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  • Galwan Valley skirmish boosts news channels’ viewership in week 24

    Galwan Valley skirmish boosts news channels’ viewership in week 24

    BENGALURU: The Indo-Chinese skirmish at the Galwan Valley in Ladakh on 15 June has grown Hindi news television consumption in Week 24 of 2020 (Saturday, 13 June 2020 to Friday, 19 June 2020, week or period under review) according to Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) data for top 5 Hindi and English News channels. The combined consumption of the Top 5 Hindi Hews channels in urban and rural Hindi speaking markets or HSM (U+R) and English News in India viewership increased 32.7 percent and 43.3 percent respectively in Week 24 of 2020 as compared to the previous week. Consumption of News on Bangla, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu News channels also increased week-on-week in Week 24 of 2020 by varying percentages, while Assamese, Kannada and Malayalam News channels experienced viewership dips.

    And from the dip in viewership of Top 5 Hindi GEC channels during prime time, it seems that news channels have eaten into the viewership of Hindi GEC and movie channels. The combined weekly impressions of the Top 5 Hindi GEC programmes in HSM (U+R) during primetime (1800 to 2330 hours) declined 35.1 percent in Week 24 of 2020 as compared to Week 23. The combined weekly impressions of the Top 5 Hindi movies programmes in HSM (U+R) also declined 12.6 percent during the week under review as compared to the previous week.

    Hindi news in HSM (U+R)

    Hindi news in HSM (U+R) saw combined viewership increase by 32.7 percent week-on-week during the period under review as mentioned above. There were two new channels in BARC’s weekly list of Top 5 Hindi news channels in HSM (U+R) in Week 24 of 2020 as compared to Week 23.  Two channels – ABP News and News18 India exited the list. The India Today Group's Aaj Tak retained its unassailable first rank in Week 24 of 2020 with a 44.2 percent growth in weekly impressions to 295.275 million from 204.732 million. India TV also retained second rank with 31.1 percent growth to 222.917 million weekly impressions from 170.011 million weekly impressions.

    Zee News entered the Top 5 Hindi news channels in HSM (U+R) list with 191.303 million weekly impressions. Republic Bharat dropped a place to fourth rank despite a 24.3 percent growth with 189.378 million weekly impressions in Week 24 of 2020 from 152.387 million weekly impressions in Week 23. TV9 Bharatvarsh also entered the list with 188.800 million weekly impressions.

    Hindi news in HSM (U)

    The Top 5 Hindi news channels in HSM (U) saw consumption increase 30.2 percent week-on-week to 674.607 million weekly impressions from 518.345 million weekly impressions in the previous week. Four of the channels in BARC’s weekly list of Top 5 Hindi news channels in HSM (U) in Week 24 were the same as in the previous week – one channel that exited it was ABP News, which was replaced by Zee News.

    Aaj Tak led the list with 41.1 percent growth to 181.668 million weekly impressions in Week 24 of 2020 from 128.777 million weekly impressions in the previous week. India TV also retained its second place in Week 24 of 2020 with 25.9 percent growth to 143.173 million weekly impressions as compared to 113.737 million weekly impressions. News18 India climbed a place to third rank in BARC’s weekly list of Top 5 Hindi news channels in HSM (U) with 28.7 percent growth to 118.688 million weekly impressions in Week 24 of 2020 from 92.195 million weekly impressions in the previous week. Zee News entered the list in Week 24 of 2020 with 117.349 million weekly impressions. Republic Bharat dropped two places to fifth rank with 21.9 percent growth to 113.729 million weekly impressions from 93.275 million weekly impressions.

    Hindi news in HSM (R)

    The Top 5 Hindi news channels in HSM (R) saw consumption increase 38.8 percent week-on-week to 426.774 million weekly impressions from 307.400 million weekly impressions. Four of the channels in BARC’s Top 5 Hindi news channels in HSM (U) in Week 24 were the same as in the previous week – as in the case of Hindi news channels in HSM (U+R) one channel that exited it was ABP News and was replaced by Zee News.

    Aaj Tak at first rank, saw a growth of 49.6 percent to 113.607 million weekly impressions in Week 24 of 2020 from 75.995 million weekly impressions. TV9 Bharatvarsh climbed up a place to second rank with a 44 percent growth to 83.820 million weekly impressions from 58.214 million weekly impressions. India TV climbed two places to third rank in Week 24 of 2020 with 41.7 percent growth to 79.744 million weekly impressions from 58.214 million weekly impressions.  Republic Bharat dropped two places to fourth rank with 28 percent growth in Week 24 of 2020 to 75.649 million weekly impressions from 59.112 million weekly impressions. Zee News entered the list at fifth rank with 93.594 million weekly impressions.

    English news

    As mentioned above, the Top 5 English news channels saw a 43.3 percent increase to 15.310 million weekly impressions in Week 24 of 2020 from 10.687 million weekly impressions in the previous week. All the five channels in the list in Week 24 of 2020 was the same with shuffling of ranks as in Week 23. Retaining first rank with a 56.5 percent growth to 5.582 million weekly impressions in Week 24 of 2020 from 3.567 million weekly impression was the Arnab Goswami led Republic TV. Also retaining its previous week’s second week with 31.9 percent growth to 3.565 million weekly impressions in Week 24 of 2020 from 2.703 million weekly impressions in Week 23 was Times Now. India Today Television climbed up a place to third rank with a growth of 61.6 percent to 2.389 million weekly impressions in Week 24 of 2020 from 1.478 million weekly impressions in the previous week. CNN News18 dropped a place to fourth rank with a growth of 39.9 percent to 2.272 million weekly impressions in Week 24 of 2020 from 1.624 million weekly impressions in Week 23. DD India also retained its previous week’s fifth rank with a growth of 14.2 percent to 1.502 million weekly impressions in the week under review from 1.315 million weekly impressions in Week 23 of 2020.

  • COVID-19 boon: News channels show 300% viewership growth

    COVID-19 boon: News channels show 300% viewership growth

    MUMBAI: The lockdown amid COVID-19 may adversely impact businesses, but it has helped the television industry, especially the news segment, to achieve a new high in terms of viewership, says a report released by Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) and Nielsen on crisis consumption.

    According to the report, news genre has clocked around 300 per cent increase in terms of viewership across the general category (English, Hindi and regional). Whereas, the business news channels in both Hindi and English languages have risen by 180 per cent in viewership.

    The report also points out that while the primetime consumption of news across the country has surged by over 250 per cent, non-prime time news slot saw a rise of 344 per cent in terms of viewership. However, perhaps, for the first time, there has been a drop of over 15 per cent in viewership in general entertainment channels during the primetime slot.

    Be it prime time or non-prime time, the overall growth of news channels across languages have seen a substantial rise of over 20 per cent from 7 per cent during the Covid-19 lockdown, mentions the report.

    These growth figures of news channels and all other genres are recorded in week 12 of BARC (21-27 March) when compared with week two and four of BARC (11-31 January).

    The country is grappling with the rising COVID-19 pandemic. During these testing times, people are consuming more news than any other genre because it keeps them updated about the virus menace and other related information such as the number of cases, do’s and don’ts and various governments’ initiative to curb the pandemic.

    Many tech events, sports matches, shootings of films and television shows have stopped and the whole content generation process has come to a standstill, except for the news genre, which has been coming up with Covid-19-related content on a time-to-time basis, as it has been kept under the essential services list.

  • CNN News18 moves to 3rd rank as Republic TV continues to lead English News

    CNN News18 moves to 3rd rank as Republic TV continues to lead English News

    BENGALURU: Network18’s English News channel CNN News18 has moved over the past few weeks from fifth rank in week 41 of 2019 to third rank in week 44 (Saturday, 26 October 2019 to Friday, 1 November 2019, week or period under review). The channel was ranked fourth in weeks 42 and 43 of 2019. In the meantime, the Arnab Goswami headed Republic TV continued its leadership role of the genre that it had retaken in week 23 of 2019.

    All the five channels in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India’s (BARC) weekly list of Top 5 English News Channels in week 44 were the same as in week 43 of 2019 (previous week or period). There was some shuffling in ranks. Week 43, which had witnessed elections and counting of votes for two state assemblies, saw the combined viewership of Top 5 English News Channels jump up by 34 percent to 2.524 million weekly impressions as compared to 1.888 million weekly impressions in week 42. The week under review saw the combined ratings of the Top 5 English News channels drop 22 percent from the 2.524 million weekly impressions to 1.978 million weekly impressions. Please refer to the figure below

     

    Please refer to the figure below for the ranks of the Top 5 English News Channels:

    Top 5 English News Channels performance in week 44 of 2019

    As mentioned above Republic TV continued on at rank one in week 44 of 2019 with 0.624 million weekly impressions as compared to 0.846 million weekly impressions in the previous week. Also continuing on at second rank was Times Now in week 44 of 2019 with 0.454 million weekly impressions as compared to 0.658 million weekly impressions in week 43.

    CNN News18 climbed up a place to third rank in week 44 of 2019 with 0.317 million weekly impressions as compared to fourth rank and 0.327 million weekly impressions in week 43. DD India also climbed up a place to fourth rank in week 44 of 2019 with 0.311 million weekly impressions as compared to fifth rank and 0.306 million weekly impressions in week 43. The India Today Group’s India Today Television dropped two places to fifth rank with 0.272 million weekly impressions from third rank and 0.387 million weekly impressions in week 43.

    Please refer to the figure below:


     

  • BARC news 42: English news viewership steady over 3 consecutive weeks

    BARC news 42: English news viewership steady over 3 consecutive weeks

    BENGALURU: The combined ratings of the Top 5 English news channels for weeks 40, 41 and 42 of 2019 was 1.092 million, 1,878 million and 1.888 million impressions respectively according to Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) data. The channels in the list during all the three weeks were the same, albeit with a small tweak in ranks. As has become a norm, the Arnab Goswami-led Republic TV has topped the ranks for the last twenty weeks in a row between week 23 of 2019 and week 42 of 2019 – the latest week for which BARC’s ratings data is available at the time of writing of this report. During this 20-week period, Times Now has been ranked second for 16 weeks, while pubcaster DD India was ranked second for four weeks. Ranks four and five have been the domains of Network18’s CNN News18 and the India Today Group’s India Today Television. Please refer to the chart below for combined weekly impressions of the Top 5 English news Channels in thousands of impressions followed by the chart of Ranks of Top English news channels.

    Ratings in Week 42 (Saturday, 12 October 2019 to Friday, 18 October 2019)

    The combined weekly ratings of the top 5 English news channels in week 42 of 2019 increased slightly to 1.888 million weekly impressions from 1.878 million weekly impressions in week 41. Three channels – Republic TV, CNN News18 and India Today Television gained viewership while DD India and Times Now saw viewership decline during week 42 of 2019. The biggest gainer in viewership was CNN News18, while DD India saw the steepest decline during the week under review.

    Please refer to the chart below.

    At rank one, Republic TV saw a small increase in viewership to 0.581 million weekly impressions in week 42 of 2019 as compared to rank one and 0.579 million weekly impressions in week 41. Times Now climbed back to second rank during the week under review with slightly lower ratings of 0.409 million weekly impressions as compared to third rank and 0.416 million weekly impressions in the previous week. Dropping a place in week 42 of 2019 to third rank was DD India with 0.403 million weekly impressions as compared to second rank and 0.433 million weekly impressions in week 41.

    Also climbing up a place to fourth rank was CNN News 18 in week 42 of 2019 with 0.252 million weekly impressions as compared to fifth rank and 0.219 million weekly impressions in week 41. Completing the quintet was India Today Television in week 42 of 2019 with 0.243 million weekly impressions as compared to fourth rank and 0.231 million weekly impressions in the previous week.

  • BARC week 34: DD India drops to fifth place in English news genre

    BARC week 34: DD India drops to fifth place in English news genre

    BENGALURU: PubcasterDoordarshan’s English News channel DD India dropped to its lowest rank ever in week 34 of 2019 since Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) recommenced publishing viewership data in the public domain. Earlier, the ratings agency had stopped publishing data in the public domain starting week 6 of 2019 allow ratings to stabilize on implementation of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) New Tariff Order. BARC restarted putting up data on its website in week 13 of 2019 on coercion from TRAI.

    During the 22 weeks(including weeks 13 and 34 of 2019) since, DD India has been ranked first in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 English News channels four times, has been ranked second 6 times, has been ranked third ten times, and has been ranked fourth and fifth once each. Hence, DD India’s ranking in week 34 (Saturday, 17 August 2019 to Friday, 23 August 2019) has been its lowest ever in 22 weeks. Please refer to the figure below

    All the five channels in BARC’s weekly lists of top 5 English News channels have been the same during the 22 weeks (weeks 13 to 34) under consideration in this paper, except that there has been a shuffling of ranks.

    The combined weekly impressions of BARC’s top 5 English News channels dipped once again in week 34 of 2019 as compared to week 33. This time the week-on-week dip in ratings was even higher at 14.9 percent (0.379 million impressions) as compared to the dip of 11.7 percent (0.338 million weekly impressions)  between weeks 33 and 32 of 2019.In week 34 of 2019, three channels – DD India (52.4 percent drop), CNN News18 (20.3 percent drop) and Times Now (9.5 percent drop) saw ratings fall. Two channel in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 English News channels in week 34 witnessed growth in ratings. They were Republic TV (increase of 0.048 million weekly impressions) and India Today TV (increase of 0.005 million weekly impressions) . Please refer to the figure below:

    Let us see how the top 5 English News channels performed in week 34 of 2019

    The Arnab Goswami led Republic TV retained its first rank with 0.762 million weekly impressions in week 34 of 2019 as compared to 0.714 million weekly impressions in week 33. Times Now climbed up a place to second rank in week 34 of 2019 with 0.498 million weekly impressions as compared to rank three and 0.550 million weekly impressions in the previous week. Climbing up two places to rank three in week 34 of 2019 was India Today Television with 0.321 million weekly impressions as compared to rank five and 0.321 million weekly impressions in week 33. Retaining its previous week’s rank four was CNN News18 with 0.315 million weekly impression in week 34 of 2019 as compared to 0.395 million weekly impressions in week 33. DD India completed the quintet with less than half of its week 33 viewership. At fifth rank,DD India garnered 0.272 million weekly impressions in week 34 of 2019 as compared to second rank and 0.572 million weekly impressions in week 33.

    Please refer to the figure below:


     

  • BARC week 33: DD India returns to second rank in English news

    BARC week 33: DD India returns to second rank in English news

    BENGALURU: Pubcaster Doordarshan’s English news channel DD India has been ranked second or better for 10 weeks across 21 weeks starting week 13 to week 33 of 2019 (Saturday, 10 August 2019 to Friday, 16 August 2019, week or period under review). According to Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly data for top 5 English news channels in terms of viewership ratings, initially DD India was in a dingdong struggle for top slot with the Arnab Goswami-led Republic TV, a slot that the latter managed to wrest. During and post the weeks in which the National Election results were announced, DD India acceded second rank to Times Now and maintained third rank for seven weeks in a row after week 25 of 2019.DD India has returned to rank 2 after a hiatus of seven weeks in week 33 of 2019. 

    To allow for viewership to stabilise after the implementation of TRAI’s new tariff order, BARC India had stopped publishing ratings data in the public domain from week 6 of 2019. On the urging from TRAI, the ratings agency recommenced putting up data starting week 13 of 2019, hence that week has been used as a starting point in this report. Subsequently, BARC changed the manner in which it viewed landing pages and outliers – these actions in concert with other factors have been pulling down viewership numbers of the English news genre.

    Please refer to the figure below:

    The combined weekly impressions of the top 5 English news channels declined by 11.7 percent in week 33 of 2019 to 2.547 million weekly impressions as compared to 2.885 weekly impressions of the previous week as the interest about the events around the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) started to peter out. The average combined weekly impressions of the top 5 English news channels on analysing BARC data between week 13 and 33 are 2.466 million. The present week (week 44) has seen some more events around J&K as well as the taking into custody of former finance and home minister P Chidambaram. Whether these events will be enough to grow or at least sustain English news viewership has to be seen. Please refer to the figure below for combined viewership of top 5 English news channels in thousands (000s).

    Let us see how the top 5 English news channels performed in week 33 of 2019

    Except for DD India which saw a surge in viewership, the other channels in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 English news for week 33 of 2019 saw weekly impressions drop. The channels in the list in week 33 of 2019 were the same as in week 32 with a shuffling of ranks. DD India moved up to second rank, as did CNN News18 which moved up to fourth place.

    Republic TV retained its first rank with 0.714 million weekly impressions in week 33 of 2019 as compared to 0.871 million weekly impressions in week 32. DD India moved to second rank during the week under review with 0.572 million weekly impressions as compared to third rank and 0.528 million weekly impressions in the previous week. Times Now slid a place to third rank with 0.550 million weekly impressions in week 33 of 2019 as compared to second rank and 0.630 million weekly impressions in week 32. CNN News18 moved up to fourth rank with 0.395 million weekly impressions as compared to fifth rank and 0.417 million weekly impressions in week 32. India Today Television slipped to fifth rank in week 33 of 2019 with 0.316 million weekly impressions as compared to fourth rank and 0.439 million weekly impressions in week 32.  Please refer to the figure below:


     

  • BARC wk 28: English news ratings decline

    BARC wk 28: English news ratings decline

    BENGALURU: The combined weekly ratings of the top 5 English news channels declined to the third lowest total in week 28 of 2019 (Saturday, 6 July 2019 to Friday, 12 July 2019, week or period under review) since week 13 of 2019. Calendar year 2019 has been an eventual year as far as publication in the public domain of Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly viewership data is concerned. First, the ratings agency stopped publishing ratings in the public domain from week 6 of 2019 after the implementation of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (TRAI) New Tariff Order (NTO), ostentatiously to give time for viewership to stabilise and hence prevent ‘misuse’ of data. On coercion from TRAI, BARC started putting up data in the public domain from week 13 of 2019 onward, only to revert to an older version of treating data on the landing and outliers from week 23 of 2019.

    During the six weeks since BARC’s adoption of the older method of treatment, ratings of a number of genres have been impacted. The three lowest combined ratings of the top 5 English news channels have happened post week 23 of 2019 – 1.948 million weekly impressions in week 24; 1.918 million weekly impressions in week 26 of 2019 and 1.929 million weekly impressions in week 28 of 2019.  However BARC’s reloaded method of treatment alone cannot be said to be the only reason for lowering of ratings – the last few weeks have seen the ICC’s World Cup 2019 being played in England and Wales, and the timings of cricket matches being played in the tourney often overlapped primetime of a number of genres. The week under consideration saw the last match being played by India – the rain affected match that India lost against New Zealand and was ousted from the tourney at the semi-final stage. The period over the past few weeks has also seen heavy rains and flooding in a number of places across the country. These factors and maybe some others could have had an adverse effect on television viewership.

    Let us see how the English news genre performed in week 28 of 2019

    As mentioned above the combined viewership of the top 5 English news channels was 1.929 million weekly impressions in week 28 of 2019, a decline of 1.8 percent from the 1.964 million weekly impressions in the previous week (week 27). Four channels saw their ratings decline, while one – India Today Television saw a 25.8 percent increase in viewership in week 28 of 2019.

    At its normal first place was the Arnab Goswami-led Republic TV which saw ratings decline of 5.7 percent in week 28 of 2019 to 0.593 million weekly impressions from 0.629 million weekly impressions in week 27. Also continuing on at its previous week’s second rank was Times Now with a 7.8 percent decline in ratings in week 29 of 2019 to 0.424 million weekly impressions from 0.460 million weekly impressions in week 27.

    Retaining its previous week’s third rank was pubcaster Doordarshan’s DD India with a 3.1 percent decline in ratings in week 28 of 2019 to 0.345 million weekly impressions from 0.356 million weekly impressions in week 27. Climbing up a place to fourth rank was India Today Television with a 25.8 percent increase in ratings to 0.288 million weekly impressions in week 28 of 2019 from fifth rank and 0.229 million weekly impressions in the previous week. Dropping a place to fifth rank with a 3.8 percent decline in viewership to 0.279 million weekly impressions in week 28 of 2019 from fourth rank and 0.290 million weekly impressions in week 28 was CNN News18.

  • Most watched English news channels in 2018

    Most watched English news channels in 2018

    BENGALURU: News is event driven. Events can be of two types – planned and unplanned. Among the planned events are elections, public events, etc.Unplanned events include deaths of celebrities, calamities, accidents and disasters, acts of terrorism, etc.

    Besides providing news, news channels help spread a message, build and influence public opinion and even policy. The multitude of debates and special
    programmes have often made celebrities out of the announcers, even when they shift channels. A classic and a living example is Arnab Goswami, who was instrumental in making Times Now the most watched English news in the country until he launched another channel – Republic TV. Right from the very first week of its launch in week 19 of 2017, Republic TV has topped Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly ratings of top 5 English news channels, except for one week – week 31 of 2018.

    A digression. As a matter of fact, it’s Goswami’s style of debating, literally forcing his views, opinions onto the debate participants and viewers, that is unique. It is a style that has not been replicated by any other news announcer or debate moderator so far. His style has made the older stars of English news look pale, stale and redundant. Now onto how the news genres performed in calendar year 2018.

    Some major events such as elections, be they on a national, a regional or sometimes even on a local level, drive ratings of news channels north. Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) provides data for the top 5 English news channels. As mentioned above, ratings, BARC ratings to be more precise, of the English news genre peaked around the periods before, during and after the assembly elections three times in 2018. During election period, ratings normally have an upward spike in the week in which the election results are announced. Channels go hyper during the days leading to election results day with campaigns for attracting viewership across a number of mediums – television, newspapers, social media, hoardings and even local radio. Important scheduling of the programming to come is shared with viewers. BARC data indicates that channels release lower ad time and sell it a premium during election periods.

    In 2018, the first set of elections that lead to a spike in ratings were the assembly elections in north eastern states, followed by elections in Karnataka,the period during which English News peaked. The Karnataka elections were followed by elections in three Hindi heartland states, one in East India and one state in North east. Ratings also peaked in mid-August 2015 – (week 33 of 2018) the major events at that time being the Indian Independence day celebrations on 15 August, followed by the demise of former Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee the very next day on 16 August 2018.

    As mentioned above, right from its launch week, week 19 of 2017, Republic TV has been at rank no 1 in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 English News channels (All India (U+R) : NCCS AB : Males 22+ Individuals). Republic TV was followed by Times Now, often quite closely.

    Of the six English news channels that appeared in BARC’s weekly lists, four – Republic TV, Times Now, India Today TV and CNN News18 were present in the list during all the 52 BARC weeks of 2018. Two other channels – NDTV 24X7 and the Times Group’s Mirror Now also made it to the lists for 39 weeks and 13 weeks respectively.Please refer to the chart below for English News ratings BARC ratings trends in the chart below.

    Republic TV averaged 877.635 (000s) weekly impressions during the 52 BARC weeks of 2018 with a peak of 1,650 (000s) weekly impressions in week 20 of 2018 (Karnataka election period) and a nadir of 547 (000s) weekly impressions in week 11 of 2018.

    Times Now averaged 739.885 (000s) weekly impressions with a peak of 1,417 (000s) weekly impressions in week 20 of 2018 and a low of 445 (000s) weekly impressions in week 11 of 2018.

    India Today TV averaged 326.154 (000s) weekly impressions during the 52 weeks of 2018 with a peak of 814 (000s) weekly impressions in week 13 of 2018 and a low of 210 (000s) weekly impressions in week 41 of 2018.

    CNN News18 averaged 214.539 (000s) weekly impressions during the 52 weeks of 2018 with a peak of 943 (000s) weekly impressions in week 33 of 2018 and a low of 161 (000s) weekly impressions in week 25 of 2018.

  • Zeel channels continue to rule Hindi channels across genres in week 4 of 2019

    Zeel channels continue to rule Hindi channels across genres in week 4 of 2019

    BENGALURU: Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel) channels – the free to air (FTA) Hindi GEC Zee Anmol and the flagship Hindi GEC Zee TV were ranked second and fourth in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly list of top 10 channels across genres in week 4 of 2019. Seven Hindi GECs, two Telugu GECs and one Tamil GEC constituted BARC’s weekly across genres list for week 4 of 2019 (Saturday, 19 January 2019 to Friday, 25 January 2019). From the network’s perspective, there were four Star India channels, three Zeel channels and one channel each from the Sun TV Network, Sony Pictures Network India (SPN) and Viacom18.

    At its normal first rank in week 4 of 2019 was Sun TV with 868.845 million weekly impressions as compared to 1188.369 weekly impressions in week 3 of 2019. Sun TV also led BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Tamil channels in the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry market and three of the five 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.

    Climbing up one place to second rank was Zee Anmol. At third rank, the channel garnered 754.080 million weekly impressions in week 4 of 2019 as compared to 759.756 million weekly impressions in week 3 of 2019. Zee Anmol was ranked first in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs in the combined urban and rural Hindi speaking markets or 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 fourth and second 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 second and first 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).

    Dropping down a place from the previous week was Star India’s flagship Telugu GEC Star Maa at third place in week 4 of 2019 with 712.438 weekly impressions as compared with 777.884 million weekly impressions and second rank in week 3 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 top Telugu programmes were from Star Maa 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 under review in the same market.

    Retaining its previous few weeks’ fourth rank in week 3 of 2019 was Zee TV with 709.037 million weekly impressions during the period under review as compared to 705.352 million weekly impressions in week 3. Zee TV was ranked second in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R) and third in HSM (U), and was ranked seventh in HSM (R).

    Star India’s flagship Hindi GEC Star Plus also climbed up a rank in week 4 of 2019 with 694.385 million weekly impressions to fifth place as compared to 640.648 million weekly impressions in week 3. Star Plus was ranked third in BARC’s weekly lists of top 10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R) and was ranked first in HSM (U) and eighth in HSM (R). The long running soap Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai on Star Plus was ranked third 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).

    Following its older sibling channel was another Star India Hindi pay-TV GEC channel Star Bharat at sixth rank. The channel garnered 666.682 million weekly impressions in week 4 as compared to 622.466 million weekly impressions in week 3 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. The mythological soap Radhakrishn on the channel ranked fifth 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).

    Star Bharat was followed by another Star India FTA Hindi GEC Star Utsav which climbed up two ranks to seventh place in week 4 of 2019. The channel scored 646.107 million weekly impressions as compared to 608.530 million weekly impressions in the previous week. 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.

    Viacom18’s flagship Hindi GEC Colors retained its previous week’s eighth rank in week 4 of 2019 with 627.601 million weekly impressions as compared to 621.420 million weekly impressions in week 3 of 2019. Colors was ranked sixth in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R), ninth in HSM (R) and fourth in HSM (U). The Balaji Telefims-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 second and first respectively in HSM (U).

    SPN’s flagship Hindi GEC Sony Entertainment Television (SET) climbed up a place to ninth rank from the previous week to ninth rank in week 4 of 2019 with 610.917 million weekly impressions as compared to 600.428 million weekly impressions in week 3 of 2019. SET was ranked seventh in BARC’s list of top 10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R) and second in HSM (U). The comedy show – The Kapil Sharma Show was ranked fifth in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi programmes during primetime in HSM (U). Also, the reality show Super Dancer Chapter 3-Grand Premiere on the channel was ranked fourth in BARC’s list of top 5 Hindi GEC programmes during primetime in HSM (U).

    Zeel’s flagship Telugu GEC Zee Telugu dropped five places to tenth rank in week 4 of 2019 with 560.469 million weekly impressions as compared to 644.118 million weekly impressions in week 3. Zee Telugu was ranked second in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Telugu channels in the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana market.

  • Tamil and Telugu GECs top across genres list

    Tamil and Telugu GECs top across genres list

    BENGALURU: Two channels – one Tamil GEC from the Sun TV Network and one Telugu GEC from the Star India network were ranked first and second respectively in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly list of top 10 channels across genres for week 3 of 2019 (Saturday, 12 January 2019 to Friday, 18 January 2019). At fifth rank was another Telugu GEC from the Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel) stable.

    Four channels from Star India, three channels from Zeel and one channel each from Sony Pictures Network India (SPN), Sun TV Network and Viacom18 made up BARC’s across genre list for week 3 of 2019. From the genres’ perspective, there were seven Hindi GECs, two Telugu GECs and one Tamil GEC in the weekly list.

    At its normal first rank in week 3 of 2019 was Sun TV with a massive 1188.369 million weekly impressions as compared to 932.480 weekly impressions in week 2 of 2019. Sun TV also led BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Tamil channels in the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry market and all the five 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.

    At second rank was Star Maa with 777.884 weekly impressions as compared with 673.002 million weekly impressions and third rank in week 2 of 2019. Star Maa was ranked first in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Telugu channels in the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana market. Five of the 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 under review in the same market.

    Down one rank as compared to the previous week was Zeel’s FTA Hindi GEC Zee Anmol. At third rank, the channel garnered 759.756 million weekly impressions in week 3 of 2019 as compared to 828.610 million weekly impressions in week 2 of 2019. Zee Anmol was ranked first in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs in the combined urban and rural Hindi speaking markets or 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 fourth and third 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 second and first 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).

    Retaining its previous week’s fourth rank in week 3 of 2019 was Zeel’s flagship Hindi GEC Zee TV with 705.352 million weekly impressions during the period under review as compared to 658.052 million weekly impressions in week 2. Zee TV was ranked second in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in HSM (U+R) and third in HSM (U), and was ranked seventh in HSM (R).

    Zee Telugu, which re-entered BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres, was ranked fifth in week 3 of 2018 with 644.118 million weekly impressions. Zee Telugu was ranked second in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Telugu channels in the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana market.

    Also retaining its previous weeks sixth rank in week 3 of 2019 was Star India’s flagship Hindi GEC channel Star Plus with 640.648 million weekly impressions as compared to 627.380 million weekly impression in week 2. Star Plus was ranked fourth in BARC’s weekly lists of top 10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R) and was ranked second in HSM (U) and ninth in HSM (R). The long running soap Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai Star Plus was ranked fifth 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).

    Another Star India pay-TV channel, Star Bharat, also retained its previous week’s seventh rank in week 3 with 622.466 million weekly impressions as compared to 622.664 million weekly impressions in week 2 of 2019. Star Bharat was ranked third 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. The mythological soap Radhakrishn on the channel ranked fifth 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).

    Viacom18’s flagship Hindi GEC also retained its eighth rank in week 2 of 2019 with 621.420 million weekly impressions as compared to 615.203 million weekly impressions in week 1 of 2019. Colors was ranked sixth in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R), eighth in HSM (R) and fourth in HSM (U). The Balaji Telefims-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 second and first respectively in HSM (U).

    Continuing on at ninth rank in week 3 of 2019 was another Star India Hindi GEC Star Utsav with 608.530 million weekly impressions as compared to 611.019 million weekly impressions in the previous week. Star Utsab was ranked fifth, second and seventh in BARC’s list of top 10 Hindi GEC’s in HSM (U+R), HSM (R) and HSM (U) respectively.

    SPN’s flagship Hindi GEC Sony Entertainment Television (SET) dropped down five places from the previous week to tenth rank in week 3 of 2019 with 600.428 million weekly impressions as compared to 654.455 million weekly impressions in week 2 of 2019. SET was ranked seventh 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 third in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi programmes during primetime in HSM (U). Also, the reality show Super Dancer Chapter 3-Auditions on the channel was ranked fourth in BARC’s list of top 5 Hindi GECs programmes during primetime in HSM (U).