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  • DD’s ‘Janmon ka bandhan’ to boost primetime viewing

    DD’s ‘Janmon ka bandhan’ to boost primetime viewing

    NEW DELHI: As Doordarshan gets a new look, a number of new shows are being and will be aired to boost the viewership.

     

    One such show is Janmon ka Bandhan – Insaani rishton ka taana bana, which will commence at 7:00 pm from 21 November.

     

    The show is based on the premise of an honest IAS officer, Surender Kapoor fighting against the mafia linked with the construction business. While on the family front he is struggling between a mentally disturbed son and sudden loss of his wife. Overwhelmed with all problems he eventually reaches a breaking point. It is at this stage that his three daughters come forward and take responsibility to help the family emerge out of the muddle.

     

    The show is being produced and directed by Prem Chopra Wavelength Pictures.  Rajeev Varma, a renowned actor of ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’ fame, is playing the lead character of Surender Kapoor.

     

    With this women-centric family fiction drama, Doordarshan National is looking to underscore the inherent strength of women and girl child; in keeping up with the channel’s ideology of “value addition” in everyday life of the viewers.

     

  • DD working to woo top producers for its nationals, Jaitley chairs meeting

    DD working to woo top producers for its nationals, Jaitley chairs meeting

    NEW DELHI: Several producers who have made some memorable series for Doordarshan have promised to return if certain changes are made in the pattern of the financial agreements with them.

     

    This assurance was given by the producers to Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley, Minister of State (MOS) Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and secretary Bimal Julka at a meeting initiated by Doordarshan director general Vijaylaxmi Chhabra. Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar and senior advisor Brig VAM Hussain were also present.

     

    The Minister said that the pubcaster wanted to revive the trust of the producers in DD and come back, and this was generally welcomed by those present.

     

    Hats Off Productions owner JD Majethia and also co-chairman of Association Of Motion Pictures & Television Programme Producers (AMPTPP) says, “The agenda of the meeting was that in the last 10-12 years with the birth of new general entertainment channels (GECs), DD had somewhere lost its glory. Now, DD wants to revive and expand its content portfolio with the help of top-line producers like us and bring back the long lost glory on DD.”

     

    The producers said that the revenue sharing model of DD was not acceptable to them as the marketing was handled by the broadcaster. Issues relating to Intellectual Property Rights were also raised since it was said that DD reserved the copyright of the works of the producers and they wanted an examination of this.

     

    On behalf of DD, they were assured that the pubcaster would examine the schemes under which serials are obtained since it has already stopped commissioning of programmes.

     

    It is learnt that consequent to the meeting, DD has re-drafted the guidelines relating to the self-financing scheme and will await the remarks of the producers before giving it a final shape.

     

    The meeting was attended by producers namely – BP Singh (Fireworks Productions), Sunjoy Wadhwa (Sphereorigins chairman and managing director), Abhimanyu Singh (Contiloe Entertainment) and others. It is also learnt that Chhabra visited Mumbai to meet some producers in this connection.

  • DD gets watermarked

    DD gets watermarked

    MUMBAI: The pubcaster has finally got itself inked for ratings. Doordarshan’s 20 channels have got watermarked as per the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India’s standards for viewership ratings.

    Doordarshan, which has been a founding member of the measurement council, took a while to get the channels watermarked. As per sources, the cost of watermarking a channel costs around Rs 20 lakh and the pubcaster has spent close to Rs 4.5 crore to get the technology on board.

    The audience measurement company has already got on board 250 channels that have ordered for watermarking embedders. Half of this has already been installed.

    The watermarking technology has been taken from Netherlands based Civolution and field testing of the meters is underway for homologating them to Indian conditions. As BARC India has consistently maintained, the meters have been assembled in India at a fraction of the cost of global suppliers.

    Deals with 26 vendor partners such as Intel, Hansa, Mediametrie, Civolution, Markdata, Magic9Media across 12 processes have been finalised. It also claims that this is the largest such audience measurement system globally with cutting edge technology.

    The government has laid down policy guidelines that prescribe a minimum of 20, 000 homes, which BARC India feels isn’t enough in the long run. It has also opted for the harder and tougher method of assembling systems from various vendors to offer a superior and cost effective output.

     

  • Sardar Patel, Indira Gandhi to be remembered by AIR, DD on their anniversaries

    Sardar Patel, Indira Gandhi to be remembered by AIR, DD on their anniversaries

    NEW DELHI: Both All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan are celebrating India’s Iron Man Sardar Vallabhai Patel’s birthday this week with different programmes.

     

    AIR has organised a discussion today, which will be broadcast on 31 October.  This year’s topic is Marxism, Socialism and Integral Humanism. The speaker is veteran mediaperson and member of Parliament Chandan Mitra.

     

    Meanwhile, AIR Delhi will also broadcast live the function relating to the 30th Death Anniversary of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi from 1 Akbar Road, New Delhi on 31 October from 8.15 am onwards on Indraprastha Channel MW 366.3 mtr and a Radio Report  on the various functions  held  in the capital to commemorate the anniversary and will be broadcast on 31 October 2014 at. 8.30 pm. This report will be broadcast from Indraprastha Channel 366.3 mtr and National Network.

     

    DD Bharati is telecasting “Sardar Patel”: Vallabh Bhai Patel Birthday Celebration on 31 October at 06:00 pm, with repeat telecast at 02:00 am and 10:30 am.

     

    DD National is going to remember him through the Hindi Feature Film ‘Sardar’ directed and produced by Ketan Mehta scheduled for telecast at 09.30 p.m. on DD-National.

     

    DD National will also telecast at 08:00 am the events of the Rashtriya Ekta Diwas with the paying of floral tributes at Patel Chowk, New Delhi. This will be followed by the Unity Pledge and Run for Unity from Vijay Chowk to India Gate, New Delhi.

     

    There will be a documentary on the Sardar after the morning function, and the film YUGPURUSH: A film on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at 10.00 am.

     

    The feature “SARDAR” by Ketan Mehta will be telecast on DD National in the Friday Houseful slot at 9.30 pm.

     

    DD News has also slated programmes to pay their tributes to the Sardar and the former Prime Minister. A half-hour discussion will be telecast at 7.30 pm on the Sardar, and the social media; Tweets and YouTube alerts will be given for the function. The Sardar Patel lecture will be telecast in news bulletins. The live programme will start at 7:30 am and go live till 10 am with two anchors and two guests with inputs from Police Parade, Hyderabad. This will be followed by a half-hour programme, named Lauh Purush which will be repeated at 7:30 pm. There will be a discussion in the late night news bulletin on DD News at 8.10 pm.

     

    During the day, all the events in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi takes part will be streamed live on YouTube. There will be tweets on PM’s function and speech, apart from posts on Facebook. 

  • DD to mark 50 years of the 1965 Indo-Pak war

    DD to mark 50 years of the 1965 Indo-Pak war

    NEW DELHI: Famed singers Suresh Wadekar and Kavita Krishnamurthy today emphasised that artistes from Bollywood always came forward for a good cause without charging any fee, but someone else had to take the initiative for such events.

     

    Answering questions at a press meet to announce the ‘Smarananjali’ musical programme being held on 30 October to mark 50 years of the 1965 war with Pakistan and pay tribute to those who laid down their lives in the defence of the country, both artistes denied that Bollywood artistes were reluctant in participating in such programmes.

     

    Smarananjali is the concept of Doordarshan additional director general Mahesh Joshi, who had commenced such programmes when he was in the Bangalore Kendra of Doordarshan and now initiated the same in Delhi.

     

    To be organised by Delhi Kendra of Doordarshan, the programme will also feature violin maestro Dr L Subramaniam who was present at the press meet along with the other artistes. It will also have performances by Pankaj Udhas, artistes from the Subramaniam Foundation. The musical tribute will be interlaced with specially choreographed dance performances of memorable patriotic songs by Manjula Parmesh and group. An additional attraction is the on-the-spot painting by renowned painter B S Verma and a dance by soldiers from the Madras Engineering Group (MEG) who will perform to the song “Ma Tujhe Salaam”.

     

    Dr Mukesh Chandra, who is a special police officer for Delhi Traffic Police said he is an amateur flutist and will also perform at the event.

     

    Prasar Bharati senior advisor Brig. VAM Hussain said it was necessary for the common man to realise the hardships that the armed forces faced. He said the attempt would be to make this programme an annual affair.

     

    This programme will be telecast later on DD National and is also aimed at helping the brave soldiers and their families and keep the deeds and bravery of valiant soldiers in public memory.   

     

    ‘Smarananjali’ is being planned in the form of a lyrical tribute by artistes on stage to martyrs in the presence of their families and the Defence Minister Arun Jaitley, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar, and the Chiefs of Army, Navy and Air force and Chiefs of Paramilitary forces. Religious leaders from different religious groups will also be present to pay homage to the martyrs.

     

    The selected special guests will pay homage to the martyrs by lighting a candle before a replica of the Amar Jawan Jyoti and a soldier.

     

    Three Param Vir Chakra Awardees will also be honoured at the tribute event. They are Hony Capt Bana Singh (Retd), 8 J&K LI, Sub Yogender Singh Yadav, 18 Grenadiers and N/SUB Sanjay Kumar, 13 JAK RIF.

     

    The Defence Ministry has appreciated the concept of the programme and is fully supporting Doordarshan’s efforts to organise the event.

     

  • DD appoints Tauquir Zaidi as ad sales head

    DD appoints Tauquir Zaidi as ad sales head

    MUMBAI: The public broadcaster has added another executive to strengthen its advertising and sales division. Tauquir Zaidi has been appointed as network sales head.

     

    The move is in coherence with its aim to roll out its full fledged professional advertising and sales team. Zaidi will be based in New Delhi.

     

    He said, “Most of us have grown watching DD and the programs are still fresh in our minds. Serials like Buniyad, Mahabharat, Humlog, Nukkad and so many others are still a cult of this industry. This is the only organisation that believes in ‘finite fiction’ without falling into the trap of TVTs. Today all GECs start a fiction without planning its end /climax. The length of the serial depends on the ratings it gets, which does no justice to the story. Call of the hour is to put an effective strategy and recruit right team to implement those strategies.”

     

    He will be first developing a promotional strategy to identify core target markets and setting measurable goals to multiply revenue. According to him, the success of an organisation is to implement a well-thought marketing plan by providing feasible solutions to clients.

     

    Zaidi has over 17 years of experience in the field of ad sales with companies such as Star India, NDTV and Times Television Network

  • CNN-IBN elevates Radhakrishnan Nair to managing editor

    CNN-IBN elevates Radhakrishnan Nair to managing editor

    MUMBAI: Radhakrishnan Nair has been elevated as the managing editor of CNN-IBN. He will fill in the post left vacant by Vinay Tewari a few days ago.

     

    Nair has a career spanning 25 years in the field. He started off with UNI in Kerala. His television stint began in 1995 with TV18, then moved to CNBC-TV18 and has been with CNN-IBN since 2005.

     

    Until now, he was news director for the English news channel. Nair is a chemistry graduate and a gold medalist in Journalism from the Indian Institute of Journalism in Trivandrum and has done Masters in Communication and Journalism from Kerala University.

     

    Nair has spent 12 years with TV18 producing various business shows and leading the input-output desk at CNBC. He has also produced programmes for DD, BBC and Sony as well as Asia’s first business channel ABNI.

  • Star, Zee and Viacom 18 among successful bidders for FTA channels on DD Freedish

    Star, Zee and Viacom 18 among successful bidders for FTA channels on DD Freedish

    NEW DELHI: Rishtey owned by Viacom18, Zee Anmol and Star Utsav are among the six slots filled through the 14th online e-auction for the direct-to-home (DTH) service of Doordarshan Freedish conducted on 11 and 12 August.

                                                         

    Doordarshan sources told indiantelevision.com that the slots were auctioned in the range of Rs 4.5 crore to Rs 4.7 crore, while the reserve price had been Rs 3 crore. The other slots went to Big Magic, B4U Music, and Shree News.

     
    The e-Auction was conducted by Synise Technologies, Pune, on behalf of Prasar Bharati.

     
    Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar had said earlier this month that the aim was to reach the target of 97 channels by October-end and 125 by March-end.

     

    The participation amount given by the channels had been Rs 1.5 crore which was deposited in advance along with processing fee of Rs 10,000 (non-refundable).

     
    Applicants also deposited a demand draft of Rs 5,500 as registration amount (mandatory) favouring Synise Technologies, payable at Pune at the time of submission of the application.
     

    Prasar Bharati sources said that the demand drafts of unsuccessful bidders were to be returned within a week after the e-auction process was completed. 

  • DD offers free signals of sign language interpretation for I-Day celebrations

    DD offers free signals of sign language interpretation for I-Day celebrations

    NEW DELHI: To enable the hearing impaired so that they can savour the spirit of Independence Day, Doordarshan will make available free of cost the signals of the coverage of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation after the flag hoisting of the tricolour along with the sign language interpretation.

     

    The Information and Broadcasting ministry said all news television channels interested in carrying the live telecast of the ceremony commentary are advised to carry the signals of DD News with sign language interpretation.

     

     The Ministry said that this was being done in view of requests received from members of the civil society.

     

     Prasar Bharati has informed the ministry that DD news channel would be carrying the sign language interpretation and private satellite TV channels can avail the same from them.

  • DD awaits Prasar Bharati’s nod for a HD channel

    DD awaits Prasar Bharati’s nod for a HD channel

    NEW DELHI: In the era of high definition, Doordarshan, proved its mettle in telecasting in HD mode as early as 2010.

     

    The pubcaster had then shown the Commonwealth Games held in the national capital in HD feed, even before the other private channels entered the segment.

     

    Doordarshan is ready to launch a national channel in a parallel HD mode, as per the sources within the pubcaster, but is awaiting a nod from the  Prasar Bharati board.

     

    Prasar Bharati sources however told indiantelevision.com that the issue of a separate HD channel had not been put up before the board.

     

    Currently, DD News is telecasting the Commonwealth Games from Glasgow in high definition on its terrestrial transmitters while covering more of the games/events where Indians are participating.

     

    It is learnt that DD Sports and Ten Sports failed to reach an agreement on the issue, and the Ministry had issued a showcause notice to Ten Sports, last week, for declining to share the feed with DD Sports. Under the The Sports Broadcasting Signals (Mandatory Sharing with Prasar Bharati) Act 2007 as it is considered a sports event of national importance, it is mandatory for the rights holder (Ten Sports, in this case) to share the broadcast with Prasar Bharati.

     

    The sports event is mandated to be carried on the terrestrial network to ensure that viewers who do not have access to cable or DTH services can also view the games.