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  • English News, Religious & Music HSM genres lose: Chrome DM

    English News, Religious & Music HSM genres lose: Chrome DM

    MUMBAI: ‘Sports – All-India’ genre has emerged as the most benefitted genre with 1.92 per cent. DD Sports has topped the chart with 95 per cent opportunity to see (OTS) in week 33, Chrome Data Analytics & Media reported.

    Among the losers this week, the English News genre in six metros decreased by 0.70 per cent. In this genre, however, Loksabha TV was the top gainer with 93.8 per cent OTS.  Religious- HSM Excl <1L genre dropped by 0.49 per cent this week wherein Sanskar stood at number one with 95.9 per cent OTS. Music- HSM Excl <1L recorded a fall of 0.31 per cent. However, Sony Mix emerged as the leader in the genre with 90.8 per cent OTS.

    Among gainers, next in the tally was English GEC genre which bagged the second spot in the chart, seeing a growth of 1.32 per cent in six metros. Colors Infinity lead the genre with 47.7 per cent OTS.

    With a growth of 1.06 per cent, ‘Kids- All India’ grabbed the third spot. In the kids genre, Nickelodeon stood at number one with 88.6 per cent OTS. This was followed by ‘Infotainment – All India’ genre on the fourth position with 0.93 per cent with NGC leading the chart with 92.3 per cent OTS.

    Last, but not the least, the Youth genre in the Hindi-speaking market (HSM) stood at the fifth position with a growth of 0.88 per cent. MTV topped the genre with 90.7 per cent OTS.

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  • FreeDish auction on 22 Aug, different reserve prices for GEC & news

    NEW DELHI: Doordarshan’s FreeDish is all set to hold its second e-auction with differential reserve prices for general entertainment channels and news channels.

    The 37th e-auction is slated for 22 August and the reserve prices for general entertainment channels will be Rs 80 million but the reserve price for news and current affairs channels will be Rs 65 million.

    With the completion of MPEG4 trials, the total strength of the platform will go up to 104, over the next few months. Earlier this year, Parliament was informed FreeDish had got approval to increase this capacity to 250 channels and DD sources had told indiantelevision.co that will happen ion the third quarter of 2018.

    The e-Auction will be conducted by M/s. C1 India Pvt. Ltd., Noida which also conducted the FM Radio Phase III auctions on behalf of Prasar Bharati.   

    The participation amount (EMD) in the e-Auction for GEC channels is Rs.28 million while it is Rs 22.8 million for news channels. This has to be deposited in advance before or by 12 noon on the date of auction along with processing fee of Rs.25,000 (non-refundable).

    Incremental amount for the auction will be Rs one million and the time for every slot e-auction will be of fifteen minutes duration. This may be extended by five minutes if a bid is received before the closing time.

    Unsuccessful bidders will get back the participation amount within three weeks of the results while that of successful bidders will be adjusted against the third and final instalment of the carriage fee.

    If the successful bidder fails to put his channel on the allotted slot within a month, the allotment will be cancelled and the participation fee forfeited. Successful bidders have to sign and return an agreement within fifteen days of allotment.                                                                                                          

    The first installment of 25 per cent of the bid price with the applicable service tax will have to be paid within one month from date of placement of channel.

    The second installment of 25 per cent of the total bid price along with the applicable service tax will have to be paid within four months of placement of channel.

    The third installment of remaining amount after adjusting the participation fee and previous installments but adding the applicable service tax will be deposited within seven months of placement of channel.

    If any of the installments is not paid in time, a penal interest of 14.5 per cent per annum will be levied.

    If there is failure in depositing an installment for two months, the deposited participation amount along with any installment paid will be forfeited and the channel discontinued after a 21-day discontinuation notice.

    In line with the ‘Digital India’ and ‘Make in India’, DD has implemented Indian CAS (iCAS) on DD FreeDish Platform. iCAS (which is an initiative of the central government).

    DD officials said the existing viewers will continue to get 80 SDTV channels and 32 radio channels, but will have to obtain iCAS-enabled authorized set-top boxes for accessing all new channels.

    Although Free Dish will remain free-to-air with no monthly or periodic fee, the viewers will be required to register with DD FreeDish on getting the new STB from Doordarshan authorized STB dealers.

    DD officials said implementation of iCAS and authorisation of STB original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) by Doordarshan will give a major thrust to ‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital India’. At present, a majority of STBs are imported. However, the introduction of iCAS will help in standardization of STBs and encourage quality STB manufacturing in India.

    With analogue having been switched off, Parliament had been told that many stakeholders feel that FreeDish is the best option in Phase IV which covers rural India.

    FreeDish was launched with a modest bouquet of 33 channels in December 2004, and now carries eighty TV channels and 32 radio channels. This includes 22 Doordarshan channels and two parliamentary channels, seven general entertainment channels, 18 movie channels, 13 news channels, seven music channels, three religious channels and eight channels of other genres. The All-India Radio stations also piggy-back on the platform.

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  • GEC: SET enters & Sab exits Top 10 as Star & Zee Anmol retain leadership

    MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television (SET) entered and Sony Sab dropped out of the Top 10 channels’ list in the Hindi general entertainment genre (rural) space, according to BARC India week 29’s all-India data. Star India retained its reign over Hindi GEC (Urban + Rural) as well as Urban segment whereas Zee Anmol retained its sway over the Hindi GEC (rural) segment.

    In the GEC (Urban) segment, Sony Sab jumped a slot this week from last week’s fourth position whereas Sony Entertainment slipped a slot to the fourth position. In the GEC (urban + rural), Rishtey slipped from last week’s third position to the fourth position this week whereas Zee Anmol climbed from the fourth level to the third position.

    Among the programmes in the Urban+Rural segment, Amul Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Little on Zee TV and Naagin 2 on Rishtey respectively emerged as the first and second top programmes with 11462 and 10508 Impressions sum.

    HINDI GEC

    Star Plus, with a hike in ratings, lead the Hindi GEC genre with 632153 Impressions (000s) sum as compared to 629109 Impressions (000s) sum followed by Zee TV on second spot and recorded 632048 Impressions (000s) sum against 623641 Impressions (000s) sum. Zee Anmol climbed a spot to the third place with a hike in ratings from 544669 Impressions (000s) sum to 612945 Impressions (000s) sum.

    Rishtey slipped a slot to the fourth position with 589493 Impressions (000s) sum and Sony Pal is on the fifth position with 573002 Impressions (000s) sum as compared to 528789 Impressions (000s) sum.

    Colors is on sixth position with 504216 Impressions (000s) sum followed by Sony Entertainment Television, Sony SAB, and Life Ok at seventh, eighth and ninth spots with 399377 Impressions (000s) sum, 389089 Impressions (000s) sum and 366170 Impressions (000s) sum respectively.
    Star Utsav sits on the tenth position with 281863 Impressions (000s) sum.

    Hindi GEC Rural

    Zee Anmol continued to remain at the top position with 480526 Impressions (000s) sum followed by Rishtey with 444059 Impressions (000s) sum at the second position. Sony Pal and Zee TV stood at the third and forth positions with 412847 Impressions (000s) sum and 251876 Impressions (000s) sum, respectively.

    Star Utsav is on the fifth position with 212020 Impressions (000s) sum. Star Plus, Big Magic and Colors grabbed the sixth, seventh and eighth spot with 197047 Impressions (000s) sum, 171172 Impressions (000s) sum and 158368 Impressions (000s) sum, respectively.

    Life OK and Sony Entertainment Television are at the ninth and tenth positions with 130848 Impressions (000s) sum and 110911 Impressions (000s) sum, respectively.

     

    Hindi GEC Urban

    Star Plus led the chart with 429222 Impressions (000s) sum followed by Zee TV with 369689 Impressions (000s) sum.

    Colors sits on the third slot with 345848 Impressions (000s) sum and Sony Entertainment Television bagged the fourth spot with 288465 Impressions (000s) sum. Sony Sab slipped a slot to the fifth position with 284646 Impressions (000s) sum.

    Life Ok and &TV stood on the sixth and the seventh spots with 235322 Impressions (000) sum and 161702 Impressions (000) sum, respectively.

    Sony Pal, Rishtey and Zee Anmol are on the eighth, ninth and tenth positions, respectively, with 160155 Impressions (000s) sum, 145434 Impressions (000s) sum and 132419 Impressions (000s) sum.

  • Movies continue to dominate TV viewership, ads skewed towards male audience, observes BARC

    NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Although the saas-bahu trend appeared to be taking over the Indian television about two decades ago, viewers have ultimately come back to the medium they love the most – cinema with song, dance and thrills.

    It is therefore no surprise that feature films aired on television contribute over 28 per cent to the total television viewership. The appeal of Movies is amplified by the fact that the varying content within films ensure that there is something for everyone – right from animations for kids to youth stories and mythological.

    Interestingly, though the movie channels have the largest viewership, general entertainment channels hold 17 per cent of feature film content. However, content availability on GEC channels is mainly driven by regional channels, according to a newsletter by the Broadcast Audience Research Council on ‘Decoding movies on television’.

    Feature films

    Feature Films are aired on nine channel genres. The genre which contributes the maximum content for Feature films is, as expected, Movie channels.  This is followed by GEC channels.

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    The content availability on GEC channels is mainly driven by regional channels. The scenario is similar in the case of Music genre, where the content availability is driven by regional channels.

    On the other hand, regional channels do not have any feature films content on youth and Infotainment. Conversely, HSM channels do not air any feature films on Kids and devotional channels.

    GEC channels dominated by movies

    After movie the channel genre, GEC channels have the maximum share of feature film content, as a composition on terms of channel language shows.

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    If one examines the language split within GEC channels, it is clear that the southern region channels drive the content availability. Even within these, Tamil and Telugu language channels have a substantial lead over the others.

    Interestingly, the south market is less fragmented that HSM. Over 90 per cent of the viewership is concentrated in only three genres – Movies, GEC and Kids.

    The differing viewership in HSM and South can also be explained by content availability.

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    Regional channels have higher content available on GEC and music channels. Additionally, unlike HSM which has no content in the kids genre, regional channels havefeature film content on kids genre.

    This also reflects in the viewership data, where the South has a higher share for GEC, Kids and music genre as compared to HSM. On a zonal level, eastern and western states see a higher preference for viewership of dubbed content.

    Audiences for movies in southern market are spread across movies, GEC and kids genre channels. However, in HSM it is heavily skewed towards movies.

    Feature films aimed at the young

    As compared to total TV viewership, audience for the feature films is skewed towards young (15 to 30 years) male audiences, especially from lower social grades(NCCS CDE), the BARC study shows.

    At an All India level, movie audiences are skewed towards males, the age group of 15 to 30 years and for NCCS C, D/E, as compared to Total TV viewership.

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    Viewership of feature films is skewed to female only in case of two genres – GEC and devotional.

    Thus movie channels have the maximum contribution to viewership of feature films, followed by GEC channels. It is interesting to note that the pattern across genres is in linewith the content availability shown previously, the study says.

    The only exceptions are kids genre and youth genre, where the performance is better vis-à-vis the content availability. This could be the result of these being targeted atspecific age-groups among which they have extremely high viewership.

    Feature films on kids channels have substantial co-viewership driven by parents (22 to 40 years). Movie themed content is more effective on youth genre channels thanany other genre in attracting audiences from all social grades.

    Viewership across genres is in line with content availability across genres.

    Holidays lead to greater viewership of movies

    Extended weekends with public holidays/festivals generate better viewership than mid-week holidays.

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    All the spikes (high viewership points) in 2016 have occurred due to some public holiday.

    The biggest peak in the year occurred on Independence Day (15-August) followed by Dussehra (11-October), Ganesh Chaturthi (5-September) and Pongal/Sankranti (15-January).

    With the exception of Dussehra, all the other top holidays were either on a Monday or a Friday. This shows that while public holidays lead to a spike in viewership, the ones that fall on a long weekend show a bigger spike.

    These spikes are further compounded due to special programming – the airing of a world television premiere or popular movies.

    Advertising skewed towards male audience

    Though Movies are skew towards male audience, advertising categories such as Food & Beverages, Personal care/Hygiene perform much better than Durables, Telecom products, etc.

    This indicates the perception of male consumers increasing for female oriented advertising categories, the study shows.

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  • GEC: Star Plus regains lead, Sony Pal slips in two segments

    MUMBAI: Star Plus has regained its top position in Hindi GEC (U+R) this week. Last week’s leader Sony Pal fell to the third position in two segments (U+R and rural), according to BARC India week 25 ratings data. 

    Zee Anmol has remarkably jumped two slots each to the numero uno (rural) and second (U+R) positions respectively with approximately 10 per cent jump in ratings each whereas Star Plus has retained its top position in the GEC Urban. Colors too made a good leap from the seventh to the fifth position this week.

    Among the programmes on GEC channels, India-Pakistan ICC Champions trophy match on DD National    lead the list with 22525 Impressions (000s) Sum. Kumkum Bhagya and Amul Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Little Champs both on Zee TV pocketed the second and third positions, respectively, with 9764 and 9523 22525 Impressions (000s) Sum.

    Hindi GEC (U+R)

    Star Plus, Zee Anmol and Sony Pal have bagged the first, second and third positions, respectively, with 593712, 580287 and 560468 Impressions (000s) Sum.

    Rishtey, Colors and Zee TV pocketed the fourth, fifth and sixth position with 546014, 496646 and 479152 Impressions (000s) Sum.

    Sony Sab, albeit with a ratings jump of 6000 Impressions (000s) Sum, slipped a slot bagging the seventh position with total of 445866 Impressions (000s) Sum. DD National, Sony Entertainment and Life OK retained their last three slots in chronological order with 417285, 379146 and 346293 Impressions (000s) Sum, respectively.

    Hindi GEC – Rural

    Zee Anmol, Rishtey and Sony Pal came at the first, second and third positions respectively with 460492, 416163 and 405741 Impressions (000s) Sum, respectively.

    DD National, Star Utsav and Star Plus retained their last week’s respective positions with 243874, 222847 and 193456 Impressions (000s) Sum, respectively, with a minor fall in ratings as compared to BARC week 24.

    Zee TV, Big Magic, Colors and Sony Sab, respectively, bagged the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions with 191432, 181942, 163880 and 136198 Impressions (000s) Sum.

    Hindi GEC – Urban

    Star Plus retained its first position with 400256 Impressions (000s) Sum followed by Colors with 332766 Impressions (000s) Sum at the second position which pushed Sony Sab with 309667 Impressions (000s) Sum to the third slot.

    Zee TV, Sony Entertainment and Life OK pocketed the fourth, fifth and sixth positions with 287719, 274566 and 221025 Impressions (000s) Sum, respectively.

    DD National, Sony Pal, Rishtey and &TV bagged the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions with 173410, 154727, 129851, 128264 Impressions (000s) Sum, respectively.

  • FreeDish auction on 4 July, different reserve prices for GEC and news

    NEW DELHI: Doordarshan’s FreeDish is all set for its 36th e-auction on 4 July 2017, after an auction on 25 May turned out to be a damp squib though two TV channels came on a pro rata basis.

    In a major change of policy, the reserve price for general entertainment channels will be Rs 80 million but the reserve price for news and current affairs channels will be Rs 65 million.

    With the completion of MPEG4 trials, the total strength of the platform will go up to 104 by the end of July as expected. Earlier this year, the Parliament was informed that FreeDish had got approval to increase this capacity to 250 channels and DD sources had told Indiantelevision.com that it will happen in the third quarter of 2018.

    The e-Auction will be conducted by M/s. C1 India Pvt. Ltd., Noida which also conducted the FM Radio Phase III auctions on behalf of Prasar Bharati.   

    Meanwhile, changes have also been made in the modes of payment with regard to GEC and news channels. The participation amount (EMD) in the e-Auction for GEC channels is Rs.28 million while it is Rs 22.8 million for news channels. This has to be deposited in advance before or by 12 noon on the date of auction along with processing fee of Rs.25,000 (non-refundable).

    Incremental amount for the auction will be Rs one million and the time for every slot e-auction will be of fifteen minutes duration. This may be extended by five minutes if a bid is received before the closing time.

    Unsuccessful bidders will get back the participation amount within three weeks of the results while that of successful bidders will be adjusted against the third and final instalment of the carriage fee. If the successful bidder fails to put his channel on the allotted slot within a month, the allotment will be cancelled and the participation fee forfeited. Successful bidders have to sign and return an agreement within fifteen days of allotment.

    However, Doordarshan has changed its payment regimen and made it stricter.

    The first installment of 25 per cent of the bid price with the applicable service tax will have to be paid within one month from date of placement of channel. The second installment of 25 per cent of the total bid price along with the applicable service tax will have to be paid within four months of placement of channel. The third installment of remaining amount after adjusting the participation fee and previous installments but adding the applicable service tax will be deposited within seven months of placement of channel.

    If any of the installments is not paid in time, a penal interest of 14.5 per cent per annum will be levied.

    If there is failure in depositing an installment for two months, the deposited participation amount along with any installment paid will be forfeited and the channel discontinued after a 21-day discontinuation notice.

    The two channels that were brought on board on pro rata basis are RT Movies and NewsX –  which is FreeDish’s first English news channel – have been taken on a special pro rata basis till the next auction. Explaining the concept of pro rata, he said these channels are paying at a daily rate basis calculated against the reserve price of Rs 80 million for the period when they came on air till the next auction. This works out to Rs 2,19,178 per day.

    In line with the ‘Digital India’ and ‘Make in India’, DD has implemented Indian CAS (iCAS) on DD FreeDish Platform. iCAS (which is an initiative of the central government) was introduced in the auction held last month. The introduction of iCAS will provide enhanced viewing experience.

    DD officials said the existing viewers will continue to get 80 SDTV channels and 32 radio channels, but will have to obtain iCAS-enabled authorized set-top boxes for accessing all new channels.

    Although FreeDish will remain free-to-air with no monthly or periodic fee, the viewers will be required to register with DD FreeDish on getting the new STB from Doordarshan authorized STB dealers.

    DD officials said implementation of iCAS and authorisation of STB original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) by Doordarshan will give a major thrust to ‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital India’. At present, a majority of STBs are imported. However, the introduction of iCAS will help in standardization of STBs and encourage quality STB manufacturing in India.

    With analogue having been switched off, the Parliament had been told that many stakeholders feel that FreeDish is the best option in Phase IV which covers rural India.

    FreeDish was launched with a modest bouquet of 33 channels in December 2004, and now carries eighty TV channels and 32 radio channels. This includes 22 Doordarshan channels and two parliamentary channels, seven general entertainment channels, 18 movie channels, 13 news channels, seven music channels, three religious channels and eight channels of other genres. The All-India Radio stations also piggy-back on the platform.

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  • GEC: Sony Pal dethrones Star Plus & Sab TV surprises at 2nd position

    MUMBAI: Sony Pal emerged as the number one channel in GEC (U+R) space pushing Star Plus to the number two position in week 24 of BARC’s all-India data. In the rural market too, Sony Pal led the segment. In the urban market, however, Star Plus retained its leadership and Sab TV jumped two slots to emerge at the second slot.

    Programmes-wise, however, DD National led in the top two positions owing to telecast of ICC Champions trophy matches, and Zee TV’s Amul Sa Re Ga Ma Little Champs emerged on the third position.

    Hindi GEC (U+R)

    Sony Pal bagged the first spot with  590797 Impressions (000s) followed by Star Plus on the second slot with 584337 Impressions (000s) and Rishtey on third number with 573860 Impressions (000s).

    Zee Anmol bagged the fourth spot with 531190 Impressions (000s) whereas Zee TV stood at the fifth spot with 469297 Impressions (000s).

    Sab TV climbed two slots to number sixth position with 439300 Impressions (000s). Colors however maintained its seventh position with 433443 Impressions (000s) followed by DD National on the eighth with 424973 Impressions (000s) and Sony Entertainment Television with 362259 Impressions (000s) stood at ninth spot. Life OK came tenth with 321383 Impressions (000s).

    Hindi GEC Rural

    Sony Pal retained its the numero uno slot with 431225 Impressions (000s) with improved ratings this week as compared to 402620  Impressions (000s)  in week 23.

    Rishtey and Zee Anmol respectively stood at second and third positions with 428756 Impressions (000s) and 410953 Impressions (000s). DD National retained its fourth position with 259909 Impressions (000s) sum.

    Star Utsav stood at fifth position with 234371 Impressions (000s) sum. Star Plus garnered 196417 Impressions (000s) followed by Zee TV’s 189743 Impressions (000s) sum to respectively pocket sixth and seventh spot. Big Magic stood at number eight with 183974 Impressions (000s) sum.

    Colors and Sab TV bagged the ninth and tenth spots respectively with 133816 Impressions (000s) and 131964 Impressions (000s).

    Hindi GEC Urban

    Star Plus has retained the top position with 387920 Impressions (000s) followed by Sab TV on the second slot with 307336 Impressions (000s) and Colors on the third with 299627 Impressions (000s).

    Zee TV and Sony pocketed the fourth and fifth positions with 279553 and 264073 impressions (000s) sum. Life OK, DD National and Sony Pal respectively bagged the sixth, seventh and eighth positions with 211052, 165063 and 159572 Impressions (000s) sum.

    At the last of Top 10 channels’ list appeared Rishtey and &TV with 145104 and 129007 impressions (000s) sum.

  • ICC Champions Trophy makes its presence felt Across Genres

    BENGALURU: Indians are cricket crazy – a cliché if ever there was one – but a cliché that makes itself evident every time there is a major cricketing event. And an event such as the ICC Champions Trophy 2017 is sure to attract eyeballs galore.

    Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) data for week 23 of 2017 (Saturday, 3 June 2017 to Friday, 9 June 2017) – List of Top 10 Channels Across Genre: All India (U+R): 2+ Individuals revels the entry of three channels that air the Champions Trophy into its fold. Star Sports 1 Hindi at second place, DD National at ninth place and Star Sports 1 at tenth place entered this list, while Sony Max which had aired the T20 IPL season 10 that ended in week 21, exited the top 10 channels across genre list in week 23.

    That the Champions Trophy is responsible for the high ratings of non-sports channel such as DD National is substantiated by the fact that two Champions Trophy matches – the one between India and arch rivals Pakistan and the one between India and its island neighbour Sri Lanka were amongst the top 5 most watched programmes for the Hindi GECand Hindi GEC – Rural and HindiGEC – Urbangenres in week 23 according to BARC data.Even in the case of the Hindi GEC – Urban genre, the Indo-Pak on DD-National match was the fifth most watched programme in week 23 of 2017.

    Besides the channels that aired the Champions Trophy, one Tamil and Telugu GEC each and five Hindi GEC channels were also present in the list of top 10 channels across genres list for week 23.

    As has been the norm, the Sun TV Network’s Tamil flagshipGEC Sun TV headed the list with weekly impressions of 1055.419 million, followed by Star Sports 1 Hindi with weekly impressions 777.806 million. Also from the Star India stable- its Hindi GEC flagship channel Star Plus stood third with 660.801 million impressions followed by Sony Pictures Network India (SPN) Sony Pal with 543.309 million weekly impressions.

    Network 18’s Hindi GEC Rishtey was ranked fifth across genres in week 23 with weekly impressions of 532.853 million followed by the Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zeel) flagship Hindi GEC Zee TV with 522.673 million weekly impressions at sixth rank. Also from the Zeel stable was Hindi GEC Zee Anmol with weekly impressions of 490.769 million at seventh place followed by The Sun TV Networks Teluguflagship channel Gemini TV with 478.453 million impressions at eighth place.

    DD National with 466.696 million weekly impressions stood ninth followed by Star Sports 1 with 462.214 million weekly impressions.

  • DD Sports emerging as chart-topper with 93.9% OTS (updated)

    MUMBAI: English GEC genre grew by 0.28 per cent with Colors Infinity emerging as the leader with 48.2 per cent OTS. The English news genre saw a gained of 0.48 per cent in metros, with Loksabha TV leading the tally with 94.8 per cent OTS.

    Meanwhile, witnessing a drop of 0.20 per cent, the Hindi news channels’ genre in the HSM stood at third number in the loser category with India TV scoring 99.2 per cent OTS. Last but not the least, the kids genre too witnessed a decline of 0.24 per cent across India with Cartoon Network leading the space with 84.4 per cent OTS.

    Meanwhile, witnessing a drop of 5.3 per cent, the Hindi news channels’ genre in the HSM stood at third number in the loser category with India TV scoring 99.2 per cent OTS. Last but not the least, the kids genre too witnessed a decline of 3.3 per cent across India with Cartoon Network leading the space with 84.4 per cent OTS.

    Among the toppers of this week, the sports channels’ genre in All India Market noted a growth of 0.70 per cent with DD Sports emerging as the chart-topper with 93.9 per cent OTS. English Movies genre increased by 0.49 per cent with Movies Now leading the list with 48.7 per cent OTS in six metros.

    The Hindi Movies space garnered the fifth slot with 0.38 per cent growth. Star Gold ledu the genre with 93.6 per cent OTS. Hindi GEC was the next in the tally, which witnessed a growth of 0.21 per cent with DD National taking a lead with 98.7 per cent OTS.

    (This story has been updated after receiving inputs from Chrome DM at 130pm on 14 June, 2017)

  • GEC: Star Plus regains & retains two top slots albeit with lower ratings

    MUMBAI: Star Plus trumped Zee TV in Hindi GEC (U+R) reclaiming and also retaining in Hindi GEC (Urban) its top position. Although Kumkum Bhagya lead the GEC programmes’ list with 10626 Impressions (000) sum, Zee TV slipped to the third position whereas Star Utsav made an entry into the GEC (Urban) Top 10 list replacing Zee Anmol at the tenth position.

    GEC (URBAN & RURAL)

    Star Plus lead this week by in Hindi GEC (U+R) but with a decrease in its ratings with 648274 Impressions (000s) sum this week as compared to 676078 Impressions (000s) sum in week 21. Sony Pal with 591764 Impressions (000s) sum witnessed a fall in ratings but jumped to the second position from the third position. 

    Last week’s leader Zee TV slipped to the third position with 528060 Impressions (000s) sum and Rishtey retained its fourth position with 503431 Impressions (000s) sum.

    Colors, Zee Anmol, Sony Sab, Star Utsav, Sony Entertainment Television and Life OK also retained their respective fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions as in the last week.

    GEC RURAL

    Sony Pal retained its top position with 444094 Impressions (000s) sum this week as compared to 477157 Impressions (000s) sum in week 21. 

    Rishtey and Zee Anmol retained their second and third positions with 375688 Impressions (000s) sum and 333799 Impressions (000s) sum, respectively. Star Utsav jumped a slot and came to the fourth position with 305909 Impressions (000s) sum. Zee TV slipped a slot reaching the fifth position with 221806 Impressions (000s) sum.

    Star Plus, Sony Sab, Colors, Big Magic and Life OK retained their respective sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions.

    GEC URBAN

    Star Plus retained its top position with 440978 Impressions (000s) sum this week as compared to 453359 Impressions (000s) sum in week 21. Star Utsav made an entry into the Top 10 list with 100483 Impressions (000s) sum replacing Zee Anmol.

    Zee TV, Colors, Sony Sab and Sony Entertainment Television retained their second, third, fourth and fifth positions respectively with 306254, 298458, 264620 and 264556 Impressions (000s) sum.

    Life OK and Sony Pal also retained their sixth and seventh positions, respectively. Rishtey and &TV exchanged their positions and now stood at eighth and ninth positions, respectively.