectively with 487018 impressions '000s and 474213 impressions '000s. KTV and Adithya TV continued to be on fourth and fifth positions respectively with 319072 impressions '000s and 97634 impressions '000s.  

    Telugu

    Star Maa, Zee Telugu, ETV Telugu, Gemini TV and Gemini Movies held on to their first, second, third, fourth and fifth positions respectively with 635149 impressions '000s, 543646 impressions '000s, 475044 impressions '000s, 419803 impressions '000s and 201579 impressions '000s.

  • Four news genres saw no change in BARC week 2

    Four news genres saw no change in BARC week 2

    MUMBAI: All the four genres apart from Hindi news urban market saw no change in second week of the year. Aaj Tak continued to groove on the same tracks in the rural, urban and U+R genres as it did the previous year. India TV and News18 India interchanged their positions in the Hindi news urban market.

    English News

    Republic TV led the English news genre with 683 impressions ‘000. Times Now came in at second place with 535 impressions ‘000. India Today Television stood in third position with 273 impressions ‘000 followed by CNN News18 at fourth position with 247 impressions ‘000. NDTV 24X7 with mere 225 impressions ‘000 took the fifth position.

    English business news

    The English business news genre saw no changes as always. CNBC TV18 was at the first position with 378 impressions '000. ET Now and BTVI took second and third positions with 125 impressions '000 and 61 impressions '000. CNBC TV18 Prime HD took fourth position with 15 impressions '000.

    Hindi news (U+R)

    Aaj Tak continued a dominating start in the Hindi news (U+R) genre with 142,676 impressions ‘000. Zee News was placed in the second place with 117,877 impressions ‘000. News18 India takes the third position with 116,114 impressions ‘000. ABP News stands in fourth position with 111,648 impressions ‘000. India TV is placed in the fifth position with 103,984 impressions ‘000.

    Hindi news rural

    Aaj Tak is positioned first in the Hindi news rural genre with 65,226 impressions ‘000. ABP News and News18 India are at second and third positions with 56,261 impressions ‘000 and 51,145 impressions ‘000, respectively. Zee News with 47,297 impressions ‘000 is placed at the fourth place. India TV took the fifth spot with 38,977 impressions ’000.

    Hindi news urban

    Aaj Tak stood on top with 77,450 impressions ‘000 followed by Zee News with 70,580 impressions ‘000. India TV and News18 India took the third and fourth position after interchanging their positions with 65,007 impressions ‘000 and 64,970 impressions ‘000, respectively. ABP News took the fifth place with 55,387 impressions ‘000.

  • Sony Entertainment Television leads urban areas in week 2 of BARC

    Sony Entertainment Television leads urban areas in week 2 of BARC

    MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television jumped to second position to fifth position as compared to the previous week in the Hindi (U+R) genre in Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) data for week 2 of 2018. Zee Anmol retained its first position in the rural market. Sony Entertainment Television and Star Plus interchanged their first and second positions in the urban areas.

    Hindi GEC (U+R)

    Zee Anmol continued to be in first position with 825917 impressions ‘000s. Sony Entertainment Television jumped to second position to fifth position as compared to the previous week with 631520 impressions ‘000s. Zee TV and Star Bharat retained their third and fourth positions respectively with 621026 impressions ‘000s and 613744 impressions ‘000s.
    Star Utsav, Star Plus, Colors, Sony Pal, Rishtey and Dangal TV secured fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions respectively with 602723 impressions ‘000s, 598561 impressions ‘000s, 592489 impressions ‘000s, 521011 impressions ‘000s, 484384 impressions ‘000s and 479688 impressions ‘000s.  

    Hindi Rural GEC

    Zee Anmol retained its first position with 669163 impressions ‘000s. Star Utsav, Dangal TV, Rishtey, Sony Pal, Star Bharat Zee TV, Colors, Big Magic and Star Plus stood at second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions respectively with 409383 impressions ‘000s, 378513 impressions ‘000s, 361628 impressions ‘000s, 354433 impressions ‘000s, 291222 impressions ‘000s, 240157 impressions ‘000s, 194605 impressions ‘000s, 183536 impressions ‘000s and 180164 impressions ‘000s.

    Hindi Urban GEC

    Sony Entertainment Television and Star Plus interchanged their first and second positions respectively with 466851 impressions ‘000s and 418398 impressions ‘000s. Colors Zee TV, Zee TV, Star Bharat, Sony Sab, Star Utsav, Sony Pal, Zee Anmol and &TV continued to be on third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions respectively with 397884 impressions ‘000s, 380869 impressions ‘000s, 322522 impressions ‘000s, 289209 impressions ‘000s, 193339 impressions ‘000s, 166578 impressions ‘000s, 156755 impressions ‘000s and 134305 impressions ‘000s.

  • Hindi Movies most benefited genre in Chrome DM week 2

    Hindi Movies most benefited genre in Chrome DM week 2

    MUMBAI: With a growth of 0.93 per cent as compared to last week (1), the Hindi movies genre marked the highest opportunity to see (OTS) among all categories in week 2 of Chrome Data Analytics & Media. 

    In the Hindi ovies genre, Rishtey Cineplex gained the highest OTS with 95.1 per cent in HSM excluding the less than 1L-market.

    OTS is the actual census-based percentage connectivity of a channel spread across 81 million homes, as reported by Chrome DM, across analogue cable, digital cable and DTH. 

    The second position in the gainer’s list of OTS was grabbed by the English GEC genre with the growth of 0.36 per cent in six metros market. Colors Infinity was the most benefitted channel in this category with 60.2 per cent.

    The third position in the gainers was garnered by the Business News genre in six metros market with 0.31 per cent OTS. CNBC Awaz gained the highest OTS with 86.4 per cent.

    The Infotainment genre was at the fourth position in the list with 0.29 per cent growth and NGC catered to 91.7 per cent OTS in All India 1 Lakh+ market.

    The fifth position in gainers list was bagged by the English News genre with a growth of 0.28 per cent. In this category, Loksabha TV topped the OTS chart with 97.9 per cent in six metros market.