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MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI’s) recommendations are seeing movement to enable them to serve as the gold standard for television ratings. Currently with...
NEW DELHI: Some more channels today joined the large number of news and general entertainment channels whose matters challenging the issues relating to the adcap sought...
MUMBAI: Who ever thought a cap could generate such a lot of brouhaha? The TRAI’s ad cap, which comes into effect from 1 October, has fractured...
MUMBAI: The 14 annual general meeting (AGM) of the IBF took place late yesterday in Mumbai, proceeding which multi screen media (MSM) CEO Man Jit Singh...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has been left toothless by the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT). In an order passed...
MUMBAI: It was early this month that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) sent out a consultation paper which if implemented will reduce the aggregators’...
NEW DELHI: Two separate channels of the Big CBS bouquet have been levied financial penalties by the Broadcast Content Complaints Council (BCCC) for “transgression of programming...
MUMBAI: After the two-week long conflict, the three bodies IBF, AAAI and ISA along with TAM came up with the consesus, last week. Hence, from now...
MUMBAI: The two-week long standoff between IBF, AAAI and ISA finally ended mid-last week as the three constituents came up with a consensus. However, if one...
MUMBAI: Advertisers, agencies and broadcasters have worked closely and diligently over the last couple of weeks with TAM and are pleased to jointly announce their agreement....
MUMBAI: As everyone waited for the standoff between IBF, AAAI and ISA to resolve, the channels went on to showcase their shows and advertisements. And before...
MUMBAI: One stakeholder to be quite delighted with the fact that advertisers, broadcasters and agencies have sorted out their differences on TV ratings is undoubtedly TAM...
MUMBAI: Phew! One can finally breathe a sigh of relief now that the three stakeholders – Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI)...
It has clearly broadcast its intent: the Rs 37,000 crore Indian TV broadcasting industry wants change in the way TV viewership is monitored in India. Though...
NEW DELHI: Indian TV viewers are going to be a delighted bunch. Reason: the number of TV commercials being bombarded at them on TV channels just...
The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) got a new president in the form of MSM (Sony Entertainment Network) CEO Man Jit Singh last year. It also got...
There are two kinds of individuals out there. Those, who lead their lives on their own terms and others, who lead their lives according to the...
There are two kinds of individuals out there. Those, who lead their lives on their own terms and others, who lead their lives according to the...
MUMBAI: Even as the broadcast community gets ready to put the lights out on India‘s TV ratings, TAM Media CEO LV Krishnan has suggested that he...
MUMBAI: Kids TV channels in India had better watch out. The Broadcast Content Complaints Council (BCCC) has sent out a warning to members of the Indian...
NEW DELHI: The supreme court has once again rejected an application by the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) for staying the court proceedings in the Andhra Pradesh...
MUMBAI: After nearly three weeks of speculation, debate and discussions, the advertising agencies, represented by the Advertisng Agencies‘ Association of India (AAAI), and the broadcasters, represented...
MUMBAI: The stalemate between the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) and the Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) on the net billing issue has been resolved and...
MUMBAI: Broadcasters, facing tax liabilities on account of non-deduction of TDS on agency commission, had stopped airing ads. This was because advertising agencies did not agree...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has listed a petition for 30 April by the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) seeking to ensure that digitisation is implemented as...
MUMBAI: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) and The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) have requested the Indian government to roll back the increase...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is expected to hear on 25 April a petition by the Indian Broadcasting Foundation seeking to ensure that digitisation is implemented...
MUMBAI: The curtains are slated to go down on a very long-standing practice in the media industry tonight. Sources in the broadcasting fraternity reveal that net...
MUMBAI: Advertising and media agencies in India have got a breather on the net billing issue. Even as the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) announced that its...
MUMBAI: In an effort to create a reliable television rating system, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today issued a paper to deal with issues...
MUMBAI: Come the end of the next advertising billing cycle, an age old practice is likely to come to an end in the Indian broadcasting industry,...
NEW DELHI: Concerned with the increase in the number of petitions that have been filed in the past two weeks leading to a stay on the...
NEW DELHI: The Foundation (IBF) has got itself involved in the on-going legal battle between MSOs and LCOs over extension of digitisation deadline in Bengaluru...
MUMBAI: What does the industry think about the government‘s decision to allow a grace period of 15 days for the rollout of phase II digitisation in...
NEW DELHI: Worried about the implications of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India‘s (Trai) ad regulation policy on their business models, television industry‘s apex body Indian...
NEW DELHI: Though the Broadcast Audience Research Council (Barc) is expected to give out its first report by March 2014, the Government has been urged by...
NEW DELHI: Even as it has sought clarity from the Information and Broadcasting Ministry on its powers in acting against violators, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of...
Developing a new television audience rating system is a long, arduous and costly process. It has required as a prerequisite that the three major stakeholders –...
As the ancient Chinese proverb goes – May you live in interesting times! 2012 was certainly an interesting year. Worsening economic conditions caused India‘s GDP growth...
MUMBAI: Viewership data for individual news channels from 7 October 2012 will be available on 9 January when TAM Media Research, the television ratings service provider,...
MUMBAI: News broadcasters Association (NBA) has agreed to have resumption of TAM Media Research’s viewership ratings data of all news channels from 9 January, a deferment...
MUMBAI: Release of television viewership ratings in India has been suspended till 19 December to provide a stabilisation period after the compulsory switchover to digital delivery...
MUMBAI: India will have no television ratings for nine weeks till 8 December as it moves towards digitisation in the four metros of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata...
MUMBAI: Don‘t mistake the alternative television ratings system to be under the total control of the private broadcasters, advertising agencies and the advertisers. The government is...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The government on Tuesday directed broadcasters, advertisers and advertising agencies to submit a detailed plan for making Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) functional soon....
MUMBAI: With NDTV‘s lawsuit against television ratings provider TAM Media raising concerns among the industry affiliates, the Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) and the Indian...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Irate with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) for its order on restricting advertisements to 12 minutes to the clock hour, broadcasters are...
MUMBAI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), the Indian Society of Advertisers (ISA) and Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) Wednesday formally announced the official formation of...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) and the News Broadcasters Association today reacted strongly over the impact of the recent dismissal by Supreme Court of...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Television news broadcasters are pressuring for a monthly ratings system that will free their content from being weighed on a weekly basis, but advertising...
