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  • CNN-News18 Rejigs its Evening Prime Time Line-Up

    CNN-News18 Rejigs its Evening Prime Time Line-Up

    In line with its commitment to push the envelope to bring differentiated content and formats for its viewers, CNN-News18 has revamped its prime time line-up starting 6th February 2018. The channel has launched two new shows – Bottom Line at 6:30PM anchored by Kishore Ajwani, one of the most well-known face of Hindi news and The Big Debate at 7PM anchored by Deputy Executive Editor, Sanket Upadhyay.

    Bottom Line is a show in the language of every day conversation and features stories that are of direct relevance and interest to viewers with a unique presentation style. The Big Debate is a high octane debate based show with focus on issues that attract strong views.

    In addition to the above, the channel has also re-slotted some of its existing shows. India 360 anchored by Arunoday Mukharji will now air at 7:30PM. Face-Off Tonight anchored by Deputy Executive Editor, Zakka Jacob will telecast at 8PM. Viewpoint anchored by Executive Editor, Bhupendra Chaubey will air at 9PM. Epicentre At 7 has been converted into 2 shows with 2 different names and moved to the 10PM slot. While the 10PM show titled News Epicentre is anchored by Political Editor Marya Shakil, the 10:30PM show titled Epicentre Plus is hosted by Senior Editor Shreya Dhoundial. The objective is to provide fresh energy and momentum to the channel’s programming with insightful commentary, engaging insights and spirited debates.

    Building on the channel’s ideology of ‘On Your Side’, the shows not only incorporate viewers’ views but also focus on the discourse that effects them the most. With an innovative approach to news telling and greater audience engagement, the shows set the bar in terms of substantive debates and discussions which form the mainstay of prime time news television.

    Talking about the refreshed content, CNN-News18, Managing Editor, Radhakrishnan Nair said,” We have always taken the lead in setting new benchmarks in the industry. While we continue to raise quality of news when it comes to debates and in-studio discussions, we would be focusing more on issues and inspirational stories which are closer to the viewers’ heart as we believe they have the largest stake in the news media.”

  • ‘CNBC-TV18 Mint Budget Verdict’ to deconstruct Budget 2018 in the presence of leading economic & financial stakeholders

    ‘CNBC-TV18 Mint Budget Verdict’ to deconstruct Budget 2018 in the presence of leading economic & financial stakeholders

    One of the biggest days of the year will also mark the third edition of the ‘CNBC-TV18 Mint Budget Verdict’. In its third year, the unique engagement program will bring together the makers of the Union Budget 2018-2019 and the policy planners face-to-face with India Inc. leaders as they offer the most insightful and comprehensive budget impact assessment on Thursday, February 2, 2018; a day after the Union Budget is announced.

    A consistent leader in the space, CNBC-TV18 has been decoding and analyzing the Union Budget every year for the discerning Indian viewer. With this special program/segment, CNBC-TV18 has created a distinct platform for detailed analysis and open dialog on the announcements made between the industry and its policy makers. The Union Budget 2018-19 is the first post-GST and last pre-election budget to be announced by the Modi government, the channel will share their in-depth analysis where this year, some big-ticket announcements are expected, focusing on rural programmes among other important topics.

    Policy architects and key budget makers including Mr. Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railway and Coal, Mr. Jayant Sinha, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Minister of Food Processing and Industries, Rajiv Kumar, Secretary, Department of Financial Services, Hasmukh Adhia, Finance Secretary from CNBC-TV18’s Managing Editor, Shereen Bhan and Mint’s Executive Editor, Anil Padmanabhan. Other dignitaries include Neeraj Kumar Gupta, Secretary, DIPAM, Subhash Chandra Garg, Secretary, and Department of Economic Affair.  The timing of the dialogue is important since it comes barely a day after the presentation of the first post-GST and last pre-election Union budget.

    Speaking about the special segment, TV18 & CEO Forbes India, President – Revenue, Joy Chakraborthy said, “Our 3rd edition of this special programme will be a landmark in its own regard as we will understand and discuss policies/changes announced and will share our take on how this will affect India Inc. in the most coveted budget announcement in decades. This year has been interesting as the Goods & Services Tax was implemented, it will be great to understand its effects and how it has helped shape the Union Budget 2018-19.”

    Policy makers and leading honchos of India Inc. will discuss the various announcements which will be made on 1st of February 2018, including some expected topics like increased funding for rural programmes, tweak in tax slabs, effects of GST among others.

    The panel discussion will be followed by a keynote address by Mr. Piyush Goyal. The key highlight of the ‘CNBC-TV18 Mint Budget Verdict’ will be the open house where India Inc leaders articulate their perspectives on the key policy document.

    ‘CNBC- TV18 Mint Budget Verdict’ will have by far the biggest media play leveraging media assets of Network18 and HT Media. This guarantees unprecedented audiences reach encompassing diverse audiences across television, print and digital assets of the two groups. 

    The event will be featured LIVE on CNBC- TV18, CNBC Awaaz, CNN-News18, News18 India and IBN Lokmat. The surround via digital play would occur on moneycontrol.com and livemint.com. ‘CNBC-TV18 Mint Budget Verdict’ will be webcast LIVE on livemint.com & CNBC-TV18’s Facebook Page. 

    Social media amplification would help integrate influencers outside of the venue to join the deliberations. Network18 & HT Media twitter and social media avatars will not only build-up the visibility for the engagement but also proactively amplify LIVE proceedings. 

  • CNN-News18 & News18 india line up extensive Budget Day coverage

    CNN-News18 & News18 india line up extensive Budget Day coverage

    Union Budget 2018 holds special significance as this will be the first budget post the implementation of Goods and Services Tax. It will also be important as this is likely to be the last full budget of PM Modi Government before General Elections 2019. To analyse and decode the Budget this year, CNN-News18 and News18 India will bring comprehensive coverage of the same on 1st February with programming titled ‘Budget Before Ballot – Eye on 2019’ and ‘2019 Wala Budget’ respectively.

    Commencing at 8AM in the morning, this special coverage will conclude a series of pre-budget shows that captured the expectations of and suggestions from viewers. In addition to the live telecast of the Budget speech on both the channels, the programming led by channels’ editorial team, i.e., Bhupendra Chaubey on CNN-News18 and Kishore Ajwani and Sumit Awasthi on News18 India will analyse the implications and likely impact of the same in detail. Apart from the channel’s anchors and reporters, a power packed panel of top experts and renowned economists will also be a part of the channel’s programming and help in articulating key takeaways for the viewers.

  • CNN-News18 launches ‘If I Were FM Challenge’

    CNN-News18 launches ‘If I Were FM Challenge’

    MUMBAI: As part of its Budget programming, CNN-News18 is launching the ‘If I were FM Challenge’. The campaign will encourage viewers to contribute their suggestions for the Union Budget. The channel will run an extensive on-air campaign to promote the same. This initiative will also especially target the youth with top B-Schools & colleges of the country being a key TG for this campaign. Participants in the contest will be required to share their suggestions in 140 characters or less. The responses will be judged on multiple parameters and the final winners will get to feature on the channel’s Budget Day programming.

    Apart from on-air promotions, the campaign will also be promoted on social and digital media extensively. Direct outreach to educational institutions will also form a key part of the campaign’s promotional plan.

    For details of the campaign and to participate please log onto www.news18.com/ifiwerefm

  • News18 Network with most accurate results on Gujarat and HP elections

    News18 Network with most accurate results on Gujarat and HP elections

    MUMBAI: As the nation awaited the outcome of the closely fought contest between the leading political parties in Gujarat and HP assembly elections, India’s news network – News18 Network, once again, proved to be the leader with the fastest and most accurate results. The channels left no stone unturned in bringing the most comprehensive counting day coverage with minute-by-minute updatesthroughout the day.

    With extensive reportage, CNN-News18 was the first to call elections in both Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. CNN-News18 not only kept a close track of the results but also apprised the viewers of the implications of the outcome with incisive analysis in the form of key takeaways.

    News18 India and ETV News Network, News18 Network’s Hindi and regional channels,made the counting day coverage and analysis far more comprehensible for the viewers. While ETV News Network was the leader in reporting results, News18 India focussed on ensuring the accuracy of results being shared and led the genre for this data.

    Keeping up with their legacy of leadership and expertise in covering elections, the network’s team of anchors, correspondents, experts and analysts offered an unparalleled coverage of these crucial elections.

  • CNN-News18 ‘Indian of the year’ 2017 special Telecast on 9 and 10 December

    CNN-News18 ‘Indian of the year’ 2017 special Telecast on 9 and 10 December

    MUMBAI: The awards night of the annual and flagship initiative of CNN-News18, ‘Indian of the Year – 2017’ will be telecasted on the 9 and 10 of December at 9:30 PM on the channel. The initiative, whichrecognizes and awards the exceptional contribution and achievements of the iconic Indian citizens and organizations, has already received exceptional interest from all over India.

    The event, in its eleventh year, witnessed participation from several industry stalwarts, ministers, and renowned personalities from the sports and film fraternity – Minister of Finance, Arun Jaitley, Minister of Commerce, Suresh Prabhu, Stalwarts of the Indian Cricket Fraternity, Virat Kohli, Ravi Shastri, Mithali Raj and Kapil Dev, the newly crowned Miss World Manushi Chhillar, Actors Rajkkumar Rao & Ramya Krishnan, Business Honchos Adar Poonawala & Acharya Balkrishna to name a few.

    Sharing his thoughts on the Awards, TV18 president- revenue and Forbes India CEO Joy Chakraborthy said,“Over the past ten years, CNN-News18 Indian of the Year awards have evolved to a significant stature, recognizing the outstanding contributions of the Indians in various categories. The colossal success of this initiative in the past decade, including participation by some of the country’s most distinguished citizens, has raised the bar for this platform making it one of the most accredited awards in the industry. I am of the firm belief that a marquee event like this not only builds equity for the channel but also creates tremendous value for the brands associating with it and my belief was validated when over 10 sponsors partnered with us this year.”

    Presented by Jio, this year, the reach of the Awards was multifold. The audience included not just the ones seated at the venue but also across the nation with the event being digitally streamed live on the JioTV app & news18.com and through live television dip-ins on CNN-News18, engaging audiences across the country. It was followed widely on social media and trended on twitter with #IndianoftheYear all through the star-studded evening.

    Ace badminton player, Kidambi Srikanth was the winner in the sports category while lawyer and environmentalist Afroz Shah took the honors in the Public Service category. Acharya Balkrishna emerged as 2017’s ‘Indian of the Year’ in Business and Rajkummar Rao was adjudged the winner in the entertainment category. In addition to these, Adar Poonawalla was conferred the Outstanding Achievement in Business & CSR award, Indian Women’s Cricket Team and Miss World Manushi Chhillar were Special Achievement awardees and Team Baahubali was given the Outstanding Achievement award.

    The highlight of the grand finale was the final award of the night, the overall ‘CNN-News18 Indian of the Year 2017’, an honour that went to the Captain of the Indian cricket team, Virat Kohli.

  • News18 Network’s Rising Rajasthan to be held in Jaipur

    MUMBAI: Rising Rajasthan is being organized by News18 Network today at the Clarks Amer in Jaipur.

    The event will have the CM Vasundhara Raje as well as top political leaders speak extensively on the state’s development priorities and various government programmes. The discussion is also likely to focus on the elections in the state that are scheduled for next year and how the current government is likely to approach the same. The event will have several panel discussions with senior ministers including Road and Transport & PWD minister, Yunus Khan; Panchayati Raj and rural development minister, Rajendra Singh Rathore; urban development and housing minister, Shrichand Kriplani; Medical and Health Minister, KalicharanSaraf; Sports and Youth Affairs Minister, Gajendra Singh Khimsar and President, State Finance Commission, Dr. Jyoti Kiran.

    Rising Rajasthan will also have representation from the opposition with the opening session featuring Dr. CP Joshi, General Secretary, All Indian Congress Committee who will speak on the future of the Congress party and the strategy that it is likely to adopt going forward.

    The event will not only facilitate discussions on key political and policy related issues but will also focus on individuals who have been the flagbearers of social change and/or those who have shown exemplary courage in challenging situations. Panelists including IPS, SarojKumari; Social Activist, Mridula Bhasin; Former Zila Pramukh, Pali, Khushveer Singh and Social Activist Hema Shah will speak of transformational initiatives that have had a huge impact on society at large.

    A session featuring inspiring stories of heroism will have Colonel Ram Singh (A 100-year old brave soldier and founder of 15 Kumaon Regiment); NaikDigendra Kumar (Winner of MahaVir Chakra; fought in Kargil War in 1999, captured Tololing from Pakistan and hoisted the Tricolor Flag of India); Major DeepikaRathore (The First Woman to climb Mount Everest twice) and CRPF Commandant Chetan Cheetah (who was shot 9 times during an encounter with terrorists in Kashmir) speak about their life and experiences.

    The event will end with a key note address by and a special interaction with chief minister Vasundhara Raje who will speak about her government’s approach to development, governance and areas of priority. The CM will also felicitate widows of soldiers who attained martyrdom during the Kargil War.

    ETV News Network group editor Rajesh Raina said that “The Rising Series is a platform from News18 Network which has gathered tremendous momentum over the past few months. This event facilitates engagement with top state leaders from across the political spectrum on critical issues pertaining to growth of the State. With the State elections scheduled to happen next year in Rajasthan – ‘Rising Rajasthan’ will provide an ideal platform to discuss and debate issues that will form the core of the political discourse in the State.”

    Adding to the above A + E Networks | TV18,Network 18 president strategy, product and alliances managing director Avinash Kaul said, “We are extremely excited about the Rising Rajasthan event. For us as a Network, Rajasthan is an extremely important market especially given the fact that ETV Rajasthan is the state’s No. 1 news channel. Our programming has always been about our viewers and their interests. Rising Rajasthan will not only raise issues of development but will, on the solemn occasion of Kargil Vijay Diwas, also remember those brave sons of the state who made the ultimate sacrifice for the nation during the Kargil War.”

    The event will be covered on ETV Rajasthan, News18 India and CNN-News18 starting 5pm

  • English TV news channels to return to BARC fold from midnight 26 May

    MUMBAI: There’s another twist in the tale of the story of the ratings of news television channel debutante Republic TV. The five English TV news channel members of the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) of India, which had stripped their signals of Broadcast Audience Research Council’s (BARC’s) audio water mark last week, agreed to reinsert it in their streams from their studios just as the clock hand moves past midnight of 26 May.

    This means that NDTV 24×7, Times Now, India Today, NewsX and CNN News18 will once again come under the ambit of BARC’s viewership monitoring. Around a week ago, they had raised a protest after BARC had refused to heed their plea that it should not report Republic TV’s ratings as it had allegedly resorted to rampant multiple LCN placement on cable TV networks across India.

    A spate of appeals, petitions, court hearings followed, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India cracked down on the errant cable TV platforms and almost every appellant and respondent claimed victory following the court orders and directions.

    But finally, hopefully the curtains have been drawn on the messy affair of English news channels, Republic TV, the NBA, TRAI and BARC which suddenly brought them under the spotlight.

    According to a report in a legal website, TV Today Network that had asked for reliefs in a case filed by it against Republic TV in Delhi HC, at one stage submitted that if the malpractice was no longer existent then it would not press for the reliefs prayed for in the petition, provided that the respondents state this on record. After the taking the statements of the respondents on record, the petition was dismissed as withdrawn without the court going into the contentions of either the petitioners or respondents.

    However, NBA maintained the resolution to the crisis was found with Republic TV committing to the Delhi High court that it will cease resorting to placing itself on multiple LCNs and BARC explaining to the association the process to approach such complaints satisfactorily.

  • News channel controversy: BARC India fires riposte to NBA

    MUMBAI: The muck is flying thick and fast in the English news channel genre. Yesterday, the English news channel members of the News Broadcasters Association decided to pull out of the Broadcast Audience Research Council’s (BARC) viewership monitoring by removing its watermark from their channels. This followed the BARC’s decision to release data for week 19 despite the NBA urging it not to do so as debutante the Arnab Goswami headed Republic TV had resorted to dual and multiple LCN placement of the channel to pump up its viewership.
    The net result: Republic TV emerged as the leader in the genre beating back old time vets such as Times Now, India Today, NDTV 24×7, NewsX and CNN News 18.

    A short while ago, BARC issued a clarification to indiantelevision.com stating that multiple LCN placement is rampant in the news television industry and nobody can call the kettle black. Said it in a statement:

    “The fact is that this is a common distribution strategy among various TV channels, particularly News Broadcasters, to place their channels on multiple LCNs and across genres in the past, and they continue to do so even now.

    Based on information collected from various monitoring agencies we have seen that multiple English news channels on different occasions have placed themselves on multiple LCNs viz across 64 distribution networks during rebranding/revamp, across 16 networks during budget coverage, across 12 networks during UP elections etc. It has become a usual practice.”

    “We have a transparent policy on the matter of measuring channels, (which is available on our website http://bit.ly/2dllmIp). This policy has been consistently applied to all channels who subscribe to our measurement.

    “We are clear about our position – we measure viewership of channels basis their unique Watermark ID, irrespective of the platform the channel is available on or the number of instances within the platform. For channels having same watermark on more than one LCN, viewership gets aggregated and reported as a single channel and not multiple channels. BARC India neither monitors channel placements across the various DTH platforms/cable head-ends in the country, nor does it have the mandate to do so.

    “In the past, we have measured multiple LCN instances of channels as per our policy, and reported them as one channel and the same principle has been applied to our data released yesterday. BARC India is not the regulatory body for resolving issues concerning multiplicity of LCNs for a channel.

    “Ideally these issues should be sorted among broadcasters themselves rather than dragging BARC India into these.

    BARC India will continue to measure what India watches.”

  • Republic TV, TRAI, NBA and the case of multiple LCNs

    MUMBAI: The media went to town about Arnab Goswami’s Republic TV getting carriage in multiple genres (dual or multiple LCNs) on select cable TV networks across India. This followed reports that the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) had complained to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) about this so-called violation by cable TV MSOs of the quality of services regulations which were notified in early March 2017.

    TRAI, on its part, then sent out notices to the MSOs asking them to toe the regulatory line which states that “…each channel shall be listed under the respective genre of the channel as declared by the broadcaster under applicable tariff order or regulations …and one channel shall appear at one place only.”

    And, by end-16 May, many MSOs following pressure from the regulator gradually started pulling out the channel from other genres and placed it in one genre only – that of, news. However, sources indicate that Republic was not the only channel which resorted to seeding multiple feeds in different genres on cable TV networks.

    “For a long time, channels have been doing this — whether it is Times Now or CNN News18 or CNBC News18 or Headlines Today – almost every news channel has opted for this, and even GECs,” says a distribution professional. “It is a shrewd marketing ploy which has helped viewers find a channel easier as well as got a spike in viewership as multiple LCN placement tends to fox BARC India’s measurement. In fact, even this time, two of the popular English news channels did the same though no one has mentioned them, but with TRAI cracking down, even they have dropped the multiple channel feeds.”

    A source close to Republic TV questioned the NBA’s decision to write to the TRAI without approaching the channel’s management.

    “The thing is the existing clique of news channels is getting nervous about Republic’s spectacular launch and recall in the viewers’ minds. The ratings are expected soon and, for sure, there are going to be a few upsets,” says he. “Hence, they banded together against the debutant.”

    Indiantelevision.com reached out to BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta, and the official comment from the viewership ratings agency was that it would go ahead with the release of its data as usual. “BARC India measures viewership of TV channels on the basis of their unique Watermark ID, irrespective of the platform that the channel is available on, and number of instances, within that platform. For channels with the same WM ID, which may be available on more than one slot/LCN, the viewership reported is a combined one for all in BARC India weekly data,” BARC India stated.