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  • Times Now – Republic TV slugfest continues as ratings gap narrows

    BENGALURU: The on-air spat about numerouno status continued between the two biggest players in the English News genre. The slugfest commenced with the launch of Republic TV in week 19 of 2017 on Saturday May 6 2017 with the new channel breaking Times Now’s firm hold on the pole position in the genre and how! Republic TV opened at the top of the English News genre with a stupendous 2.117 million weekly impressions, followed far behind with the usurped leader Times Now with 1.148 million weekly impressions in week 19 of 2017.

    Twelve weeks later, in week 30 (Saturday 22 July 2017 to Friday 28 July 2017), Republic TV still continues to rule the genre. Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) data for week 30 must of the top 5 English News  must be a jolt for the newcomer with Times Now two narrowing the margin to just 2,000 weekly impressions. Republic TV scored 1.074 million weekly impressions and Times Now 1.072 million impressions! Earlier, the closest the two channels ratings had come was in week 24 of 2017 when Republic TV garnered 0.963 million weekly impressions to Times Now’s 0.935million weekly impressions.

    Trailing far behind at third place in week 30 was India Today Television with 0.375 million weekly impressions as per BARC data for the top 5 English News channels – All India (U+R): NCCS AB: Males 22+ Individuals. NDTV 24×7 was fourth with 0.360 million weekly impressions followed close behindby CNN News 18 with 0.354 million weekly impresssions.

    As reported earlier post week 19, theArnabGoswami led new entrant raised the hackles of the existing players- accusations of theft, of rigging the ratings, running a ratings battle on Republic TV and its competition. It was suddenly an all-out war – multiple Goliaths had got together to demolish the fledgling David. The older channels ganged up together to stifle the new channel that the industry says followed practises that were of a doubtful nature. Ultimatums were given to the official ratings agency – BARC, it either stopped publishing Republic TV viewership data or the other Indian English News channels represented by the News Broadcasting Association (NBA) would withdraw their watermarks and hence disable BARC from publishing a fair picture of ratings lists. The NBA backed channels returned to the BARC fold in week 22.

    However, just post 1100 hours on Thursday 3 August 2017, both the channels claimed leadership in the genre by slicing and dicing BARC data to the component that was most favourable to each. Times Now quoted relative share numbers and claimed first place, while Republic TV harped on its leadership position during the primetime debate hours of 900 pm to 1100 pm. Republic TV now turned around and without naming the channel, accused it of using money muscle and unfair trade practises.

    Over the past twelve weeks- eleven weeks actually if one were to eliminate the neglect the ratings for week 21 of 2017, Republic TV’s overall combined ratings are about a third more at 13.368 million impressions than Times Now’s 10.068 million impressions. Please refer to the figure below for weekly impressions by the two channels between weeks 19 and 30 of 2017 excluding week 21.

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  • Republic TV claims ‘stunning’ debut on Hotstar

    MUMBAI: New kid on the news block Republic TV has claimed it made a “stunning debut on Hotstar” crossing “a million viewers” within a day of its launch.

    In an official joint statement of Republic TV and Hotstar, the news channel announced it has “created leadership in the most coveted news audience in the country, the urban viewers”.

    Republic’s reach on Hotstar’s OTT platform exceeded that of the top English news channels on television, including Times Now, India Today TV, CNN News18 and NDTV 24×7 amongst both the urban M15+ audience as well as viewers in the top 60 cities in India, according to the statement put out by Republic TV, helmed by Arnab Goswami and funded, amongst others, by entrepreneur-turned-politician Rajeev Chandrashekhar, a vice-chairman of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) that rules India.

    Claiming that it is a “dramatic announcement given the viewership benchmarks are from a single digital platform”, the Republic TV-Hotstar statement said the new news channel’s viewership figures exceeded that of “traditional news channels significantly”.

    According to the claims, Republic TV’s viewership percentage was 208 per cent of Times Now, 229 per cent of India Today, 311 per cent of CNN News18 and 254 per cent of NDTV 24X7. It further claimed that the comparisons are vis-a-vis TV figures that BARC India would collect within all-India 1mn+ towns, including mega-cities, for 22 April 2017.

    Indiantelevision.com is not in a position to independently verify the viewership figures submitted by Republic TV and Hotstar. BARC India, the country’s present audience measurement currency, has not yet come out with data relating to Republic TV and other Indian news channels for the period under consideration till the time of writing this report.

    Commenting on the matter, the official statement quoted Hotstar CEO Ajit Mohan as saying, “This is an exciting start and is a testimony to the impactful launch of Republic and the strength of the Hotstar platform, which has become the de facto destination for young, digital India.”

    Republic TV CEO Vikas Khanchandani said in the statement, “Republic will be the largest and most impactful news platform. We are excited to partner with Hotstar and bring in an entirely new audience to the Republic community. We are also thrilled to have taken a leadership position on debut itself. ”

  • BARC week 18: India Today TV moves to 2nd position; ET Now displaces CNBC TV18

    BARC week 18: India Today TV moves to 2nd position; ET Now displaces CNBC TV18

    MUMBAI:  According to week 18 of BARC India ratings, Times Now continued its dominance of the English News genre despite a drop in ratings, while TV Today moved up from fourth to second position in the genre.  CNBC 18 lost the top spot in English Business News genre to ET Now. In the Hindi News genre India TV continued at its number one position while CNBC Awaz continued it reign in the Hindi Business News.  

    English News
    Times now maintained its apex position in week 18, despite a drop in ratings to 341 Impressions (000s) from 404 Impressions (000s) in week 17. India Today Television moved up to second spot with 176 Impressions (000s) as compared to 129 Impressions (000s). CNN News 18 lost points in week 18 to report 155 Impressions (000s) as compared with 168 Impressions (000s) in week 17 to hold third position.  NDTV 24×7 with 132 Impressions (000s) moved down a place to fourth position. News 9 was at the fifth spot with 89 Impressions (000s) as compared to 108 Impressions (000s).

    English Business News
    ET Now grabbed the first position in week 18 with more than doubling of ratings to 152 Impressions (000s) as compared to 72 Impressions (000s) in week 17. Despite higher ratings than the previous week, CNBC TV 18 was at second spot with 129 Impressions (000s) as compared with 116 Impressions (000s) in week 17. NDTV Profit and NDTV with 29 Impressions (000s) and Bloombery TV with 13 Impressions (000s) came in at third and fourth spots respectively.

    Hindi News
    India TV continued its lead in the Hindi News genre in week 18 with 63826 Impressions (000s) as compared with 67903 Impressions (000s) in week 17, followed by Aaj Tak with 59248 Impressions (000s) as compared with 56253 Impressions (000s) in the previous week.
    ABP News was at third position with 38873 Impressions (000s) as compared to 38875 Impressions (000s) in the previous week. News Nation moved up one spot with 34104 Impressions (000s) as compared to 33905 Impressions (000s) in the previous week. India News moved down to fifth position with 33552 Impressions (000s) as compared to 34367 Impressions (000s) in the previous week

    Hindi Business News
    Though it lost some ratings, CNBC Awaz with 544 Impressions (000s) continued at first position, followed by Zee Business with 460 Impressions (000s) in week 18 of BARC ratings as compared to 430 Impressions (000s) in week 17.

     

  • BARC week 18: India Today TV moves to 2nd position; ET Now displaces CNBC TV18

    BARC week 18: India Today TV moves to 2nd position; ET Now displaces CNBC TV18

    MUMBAI:  According to week 18 of BARC India ratings, Times Now continued its dominance of the English News genre despite a drop in ratings, while TV Today moved up from fourth to second position in the genre.  CNBC 18 lost the top spot in English Business News genre to ET Now. In the Hindi News genre India TV continued at its number one position while CNBC Awaz continued it reign in the Hindi Business News.  

    English News
    Times now maintained its apex position in week 18, despite a drop in ratings to 341 Impressions (000s) from 404 Impressions (000s) in week 17. India Today Television moved up to second spot with 176 Impressions (000s) as compared to 129 Impressions (000s). CNN News 18 lost points in week 18 to report 155 Impressions (000s) as compared with 168 Impressions (000s) in week 17 to hold third position.  NDTV 24×7 with 132 Impressions (000s) moved down a place to fourth position. News 9 was at the fifth spot with 89 Impressions (000s) as compared to 108 Impressions (000s).

    English Business News
    ET Now grabbed the first position in week 18 with more than doubling of ratings to 152 Impressions (000s) as compared to 72 Impressions (000s) in week 17. Despite higher ratings than the previous week, CNBC TV 18 was at second spot with 129 Impressions (000s) as compared with 116 Impressions (000s) in week 17. NDTV Profit and NDTV with 29 Impressions (000s) and Bloombery TV with 13 Impressions (000s) came in at third and fourth spots respectively.

    Hindi News
    India TV continued its lead in the Hindi News genre in week 18 with 63826 Impressions (000s) as compared with 67903 Impressions (000s) in week 17, followed by Aaj Tak with 59248 Impressions (000s) as compared with 56253 Impressions (000s) in the previous week.
    ABP News was at third position with 38873 Impressions (000s) as compared to 38875 Impressions (000s) in the previous week. News Nation moved up one spot with 34104 Impressions (000s) as compared to 33905 Impressions (000s) in the previous week. India News moved down to fifth position with 33552 Impressions (000s) as compared to 34367 Impressions (000s) in the previous week

    Hindi Business News
    Though it lost some ratings, CNBC Awaz with 544 Impressions (000s) continued at first position, followed by Zee Business with 460 Impressions (000s) in week 18 of BARC ratings as compared to 430 Impressions (000s) in week 17.

     

  • BARC: India Today TV topples Times Now; bags pole position

    BARC: India Today TV topples Times Now; bags pole position

    MUMBAI: Week 22 of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) ratings saw India Today Television (erstwhile Headlines Today) creating a new record by taking over the leadership slot within the second week of its launch. In the English news genre, India Today Television claimed the top slot with 354 (000’s sum).

     

    As a direct result of this, Times Now lost its leadership slot and was pushed back to the second slot with 264 (000’s sum) followed by NDTV 24×7 with 107 (000’s sum).

     

    Speaking on the ratings, India Today Group CEO Ashish Bagga said, “India Today Television aims to redefine the TV news space with pioneering content and a multidimensional visual format. This backed with the gold standard of journalism that India Today has always stood for, is drawing unprecedented attention and we are extremely delighted to see this viewership. We will keep working hard to raise the bar and to become the single most important knowledge source for the viewer.”

     

    Week 22 observed no change in the pecking order of Hindi general entertainment channels (GECs). Star Plus continued to strengthen its viewership as it recorded 395608 (000’s sum) followed by Colors with 368444 (000’s sum).

     

    Zee TV retained its number three slot with 232732 (000’s sum) followed by Life OK with 230076 (000’s sum). Sab occupied the fifth position with 202904 (000’s sum).

     

    Amongst the top three programs, Star Plus’s Saath Nibhaana Saathiya continued to rule the charts with 7168 (000’s sum). Interestingly, Colors’ two shows ranked at number second and third spot respectively. Thus, Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat secured 5195 (000’s sum) followed by Sasural Simar Ka with 4827 (000’s sum).

     

    In the Hindi news broadcasting space, Aaj Tak had a stranglehold over its numero uno position with 27795 (000’s sum) followed by ABP News with 27012 (000’s sum). India TV occupied the third slot with 23460 (000’s sum).

     

    Bindass continued to lead in the youth space with 2847 (000’s sum) followed by MTV with 2268 (ooo’s sum). Channel V registered the third slot with 1199 (000’s sum).