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Zee & Sony agree to sell three hindi channels to address CCI’s anti competition concerns

Mumbai: Sony and Zee have agreed to sell three hindi channels voluntarily – Big Magic, Zee Action, and Zee Classic – in order to address potential anti-competitive concerns raised by their proposed mega-merger. The regulator made public its detailed 58-page order on Wednesday, more than three weeks after giving its approval for the transaction.

According to the order, the two groups have agreed to divest Big Magic, a hindi general entertainment channel, as well as Zee Action and Zee Classic, both Hindi film channels.

They voluntarily agreed to the modification to the proposed deal after CCI determined that the deal would have a significant adverse effect on competition.

They presented their proposal to the Competition Commission of India (CCI), which approved the deal with conditions on 4 October.

CCI announced on October 4 that it had approved the “merger of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) and Bangla Entertainment Private Limited (BEPL) with Culver Max Entertainment Private Limited (CME), with certain modifications”.

Previously, CME was known as Sony Pictures Networks India Pvt Ltd. (SPNI). In September 2021, ZEEL announced a non-binding term sheet with SPNI to merge their linear networks, digital assets, production operations, and programme libraries.

Deals exceeding a certain threshold must be approved by CCI, which seeks to ensure fair competition in the marketplace.

CCI announced on 4 October that it had cleared the proposed Zee-Sony merger deal, which was announced in September of last year.

To ensure fair competition in the relevant markets, the regulator has also mandated that the purchaser meet a number of requirements before purchasing the three channels.

One of the requirements is that the buyer not be “Star India Private Limited or Viacom18 Media Private Limited (including their respective affiliates)”.

The purchaser should be completely independent of and unconnected to the resulting entity and its affiliates. According to the order, it also cannot be a former or current employee or director (or the spouse or child of such an employee or director).

Among other things, the purchaser must have the financial resources, expertise, and incentive to keep and grow the divestment business as a viable and active competitor to the parties and/or the parties’ affiliates.

“The purchaser should neither be likely to create any prima facie competition concerns, nor give rise to a risk that the implementation of the order will be delayed, and must, in particular, reasonably be expected to obtain all necessary approvals from the relevant regulatory authorities for the acquisition and operation of the divestment business,” the order said.

The CCI further stated that the planned merger would be judged to have had a significant detrimental impact on competition in India if the parties did not comply with the voluntary adjustments presented.

October 27, 2022
BARC week 48: Colors regains second spot on pay platform

MUMBAI: Sony Sab has slipped down to third spot on pay platform in week 48 (Saturday 28 November 2020 to Friday 4 November 2020) of Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) data. Colors has secured second position on both pay platform and urban market. Dangal has climbed up to the eight spot on pay platform.

Pay Platform

In week 48 of BARC India ratings, the top ten channels on pay platform were Star Plus, Colors,Sony Sab, Zee TV, Sony Entertainment Television, Star Utsav, Sony Pal, Dangal, Star Bharat, and ColorsRishtey.

Urban Market

In the urban market, the top ten channels were Star Plus,Colors,Sony Sab, Star Utsav, Sony Entertainment Television, Zee TV, Sony Pal, ColorsRistey, Dangal and Star Bharat in week 48 of BARC India ratings.

Rural Market

Star Utsav, Zee Anmol, Sony Pal, ColorsRishtey, Dangal, Star Plus, Zee TV, Sony Sab, Colors and Big Magic were the top ten channels in the rural market in week 48 of BARC India ratings.

Free Platform

On the free platform, Star Utsav, Zee Anmol,Sony Pal, ColorsRishtey, Dangal, Big Magic, Shemaroo TV, DD National, DD Retro and DD Uttar Pradesh were the top ten channels in week 48 of BARC India ratings.

December 12, 2020
IPL 13 grows and grabs television viewership

BENGALURU: Live telecast of the Indian Premier League (IPL) must seem an abomination for competitors’ networks. Year in and year out, the period during which the cricketing bonanza is played, all genres and competing sports networks have seen viewership numbers dip as Indians tuned into the channels of the network that aired the event live – the network being Star India in this edition of IPL or IPL 2020 or IPL13 as it is known. The Covid2019 pandemic delayed IPL by around five to six months. In a normal year, IPL commences around the end of March or at the beginning of April every year and runs for about six weeks or so. The event this year clashes with flagship programmes such as the twelfth season of Hindi Kaun Banega Crorepati hosted by Bollywood doyen Amitabh Bachchan and with the initial weeks of the Salman Khan hosted fourteenth edition of the Hindi Bigg Boss. This paper comes with a caveat – the conclusions in it are based on BARC weekly data of the top 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 channels/programmes of various genres in different languages/platfroms in the public domain.

Week 38 of 2020 (Saturday,19 September 2020 to Friday, 25 September 2020, week or period under review) saw television viewership climb 2.4 percent to 17.0 billion weekly impressions from 16.5 billion weekly impressions reported for the previous week according to Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) data published in the public domain. Viewership in week 38 of 2020 was 15.1 percent higher than the pre-Covid2019 average of 14.77 billion weekly impressions. Ratings watchdogs BARC and Nielsen have standardized the average data for weeks 02 and 04 2020 as the pre-Covid2019 average. As is obvious from the figure below, television viewership had started declining from week 34 of 2020. IPL 13 week saw viewership growth.

BARC weekly list of the Top 10 Channels on All Platforms Across genres saw Star Sports 1 Hindi catupult into it, and that too at rank 1. Though the combined ratings of the Top 10 Channels in this list grew 5.8 percent to 8,322.475 billion weekly impressions in week 38 of 2020 from 7,863.577 billion weekly impressions in the previous week, seven of the channels in the list saw a decline in viewership. Two channels exited the list in week 38 of 2020. Star Sports 1 Hindi entered the list as mentioned above at rank 1 with 1,247.407 billion weekly impressions. It must be noted that Star India is airing IPL 13 on Star Sports 1, Star Sports 1 HD, Star Sports 2, Star Sports 2 HD, Star Sports 1 Hindi and Star Sports 1 Hindi HD TV channels as well as live streaming on the Disney+ Hotstar digital platform.

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Analysis of BARC data in the public domain of the top 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 channels of various genres in different languages/platfroms for week 38 of 2020 reveals that the top channale of all major genres such as GECs’, news, movies and kids saw ratings dip. According to BARC-Nielsen reports these four genres garnered around 90 percent of television viewership. BARC data shows that combined impressions data for the Top 5 Sports channels grew 8.6 times to 1,734.956 billion weekly impressions in week 38 of 2020 from 201.549 billion weekly impressions in the previous week. It is quite obvious that the sports genre has helped television viewership grow, while at the same time has eaten into viewership of other genres/sub-genres across platforms – be they pay or free or combined free and pay.

Top 10 Channels on All Platforms, Pay Platform and Free Platform Across Genres

The Star India Network pulled viewership eyeballs with five channels in BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 Channels on All Plaform Across Genres in week 38 of 2020. There were two channels from Sony Pictures Network (SPN) and one channel each from Enterr10 Television, Sun Tv Network and Zee Entertainment Enterrpises Limited (Zeel) besides those of Star India in the top 10 weekly list for the week under review.Two channels, Viacom18’s Hindi GEC Colors Rishtey and Zeel’s flagship Hindi GEC Zee TV exited the list and were replaced by Star Sports 1 Hindi and Star India’s flagship Tamil GEC Star Vijay. There were six Hindi GEC channels, two Tamil channels and one channel each from the sports and the Telugu genres in BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 Channels on All Platforms Across Genres.

BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 Pay Channels Across Genres also was dominated by Star India channels – there were four of them. Besides, there were 3 channels from Zeel and one channel each from SPN, Sun Tv Network and Viacom18. While the combined weekly impressions of the Top 10 Pay Channels Across Genres increased 10 percent to 7,285.986 billion weekly impressions in week 38 of 2020 from 6,624.357 billion weekly impressions in week 37 of 2020, five of the channels saw week-on-week (w-o-w) decline in weekly impressions. One channel – Star India’s flagship Bangla channel Star Jalsha exited the list in week 38 of 2020 and was replaced by Star Sports 1 Hindi. There were four Hindi GECs’, three Tamil channels, two Telugu channels and one Sports channel in BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 Pay channels Across Genres.

BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 Free Channels Across Genres in week 38 of 2020 had the same line up of channels in the same order as in the previous week. However, the combined weekly impressions of the 10 channels in week 38 of 2020 declined 1.5 per cent to 3,535.728 billion weekly impressions from 3,588.256 billion weekly impressions in week 37. Six of the channels in the list saw viewership decline, while four saw viewership increase. Six of the channels were Hindi GECs’ while four were Hindi Movies channels. There were three channels from Zeel, two channels from Viacom18, and one channel each from B4U Network, Enterr10 Television, Goldmine Telefilms, Star India and SPN in BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 Free Channels Across Genres in week 38 of 2020.

Please refer to the chart below:

October 7, 2020
Non-Hindi channels continue to dominate top 10 pay channels across genres

BENGALURU: As the progress in the Sushant Singh Rajput case seemingly tapered off, the news genre lost some of its sheen in terms of weekly impressions in Week 37 of 2020 (Saturday 12 Sep 2020 to Friday 18 Sep 2020, week or period under review). Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) data for top five Hindi, English, Assamese, Bangla, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu channels reveals that the top news channels lost viewership in Week 37 of 2020 as compared to the previous week (Week 36 of 2020). At the same time, overall television viewership in Week 37 of 2020 at 16.6 billion weekly impressions was just a fraction higher than the 16.5 billion weekly impressions in Week 36. BARC data for the top 10 Hindi GEC channels, top four Assamese channels and top five Bangla, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu channels for the week under review shows that viewership of most of these genre/sub-genres in respective platforms and markets increased to contribute to the small increase in overall viewership. The top five channels of English entertainment channels, infotainment, lifestyle, English & Hindi movies, music, sports and top four youth channels also saw viewership in terms of weekly impressions grow.

Top 10 Channels on All Platforms, Pay Platform and Free Platform Across Genres

BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels on all platforms across genres saw the combined weekly impressions in Week 37 of 2020 increase as compared to the previous week. Nine of the channels in the All Platforms channels list were the same with a slight shuffling of ranks as in the previous week. One Telugu channel from the Zee Entertainment Enterprises (Zeel) stable exited the list in week 37 of 2020 to be replaced by its sister channel and Zeel’s flagship Hindi GEC Zee TV at rank 10. There were eight Hindi GECs and one channel each from the Tamil and the Telugu genres in the list. There were three channels from Star India, two channels from Sony Pictures Network India (SPN) and Zeel and one channel each from Enterr10 Television, Sun Tv Network and Viacom18 in BARC’s Weekly list of Top 10 Channels on All Platforms Across Genres in Week 37 of 2020.

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BARC’s Weekly list of top 10 pay channels across genres was dominated by two south Indian language channels – three from the Tamil genre, two channels from the Telugu genres and one from the Bangla genre along with four Hindi GECs. There were four channels from Star India, three channels from Zeel, one channel each from SPN, Sun Tv Network and Viacom18. One channel exited the list in Week 37 of 2020 – the Viacom18 associated ETV Telugu which was replaced by Star India’s flagship Banga GEC Star Jalsha at rank 10.

All the 10 channels in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 free channels in Week 37 of 2020 were the same as in the previous in the same rank order. Six of the channels were Hindi GECs’ while four were Hindi Movies channels. There were three channels from Zeel, two channels from Viacom18, and one channel each from B4U Network, Enterr10 Television, Goldmine Telefilms, Star India and SPN.

Please refer to the table below:

September 30, 2020
BARC week 30: Movie channels dominate free channels lists across genres

BENGALURU: TRAI’s new tariff order (NTO) seems to have changed viewership patterns if one were to go as per Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) data. Of course, BARC has started slicing and dicing the data more and more specifically and hence enabling an improved scenario of viewership patterns in the country. But, NTO resulted in the major networks converting some of their free to air (FTA) channels to pay TV, hence enabling channels that remained FTA viewership to leapfrog. One of the biggest beneficiaries of the change in its competitions’ platforms to pay TV is Enterr 10 TV’s Hindi GEC Dangal. Dangal has often been the leader in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres on all platforms as also in BARC’s weekly lists of top 10 Hindi GEC channels in the combined rural and urban Hindi speaking markets or HSM (U+R) as also in the rural Hindi speaking market or HSM (R). At the same time, Dangal has also been amongst BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs in the urban Hindi speaking market or HSM (U). Another channel that has reaped viewership benefits has been Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel) FTA Hindi GEC Big Magic.

Since week 27 of 2019, BARC has started reporting breakup of free and pay channels in the case of some markets, including the top 10 or 11 channels across genres. BARC’s weekly list of top 11 free channels across genres contains channels only from the region above the five South Indian states and the union territory of Puducherry – the Hindi speaking markets. BARC defines HSM as all India without the states in which the four South Indian languages – Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu are spoken. Ten of 11 channels in BARC’s weekly list of top 11 free channels across channels are mostly either Hindi or Bhojpuri, the one exception being Marathi. Six of the 11 channels among the top 11 FTA channels across genres are movies channels – equally divided between Hindi movies and Bhojpuri movies. Often the number of Bhojpuri channels equals Hindi channels.

Let us look at BARC’s weekly list of top 11 free channels across genres for week 30 of 2019

BARC’s weekly list of top 11 free channels across genres for week 30 of 2019 (Saturday, 20 July 2019 to Friday, 26 July 2019) had two Hindi GECs, three Hindi movies channels, four Bhojpuri channels including three Bhojpuri movie channels, and one channel each from the Marathi and music genres. From the networks’ perspective, there were four channels from Enterr 10 TV, three channels each from B4U Media and Zeel, and one channel from Skystar Entertainment Private Ltd (Skystar).

All the 11 channels in BARC’s weekly list of top 11 free channels across genres were same as in week 29, but with a small tweak in ranks. As a matter of fact, the names and ranks of the first four channels in BARC’s weekly list of top 11 free channels across genres in week 30 of 2019 were the same as in week 29.

As mentioned above, Dangal headed BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels on all platforms across genres in week 30 of 2019. The channel climbed up one place to first rank with 866.547 million weekly impressions in week 30 of 2019 from second rank and 781.501 million weekly impressions in week 29. Dangal retained first rank in BARC’s weekly list of top 11 free channels across genres in week 30 of 2019 with 665.082 million weekly impressions as compared to 589.591 million weekly impressions in week 29. Dangal was ranked first in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs in the combined urban and rural Hindi speaking market HSM (U+R) as well as in HSM (R) and was ranked sixth in HSM (U). Dangal also headed BARC’s weekly list of top 8 free Hindi GECs during the week under review.

At second rank in week 30 was Big Magic with 405.141 million weekly impressions as compared to 358.730 million weekly impressions in BARC’s weekly list of top 11 free channels across genres. Big Magic was ranked seventh in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R) on all platforms. Big Magic was ranked second in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs in HSM (R) and was ranked eighth in HSM (U). It was ranked second in BARC’s weekly list of top 8 free Hindi GECs during the week under review.

At third rank in week 30 of 2019 was B4U Media’s Hindi movies channel B4U Kadak with 325.020 million weekly impressions as compared to 347.028 million weekly impressions in the previous week. B4U Kadak was ranked second in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi movies channels on all platforms in HSM (U+R) and was ranked first in HSM (R). B4U Kadak was ranked first in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 free Hindi movies channels.

At fourth rank was Enterr 10 TV’s Marathi channel Fakt Marathi with 162.021 million weekly impressions as compared to 184.384 million weekly impressions in week 29. Fakt Marathi was ranked second in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Marathi channels in the Maharashtra and Goa market.

B4U Media’s Bhojpuri channel B4U Bhojpuri climbed up a place to fifth rank in week 30 of 2019 with 157.775 million weekly impressions as compared to sixth rank and 154.732 million weekly impressions in the previous week. B4U Bhojpuri was ranked first in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Bhojpuri channels in the Bihar and Jharkhand market. This indicates that the channel has viewers outside the Bihar and Jharkhand markets also.

Enterr 10 TV’s Bhojpuri channel Bhojpuri Cinema dropped a place to sixth rank in week 30 of 2019 with 157.352 million weekly impressions as compared to fifth rank and 160.117 million weekly impressions in the previous week. Bhojpuri Cinema topped BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Bhojpuri channels in the Bihar and Jharkhand market.

Another B4U Media Hindi movies channel, B4U Movies also climbed up a place to rank seven in week 30 of 2019 with 150.461 million weekly impressions as compared to eighth rank and 130.537 million weekly impressions in week 29. B4U Movies was ranked fifth in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi movies channels in HSM (U+R) and was ranked second in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 free Hindi movies channels.

Zeel’s Bhojpuri channel Big Ganga dropped a place to eighth rank in week 30 of 2019 with 138.778 million weekly impressions as compared to seventh rank and 151.977 million weekly impressions in week 29. Big Ganga was ranked third in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Bhojpuri channels in the Bihar and Jharkhand market.

Skystar’s Hindi movies channel Skystar Movies retained its previous week’s ninth rank in week 30 of 2019 with 120.616 million weekly impressions as compared to 124.183 million weekly impressions in week 29. Skystar Movies was ranked third in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 free Hindi movies channels.

Zeel’s Music channel Zing climbed a rank to tenth place in week 30 of 2019 with 102.370 million weekly impressions as compared to eleventh rank and 100.580 million weekly impressions in week 29.

Dropping a place to eleventh rank in week 30 of 2019 was Enterr 10 TV’s Hindi movies channel Enterr 10 with 102.280 million weekly impressions as compared to tenth rank and 102.757 million weekly impressions in week 29.

Enterr 10 was ranked fourth in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 free Hindi movies channels.

August 7, 2019
BARC week 29: Sun TV back on top as ICC Cricket World Cup tourney ends

BENGALURU: The Sun TV Network’s flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV was back on top as the most watched channel across genres on all platforms in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly lists of top channels in week 29 of 2019. (Saturday 13 July 2019 to Friday 19 July 2019, week under review). With India out of the premier cricket tourney after the surprise loss to New Zealand, interest in the final match between England and New Zealand seemed to have waned in India, despite the nail-biting photo-finish. Star Sports 1 Hindi, the occupant of numero uno rank in the previous weeks’ lists failed to find a place in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres, or the top 11 Pay channels across genres – Sun TV headed both the lists. Further, DD Sports which also aired the tournament exited BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Free channels across genres during the week under review.

For week 29 of 2019, BARC has posted the following across genres lists: Top 10 channels across genres across platforms; Top 11 Pay channels across genres; and Top 11 Free channels across genres. For week 28, the ratings agency had posted only the top 10 channels list for across platforms, pay channels and Free channels across genres.

BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres on all platforms

Six Hindi GECs, two Tamil channels and one channel each from the Telugu and Hindi movies comprised BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres in week 29 of 2019. From the network’s perspective, there were three channels each from Sony Pictures Network India (SPN) and Star India and one channel each from Enterr 10 TV, Sun TV Network, Viacom18 and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel)

As mentioned above, Sun TV headed BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels with 863.550 million weekly impressions in week 29 of 2019 as compared to second rank and 843.786 million weekly impressions in the previous week.

At second rank was Enterr 10 TV’s FTA Hindi GEC Dangal with 781.501 million weekly impressions in week 29 of 2019 as compared to 762.595 million weekly impressions in the previous week. Moving up a place to third rank in week 29 of 2019 was Star India’s flagship Hindi GEC Star Plus with 708.740 million weekly impressions as compared to fourth rank and 694.567 million weekly impressions in the previous week.

Moving up two places to fourth rank was Zeel’s flagship Hindi GEC Zee TV with 693.440 million weekly impressions in week 29 of 2019 as compared to sixth rank and 676.868 million weekly impressions in week 28. Retaining its previous week’s rank five was Star India’s flagship Telugu GEC Star Maa in week 29 of 2019 with 683.816 million weekly impressions as compared to 689.795 million weekly impressions in week 28.

Climbing up three places to sixth rank was Viacom18’s flagship Hindi GEC Colors with 563.058 million weekly impressions in week 29 of 2019 as compared to ninth rank and 526.158 million weekly impressions in week 28.

Climbing up a place to seventh rank in week 29 of 2019 was SPN’s Hindi GEC Sony Sab with 551.715 million weekly impressions as compared to eighth rank and 530.349 million weekly impressions in week 28. Dropping a rank to eighth place in week 29 of 2019 was Star India’s flagship Tamil GEC Star Vijay with 531.446 million weekly impressions as compared to seventh rank and 545.135 million weekly impressions in week 28.

SPN’s Hindi movies channel Sony Max climbed a place to ninth rank in week 29 of 2019 with 522.040 million weekly impressions as compared to tenth rank and 496.497 million weekly impressions in week 28. SPN’s flagship Hindi GEC Sony Entertainment Television (SET) re-entered BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres in week 29 of 2019 with 504.481 million weekly impressions.

BARC’s weekly list of top 11 pay channels across genres

Four Star India channels, three channels from SPN, two channels from Zeel and one channel each from Sun TV Network and Viacom18 made up BARC’s weekly list if top 11 pay channels across genres in week 29 of 2019. Five Hindi GECs, three Hindi movies channels, two Tamil channels and one Telugu channel comprised BARC’s weekly list of top 11 pay channels across genres in week 29 of 2019.

As mentioned above, here also, Sun TV headed BARC’s weekly list with 863.550 million weekly impressions in week 29 of 2019 as compared to second rank and 843.786 million weekly impressions in the previous week. Star Plus also climbed a place to second rank in week 29 of 2019 with 705.707 million weekly impressions as compared to third rank and 690.613 million weekly impressions in week 28.

Climbing up two places to third rank was Zee TV with 691.204 million weekly impressions as compared to fifth rank and 674.518 million weekly impressions in the previous week. Retaining to fourth rank in week 29 of 2019 was Star Maa with 683.816 million weekly impressions as compared to 689.795 million weekly impressions in week 28.

Colors climbed up three places to fifth rank in BARC’s weekly list of top 11 pay channels across genres in week 29 of 2019 with 558.873 million weekly impressions as compared to eighth rank and 522.718 million weekly impressions in week 28. Sony Sab climbed up a place to sixth rank in week 29 of 2019 with 547.408 million weekly impressions as compared to seventh rank and 526.128 million weekly impressions in the previous week.

Star Vijay dropped a place to seventh rank with 531.446 million weekly impressions as compared to sixth rank and 545.135 million weekly impressions in week 28. Sony Max was on eight rank in week 29 of 2019 with 519.990 million weekly impressions as compared to ninth rank and 495.560 million weekly impressions in week 28.

SET climbed up a place to ninth rank in week 29 of 2019 with 502.417 million weekly impressions as compared to tenth rank and 487.728 million weekly impressions in week 28. Zeel’s Hindi Movies channel Zee Cinema and Star India’s Hindi Movies channel entered BARC’s weekly list if top 11 pay channels in week 29 of 2019 at tenth rank with 497.790 million weekly impressions and at eleventh rank with 460.007 million weekly impressions respectively.

BARC’s weekly list of top 11 Free channels across genres

Four channels from Enterr 10 Television, three channels each from B4U Media and Zeel and one channel from Skystar comprised BARC’s weekly list of top 11 free channels across genres in week 29 of 2019. Four Hindi Movies channels, two Bhojpuri channels two Hindi GECs and one channel each from the Bhojpuri, Marathi and Music genres comprised BARC’s weekly list of top 11 free channels across genres during the week under review.

Dangal retained its previous week’s first rank in week 29 of 2019 with 589.951 million weekly impressions as compared to 593.000 million weekly impressions in week 28. Zeel’s Hindi GEC Big Magic also retained its previous week’s second rank with 358.730 million impressions as compared to 395.972 million weekly impressions in week 28.

B4U Media’s Hindi Movies channel B4U Kadak also retained its previous week’s third rank with 347.208 million weekly impressions as compared to 307.206 million weekly impressions in week 28. Enterr 10 TV’s Marathi channel Fakt Marathi climbed up a place to fourth rank in week 29 of 2019 with 184.384 million weekly impressions as compared to fifth rank and 197.780 million weekly impressions in week 28.

Enterr 10 TV’s Bhojpuri movies channel Bhojpuri Cinema climbed up a place to fifth rank in week 29 of 2019 with 160.117 million weekly impressions as compared to sixth rank and 172.979 million weekly impressions in week 28. B4U Media’s Bhojpuri Movies channel B4U Bhojpuri climbed three places in week 29 of 2019 with 154.732 million weekly impressions to sixth rank as compared to ninth rank and 154.067 million weekly impressions in week 28.

Zeel’s Bhojpuri channel Big Ganga also climbed a place to seventh rank in week 29 of 2019 with 154.732 million weekly impressions as compared to eighth rank and 154.924 million weekly impressions in week 28. B4U Media’s Hindi Movies channel dropped a place to eight rank in week 29 of 2019 with 130.537 million weekly impressions as compared to seventh rank and 164.568 million weekly impressions in week 28

Skystar’s Hindi Movies channel Skystar Movies entered BARC’s weekly list if top 11 free channels across genre in week 29 of 2019 at ninth rank with 124.183 million weekly impressions. Enterr 10 TV’s Hindi Movies channel Enterr 10 also entered BARC’s across genres free channels list in week 29 of 2019 with 102.757 million weekly impressions. Zeel’s music channel Zing dropped a place to eleventh rank in week 29 of 2019 with 100.580 million weekly impressions as compared to tenth rank and 107.974 million weekly impressions in week 28.

July 26, 2019

BARC week 28: Hindi GEC observes no changes

MUMBAI: In week 28 of BARC India's ratings, no changes were observed in the Hindi GEC urban + rural Hindi speaking market (HSM). Dangal was leading in the urban + rural segment of Hindi GECs with 760323 weekly impressions (000s). Star Plus, Zee TV, Sony Sab, Colors, Sony Entertainment Television, Big Magic, Star Bharat, Star Utsav and Sony Pal were seen at second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth position respectively.

Rank	Channel Name	Weekly Impressions (000s) sum
		Week 28
1	Dangal	760323
2	STAR Plus	670964
3	Zee TV	647652
4	SONY SAB	518048
5	Colors	513170
6	Sony Entertainment Television	474399
7	Big Magic	471906
8	STAR Bharat	331159
9	STAR Utsav	154322
10	Sony Pal	138022
HSM (U+R) : NCCS All : 2+ Individuals

Hindi GEC rural:

In Hindi GEC rural HSM, no changes were observed. Top 10 channels in the segment were Dangal, Big Magic. Zee TV, Star Plus, Colors, Sony Sab, Sony Entertainment Television, Star Bharat, Star Utsav and Sony Pal.

Rank	Channel Name	Weekly Impressions (000s) sum
		Week 28
1	Dangal	564622
2	Big Magic	359625
3	Zee TV	283853
4	STAR Plus	243224
5	Colors	182142
6	SONY SAB	162790
7	Sony Entertainment Television	126296
8	STAR Bharat	122430
9	STAR Utsav	65644
10	Sony Pal	63922
HSM (Rural) : NCCS All : 2+ Individuals,

Hindi GEC urban:

In the week 28 of BARC India, Star Plus continued to lead in the Hindi GEC urban HSM followed by Zee TV, Sony Sab, Sony Entertainment Television, Colors, Star Bharat, Dangal, Big Magic, &TV and Star Utsav.

Rank	Channel Name	Weekly Impressions (000s) sum
		Week 28
1	STAR Plus	427740
2	Zee TV	363799
3	SONY SAB	355258
4	Sony Entertainment Television	348103
5	Colors	331029
6	STAR Bharat	208729
7	Dangal	195701
8	Big Magic	112281
9	&TV	96509
10	STAR Utsav	88679
HSM (Urban) : NCCS All : 2+ Individuals,

Top 5 Hindi GEC programmes in urban + rural HSM:

Zee TV’s three shows were in the list of top 5 programme in urban + rural HSM. Kundali Bhagya and Kumkum Bhagya were at first and second positions respectively. Star Plus’ Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai was in the third position followed by Zee TV’s Guddan Tumse Naa Ho Payega and Sony Sab’s Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashma.

Rank	Channel Name	Programme	Impressions (000s)
			Week 28
1	Zee TV	KUNDALI BHAGYA	14710
2	Zee TV	KUMKUM BHAGYA	13452
3	STAR Plus	YEH RISHTA KYA KEHLATA HAI	10633
4	Zee TV	GUDDAN TUMSE NAA HO PAYEGA	8359
5	SONY SAB	TAARAK MEHTA KA OOLTAH CHASHMA	8160
HSM (U+R) : NCCS All : Prime Time (1800 – 2330 hrs) : 2+ Individuals,

Top 5 programmes in rural HSM:

In rural HSM, Zee TV’s Kundali Bhagya and Kumkum Bhagya were at first and second positions respectively followed by three Dangal shows i.e. Mahima Shanidev Ki, Baba Aiso Var Dhundo and Dwarkadheesh Bhagwan Shree Krishna


Rank	Channel Name	Programme	Impressions (000s)
			Week 28
1	Zee TV	KUNDALI BHAGYA	6716
2	Zee TV	KUMKUM BHAGYA	6306
3	Dangal	MAHIMA SHANIDEV KI	5970
4	Dangal	BABA AISO VAR DHUNDO	4449
5	Dangal	DWARKADHEESH BHAGWAAN SHREE KRISHNA	3881
HSM (Rural) : NCCS All : Prime Time (1800 – 2330 hrs) : 2+ Individuals,

Top 5 programmes urban HSM:

In urban HSM, Kundali Bhagya was in first position, Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai in second position, Kumkum Bhagya in third position, Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chasma in fourth position and Yeh Rishtey Hai Pyaar Ke in fifth position.

Rank	Channel Name	Programme	Impressions (000s)
			Week 28
1	Zee TV	KUNDALI BHAGYA	7994
2	STAR Plus	YEH RISHTA KYA KEHLATA HAI	7219
3	Zee TV	KUMKUM BHAGYA	7146
4	SONY SAB	TAARAK MEHTA KA OOLTAH CHASHMA	5918
5	STAR Plus	YEH RISHTEY HAIN PYAAR KE	5346
HSM (Urban) : NCCS All : Prime Time (1800 – 2330 hrs) : 2+ Individuals,

July 18, 2019

Dangal TV dominates Hindi GEC (U+R), rural areas in BARC week 13

MUMBAI: Dangal TV dominated the Hindi GEC (U+R) and rural genres in Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) data for week 13 of 2019. Star Plus bagged first position followed by Sony Entertainment Television in the second position in urban areas.

Hindi GEC (U+R)

Dangal TV secured first position, followed by Big Magic, Star Plus, Zee TV and Sony Entertainment Television in second, third, fourth and fifth positions respectively. Colors, Sony Sab, Star Bharat, &TV and Star Utsav garnered sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions respectively.

Hindi rural GEC

In rural areas too, Dangal TV stood at first position. Big Magic, Zee TV, Star Plus and Colors bagged second, third, fourth and fifth positions respectively. Sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions were garnered by Sony Entertainment Television, Star Bharat, Sony Sab, Sony Pal and DD National respectively.

Hindi urban GEC

In the urban space, Star Plus the charts followed by Sony Entertainment Television, Colors, Zee TV and Sony Sab being placed in second, third, fourth and fifth positions respectively. Dangal TV, Star Bharat, Big Magic, &TV and Star Utsav bagged sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions respectively.

April 8, 2019
Star Plus leads GEC urban in BARC week 47

MUMBAI: Star Plus climbed to the third position from sixth position as compared to the previous week in the Hindi (U+R) genre in Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) data for week 47 of 2018. Star Utsav and Sony Pal interchanged their second and third positions as compared to the previous week in the rural market. Star Plus emerged as the leader this week by pushing down Sony Entertainment Television to second position in the urban market.

Hindi GEC (U+R)

Zee Anmol and Star Bharat retained their first and second positions with 839585 impressions ‘000s and 759104 impressions ‘000s respectively. Star Plus climbed to the third position from sixth position as compared to the previous week with 707398 impressions ‘000s. Star Utsav jumped to fourth position from third position with 706312 impressions ‘000s. Zee TV retained its fifth position with 686850 impressions ‘000s.

Sony Pal, Colors, Sony Entertainment Television, Dangal TV and Sony Sab stood at sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions respectively with 600897 impressions ‘000s, 600118 impressions ‘000s, 594133 impressions ‘000s, 445579 impressions ‘000s and 431762 impressions ‘000s respectively.

Hindi Rural GEC

Zee Anmol retained its first position with 684717 impressions ‘000s. Star Utsav and Sony Pal interchanged their second and third positions as compared to the previous week with 491473 impressions ‘000s and 428004 impressions ‘000s respectively.

Star Bharat, Dangal TV, Rishtey, Zee TV, Big Magic, Star Plus and Colors continued to be on fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions respectively with 386806 impressions ‘000s, 349965 impressions ‘000s, 274430 impressions ‘000s, 267118 impressions ‘000s, 246805 impressions ‘000s, 211446 impressions ‘000s and 188088 impressions ‘000s.

Hindi Urban GEC

Star Plus emerged as the leader this week by pushing down Sony Entertainment Television to second position with 495952 impressions ‘000s and 446561 impressions ‘000s respectively. Zee TV and Colors stood at third and fourth positions respectively with 419733 impressions ‘000s and 412030 impressions ‘000s.

Star Bharat, Sony Sab, Star Utsav, Sony Pal, Zee Anmol and &TV retained their fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions respectively with 372298 impressions ‘000s, 315458 impressions ‘000s, 214839 impressions ‘000s, 172893 impressions ‘000s, 154868 impressions ‘000s and 114770 impressions ‘000s.

November 30, 2018
Sony Entertainment Television leads GEC urban in BARC week 46

MUMBAI: Star Bharat and Star Utsav swapped their second and third positions in the Hindi (U+R) genre in Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) data for week 46 of 2018. Sony Pal and Star Utsav interchanged their second and third positions as compared to the previous week in the rural market.

Sony Entertainment Television came third in the urban market.

Hindi GEC (U+R)

Zee Anmol retained its leadership position with 772355 impressions ‘000s. Star Bharat and Star Utsav swapped their second and third positions respectively with 714851 impressions ‘000s and 663803 impressions ‘000s.

Sony Pal climbed to the fourth position from seventh as compared to the previous week with 659732 impressions ‘000s. Zee TV jumped to the fifth position from its fourth position with 656010 impressions ‘000s. Star Plus and Colors stood at sixth and seventh positions respectively with 655510 impressions ‘000s and 613069 impressions ‘000s respectively. Sony Entertainment Television, Sony Sab and Dangal TV continued to be on eighth, ninth and tenth positions respectively with 598255 impressions ‘000s, 469953 impressions ‘000s and 431286 impressions ‘000s.

Hindi Rural GEC

Zee Anmol retained its first position with 631735 impressions ‘000s. Sony Pal and Star Utsav interchanged their second and third positions as compared to the previous week with 479286 impressions ‘000s and 457753 impressions ‘000s respectively.

Star Bharat, Dangal TV, Rishtey, Zee TV, Big Magic, Star Plus and Colors continued to be on fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions respectively with 368876 impressions ‘000s, 336778 impressions ‘000s, 292921 impressions ‘000s, 257556 impressions ‘000s, 223135 impressions ‘000s, 210023 impressions ‘000s and 192990 impressions ‘000s.

Hindi Urban GEC

Sony Entertainment Television bagged came third with 446019 impressions ‘000s. Star Plus jumped to the second position from first position as compared to the last week with 445487 impressions ‘000s. Colors, that was on second position last week, stood at third position now with 420079 impressions ‘000s.

Zee TV, Star Bharat, Sony Sab, Star Utsav, Sony Pal, Zee Anmol and &TV retained their fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions respectively with 398454 impressions ‘000s, 345975 impressions ‘000s, 341477 impressions ‘000s, 206050 impressions ‘000s, 180446 impressions ‘000s, 140620 impressions ‘000s and 118864 impressions ‘000s.

November 24, 2018