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MUMBAI: As 2025 draws to a close, India’s Hindi General Entertainment Channels (GECs) are a study in contrasts. The industry is effectively bifurcated into two distinct...
Mumbai: Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has invited applications for allotment of vacant MPEG-2 slots of the DD Free Dish free direct-to-home (DTH) platform for the period...
Mumbai: On day three of the TV Brand Fest 2021, media and marketing heads of prominent organisations discussed the merits and challenges of fiction and nonfiction...
MUMBAI: The year 2019 was all about NTO and its impact; the transition period and the black-out threatened to bring down TV viewership. But despite all...
MUMBAI: Even as TRAI is mulling over changes to its existing tariff order, a report by KPMG, India’s Digital Future, highlighted that niche channels were affected...
MUMBAI: When it comes to general entertainment channels (GECs), hitting the sweet spot isn’t all that easy. Creating unique yet mass content continues to remain a...
MUMBAI: Endemol Shine India (Endemol Shine), best known for producing shows such as Bigg Boss, Master Chef, Khatron Ke Khiladi and Dance India, has a lot...
MUMBAI: When it comes to popular content on TV in India, general entertainment channels (GEC) lead the way. Primetime shows are most watched, most-earning and most...
MUMBAI: Disney India has introduced two magical Frozen TVCs’ on 7 September to celebrate the spirit of sisterhood, featuring two young daughters and how they get...
MUMBAI: Worldwide, the business of broadcast is typically categorized into three verticals: the entertainment piece (GECs, English, Hindi, Regional, Music and other entertainment), the News &...
MUMBAI: Star Plus continues to rule the Hindi general entertainment channels (GECs) genre even after witnessing a dip in ratings. While the India – Sri Lanka...
MUMBAI: Star Plus continues to rule the Hindi general entertainment channels (GECs) genre even after witnessing a dip in ratings. While the India – Sri Lanka...
MUMBAI: Though genre leaders like Star Jalsha, Zee Marathi, Bhojpuri Cinema and ETV Telugu witnessed a fall in ratings, they continued to dominate their respective genres...
MUMBAI: In week 49, Colors once again moved ahead and emerged as the number one channel in Hindi general entertainment channel (GECs) genre, while Star Plus...
NEW DELHI: The total number of television channels uplinking from or downlinking into India has risen to 830, with the permission of as many as 125...
MUMBAI: While Star Plus held on to its lead position in Hindi general entertainment channels (GECs) category in week 37 for HSM(including LC1) according to TAM Media Research...
In today’s fast-paced world where everything is available at the click of a button, does one remember the good old days when wanting and waiting went...
NEW DELHI: With the Government expediting the process of clearing permissions for new television channels after a lapse of almost three months in view of the...
MUMBAI: Star India’s equity interest in Asianet Communications in June 2013 increased by 12 per cent to 87 per cent from the earlier 75 percent. The...
MUMBAI: Digitisation of cable TV services in major cities has helped broadcasters improve their income from subscriptions in the third quarter ended 31 December, 2013, but...
MUMBAi: The opportunity to see (OTS) collated by Chrome Data Analytics & Media is out for week five. As per the data collected, the Hindi...
MUMBAI: With an aim to further strengthen its consumer practice in Mumbai, Avian Media has appointed Shalmana Tendulkar as Group Business Director, Consumer practice. Shalmana brings...
NEW DELHI: Weeks after it decided to get the youngsters of the country hooked on to its Hindi news channel, Zee News, Zee Media Corp...
MUMBAI: We are almost nearing the year end and interestingly there hasn’t been much change in the TAM TV ratings through the year. However, the Week...
MUMBAI: In the week 50 of TAM TV ratings, Zee TV, which has reported consistent growth over the past few weeks, saw a fall in viewership....
MUMBAI: As the alleged rape case involving Tehelka founder Tarun Tejpal and a female journalist working with the magazine unfolded last week, the focus of Indian...
MUMBAI: The second amicus curiae Aman Ahluwalia continued his arguments today in the TDSAT-ad cap hearing. After giving the legal perspective yesterday, today he focused on...
MUMBAI: It took four days for the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) to present its arguments in the ad cap case against the Telecom Regulatory Authority of...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) found some unlikely supporters on the ad cap issue last week. On the one hand, Zee Entertainment, Star...
MUMBAI: While shows such as Bigg Boss and Dance India Dance are capable of drawing eyeballs on their own steam, they owe their popularity, at least...
Back in the nineties, afternoon shows enjoyed their heyday when women, once done with household chores, settled down, lunch in hand, sometimes maid in tow, to...
MUMBAI: Not only does Times Television Networks’ channel Zoom enjoy the distinction of being the first Indian television channel to air all the hot gossip from...
MUMBAI: The rupee going into a tailspin or prices shooting through the roof; be damned. The wheels of general entertainment channels (GECs) seem to be in...
MUMBAI: The festive season is already upon us and Life OK, Star Plus’s sister channel, is going all out to meet the celebratory mood head on....
T he daggers are drawn and the battle field is set for what promises to be one of the most closely watched fights in recent television...
ETV Marathi has been one of the pioneers in regional entertainment and to our credit, we‘ve been visionaries. The way I see it there have been...
When Harvard wizkid Mark Zuckerberg launched facebook in 2004, he never imagined it would ignite a revolution in terms of the way people communicate and share...
Circa 2061 – Television in its new form and shape, as a personalised medium will not just continue to exist and will be 130 years old,...
We produce over 7500 hours of original content per year only amongst the top six GECs, which by itself is a tall order, and yet we...
The clock is ticking down for the seven broadcast networks, (actually eight, if you include Discovery too that joined the fray over the weekend) which coerced...
Aegis Group plc chairman India & CEO South East Asia Ashish Bhasin does not mince his words when he says. "In the next 24 to 48...
Send in your tweets to @ColorsTV, be a part of a Facebook contest, stand a chance to win an iPad, tweet away your views with #Jhalak..#Madhubala....
Star India’s much-appreciated Star Parivaar Awards is getting glitzier and glamorous. As the actors walked the red carpet, dressed in their best attires, unlimited fun and...
From being a copywriter, director to business head, the soft-spoken Anooj Kapoor has worn various hats. But what makes him different from others is the way...
Does the Indian TV broadcast industry want TAM? In one word, the answer is No. Definitely not in the form and manner it is monitoring TV...
(Hindi GEC Star Plus features in this the second of our series on what TV channels are doing in the digital and social media space) It’s...
Nitesh Kripalani is a man on a mission. His weapons: a MacBook Pro, a high tech smartphone and a 3G internet connection. His battleground: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube...
The early exit of BBC Entertainment and focus on target segmentation marked the English general entertainment channel (GEC) genre as digitisation propelled change in 2012. Audience...
It took a lot of frisking around in bed in the buff – with first, women,and then men – for the camera to transform an Indian...
The decade seems to have whizzed by. It almost seems like yesterday when the country‘s first television crorepati took home his Rs 1 crore cheque for...
