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  • Punit Goenka re-elected IBF president

    Punit Goenka re-elected IBF president

    MUMBAI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) has re-elected Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited managing director Punit Goenka as the president for the second consecutive year.

    The IBF board members also elected K. Madhavan (Asianet Communications), N. P. Singh (Sony Pictures Network), Rajat Sharma (India TV) and Sudhanshu Vats (Viacom 18 India) as vice-presidents of the foundation for the second consecutive term.

    Aroon Purie has been elected as the treasurer of the foundation. The board also co-opted Prasar Bharati CEO Shashi S. Vempati as the director on the board.

    The new president Punit Goenka said, “This places a huge responsibility on my shoulders to steer the sector through challenges and complexities. I look forward to the support of each and everyone in the fraternity to collaborate with the government and other regulatory bodies to provide an enabling environment to conduct our businesses in a transparent and goal centric manner linking it inextricably to the India’s media and entertainment sector growth story.”

  • Uday Shankar re-elected as IBF president

    Uday Shankar re-elected as IBF president

    MUMBAI: Star India CEO Uday Shankar has been re-elected as the president of The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) at the Sixteenth Annual General Meeting (AGM) for the second term running.

    The AGM was held in New Delhi today (29 September, 2015).

    The IBF Board also re-elected Zee Media Corp managing director Punit Goenka, Multi Screen Media CEO N P Singh and India TV chairman Rajat Sharma as IBF vice presidents, and Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific executive vice president and general manager, South Asia Rahul Johri as IBF treasurer.

    On being re-elected IBF president, Shankar said, “I am humbled by IBF members’ confidence in re-electing me. The broadcasting sector is going through a transition due to changes in technology and business environment and I hope to work with the government, industry and other stakeholders for realisation of the sector’s potential.”

  • BARC India floats initiatives to add new industry subscribers

    BARC India floats initiatives to add new industry subscribers

    MUMBAI: BARC India is looking at adding more broadcasters and agencies from the industry as subscribers by offering them various sops. 

    BARC India currently has more than 370 channels and agencies on board as subscribers, which comprise approximately 94 per cent of the total viewership of channels in India, whereas the agencies control about 95 per cent of the ad spends on television. 

     

    Now with its larger objective of inclusiveness, BARC India has decided to help all the other broadcasters and agencies to use its data and insights.

    The television ratings monitoring agency has launched special initiatives together with the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) and Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) to motivate broadcasters and agencies who are yet to invest and subscribe for BARC India’s commercial services.

     

    The highlights of the offerings for broadcasters are as follows:

    • ‘Special Limited Period Offer’ with lease, rental and buy-back option
    • Limited period offer, closes on 15 August, 2015
    • Installation, testing, commissioning and maintenance for entire contract period would be taken care by Cineom, the authorised resellers of watermarking equipment of Civolution. 
    • Post placing the order with Cineom, broadcasters can subscribe to BARC India’s commercial services

    Highlights of the offerings for agencies are as follows:

    • Special Prime and Supreme packages have been designed for small and medium sized ad agencies
    • A special discount is especially being offered for AAAI member agencies

      

    Star India CEO and IBF president Uday Shankar says, “As a joint industry body – BARC India has always kept the interest of industry stakeholders at the forefront. I look forward to newer broadcasters joining this special initiative designed to facilitate and ease the financial burden. This will help the broadcast ecosystem in India.”

     

    AAAI president M G Parameswaran adds, “I am happy that BARC India has extended a special offer to small and medium sized ad agency members of AAAI, our largest constituency. I am hopeful that many of them will avail of this special offer, join the movement and benefit from the state-of-art rating systems offered by BARC India.”