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  • Zee Anmol leads urban and rural GECs chart

    Zee Anmol leads urban and rural GECs chart

    MUMBAI: Zee Anmol emerged as the leader in the Hindi GEC (U+R) according to Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) all India data for week 4 of 2018.

    Star Utsav climbed to second position from third in GEC urban markets this week as compared to the week 3. Moreover, Rishtey emerged as the new entrant, dethroning &TV this week in GEC rural markets as compared to the previous week.

    Hindi GEC (U+R)

    Zee Anmol has garnered the top slot this week with 720614 impressions (000s). Star Bharat retained its second position with 690782 impressions (000s).

    Sony Pal climbed to the third position with 596799 impressions (000s). Star Utsav gained fourth position with 563861 impressions (000s) from sixth position in the previous week.

    Colors dropped down from third to fifth position with 560540 impressions (000s). Zee TV stood at sixth position with 557950 impressions (000s). Star Plus, Rishtey, Sony Entertainment Television and Sony Sab retained their seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions with 444095 impressions (000s), 443551 impressions (000s), 434762 impressions (000s) and 380515 impressions (000s) respectively.

    Hindi Rural GEC

    Zee Anmol retained its first position with 555514 impressions (000s). Star Utsav and Sony Pal exchanged their positions to second and third with 407400 impressions (000s) and 407206 impressions (000s) respectively.

    Star Bharat and Rishtey also retained their fourth and fifth position with 353658 impressions (000s) and 319546 impressions (000s) respectively. Dangal TV stood at sixth position with 250940 impressions (000s). Zee TV shifted to seventh position with 229287 impressions (000s). Big Magic, Colors and Star Plus retained their eighth, ninth and tenth positions with 163035 impressions (000s), 152791 impressions (000s) and 133910 impressions (000s) .

    Hindi Urban GEC

    In urban GEC, Colors retained its leadership with 407749 impressions (000s) sum. Star Bharat and Zee TV swapped their second and third position with 337123 impressions (000s) and 328662 impressions (000s).

    Star Plus, Sony Entertainment Television, Sony SAB, Sony Pal, Zee Anmol, Star Utsav retained their fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth position with 310185 impressions (000s), 306897 impressions (000s), 287043 impressions (000s), 189592 impressions (000s), 165100 impressions (000s) and 156461 impressions (000s) respectively.

    Rishtey emerged as the new entrant at tenth place, dethroning &TV, with 124004 impressions (000s).

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  • BARC ratings: Zee Anmol leads GECs in U+R

    BARC ratings: Zee Anmol leads GECs in U+R

    MUMBAI: Zee Anmol emerged as the leader in the Hindi GEC (U+R) genre dethroning Star Bharat according to Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) all India data for week 52 of 2017.

    Star Plus came down to fourth position from second position in GEC urban markets this week as compared with week 2. Zee Anmol and other channels, however, retained their respective positions this week in GEC rural markets as against the previous week.

    Hindi GEC (U+R)

    Zee Anmol garnered the top slot this week with 736,662 impressions (000s) swapping its position with Star Bharat at second position with 691,997 impressions (000s).

    Colors retained its third position with 627,061impressions (000s), whereas Sony Pal and Zee TV exchanged their positions to fourth and fifth positions, respectively, with 612,393 impressions (000s) and 605,654 impressions (000s).

    Star Utsav, Star Plus, Rishtey, Sony Entertainment Television and Sony Sab retained their sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions with 547746 impressions (000s), 472,073 impressions (000s), 453,939 impressions (000s), 424,273 impressions (000s) and 376,493 impressions (000s), respectively.

    Hindi Rural GEC

    Zee Anmol, Sony Pal, Star Utsav, Star Bharat, Rishtey retained their first, second, third, fourth and fifth positions, respectively, with 562,416 impressions (000s), 419,826 impressions (000s), 394,693 impressions (000s), 352,927 impressions (000s), 329,434 impressions (000s).

    Zee TV, Dangal TV, Big Magic, Colors, Star Plus also maintained their sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions with 238,911 impressions (000s), 236,393 impressions (000s), 166,794 impressions (000s), 163,428 impressions (000s), and 138,850 impressions (000s) respectively.

    Hindi Urban GEC

    In urban GEC, Colors retained its leadership with 453,621impressions (000s) sum. Zee TV climbed to the second position with 366,742 impressions (000s).

    Star Bharat stood at third position with 339,070 impressions (000s). Star Plus dropped down to fourth position from the second position with 333,222 with impressions (000s) as compared with week 2.

    Sony Entertainment Television, Sony Sab, Sony Pal and Zee Anmol retained their fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth positions with 304,688 impressions (000s), 281,841 impressions (000s), 192,567 impressions (000s) and 174,245 impressions (000s), respectively.

    Star Utsav and &TV also retained their ninth and tenth positions with 153,052 impressions (000s) and 132,949 impressions (000s).

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  • BARC panel tampering: first arrests made

    BARC panel tampering: first arrests made

    The Cyber Crime Police in Bengaluru, acting on a complaint filed by the Broadcast Research Council of India (BARC), has arrested five people allegedly for trying to tamper with the television viewership data generated and reported by BARC every week.

    The five arrested include a TV serial producer Raju and four others – Suresh, Jemsy, Subhash and Madhu. The five men allegedly approached the people in whose houses the BARC’s bar-o-meters are installed and asked them to watch a particular show at a particular time in lieu of incentives. The five arrested are currently in judicial custody.

    This is the first time that the Cyber Crime Police have taken action against anyone for this reason.

    Raju allegedly used to approach the producers and offer them to increase the viewership numbers of their serials against a good amount of money.

    “An FIR was registered in this regard and during the course of investigation, it was found that a group of people were involved in illegally hiking the TRP by using multiple televisions and also by paying a small sum to those people in whose houses the TRP meter would be installed, and asking them to watch a particular channel at a particular time. On getting credible information, police arrested the five accused. Investigations revealed that Raju and his team were working for it. Also, this year, BARC had given a contract to a new firm to install the TRP meters. The role of staff in that firm is also being investigated,” the Bengaluru police told The New Indian Express.

    In September 2017, BARC had urged the TRAI and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) to bring in legislations making TV viewership data tamper-proof and stipulate stringent penalties for offenders.

    Over the last 18 months, several instances have come to light where TV channels were found to be allegedly attempting to tamper and influence audience data and indulging in other malpractices to boost viewership or TV ratings points, as it’s popularly described in India. In some cases, BARC India undertook counter-measures resulting in alleged offenders taking legal recourse. In some other instances, the regulator had to issue warnings in an effort to do damage control.

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    BARC India to TRAI and MIB: Tweak legislation to make data tamper-proof

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  • TV ownership increased by 14% in 2017: IRS

    TV ownership increased by 14% in 2017: IRS

    MUMBAI: After a gap of four years, the Indian Readership Survey (IRS), which documents the growth of the media industry, has been released for 2017. The survey methodology was criticised in 2014 and, therefore, was halted for an upgrade. This time, the sample size has been increased by 34 per cent to 3.2 lakh households. The entire process was audited by E&Y.

    The study found that there has been an overall 14 per cent increase in TV ownership in Indian households. TV ownership, according to the 2011 census, stood at 47 per cent but the IRS study found it to be 61 per cent in 2017. Tamil Nadu had the highest TV penetration with 93 per cent followed by Kerala at 90 per cent. Punjab and the National Capital Region of Delhi tied at third position with 88 per cent. The census numbers for these states were 87 per cent, 77 per cent, 83 per cent and 88 per cent, respectively. The lowest reach, as per the IRS, was of Bihar with 22 per cent and 15 per cent as per census.  TV ownership was lowest in Tamil Nadu with less than 10 per cent. The number of no TV homes was highest in Bihar with more than 75 per cent.

    The percentage reach for TV in the last one month in the age group of 12 + (L1M) was 75 per cent, 10 per cent higher than IRS’ 2014 study. In this, urban reach was 88 per cent, 3 per cent higher than 2014 and rural reach was 68 per cent, 14 per cent higher.

    The DTH or digital TV market was up from 26 per cent to 45 per cent. Punjab leads with close to 55 per cent homes with DTH followed by Himachal Pradesh with 50 per cent.

    Colour TV ownership stood at 61 per cent in 2017 up from 55 per cent in 2014.

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  • Star Bharat leads Hindi GEC (U+R) in week 2 of BARC ratings

    Star Bharat leads Hindi GEC (U+R) in week 2 of BARC ratings

    MUMBAI: Star Bharat emerged as the leader in the Hindi GEC (U+R) genre dethroning Zee Anmol according to Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) all India data for week 2 of 2018.

    Sony Pal and Star Utsav exchanged their second and third positions in GEC urban markets this week as compared to week 1 2018. Moreover, Colors climbed to ninth position from tenth position this week in GEC rural markets.

    Hindi GEC (U+R)

    Star Bharat has garnered the top slot this week with 713443 impressions (000s) swapping its position with Zee Anmol at second position with 674543 impressions (000s).

    Colors, Zee TV, Sony Pal, Star Utsav and Star Plus retained their third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh positions with 627061 impressions (000s), 571781 impressions (000s), 561707 impressions (000s), 532146 impressions (000s) and 501448 impressions (000s) respectively.

    Sony Entertainment Television and Rishtey exchanged their eighth and ninth positions with 434651 impressions (000s) and 421999 impressions (000s) respectively. Sony Sab retained its last position with 401334 impressions (000s).

    Hindi Rural GEC

    Zee Anmol retained its first position with 5028221 impressions (000s). Sony Pal and Star Utsav exchanged their second and third positions with 384965 impressions (000s) and 379734 impressions (000s) respectively. Star Bharat and Rishtey stayed with their fourth and fifth positions with 371722 impressions (000s) and 298159 impressions (000s) respectively.

    Zee TV jumped to sixth position with 225491 impressions (000s), pushing Dangal to seventh position with 224788 impressions (000s). Big Magic kept its eighth position with 171562 impressions (000s).

    Colors and Star Plus swapped their ninth and tenth positions with 169408 impressions (000s) and 145360 impressions (000s) respectively.

    Hindi Urban GEC

    In urban GEC, Colors retained its leadership with 438891 impressions (000s) sum. Whereas, Star Plus, Zee TV, Star Bharat, Sony Entertainment Television, Sony Sab, Sony Pal and Zee Anmol retained their second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth position with 457653 impressions (000s), 356088 impressions (000s), 346290 impressions (000s), 341721 impressions (000s), 310921 impressions (000s), 297416 impressions (000s), 176742 impressions (000s) and 166321 impressions (000s) respectively.

    Star Utsav and &TV exchanged their ninth and tenth position respectively with 152412 impressions (000s) and 151782 impressions (000s).

    Also Read : Zee Anmol leads Hindi GEC (U+R) in BARC week 1 2018

    Star Bharat leads Hindi GEC (U+R) in BARC week 52

  • BARC week 2: Aaj Tak leads Hindi News in all three markets

    BARC week 2: Aaj Tak leads Hindi News in all three markets

    MUMBAI: Republic TV continues its leading streak in the second week of the year as well in BARC All India ratings. News Nation stays in the top five chart in week 2 of 2018 in Hindi News Rural market. Aaj Tak tops the chart again in Hindi News Urban market.

    English News

    Republic TV still retained its numero uno position with 750 impressions (000s) sum compared to 851 impressions (000s) sum last week. Times Now is at the second spot with 583 impressions (000s) sum followed by India Today Television witnessing a slight fall in the rating from 342 impressions (000s) sum last week to 325 impressions (000s) sum in week 2 of 2018. CNN News18 is in fourth position with 242 impressions (000s) sum compared to 322 impressions (000s) sum last week. NDTV 24X7 is at the fifth position with 192 impressions (000s) sum at fifth position.

    English Business News

    CNBC TV18 is at the top slot with 704 impressions (000s) sum followed by ET Now with 229 impressions (000s) sum. BTVi, NDTV Profit and NDTV Prime and CNBC TV18 Prime HD are at third fourth and fifth positions respectively with 141 impressions (000s) sum, 27 impressions (000s) sum and 11 impressions (000s) sum.

    Hindi News (U+R)

    Aaj Tak leads the genre with 110122 impressions (000s) sum. Zee News and News18 India are at second and third positions with 98248 and 84137 impressions (000s) sum respectively. India TV and ABP News are at fourth and fifth spot respectively after they interchanged their positions with 83282 and 76958 impressions (000s) sum.

    Hindi News Rural

    Aaj Tak tops the rural chart as well with 47737 impressions (000s) sum. Zee News and ABP News are at second and third positions with 39132 and 34803 impressions (000s) sum respectively followed by News Nation with 34395 impressions (000s) sum. News18 India which dropped a slot to fifth position got 34213 impressions (000s) sum. 

    Hindi News Urban

    Aaj Tak garnered the first position with 62384 impressions (000s) sum in week 2 dethroning Zee News to the second spot with 59116 impressions (000s) sum. India TV climbed a slot to the third position with 50576 impressions (000s) sum.

    News18 India drops a slot to fourth position with 49924 impressions (000s) sum followed by ABP News with 42155 impressions (000s) sum.

    Also Read: Making the news: A look at what news broadcasters did in 2017

    BARC ratings: BBC World, News Nation enter top 5 in news genre

  • Top television advertisers in 2017 based on BARC’s Top 10 lists

    Top television advertisers in 2017 based on BARC’s Top 10 lists

    BENGALURU: The biggest advertiser on television in terms of number of television ad insertions in 2017 was a cliché–Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL). Analysis of Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly data of top-10 television advertisers across genre: All India (U+R): 2+ Individuals shows that the company was ranked number one during all the 52 weeks of 2017 (Friday, 30 December 2016 to Friday 29 December 2017). HLL had a phenomenal number of 6,845,761 television insertions as compared to the total 18,505,146 or about 37 percent of the total television ads released by the top-10 advertisers during 2017. 

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    Besides HLL by itself, three other HLL group companies/brands–Brooke Bond Lipton, Ponds India and Lakme Lever were also among the top-10 advertisers for 50, 20 and 3 of the 52 weeks of 2017, respectively, bringing the total ads by HLL and these three HLL group companies to 8,301,365 or 44.93 percent of the total insertions according to BARC’s top 10 advertisers weekly lists for 2017. The actual total number of HLL and its associated companies were much higher given the fact that only BARC data for the top-10 advertisers in a week has been considered in this report.

    The only other advertiser that was present during all the 52 weeks of 2017 in BARC’s list of top-10 advertisers was FMCG personal care and homecare products company Reckitt Benckiser, which released 2,953,290 (16 percent of the total ads released by the top-10 television advertisers) television ad insertions in 2017. Please refer to the figure below for the combined total of TV insertions by the top 10 advertisers per week for 2017.

    The FMCG genre was the biggest advertising genre in 2017 by far accounting for 91.81 percent or 16,989,349 of the combined 18,505,406 total ad insertions by the top 10 advertisers during the 52 weeks of 2017.

    In all, 32 companies made it at least once to BARC’s top-10 advertisers’ weekly list during the 52 weeks of 2017. Of these, besides HLL and Reckitt, six made it to the lists for at least 46 weeks, two each were present in the top-10 advertisers weekly lists for 30 to 40 weeks and 10 to 20 weeks, four were present for 20 to 30 weeks and 18 were present for one to five weeks of 2017 in BARC’s lists.

    The eight biggest advertisers on television were FMCG companies. Of these, only two were present in BARC’s weekly lists for all the 52 weeks of 2017. Confectionary major Cadbury’s India was present in the weekly top-10 lists for 51 of 52 weeks of 2017 with 1,252,931 insertions followed by Brooke Bond Lipton with 1,130,404 insertions. Brooke Bond was present in BARC’s top-10 lists for 50 of the 52 weeks of 2017. Family, personal and household care and FMCG player Procter and Gamble (P&G) was next with 1,077,124 insertions as it was present for 46 of the 52 weeks of 2017.  Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurved was present in the lists for 47 of the 52 weeks in 2017. Though it was present for one week more in the lists than P&G, its total insertions were fewer.

    It should be noted that the actual number of insertions by Cadbury, Brooke Bond, P&G and Patanjali as well as the players mentioned in the list below may be much higher–the numbers mentioned above are limited to the sum of numbers in BARC’s weekly lists of top-10 advertisers in 2017.

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    The 32 companies that made it to BARC’s weekly list of top-10 advertisers at least once have been broadly classified into genres according to the table below:

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    The online genre represented by two players–Amazon Online India and Flipkart–was the next largest advertiser in 2017 based on BARC’s list. Amazon was present in BARC’s top-10 advertisers across genre list for 20 weeks with 427,049 insertions and Flipkart was present in the lists for one week during 2017 with 18,116 insertions.

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  • No change in channels in across genres list in first week of 2018

    No change in channels in across genres list in first week of 2018

    BENGALURU: Over the last few weeks of 2017, the same channels maintained their presence in Broadcast Audience Research Council’s (BARC) weekly lists of top 10 channels across genre, except with a slight shuffling of ranks. The status quo was maintained in week 1 of 2018 Saturday, 30 December 2017 to Friday, 5 January 2018.

    Seven Hindi GECs and one channel each from the Hindi movies, Tamil GEC and Telugu GEC genres made it to the across genres list in week 1 of 2018. From the networks’ perspective, three channels from Star India, two channels each from the Sony Pictures Network India (SPN), Sun Network and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zeel) respectively and one channel from Network 18 (Viacom 18) comprised the top 10 channels across genres.  Of these channels, six were pay TV channels and four were free to air (FTA).

    The first rank has long been the bastion of the Sun Network’s flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV and this was also the case in the premiere week of 2018. Sun TV scored slightly higher ratings of 1,141.157 million weekly impressions as compared to the 1,091.966 million weekly impressions during the previous week. As has been the norm in 2017, all the top five Tamil programmes in the Tamil Nadu/Puducherry markets during primetime were from Sun TV.  

    Zeel’s Hindi FTA channel Zee Anmol piped up a rank to second place with 687.783 million weekly impressions in the first week of 2018 as compared to 684.348 million weekly impressions in week 52 of 2017. The channel topped BARC’s top 10 Hindi GEC channels weekly list in HSM (urban + rural) and HSM (rural). The Balaji Telefilms-produced Indian family drama Kumkum Bhagya aired on Zee Anmol was among the top five Hindi GEC programmes during primetime in the HSM (urban + rural) and HSM (rural). Another soap, Jamai Raja, which also aired on Zee Anmol was among the top five Hindi GEC programmes during primetime in HSM (rural).

    Star India’s FTA Hindi GEC Star Bharat was at third place with 684.987 weekly impressions in the week under review as compared to the slightly higher 697.885 million weekly impressions in the last week of 2017. The Indian comedy sitcom Kya Haal Mr Panchal was among the top five Hindi GEC programmes during primetime in HSM (urban+rural) during primetime.

    Viacom18’s flagship Hindi GEC Colors climbed up a rank to fourth place in week 1 of 2018 with 622.326 million weekly impressions as compared to the previous week’s 625.303 million weekly impressions.

    Zeel’s flagship Hindi GEC Zee TV climbed down a rank to fifth place in week 1 of 2018 with 610.365 weekly impressions as compared to the previous week’s 633.535 million weekly impressions. Kumkum Bhagya and its spinoff Kundali Bhagya aired on Zee TV were among the top five Hindi GEC programmes in HSM (urban+rural) and HSM (urban).

    SPN’s Hindi movies channel Sony Max retained its sixth rank in week 1 of 2018 with 597.077 million weekly impressions to the previous week’s 621.749 million weekly impressions. The channel topped the top five Hindi movies channels weekly list in the HSM (urban+rural) and HSM (urban market) and was among the top five Hindi movies channels in BARC’s list of top five channels in the Hindi movies genre.

    Star India’ flagship Hindi GEC climbed up three ranks to seventh place with 591.835 million weekly impressions. The Balaji Telefilms-produced soap Ye Hai Mohabbatein was among the top five Hindi GEC programmes during primetime in HSM (urban).

    The Sun Network’s flagship Telugu GEC Gemini TV climbed up a rank to eighth place in week 1 of 2018 with 571.512 million weekly impressions as compared to the 560.296 million weekly impressions in the previous week. Gemini TV also topped the top five Telugu channels list in the first week of 2018.

    SPN’s women-focused Hindi GEC Sony Pal descended one rank was to ninth place in week 1 of 2018 with 561.022 million weekly impressions as compared to the 565.487 million weekly impressions in week 52 of 2017. The Indian drama Balveer and the sitcom comedy Tarak Mehta ka Ooltah Chashmah were among the top five Hindi GEC programmes during primetime in HSM (rural),

    Star India’s FTA Hindi GEC Star Utsav was ranked tenth in week 1 of 2018 with 552.712 million weekly impressions as compared to the 604.957 million weekly impressions in week 52 of 2017.

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  • Zee Anmol leads Hindi GEC (U+R) in BARC week 1 2018

    Zee Anmol leads Hindi GEC (U+R) in BARC week 1 2018

    MUMBAI: Zee Anmol is back as the leader in the Hindi GEC (U+R) market after a gap of one week, dethroning week 52 (2017) leader Star Bharat, in the first week of 2018, according to Broadcast Audience Research Council’s (BARC) all India data. Star Utsav dropped two slots to sixth position this week from the fourth position last week in Hindi GEC urban + rural markets.

    Star Plus jumped to the second slot this week from third slot last week whereas Zee TV slipped to third slot this week in Hindi GEC urban market. Moreover, &TV and Star Utsav exchanged their ninth and tenth positions in GEC urban markets this week as against the previous week. In the GEC rural markets, Star Plus and Colors swapped their ninth and tenth positions, according to week 1 of BARC India data analysis as compared to  week 52.

    Hindi GEC (U+R)

    Zee Anmol garnered the top position in the genre with 685344 Impressions (000s) sum followed by Star Bharat on second position with 678228 Impressions (000s) sum.

    Colors stood at the third positions with 598060 Impressions (000s) sum, whereas Zee TV climbed to the fourth position with 569854 Impressions (000s) sum. Sony Pal jumped to the fifth position with 557297 Impressions (000s) sum from sixth slot last week and Star Utsav fell to sixth position with 546867 Impressions (000s) sum.

    Star Plus, Rishtey, Sony Entertainment Television and Sony Sab have retained their seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth spots with 545437 Impressions (000s), 455178 Impressions (000s), 422853 Impressions (000s) and 379657 Impressions (000s) sum, respectively.

    Hindi Rural GEC

    Zee Anmol, Sony Utsav, Sony Pal, Star Bharat and Rishtey retained their first, second, third, fourth and fifth slots with 513567 Impressions (000s) sum, 396160 Impressions (000s) sum, 378521 Impressions (000s) sum, 346269 Impressions (000s) sum and 323827 Impressions (000s) sum, respectively.

    Dangal TV, Zee TV and Big Magic stood at their sixth, seventh and eight positions with 258281 Impressions (000s) sum, 219205 Impressions (000s) sum and 171606 Impressions (000s) sum, respectively.

    Star plus and Colors interchanged their ninth and tenth slots with 159556 Impressions (000s) sum and 158773 Impressions (000s) sum.

    Hindi Urban GEC

    In urban GEC, Colors retained its lead position with 439287 Impressions (000s) sum. Star Plus jumped up one slot to the second position with 385880 Impressions (000s) sum, whereas Zee TV slipped to third position with 350649 Impressions (000s) sum.

    Star Bharat, Sony Entertainment Television, Sony Sab, Sony Pal and Zee Anmol retained their fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth positions with 331958 Impressions (000s) sum, 297308 Impressions (000s) sum, 286626 Impressions (000s) sum, 178776 Impressions (000s) sum and 171776 Impressions (000s) sum, respectively.

    &TV and Star Utsav swapped their ninth and tenth positions with 155992 Impressions (000s) sum and 150707 Impressions (000s) sum, respectively.

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    Most watched Hindi GEC primetime programmes by urbanites in 2017

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    Star Bharat leads Hindi GEC (U+R) in BARC week 52

  • BARC ratings: Zee News leads in Hindi News urban market

    BARC ratings: Zee News leads in Hindi News urban market

    MUMBAI: Republic TV continued its leading streak in the first week of the year as it has been doing from the time of its launch in week 19 in 2017 of BARC All India ratings. India News enters the top five chart in week 1 of 2018 in Hindi News Rural market. Zee News tops the chart in Hindi News Urban market.

    English News

    The English news genre has seen a drastic fall in the viewership across all the channels. Republic TV still retained its numero uno position with 851 Impressions (000s) sum compared to 1039 Impressions (000s) sum last week. Times Now is at the second spot with 548 Impressions (000s) sum followed by India Today Television witnessing a slight hike in the rating from 305 Impressions (000s) sum last week to 342 Impressions (000s) sum in week 1 of 2018. CNN News18 is in fourth position with 322 Impressions (000s) sum compared to 229 Impressions (000s) sum last week. NDTV 24X7 re-enters top five at fifth place with 192 Impressions (000s) sum at fifth position.

    English Business News

    CNBC TV18 is at the top slot with 677 Impressions (000s) sum followed by ET Now with 155 Impressions (000s) sum. BTVi, NDTV Profit and NDTV Prime and CNBC TV18 Prime HD are at third fourth and fifth positions respectively with 125 Impressions (000s) sum, 61 Impressions (000s) sum and 9 Impressions (000s) sum.

    Hindi News (U+R)

    Aaj Tak leads the genre with 118716 Impressions (000s) sum. Zee News and News18 India are at second and third position respectively with 112445 and 91666 Impressions (000s) sum. ABP News and India TV are at fourth and fifth spot respectively after interchanged their positions with 88756 and 86595 Impressions (000s) sum.

    Hindi News Rural

    Aaj Tak tops the rural chart as well with 50526 Impressions (000s) sum. Zee News and ABP News moved up a slot each taking second and third positions with 43169 and 39939 Impressions (000s) sum respectively followed by News18 India which dropped two slots to fourth position with 37822 Impressions (000s) sum. India News made an entry to the top five chart at the fifth position with 33824 Impressions (000s) sum. News Nation which was in the fifth position is not present in the week 52 data.

    Hindi News Urban

    Zee News garnered the first position with 69275 Impressions (000s) sum in week 1 dethroning Aaj Tak to the second spot with 68189 Impressions (000s) sum. News18 India is at third position with 53844 Impressions (000s) sum.

    India TV is at the fourth position with 53061 Impressions (000s) sum followed by ABP News with 48816 Impressions (000s) sum at the fifth position. 

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    Making the news: A look at what news broadcasters did in 2017

    BARC ratings: BBC World, News Nation enter top 5 in news genre