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  • HUL, Dettol Liquid Soaps maintain top positions in BARC week 3

    HUL, Dettol Liquid Soaps maintain top positions in BARC week 3

    MUMBAI: Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India has released its data for top advertisers and brands for the period between 12 January 2019 and 18 January 2019.

    The data reflects top 10 advertisers and brands across genre on Indian television (U+R): 2+ Individuals demonstrating ads that were inserted the most in week 3 of 2019.

    Top advertisers:

    Hindustan Unilever Ltd has remained unmoved from its top advertiser spot even after several weeks. In week 3 of 2019, the brand made 131698 insertions.

    Reckitt Benckiser, which owns a large portfolio of products like Dettol, Veet, Durex condoms, Strepsils, Air Wick, and Harpic, is also holding strong to its second position and made 81596 insertions in week 3 of 2019.

    Following it is ITC Ltd, holding a portfolio of varied products including Sunfeast, Candyman, Vivel, Classmate, and Engage, was still strong in the third spot with 42964 insertions.

    Godrej Consumer Products Ltd has replaced Procter & Gamble from last week’s fourth spot, with 33414 insertions. Ponds India remains in the fifth position with 28360 insertions.

    Top Brands:

    Dettol Liquid Soap held strong to its freshly acquired top spot in the brands' category with 18629 insertions. Godrej Expert Rich Creme Hair Colour made a new entry on the second spot with 13888 insertions.

    Santoor Sandal and Turmeric has stepped up one spot from its last week’s rankings and is on the third position with 10168 insertions.

    Dettol Toilet Soaps has once again slipped to its fourth spot (from last week’s second) after a week’s gap and had made 9662 insertions in week 3.

    Trivago has slipped further down to fifth position (it was on number one spot for the past few weeks before slipping to the third spot in week 2) with 9661 insertions.

  • 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. 

  • 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.

  • PM Narendra Modi’s interview with ANI News garners 5.9 mn impressions

    PM Narendra Modi’s interview with ANI News garners 5.9 mn impressions

    MUMBAI: Indian PM Narendra Modi gave an interview to ANI News on 1 January 2019. It raked in 5.9 million impressions in the Hindi news genre, according to BARC India.

    As per a tweet by the audience measurement agency, (HSM 15+) the interview garnered great traction in the 6-7.30 pm time slot. During the course of the interview, PM Modi said that any decision on bringing an ordinance on Ram Mandir can be considered only after the judicial process gets over. He also targeted the Congress for creating “obstacles” in the Supreme Court and slowing down the judicial process.

    He also spoke on various issues from ranging from RBI governor Urjit Patel’s resignation to demonetisation to the Grand Alliance of opposition parties against the Bharatiya Janata Party and its NDA allies in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

  • Sun continues to shine on its namesake broadcaster

    Sun continues to shine on its namesake broadcaster

    BENGALURU: Television penetration is high in South India about 95 per cent as compared to the national average of about 65 per cent. A little less than forty per cent of television viewership in India is from South India. According to a Sun TV Network investor presentation, the addressable television advertisement market for South Indian television broadcasters, which comprises national, regional and local level advertisers, is pegged at Rs 6,000 crore.

    The four major South Indian languages are (in order of populations of the major territories they are spoken in) Telugu in Andhra Pradesh/Telangana, Tamil in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry, Kannada in Karnataka and Malayalam in Kerala. Besides, there is a global diaspora from South India that speaks one or more of these four languages. The largest regions in terms of population is Andhra Pradesh and Telangana combined, followed by Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala. In terms of television households, Tamil Nadu leads because of its higher television penetration, followed by Andhra Pradesh/Telangana, Karnataka and Kerala in that order. There are about 225 channels spread across the four South Indian languages that beam into India, besides many more that beam South Indian language content into other geographies.

    Networks, be they regional or pan-India, have been trying to attract as many eyeballs in these regions to their channels as they can. The focus in new channel launches seemed to be Telugu and to some extent Kannada in 2018. Though channels were launched in Tamil and Malayalam languages by major networks, it seemed more as efforts to enter these spaces, rather than to consolidate further.

    Among the major networks, Star India, Sun TV Network, Viacom18/ETV and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel) have channels that cater to the viewership pleasure of speakers of at least three of the four languages. All of them would like to lead in each of the four languages. The Sun TV Network has channels across genres such as GEC, movies, music, kids and comedy in all the four languages. The network also has news and ‘life’ channels in Tamil and Telugu.

    As things stood, until 2018, only Sun TV Network and Star India had major channels in all the four languages. Zeel launched its Malayalam GEC Zee Keralam on 19 November 2018 and completed its quartet. The network had catered to only the Telugu, Tamil and Kannada audiences until then. With the launch of Zee Keralam, Zeel had five channels for South Indian viewers – Zee Telugu, Zee Kannada, Zee Tamil and Zee Cinemalu, a Telugu Movies channel.

    The major GECs from the Star India stable included Asianet for Malayalam, Star Vijay for Tamil, Star Suvarana for Kannada and Star Maa for Telugu. Besides, Star India has been wooing sports viewers in South India -it now has 3 sports channels in South Indian languages – the last one to be launched near the end of 2018 – Star Sports 1 Kannada. Earlier, on December 7, the network had launched Star Sports 1 Telugu to join Star Sports 1 Tamil. The launch of Star Sports 1 Kannada took the Star Sports channel count to 15 with 10 standard definition and five high definition channels.

    Another national network, Network18, through Viacom 18 and ETV, has also been making rapid strides to catch up with its peers in the South Indian space. Earlier in the year, on February 19, Viacom 18 Media Pvt Ltd (Viacom 18) had launched Colors Tamil. The company followed it up by launching a Kannada movies channels – Colors Kannada Cinema. Viacom 18 also started the Kannada feed of two of its kids’ channels – Nickelodeon and Nickelodeon Sonic. Through the ETV brand, the Network 18 group launched ETV Pus HD, ETV Life HD and ETV Aburichi HD, ETV Cinema HD were launched on December 27, 2018.

    As many as nine HD channels were launched by two pan India networks in South India. Seven of the new HD channels were Telugu– five GEC and two movies and one each GEC HD channel was launched in Kannada and Malayalam. Network 18 through Viacom 18 and ETV launched five, while Zeel launched four HD channels. Zee Kannada HD was launched on 3 November 2018, while Zee Telugu HD and Zee Cinemalu HD were launched on 1 January 2018. Zee Keralam HD was launched on 5 December 2018.

    2018 saw elections in a number of states in the country. It also saw launch of regional news channels in the south. NewsX Kannada, a Kannada news channel was launched in 2018, while in the Telugu News space, Thota Chandrasekhar who holds positions in actor-politician Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena Party, launched 99 TV on 11 July, 2018. The Jana Sena Party also reportedly supports another Telugu News channel that started test runs on 24 October 2018 -Prime9 News.

    According to a Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) presentation in April 2018, television viewership in 2017 grew by 32 per cent as compared to 2016. In South India, viewership of Kannada content led the growth, followed by Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam with 63 per cent, 33 per cent, 30 per cent and 16 per cent growth respectively. Comparatively, viewership of the largest language – Hindi, grew by 27 per cent.

    The Sun continues to shine on Sun TV

    BARC data for top 10 channels across genres NCCS All India 2+ reveals that the Sun TVv Networks flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV is the most watched channel in the country. In 2018, Sun TV headed BARC’s list of top 10 channels across genres for 48 of the 52 weeks of 2018. It was only during some weeks of the eleventh edition of the Indian cricketing bonanza IPL that channel lost its prime position in BARC’s list of top 10 channels across genres for four of the seven IPL weeks.

    Among the 4 languages, it was Sun TV that topped BARC’s weekly ratings in Tamil, Star Maa that generally topped the weekly ratings in Telugu, Colors Kannada that topped the ratings in Karnataka and Asianet that topped the ratings in Malayalam during 2018.

    Since week 1 of 2018, BARC has also started putting in the public domain weekly ratings of news channels in these languages – and there are more than forty of them spread across the four languages. Polimer News in Tamil, TV9 Telugu in Telugu, TV9 Kannada, and Asianet News in Malayalam were the regional news toppers according to BARC’s weekly list of top 5 news channels in each respective language during 2018.

    From the financial aspect, the Sun TV Network has been one of the most profitable media and entertainment companies in India. The company has been rewarding its shareholders with dividends for at least three of the four quarters of a fiscal. Financial year 2018-19 or FY 2018-19 (period between 01 April 2018 to 31 March 2019) seems to be no different – the company has already rewarded its shareholders with dividends for the two quarters for which it has declared results so far.

    Despite not having a number 1 position in BARC’s weekly lists of top 5 channels in Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, the network’s channels have a huge combined viewership. The company claims in his investor presentation that about 29 per cent of the estimated Rs 4,500 crore television ad revenue and 60 per cent of subscription revenue of the four South Indian spaces accrues to it. The Sun TV Network’s revenue for FY 2018-19 was Rs 2,862 crore, profit after tax (PAT) was Rs 979 crore (36 per cent margin). Sun TV Network’s ad and subscription revenues for fiscal 2018-19 were Rs 1,172 crore and Rs 1,116 crore respectively.

  • Sun TV continues as most watched channel across genres in first week of 2019

    Sun TV continues as most watched channel across genres in first week of 2019

    BENGALURU: The Sun TV Network’s flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV continued its almost uninterrupted run as the most watched channels across genres according to the Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly list for week 1 of 2019 (Saturday, 29 December 2018 to Friday, 4 January 2019). It is only during some weeks of the Indian Premier League (IPL) that the channel has to give way to the main sports channel of the network that broadcasts the mega cricketing event.

    Six Hindi GECs, two Hindi movies channels and one channel each from the Tamil GEC and Telugu GEC genres made it to BARC’s weekly list of  top 10 channels across genres during week 1 of 2018 (week or period under review or consideration). From the network’s perspective, BARC’s across genres list for week 1 of 2019 had three channels from Star India, two channels each from Sony Pictures Network India, Viacom 18 Media Pvt Ltd (Viacom 18) and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel) and one channel from the Sun TV Network.

    As mentioned above at its normal first rank in week 1 of 2019 was Sun TV with 1,103.433 million weekly impressions as compared to 1,012.658 weekly impressions in week 52 of 2018. Sun TV also led BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Tamil channels in the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry market and four 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.

    Also at its previous week’s second rank was Zeel’s FTA Hindi GEC Zee Anmol with 826.144 million weekly impressions in week 1 of 2019 as compared to 785.124 million weekly impressions in week 52 of 2018. 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 channel was the most watched Hindi channel across genres during the week. The Balaji Telefilms-produced soap Kumkum Bhagya was ranked first 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 HSM (R).  Another two programmes aired on the channel – Mahek and Ek Main aur Ek Tu were ranked fourth and third respectively in HSM (R).

    Star India’s flagship Hindi GEC Star Plus climbed up four places to third rank in week 1 of 2019 with 705.119million impressions as compared to 654.141 million weekly impressions and second rank in week 52 of 2018. Star Plus was ranked second in BARC’s weekly lists of top 10 Hindi GECs in the combined urban and rural Hindi speaking markets or HSM (U+R) and was ranked first in HSM (U) and ninth in HSM (R). The awards show – Star Screen Awards 2019 was ranked second and first in BARC’s weekly 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 HSM (U) respectively.

    Star India’s flagship Telugu GEC dropped a rank in week 1 of 2019 to fourth place with 888.726 million weekly impressions as compared with 782.262 million weekly impressions in week 52 of 2018. Star Maa was ranked first in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Telugu channels in the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana market. 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.

    Zeel’s flagship Hindi GEC Zee TV also dropped a rank in week 1 of 2019 to fifth place with 680.504 million weekly impressions as compared to 700.671 million weekly impressions in week 52 of 2018. 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 fourth rank 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 in HSM (U).

    Viacom 18’s Hindi movies channel Rishtey Cineplex also dropped a rank in week 1 of 2019 to sixth place with 638.638 million weekly impressions as compared with 690.626 million weekly impressions in week 52 of 2018. The channel began 2019 with a bang – four of the top five movies in BARC’s weekly 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+R) and all the five top programmes in HSM (R) were aired on Rishtey Cineplex. Rishtey Cineplex was the most watched Hindi movies channel in BARC’s across genres weekly list.

    Another Star India pay-TV Hindi GEC Star Bharat also dropped a rank to seventh place in week 1 of 2019 with 619.919 million weekly impressions as compared to 658.078 million weekly impressions in week 52 of 2018. 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.

    SPN’s flagship Hindi GEC Sony Entertainment Television (SET) climbed up two places to eighth rank in BARC’s top 10 channels across genres weekly list with 619.230 million weekly impressions in week 1 of 2091 as compared to 603.330 million weekly impressions in week 52 of 2018. SET was ranked fifth in BARC’s list of top 10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R) and second in HSM (U). The reality show Super Dancer Chapter 3-Auditions on the channel was ranked third and first 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 HSM (U) respectively. Further the comedy show – The Kapil Sharma Show was ranked second in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi programmes during primetime in HSM (U).

    Viacom 18’s flagship Hindi GEC Colors entered BARC’s across genres weekly list in week 1 of 2019 with 607.973 million weekly impressions at ninth rank. Colors was ranked sixth in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in HSM (U+R), tenth in HSM (R) and third in HSM (U).

    SPN’s Hindi movies channel Sony Max also dropped a rank to tenth place in week 1 of 2019 with 598.253 million weekly impressions as compared with 625.252 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 film (HFF)  Bahubali 2: The Conclusion was ranked first 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+R) and HSM (U). Two other HFF’s – Tiger Zinda Hai  and Yevadu were ranked fourth and fifth 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 n HSM (U)

  • English business news genre sees no change in position in BARC week 1

    English business news genre sees no change in position in BARC week 1

    MUMBAI: The English business news genre saw no changes for the new week of the new year as compared to the last week of the previous year; everyone’s placed on the same positions as they ended the previous year. Aaj Tak continue to groove on the same tracks in the rural, urban and U+R genres as it did the previous year.

    English News

    Republic TV started week 1 in leading position in the English news genre with 731 impressions ‘000. Times Now came in at second place with 583 impressions ‘000. India Today Television stood in third position with 284 impressions ‘000 for the first week of 2019 after ending the last week of year 2018 on fourth position. CNN News18 took the fourth position with a tight 280 impressions ‘000 compared to India Today Television. NDTV 24X7 with mere 191 impressions ‘000 took the fifth position.

    English business news

    The English business news genre saw no changes for the new week of the New Year as compared to the last week of the previous year. CNBC TV18 started off in the first place with 442 impressions '000. ET Now and BTVI took second and third positions with 105 impressions '000 and 64 impressions '000. CNBC TV18 Prime HD took fourth position with 19 impressions '000.

    Hindi News (U+R)

    Aaj Tak continued a dominative start in the Hindi news (U+R) genre with 140,656 impressions ‘000. Zee News is placed in the second place with 119,908 impressions ‘000. News18 India takes the third position with 114,993 impressions ‘000. ABP News stands in fourth position with 109,341 impressions ‘000. India TV is placed in the fifth position with 101,902 impressions ‘000.

    Hindi news rural

    Aaj Tak is positioned first in the Hindi news rural genre with 63,672 impressions ‘000. ABP News and News18 India are at second and third positions with 53,357 impressions ‘000 and 50,674 impressions ‘000, respectively. Zee News with 47,496 impressions ‘000 is placed at the fourth place. India TV took the fifth spot with 37,983 impressions ’000.

    Hindi news urban

    Aaj Tak stood on top with 76,984 impressions ‘000 followed by Zee News with 72,412 impressions ‘000. News18 India took the third place with 64,319 impressions ‘000. India TV is placed on the fourth position with 63,918 impressions ‘000. ABP News took the fifth place with 55,983 impressions ‘000.

  • Zee Kannada emerges a leader – a first-for the channel in 13 years

    Zee Kannada emerges a leader – a first-for the channel in 13 years

    MUMBAI: As per the recently released BARC weekly data (Urban + Rural) for the first week of the year 2019, Zee Kannada has claimed the top position in the Kannada market with a total of 415697 impressions ‘000s; 171167 impressions ‘000s in the urban market, 244530 in the rural market, with robust growth across its prime-time fiction shows. Continuing to hold the leadership position in the Urban market for the last 12 weeks, Zee Kannada has now earned the distinction of being the leader for the first time in the last 13 years.

    Taking to the challenge of reaching the market leader position, Zee Kannada has secured 260314 impressions ‘000s in its prime-time band, with its top shows including Yaare Nee Mohini, Paaru, and Brahmangantu. The channel has also secured leadership position across its prime-time slots in the Non-Fiction shows such a SRGMP15 & Drama Juniors 3.

    Commenting on the ratings, Raghavendra Hunsur, Business Head of Zee Kannada said, “I am glad to congratulate the Zee Kutumba on kick-starting the year with a well-deserved celebration on achieving our goal of securing top honours in the Kannada GEC spacel. With the channel’s recently refreshed brand image, Zee Kannada has grown by leaps and bounds on the back of curating interesting concepts, storylines, and our success stands testimony to our steadily strengthening relationship with our viewers. We are extremely thrilled to be the number one Kannada general entertainment channel for the first time in the last 13 years and humbled by the overwhelming support of our partners and ardent viewers.”