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  • BARC wk 18: India TV tops all three Hindi news genres

    BARC wk 18: India TV tops all three Hindi news genres

    MUMBAI: India TV garnered the top slot in all three Hindi news markets, dethroning Aaj Tak in the Broadcast Audience Research Council’s (BARC) week 18 ratings for 2018. Republic TV completed its one year anniversary on 6 May 2018 and maintained its top slot for all the weeks.

    English News

    Republic TV retained its numero uno position for the past 52 weeks of its launch with 763 impressions (000s) sum. Times Now was at the second spot with 584 impressions (000s) sum, followed by India Today Television with 305 impressions (000s) sum. CNN News18 was at fourth position with 219 impressions (000s) sum. NDTV 24×7 was at the fifth position with 200 impressions (000s) sum.

    English Business News

    CNBC TV18 is at the top slot with 390 impressions (000s) sum followed by ET Now with 159 impressions (000s) sum. BTVI and CNBC TV18 Prime HD were at third and fourth positions respectively with 42 impressions (000s) sum and 4 impressions (000s) sum.

    Hindi News (U+R)

    India TV dethroned Aaj Tak  and led the genre with 74638 impressions (000s) sum. Aaj Tak dropped to second slot with 70610 impressions (000s) sum.

    News18 India and Zee News were at third and fourth positions after interchanging the spots with 63218 impressions (000s) sum and 61804 impressions (000s) sum respectively.

    News Nation entered the genre at fifth spot with 53918 impressions (000s) sum. ABP News exited the top five list in week 18.

    Hindi News Rural

    India TV and News Nation climbed a slot each to the first and second slot with 29635 impressions (000s) sum and 27713 impressions (000s) sum. Aaj Tak dropped two slots to the third position with 27583 impressions (000s) sum compared to 32483 impressions (000s) sum last week.

    News18 India entered the genre at fourth position with 24159 impressions (000s) sum. Zee News dropped a slot to fifth position with 23219 impressions (000s) sum.

    Hindi News Urban

    India TV topped the chart in urban market as well with 45003 impressions (000s) sum followed by Aaj Tak which dropped a slot with 43026 impressions (000s) sum.

    News18 India was at the third position with 39059 impressions (000s) sum.

    Zee News and ABP News were at the fourth and fifth spots with 38585 impressions (000s) sum and 31462 impressions (000s) sum respectively.

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    Zee TV leads GEC urban by dethroning Colors in week 18 

  • Zee TV leads GEC urban by dethroning Colors in week 18

    Zee TV leads GEC urban by dethroning Colors in week 18

    MUMBAI: No changes were observed this week in the Hindi GEC (U+R) and rural markets region according to Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) all India data for week 18 of 2018. Zee TV retained its leadership GEC urban market this week. 

    Hindi GEC (U+R)

    Zee Anmol, Rishtey, Star Bharat, Sony Pal and Zee TV retained their first, second, third, fourth and fifth positions respectively with 769222 impressions (000s), 642114 impressions (000s), 603720 impressions (000s), 594997impressions (000s) and 548150 impressions (000s)

    Star Utsav, Star Plus, Colors, Sony Sab and Sony Entertainment Television also retained their sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions with 460921 impressions (000s), 422988 impressions (000s), 395016 impressions (000s), 356192impressions (000s) and 330934 impressions (000s) respectively.   

    Hindi Rural GEC

    Zee Anmol, Rishtey, Sony Pal, Star Utsav, Star Bharat and Zee TV retained their first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth positions with 593662 impressions (000s), 458940 impressions (000s), 401210 impressions (000s), 323195 impressions (000s), 304376 impressions (000s) and 223931 impressions (000s) respectively.

    Big Magic, Dangal TV, Star Plus and Colors also retained their seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions with 211493 impressions (000s), 175654 impressions (000s), 121077 impressions (000s) and 120327 impressions (000s) respectively.

    Hindi Urban GEC

    In urban GEC, Zee TV retained its first position with 324219 impressions (000s). Star Plus and Star Bharat stood at second and third positions respectively with 301911 impressions (000s) and 299344 impressions (000s).

    Colors, Sony Sab, Sony Entertainment Television,Sony Pal, Rishtey, Zee Anmol and Star Utsav retained their fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions with 274688 impressions (000s), 255501 impressions (000s), 246399 impressions (000s), 193786 impressions (000s), 183174 impressions (000s), 175559 impressions (000s) and 137726 impressions (000s).

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  • Zee TV leads GEC urban in BARC week 17

    Zee TV leads GEC urban in BARC week 17

     

    MUMBAI: Zee Anmol emerged as the leader whereas Rishtey and Star Bharat swapped their second and third positions in the Hindi GEC (U+R) region according to Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) all India data for week 17 of 2018.

    Zee TV emerged as the leader dethroning Colors to fourth position in GEC urban market this week. Moreover, Zee Anmol also retained its top position in GEC rural markets.

    Hindi GEC (U+R)

    Zee Anmol retained its top slot this week with 771888 impressions (000s). Rishtey stood at second position dethroning Star Bharat which came to the third position this week with 672774 impressions (000s) and 638431 impressions (000s) respectively.

    Sony Pal, Zee TV and Star Utsav stood at fourth, fifth and sixth positions respectively with 605469 impressions (000s),579082 impressions (000s) and 513800 impressions (000s).

    Star Plus, Colors, Sony Sab and Sony Entertainment Television stood at seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions with 456054 impressions (000s), 430238 impressions (000s), 348831 impressions (000s) and 340856 impressions (000s) respectively. 

    Hindi Rural GEC

    Zee Anmol, Rishtey, Sony Pal, Star Utsav, Star Bharat and Zee TV retained their first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth positions with 598026 impressions (000s), 487676 impressions (000s), 406644 impressions (000s), 361995 impressions (000s), 325054 impressions (000s) and 222838 impressions (000s) respectively.

    Big Magic, Dangal TV, Star Plus and Colors stood at seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions with 222838 impressions (000s), 194528 impressions (000s), 193226 impressions (000s), 133164 impressions (000s) and 124609 impressions (000s) respectively.

    Hindi Urban GEC

    In urban GEC, Zee TV emerged as the leader dethroning Colors with 356243 impressions (000s). Star Plus and Star Bharat retained their second and third positions with 322890 impressions (000s) and 313377 impressions (000s) respectively.

    Colors jumped to fourth position from first position as compared to the previous week with 305628 impressions (000s). Sab, Sony Entertainment Television and Sony Pal stood at fifth, sixth and seventh positions respectively with 269382 impressions (000s), 253465 impressions (000s) and 198824 impressions (000s).

    Rishtey, Zee Anmol and Star Utsav retained their eighth, ninth and tenth positions with 185097 impressions (000s),173862 impressions (000s) and 151805 impressions (000s) respectively.

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  • BARC wk 17: Aaj Tak regains top slot in urban market

    BARC wk 17: Aaj Tak regains top slot in urban market

    MUMBAI: Aaj Tak garnered its top slot in Hindi news urban market after a week’s gap, dethroning India TV in the Broadcast Audience Research Council’s (BARC) week 17 ratings for 2018. Republic TV continues its leading streak in English news. Aaj Tak topped the chart in all three Hindi news markets.

    English News

    Republic TV retained its numero uno position with 626 impressions (000s) sum compared to 577 impressions (000s) sum last week. Times Now was at the second spot with 449 impressions (000s) sum followed by India Today Television with 254 impressions (000s) sum compared to 281 impressions (000s) sum last week. CNN News18 was at fourth position with 218 impressions (000s) sum compared to 201 impressions (000s) sum last week.

    NDTV 24×7 was at the fifth position with 173 Impressions (000s) sum.

    English Business News

    CNBC TV18 was at the top slot with 470 impressions (000s) sum compared to 476 impressions (000s) sum last week, followed by ET Now with 221 impressions (000s) sum. BTVi and CNBC TV18 Prime HD were at third and fourth positions respectively with 68 impressions (000s) sum and 8 impressions (000s) sum.

    Hindi News (U+R)

    Aaj Tak lead the genre with 81021 impressions (000s) sum as compared to 79464 impressions (000s) sum. India TV was at the second position with 78874 impressions (000s) sum.

    Zee News was at the third position with 68957 impressions (000s) sum compared to 68913 impressions (000s) sum.

    News18 India and ABP News were at the fourth and fifth positions with 66453 and 63289 impressions (000s) sum.

    Hindi News Rural

    Aaj Tak topped the rural chart as well with 32483 impressions (000s) sum followed by India TV after climbing a slot with 30902 impressions (000s) sum.

    News Nation dropped a slot to third position with 28918 impressions (000s) sum.

    Zee News and ABP News were at fourth and fifth slots after interchanging their positions with 27282 impressions (000s) sum and 26844 impressions (000s) sum respectively. 

    Hindi News Urban

    Aaj Tak returned to its winning ways and grabbed top slot with 48537 impressions (000s) sum compared to 48241 impressions (000s) sum last week. India TV dropped a slot to second position with 47972 impressions (000s) sum followed News18 India at the third position with 42052 impressions (000s) sum.

    Zee News and ABP News were at the fourth and fifth spots with 41674 impressions (000s) sum and 36444 impressions (000s) sum respectively.

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  • BARC reacts to malicious statements regarding operations

    BARC reacts to malicious statements regarding operations

    MUMBAI: Recently, television ratings body Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) was slandered with a number of statements which it termed as ‘malicious, baseless and grossly inaccurate’. It said that some stakeholders had publicly commented on its operations and organisation structure.

    Addressing the issue, the company issued a statement that BARC was a joint body set up by the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), Indian Society of Advertisers (ISA) and Advertising Agencies Association India (AAAI), adhering to section eight of the Companies Act. It is a debt funded company, and there is absolutely no foreign direct investment.

    Being an industry body promoted by IBF, ISA and AAAI, BARC India is neither owned by any broadcaster/advertiser/agency, nor controlled by any single company. “Therefore, the question of undue influence of any single entity on BARC India’s operations simply does not arise. It has a strict governance structure as laid down in its Articles of Association, which ensures its ‘arm’s length’ relationship with all stakeholders,” the body said in a statement.
    IBF President Punit Goenka said, “We take pride in saying that BARC India works in an extremely transparent and neutral environment. Its data adds immense value to industry, and we would encourage and support it to remain focused on the great work its team does, and not get detracted by false statements and unattributed innuendos. BARC India has established a measurement system at par with international standards, which should be a matter of pride for the industry.”

    With a sample size of 135,000 individuals across the nation, BARC India operates the largest TV sample/panel in the world – much larger than the US TV sample of 90,000.

    ISA chairman Sunil Kataria said, “BARC India data helps advertisers reach and understand consumers even in the most remote and unexplored areas. It enables the Rs. 25000 crore advertising industry to take informed decisions since the data is truly representative of ground reality.”

    AAAI president and BARC India chairman Nakul Chopra said, “It should be applauded as in these positive and progressive times it provides essential and reliable data that is powering many industries make better decisions towards economic growth.”

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  • Over 4 million global TV subs added in Q4

    Over 4 million global TV subs added in Q4

    MUMBAI: The informitv Multiscreen Index’s top 100 TV services added a total of 4.33 million pay-TV subscribers in the last quarter of 2017 as compared with 3.70 million in the previous quarter and 4.03 million in the last quarter of 2016. India lead the top 10 services in the Asia Pacific region, which cumulatively added a total of 1.65 million. Dish TV and Videocon d2h, which have since merged, added 360,000 subscribers between them.

    The Multiscreen Index is based on a quarterly survey of 100 leading television services worldwide. Over half of them reported subscriber gains in the last quarter of 2017, but these were largely offset by subscriber losses elsewhere.

    The majority of the gains were once again in the Asia Pacific region, which added 2.35 million subscribers, which is fewer than in the preceding two quarters but about the same number as in the comparable quarter a year previously.

    Satellite services led the worldwide overall gains, adding 1.87 million subscribers worldwide. That is despite DIRECTV losing 147,000 satellite subscribers, which was the largest loss among services in the index.

    “Although there is a popular perception that pay television subscriber numbers are falling, they are continuing to grow worldwide at a rate of around 1 per cent a quarter,” said Dr William Cooper, the editor of the informitv Multiscreen Index. “Much of the growth is in developing economies. Although average revenues are lower, there is still significant potential, with worldwide gains of around 10 per cent forecast over the next five years.”

    “Among the 100 services in the Multiscreen Index, there are almost as many subscribers in the Asia Pacific region as the Americas,” noted informitv analyst Dr Sue Farrell. “The merged Dish TV and Videocon d2h in India now has 29.51 million satellite subscribers, which is more than AT&T has with DirecTV, U-verse and DirecTV NOW combined.”

    The Multiscreen Index comprises 100 multichannel television and video services that collectively account for around 440 million subscribing homes worldwide. The index provides an industry benchmark of the relative performance of television service providers against which customer gains or losses can be measured.

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  • Viacom18 channels re-enter across genres list as Sun TV strengthens lead

    Viacom18 channels re-enter across genres list as Sun TV strengthens lead

    BENGALURU: Two Viacom18 returned to Broadcast Audience Research Council’s (BARC) weekly list of top 10 television channels across genres in week 16 of 2018 (Saturday, 14 April 2018 to Friday, 20 April 2018). The channels were Viacom18’s flagship Hindi GEC Colors and free-to-air (FTA) Hindi GEC Rishtey. Colors and Rishtey pushed out two Hindi movies channels from the across genres weekly list. In the meantime, the Sun TV Network’s flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV increased its viewership by 10.3 per cent and continued to lead the across genres list in week 16 as compared to week 15 of 2018.

    Seven Hindi GECs and one channel each from the sports, Tamil GEC and Telugu GEC made up BARC’s weekly list of top 10 television channels across genres during the week under review. From the networks’ perspective, four channels from the Star India Network, two channels each from Viacom18 and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel) and one channel each from the Sony Pictures Network India (SPN) and the Sun TV network comprised BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres. There was no Hindi movies channel in the list. The combined ratings of top 10 channels across genres increased 2.5 per cent in week 16 of 2018 to 6,667.922 million impressions from 6,506.140 million impressions.

    As mentioned above Sun TV led BARC’s weekly top 10 channels across genres list in week 16 of 2018 with 1,032.408 million weekly impressions as compared to 935.993 million weekly impressions in the previous week. The channel also topped BARC’s list of top five Tamil channels in the Tamil Nadu/Pudducherry markets and all the top five Tamil programmes during primetime in these markets were aired on Sun TV.

    Holding onto its previous week’s second rank was Star India’s Hindi sports channel – Star Sports 1 Hindi, which saw a 1.4 per cent increase in ratings in week 16 of 2018 with 949.082 million weekly impressions as compared to 935.856 million weekly impressions. The channel also topped BARC’s weekly list of top sports channels and all the top five sports programmes during primetime in week 16 of 2018 were aired on Star Sports 1 Hindi.

    Retaining its third rank of week 15 was Zeel’s FTA Hindi GEC Zee Anmol with a 5.7 per cent increase in ratings in week 16 of 2018. The channel scored 717.079 million weekly impressions in week 16 of 2018 as compared to 678.472 million weekly impressions in week 15. The channel also topped BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GEC channels in both urban and rural Hindi speaking markets combined (HSM-U+R) as well as HSM (R) and was ranked ninth in HSM (U). The Balaji Telefilms produced Hindi soap Kumkum Bhagya that was aired on Zee Anmol and was the most watched Hindi GEC programme during primetime in HSM (U+R) and HSM (U). Another Hindi soap Ganga that was aired on Zeel was the second most watched programme during primetime in HSM (R).

    Also retaining its week 15 rank of fourth rank in week 16 of 2018 was Star India’s FTA Hindi GEC Star Bharat. However, the channel saw a 5.8 per cent decline in ratings to 637.080 million weekly impressions during the week under review as compared to 675.961 million weekly impressions in week 15 of 2018. Star Bharat was ranked second in BARC’s list of top 10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R), third in HSM (U) and fifth in HSM (R).

    Re-entering BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres at rank five in week 16 of 2018 was Rishtey with 631.658 million weekly impressions. Rishtey was ranked third in BARC’s list of top 10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R); second in HSM (R) and eighth in HSM (U).

    Dropping down a rank was SPN’s women focused Hindi GEC Sony Pal at sixth rank in week 16 of 2018. The channel saw a 7.5 per cent decline in ratings in week 16 of 2018 to 606.067 million weekly impressions as compared to 655.047 million weekly impressions in the previous week. Sony Pal was ranked fourth in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R), third in HSM (R) and seventh in HSM (U) in week 16 of 2018. Three programmes on Sony Pal – Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah, CID and Balveer were ranked third, fourth and fifth respectively in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi GEC programmes in HSM (R).

    Holding on to its seventh rank of week 15 in week 16 was Zeel’s flagship Hindi GEC Zee TV. The channel recorded a 1.8 per cent decline in ratings in week 16 of 2018 at 533.901 weekly impressions as compared to 543.830 million weekly impressions in week 15.  Zee TV was ranked sixth in BARC’s list of top 10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R) and HSM (R) and fourth in HSM (U). Three programmes that were aired on the channel – Kundali Bhagya (a spinoff of Kumkum Bhagya); Kumkum Bhagya; and Ishq Subhan Allah were the second, third and fourth most watched Hindi GEC programmes during primetime in week 16 of 2018 in HSM (U+R). These three programmes on the channel were also among the five most Hindi GEC programmes in HSM (U).

    Dropping down two ranks to eighth place in week 16 of 2018 with a 7.9 per cent decline in ratings was another Star India FTA Hindi GEC Star Utsav. The channel garnered 532.947 million weekly impressions in week 16 as compared to 578.783 million weekly impressions in week 15 of 2018. Star Utsav was ranked fifth in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R), fourth in HSM (R) and was ranked tenth in HSM (U).

    Also re-entering the across genres list in week 16 of 2018 was Colors at ninth rank. The channel was ranked seventh in HSM (U+R); first in HSM(U); and fourth in HSM in BARC’s weekly list of top five Hindi programmes during primetime. Reality show Rising Star that aired on Colors was among BARC’s list of top 10 Hindi programmes during primetime in HSM (U).

    Star India’s flagship Telugu GEC dropped two ranks in week 16 and its ratings declined 0.7 per cent to 511.650 million weekly impressions from week 515.466 million weekly impressions in week 15. Star Maa topped the list of top five Telugu channels in the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana markets. The first three shows in BARC’s list of top five Telugu programmes during primetime featured in Star Maa.

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  • BARC week 16: India TV climbs to top position in urban market

    BARC week 16: India TV climbs to top position in urban market

    MUMBAI: India TV has dethroned Aaj Tak from its numero uno position from the Hindi news urban market of  Broadcast Audience Research Council’s (BARC) week 16 ratings for 2018. Republic TV, meanwhile, continued its leading streak. Aaj Tak topped the chart in the other two Hindi news markets apart from the urban market.

    English news

    Republic TV retained its pole position with 577 impressions (000s) sum compared with 553 impressions (000s) sum last week. Times Now is at the second spot with 505 impressions (000s) sum followed by India Today Television with 281 impressions (000s) sum as against 265 impressions (000s) sum in week 16 of 2018. CNN News18 is at fourth position with 201 impressions (000s) sum vis-a-vis 219 impressions (000s) sum last week.

    NDTV 24×7 is at the fifth position with 174 impressions (000s) sum.

    English business news

    CNBC TV18 is at the top slot with 476 impressions (000s) sum as compared with 490 impressions (000s) sum last week, followed by ET Now with 178 impressions (000s) sum. BTVI and CNBC TV18 Prime HD were at third and fourth positions, respectively, with 49 impressions (000s) sum and 19 impressions (000s) sum.

    Hindi news (U+R)

    Aaj Tak leads the genre with 79464 impressions (000s) sum as against 94219 impressions (000s) sum. India TV climbed two slots to the second position with 78467 impressions (000s) sum.

    Zee News was at the third position with 68913 impressions (000s) sum compared with 72530 impressions (000s) sum.

    News18 India and ABP News were at the fourth and fifth positions after interchanging the positions with 68482 and 62540 impressions (000s) sum.

    Hindi news rural

    Aaj Tak topped the rural chart as well with 31222 impressions (000s) sum followed by News Nation with 30920 impressions (000s) sum. India TV was at the third position with 29789 impressions (000s) sum.

    ABP News was at fourth position with 27574 impressions (000s) sum followed by Zee News at the fifth position with 27517 impressions (000s) sum. 

    Hindi news urban

    India TV jumped a slot to the top position with 48677 impressions (000s) sum followed by Aaj Tak with 48241 impressions (000s) sum. News18 India was at the third position with 43003 impressions (000s) sum.

    Zee News and ABP News were at the fourth and fifth spots with 41396 impressions (000s) sum and 34966 impressions (000s) sum, respectively.

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  • BARC to measure OOH TV viewership

    BARC to measure OOH TV viewership

    MUMBAI: Advertisers are soon going to get a boost through outdoor TV measurement ratings. The Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) is going beyond traditional TV viewing metrics and has launched an out of home (OOH) TV viewership measurement service. It will now be able to report TV viewership that happens in social hot-spots like restaurants, pubs and bars in select cities.

    This is a game changer for the industry as it uncovers a significant share of TV viewership that wasn’t being measured until now. The current OOH measurement service tracks viewing across 900+ establishments in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore, using 1500+ meters.

    BARC India’s OOH measurement, which captures the growing trend of TV viewing outside homes, is a pre-subscribed service.

    “With our commitment to measure ‘what India watches’, it was a natural step for us to measure OOH viewing. This is also aligned with our goal of measuring content wherever it plays- irrespective of screen or pipe. Measuring OOH viewing is another initiative towards this objective. The robust technology backbone we have set up allowed us to seamlessly measure out of home viewing. We will continue to offer more such path-breaking services that yields sharper insights to industry,” said BARC India CEO Partho Dasgupta.

    Star has been the first network to subscribe to this service for the ongoing Indian Premiere League (IPL). Since sports is the most popular TV content outside of the house, especially in social gatherings, the addition will give a big thrust to Star for the tournament.

    As per available data, OOH viewing generated a total of 19.4 million impressions for the first eight IPL matches in the three cities. This, if compared to BARC India’s currency panel in these markets, is an additional 10 per cent viewership. The OOH data is a sample study across Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. If a study was done for other similar cities one could expect to see a comparable lift in viewership.

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  • IPL 11 catapults Star Sports 1 Hindi to second place in across genres

    IPL 11 catapults Star Sports 1 Hindi to second place in across genres

    BENGALURU: The eleventh edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 11 began on Saturday, 7 April 2018, the first day of Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) week 15 of 2018. As has become a norm, the league poaches eyeballs from all other genres in the country on weekdays during primetime. This time IPL broadcast rights were awarded to Star India. Right in the first week of IPL 11, Indian’s penchant for the battle between the willow and leather shows, based on BARC’s weekly data for top 10 channels across genre in week 15 of 2018. Star India’s sports channel Star Sports 1 Hindi (SS1H) made a grand entry and how!

    Six Hindi GECs and one channel each from the Tamil GEC, Telugu GEC, Hindi movies and sports genres comprised BARC’s list of top-10 channels across genres–All India (U+R): 2+ individuals. Half the number of top-10 channels were from Star India, two each were from Sony Pictures Network India (SPN) and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zeel), and one was from the Sun TV Network.

    In week 15, Sun TV Network’s flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV barely made it to the top spot in the list with 935.993 million weekly impressions. Sun TV also topped BARC’s list of top-five Tamil channels and all the top-five programmes during primetime featured on Sun TV in the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry markets.

    Close on Sun TV’s heels at second rank in BARC’s across-genre list was Star India’s SS1H with 945.856 million weekly impressions. The channel ranked first in BARC’s list of top-five sports channels during the week under review. The top-five sports programmes during primetime featured on SS1H, with the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) match being the most watched sports programme during prime time.

    At third place in week 15 of 2018 was Zeel’s free-to-air (FTA) Hindi GEC Zee Anmol with 678.472 million weekly impressions. Zee Anmol was also ranked third in week 14 of 2018. Zee Anmol topped BARC’s lists of top-10 Hindi GEC in the Hindi-speaking markets (HSM) in urban and rural (U+R) and rural (R). Balaji Telefilms-produced family soap Kumkum Bhagya on Zee Anmol was the most watched Hindi GEC programme during prime time in HSM (U+R) and HSM (R). Another programme on the channel, Ganga, was also among BARC’s five most-watched Hindi GEC programmes during prime time in HSM (R).

    The Star Network FTA Hindi GEC Star Bharat dropped to fourth rank in week 15 of 2018 from second place in week 14 with 675.961 million weekly impressions. Star Bharat was ranked second in BARC’s list of top-10 channels in HSM (U+R), first in HSM (U) and fourth in HSM (R). The show Kya Haal Mr Panchal was the fourth most-watched Hindi GEC programme during prime time in HSM (U+R).

    SPN’s women-focused channel Sony Pal dropped a rank to fifth place in week 15 of 2018 as compared to fourth place in the previous week. Sony Pal scored 655.047 million weekly impressions during the week under consideration in BARC’s list of top-10 channels across genres. Sony Pal was ranked third in BARC’s list of top-10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R) and was ranked second in HSM (R). Taarak Mehta ka Ooltah Chashmah was among the five most-watched Hindi GEC programmes during prime time in HSM (U+R) and HSM (R). Two more programmes that featured on the channel– crime show CID and Baalveer—were also among BARC’s top-five Hindi GEC programmes during prime time in HSM (R).

    Another Star India FTA Star Utsav was ranked sixth in week 15 of 2018 with 578.783 million weekly impressions. Star Bharat was ranked fourth in BARC’s list of top-10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R) and ranked third in HSM (R).

    Zee’s flagship Hindi GEC Zee TV retained its previous week’s seventh rank in week 15 of 2018 with 543.830 million weekly impressions. Zee TV was ranked fifth in BARC’s weekly list of top-10 Hindi GEC channels in HSM (U+R) and fourth in HSM (U). Kumkum Bhagya and its spinoff Kundali Bhayga’s Mahasangam, which was featured on Zee TV, was the second most-watched show during prime time in HSM (U+R) and the most-watched show during primetime in HSM (U). Another soap, Ishq Subhan Allah, was the third most-watched Hindi GEC programme in HSM (U+R).

    Star India’s flagship Telugu GEC Star Maa was ranked eighth in week 15 of 2018 with 515.466 million weekly impressions. Star Maa was the top-ranked Telugu channel in BARC’s list of top-five Telugu channels in the Andhra Pradesh/Telangana markets. Three programmes, including a Telugu feature films Raja the Great that featured on Star Maa, were among BARC’s top-five Telugu programmes during primetime.

    Star India’s flagship Hindi GEC Star Plus was ranked ninth in week 15 of 2018 with 497.243 million weekly impressions. Star Plus was ranked second in BARC’s list of top-10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U). Two programmes on Star Plus, Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai and Ye Hai Mohabbatein, were among BARC’s list of top-five Hindi GEC programmes in HSM (U).

    SPN’s movie channel Sony Max was ranked tenth in week 15 of 2018 with 489.489 million weekly impressions. Sony Max topped BARC’s list of top-five Hindi movies channels during the week in HSM and was among the top-five Hindi movies channels in HSM (U+R) and HSM (U). Hindi feature film DJ was among the top-five Hindi movie programmes during prime time in HSM (U+R) and HSM (U). Sooryavansham and Kanchana Returns were also among the top-five Hindi movie programmes during primetime in HSM (U).

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