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  • India Today magazine featured as ‘Cover of the Day’

    MUMBAI: The society of publication designers, New York on www.spd.org selected India Today magazine’s latest issue cover 31 July 2017 on the China – Pakistan issue as ‘The Cover of the Day’. This puts the India Today magazine amongst the best in the world to be featured for brilliance in cover design.

    The cover with the headline ‘China’s New Chick’ along with a caricature of the maps of China and Pakistan as a hen and a chick have already made the international media take note for an artistic take on an international development.

    Over the last four decades, the India Today magazine covers have captured the defining moments in history with a lot of iconic covers that have become imprinted in public memory.

    The trend continues in recent times too with a lot of covers going viral on social media or creating a storm across borders. The covers with Baba Ramdev and the Pakistan Army chief are the very recent examples.

    On the magazine cover getting featured, India Today Group Group CEO Ashish Bagga said, “Getting featured in SPD, New York reflects on India Today’s commitment to set international standards in journalism. Pertinent issues and a powerful take on them is the hallmark of impactful reportage and insights. For India Today, we are happy that we have serviced the Thinking Indian well”.

  • English TV news channels to return to BARC fold from midnight 26 May

    MUMBAI: There’s another twist in the tale of the story of the ratings of news television channel debutante Republic TV. The five English TV news channel members of the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) of India, which had stripped their signals of Broadcast Audience Research Council’s (BARC’s) audio water mark last week, agreed to reinsert it in their streams from their studios just as the clock hand moves past midnight of 26 May.

    This means that NDTV 24×7, Times Now, India Today, NewsX and CNN News18 will once again come under the ambit of BARC’s viewership monitoring. Around a week ago, they had raised a protest after BARC had refused to heed their plea that it should not report Republic TV’s ratings as it had allegedly resorted to rampant multiple LCN placement on cable TV networks across India.

    A spate of appeals, petitions, court hearings followed, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India cracked down on the errant cable TV platforms and almost every appellant and respondent claimed victory following the court orders and directions.

    But finally, hopefully the curtains have been drawn on the messy affair of English news channels, Republic TV, the NBA, TRAI and BARC which suddenly brought them under the spotlight.

    According to a report in a legal website, TV Today Network that had asked for reliefs in a case filed by it against Republic TV in Delhi HC, at one stage submitted that if the malpractice was no longer existent then it would not press for the reliefs prayed for in the petition, provided that the respondents state this on record. After the taking the statements of the respondents on record, the petition was dismissed as withdrawn without the court going into the contentions of either the petitioners or respondents.

    However, NBA maintained the resolution to the crisis was found with Republic TV committing to the Delhi High court that it will cease resorting to placing itself on multiple LCNs and BARC explaining to the association the process to approach such complaints satisfactorily.

  • India Today gives its POV on Republic TV writ petition

    MUMBAI: TV Today which runs a clutch of channels, including the English language news channel India Today, announced that it has withdrawn its petition in the Delhi high court against the Arnab Goswami-led Republic TV.

    In a note sent out to the media, the network said that Republic TV had assured the Delhi high court that it does not do multiple placement of its channels in different genres in response to India Today’s writ petition in the capital’s High court naming Republic TV, the ministry of information & broadcasting, TRAI and BARC as respondents a week ago.

    Based on that assurance, and the fact that TRAI is investigating channels allegedly doing multiple placements, India Today, says it decided to withdraw its petition.

    India Today has further stated in the note that “anything to the contrary suggested by Republic TV is a patent distortion and misrepresentation of the Delhi High Court order.”

  • Republic TV continues to lead English News genre in week after debut

    BENGALURU / MUMBAI: Republic TV claims to have cornered a viewership of 49 per cent for week 20 of 2017 (Saturday 13 May 2017 to Friday 19 May 2017) on its channel. 

    According to BARC India’s weekly data, Republic TV has got 1703 impressions (000s) sums. Times Now with 978 impressions and India Today Television lagging far behind with 289 impressions took the second and the third positions, respectively. 

    Sharing viewership data for other channels, Republic TV states that Times Now had a viewership share of 30 per cent, followed by CNN News 18 and India Today with 7 per cent each. The other major English news channels – NTDV and News X had viewership share of five per cent and 0.6 per cent each, Republic TV claimed. It attributed the ratings to BARC India. 

    According to BARC India’s weekly report, CNN News18 with 281 impressions and NDTV 24×7 with 241 impressions took the fourth and fifth positions, respectively.

    According to data provided by Republic TV (for English News channels in BARC India week 20 ’17, Target Group: – NCCS AB M 22+, Time Band: 0600-2400, 13 May to 17 May’17, in India 1Mn+), Republic TV had 48.7% market share, with the highest average time spent per viewer was 09:29 mins. 

    The viewership of Republic TV was 160% higher than Times Now, 703% higher than CNN News18, 715% than India Today Television & 920% higher than NDTV 24X7. In mega cities, Republic TV had 52.1% viewership, with average time spent per viewers was 11.50 mins, while all other leading channels average time spent was 4.59 mins, according to Republic TV data.

    Republic TV CEO Vikas Khanchandani said that the channel snuffed out competition in the second week of its birth reaffirming the Indian viewer’s choice.

    In India 1Mn+ (Time Band: 2100- 2300), Republic TV had 61% market share. The average time spent of Republic TV was 7.39 mins, while other leading competitor channels average time spent was 3.10 mins. In mega cities, Republic TV’s market share was 55.2%, with an average time spent per viewer was 07.10 mins more than the double of other competitor channels.

    In India 1Mn+ (Time Band: 2200- 2300), Republic TV had 68.7% market share, while Times Now had had only 16.6%, CNN News18 7.1%, NDTV 24X7 4.2% & India Today 2.6%. In mega cities, Republic TV had a market share 63.0%, with an average time spent per viewer was 07.14. Times Now’s market share was only 20.5% & time spent 2.20 mins per viewer. 

    In India 1Mn+ (Time Band: -2000-2400), Republic TV had 55.8% market share. It’s viewership was 238% more than Times Now, 546% more than NDTV 24X7, 937% more than India Today Television & 1379% more than CNN News 18. In mega cities, Republic TV’s market share was 51.5%, double than Times Now’s 25.2%, according to Republic TV data.

  • Indian English news channels boycott BARC’s viewership monitoring

    MUMBAI: In a coordinated move, the English TV channel news members of the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) have decided to pull out of Indian viewership ratings monitor Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC). As of 7 pm today – India Today, Times Now, News X, CNN News19, and NDTV 24×7 – have stopped inserting the BARC water mark in their TV signals from their studios.

    This follows BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta’s decision to publish Republic TV’s viewership data today despite the NBA urging it to refrain from doing so on account of the members’ belief that it had allegedly resorted to massive multi LCN placement of the channel on various MSOs/DPOs and cable TV networks nationally.

    The latest viewership data showed that Republic TV had gone on to capture more than 52 per cent of the viewership.

    The five channels have stated that they have written to BARC in the past about the alleged abuse and tampering of its monitoring methodology and have received a standard response which has been almost indifference to their concerns. And the snub by the ratings agency this morning was the last straw, hence they decided to pull out of the watermarking.

    Sources state that the five channels would like an assurance from BARC that it will only report the data after Republic TV stops allegedly messing around by placing itself in multiple genres and LCNs.

    Additionally, they would like an assurance from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) that the MSOs and DPOs have totally cleaned up their acts and placed Republic TV only in one genre and LCN.

    As the five will not be part of the monitoring from BARC, its next week’s report could end up showing that Republic TV has maximum viewership of the Indian English news genre with international news channels such as BBC, CNN and Al jazeera also picking up. (Updated on 19 May 2017 at 3 pm)

    Indiantelevision.com placed a call to the BARC spokesperson but received no response at the time of writing.

    Questions that arise from this fracas around the ratings and the news channels boycott: How long will this faceoff continue? Will BARC blink first? What currency will advertisers use to decide on which shows and channels to advertise on in the English news genres? Why does it seem like déjà vu? Did the industry err by backing BARC and pulling the shutters down on TAM’s viewership ratings? Will the TRAI or MIB now step in to ensure that some sanity comes into the news channel business (many dread this)? Or will BARC step back and heed the request of the members of the NBA?

  • India Today Online is TVTN’s wholly-owned subsidiary now

    MUMBAI: India Today Online Private Limited (ITOPL) has now become a wholly-owned subsidiary of TV Today Network Ltd.

    India Today Online, on 28 March 2017, issued and allotted 1,99,20,000 equity shares of Rs. 10 each to Living Media India Limited (LMIL) which constitutes 21.01% of the paid-up share capital of ITOPL, against the loans and advances made by LMIL to ITOPL.

    T.V. Today Network (TVTN) entered into an agreement to gift with LMIL on the same date, i.e. 28 March, 2017, under which the TVTN will acquire 1,99,20,000 equity shares of ITOPL of Rs. 10 each (representing 21.01 per cent of the paid-up share capital of ITOPL) from LMIL by way of gift upon completion of procedural requirements under the agreement to gift.

    After the aforesaid acquisition, TVTN will hold 100 per cent of the issued and paid-up share capital of ITOPL.

    In a separate earlier report, TV Today Network stated that it shall not undertake the agreement, entered into with Entertainment Network (India) Limited, to sell three Metro FM Radio stations, as was earlier approved by the board. TV Today had inked a deal to sell seven Oye FM radio stations to ENIL which operates Radio Mirchi. However, MIB did not approve sale of three stations and the matter went before the Delhi High Court. Such sale agreement was subject to the approval of the MIB or an order from the Delhi High Court allowing the sale of Metro Radio stations whichever is earlier.

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  • Hindi News, Urban & Rural, observe increased ratings

    MUMBAI: The English News genre witnessed a substantial increase in ratings this week. Led by Times Now, the players have seen a steep rise in their viewership. BBC World News exited the Top 5 list making way for the entry of News X.

    In the English Business News space, players observed mixed ratings. The genre was dominated by ET Now.

    In the Hindi News, Urban and Rural genres, players have observed a hike in their viewership this week. The Hind News genre continued to be dominated by Aaj Tak.

    According to week 11 of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), in the Hindi News Rural space, India News departed the Top 5 list this week paving way for the entry of News24. Players in the Hindi Business News space also witnessed increased viewership this week.

    English News

    Times Now with a whopping spike in its ratings continued to dominate the genre with 2282 Impressions (000s) this week as against 777 Impressions (000s) last week. CNN News18 was at the second slot with 1006 Impressions (000s) while India Today Television took the third position with 805 Impressions (000s). NDTV 24×7 with 656 Impressions (000s) and News X with 148 Impressions (000s) took the fourth and fifth position respectively.

    English Business News

    ET Now continued to dominate the genre with 676 Impressions (000s) followed by CNBC TV18 with 668 Impressions (000s). NDTV Profit and NDTV Prime were at the third position with 80 Impressions (000s). BTVi was on the fourth spot with 28 Impressions (000s). CNBC TV 18 Prime HD took the fifth place with 18 Impressions (000s).

    Hindi News

    Aaj Tak with increased ratings continued at its number one position with 178049 Impressions (000s) as compared to 133173 Impressions (000s) in week 10. ABP News came at the second position with 160270 Impressions (000s). Zee News sustained its third position with 138135 Impressions (000s) followed by India TV at the fourth position with 133276 Impressions (000s). India News sustained at the fifth position with 100725 Impressions (000s).

    Hindi News Rural

    Aaj Tak with an increase in ratings was at the number one position in the rural market with 81498 Impressions (000s) as compared to 62098 Impressions (000s) last week. ABP News was at the second place with 77089 Impressions (000s). Zee News grabbed the third position with 59874 Impressions (000s). India TV took the fourth place with 56024 Impressions (000s) followed by News 24 with 55739 Impressions (000s) at the fifth position.

    Hindi News Urban

    Aaj Tak with increase in ratings continued at the number one spot in the urban market with 96550 Impressions (000s). ABP News was at the second position with 83180 Impressions (000s). Zee News took the third position with 78260 Impressions (000s) followed by India TV at the fourth position with 77251 Impressions (000s). News18 India took the fifth position with 56347 Impressions (000s).

    Hindi Business News

    CNBC Awaaz continued to dominate the genre with increase in ratings from 1997 Impressions (000s) last week to 2348 Impressions (000s) this week. The second spot was taken by Zee Business with 1605 Impressions (000s).

  • Hindi & English News see boost in ratings

    MUMBAI: The Hindi News genre witnessed a substantial increase in ratings this week. Led by Aaj Tak, the players have seen a steep rise in their viewership. Even in the Hindi News Rural genre, the channel observed an increase in ratings except ABP. The genre continued to be dominated by Aaj Tak.

    According to week 10 of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), the Hindi News Urban space also saw increased ratings. The English News channels witnessed an increase in ratings, except for BBC World News. The genre was dominated by Times Now.

    In the English Business News space, players observed mixed ratings. Players in the Hindi Business News space witnessed mixed viewership this week.

    English News

    Times Now with an increase in its ratings continued to dominate the genre with 777 Impressions (000s) this week as against 727 Impressions (000s) last week. India Today Television was at the second slot with 461 Impressions (000s) while NDTV 24×7 took the third position with 437 Impressions (000s). CNN News18 with 435 Impressions (000s) and BBC World News with 139 Impressions (000s) took the fourth and fifth position respectively.

    English Business News

    CNBC TV18 continued to dominate the genre with 736 Impressions (000s) followed by ET Now with 412 Impressions (000s). NDTV Profit and NDTV Prime were at the third position with 93 Impressions (000s). CNBC TV 18 Prime HD was on the fourth spot with 20 Impressions (000s). BTVi took the fifth place with 17 Impressions (000s).

    Hindi News

    Aaj Tak with increased ratings continued at its number one position with 133173 Impressions (000s) as compared to 116367 Impressions (000s) in week 9. India TV was at the second position with 104587 Impressions (000s). Zee News took the third position with 100652 Impressions (000s) followed by ABP News at the fourth position with 95424 Impressions (000s). India News sustained at the fifth position with 74616 Impressions (000s).

    Hindi News Rural 

    Aaj Tak with an increase in ratings was at the number one position in the rural market with 62098 Impressions (000s) as compared to 56616 Impressions (000s) last week. India TV was at the second place with 46218 Impressions (000s). ABP News grabbed the third position with 43423 Impressions (000s). India News took the fourth place with 41534 Impressions (000s) followed by Zee News with 40414 Impressions (000s) at the fifth position.

    Hindi News Urban 

    Aaj Tak with increase in ratings continued at the number one spot in the urban market with 71074 Impressions (000s). Zee News was at the second position with 60237 Impressions (000s). India TV took the third position with 58368 Impressions (000s) followed by ABP News at the fourth position with 51539 Impressions (000s). News18 India took the fifth position with 38570 Impressions (000s).

    Hindi Business News

    CNBC Awaaz continued to dominate the genre with decrease in ratings from 2052 Impressions (000s) last week to 1997 Impressions (000s) this week. The second spot was taken by Zee Business with 1456 Impressions (000s).

  • English news channels witness increased ratings, Times Now, CNBC TV 18 lead respective genres

    MUMBAI: Channels in both, English News and English Business News, genres saw a hike in their ratings this week. While Times Now continued to be the undisputed leader in the English News space, CNBC TV18 dominated the English Business News genre.

    Led by Aaj Tak, the Hindi News genre saw the entry of News Nation in the top 5 channels list while News18 India dropped out of Top 5 this week. The players witnessed mixed ratings.

    News24 too exited the Top 5 list in this week’s data making way for the entry of Zee News in the Hindi News Rural genre. In the Hindi News Urban space, News Nation made a comeback in Top 5, leading to the departure of News18 India.

    According to week 8 of Broadcast Association Research Council (BARC), players in the Hindi Business News space witnessed a substantial increase in their viewership this week.

    English News

    Times Now with a substantial increase in its ratings continued to dominate the genre with 798 Impressions (000s) as to 580 Impressions (000s) last week. India Today Television was at the second slot with 498 Impressions (000s) while CNN News18 was at the third position with 404 Impressions. NDTV 24×7 with 376 Impressions (000s) and BBC World News with 184 Impressions (000s) took the fourth and fifth position, respectively.

    English Business News

    CNBC TV18 was at the number one position with 530 Impressions (000s) followed by ET Now with 255 Impressions (000s). NDTV Profit and NDTV Prime was at the third position with 73 Impressions (000s). BTVi was on the fourth spot with 46 Impressions (000s). CNBC TV 18 Prime HD sustained at the fifth place with 16 Impressions (000s).

    Hindi News

    Aaj Tak with increased ratings continued at its number one position with 126940 Impressions (000s). India TV was at the second position with 101439 Impressions (000s). ABP News took the third position with 93517 Impressions (000s) followed by Zee News at the fourth position with 90197 Impressions (000s). News Nation took the fifth position with 72748 Impressions (000s).

    Hindi News Rural

    Aaj Tak with an increase in ratings dominated the rural market with 60016 Impressions (000s) as compared to 53891 Impressions (000s) last week. India TV sustained at the second place with 44481 Impressions (000s). ABP News grabbed the third position with 43232 Impressions (000s). India News took the fourth place with 39678 Impressions (000s) followed by Zee News with 37586 Impressions (000s) at the fifth position.

    Hindi News Urban

    Aaj Tak with increase in ratings was at the number one spot in the urban market with 66923 Impressions (000s). India TV was at the second position with 56958 Impressions (000s). Zee News took the third position with 52611 Impressions (000s) followed by ABP News at the fourth position with 50284 Impressions (000s). News Nation took the fifth position with 39704 Impressions (000s).

    Hindi Business News

    CNBC Awaaz continued to dominate the genre with increase in ratings from 1409 Impressions (000s) last week to 1787 Impressions (000s) this week. The second spot was taken by Zee Business with 1204 Impressions (000s).

     

     

  • India Today taps Taboola to drive engagement, rev & audience development

    MUMBAI: Taboola, one of the world’s leading discovery platforms, has announced an exclusive, three-year renewal agreement with India Today. Under the agreement, India Today will be integrating Taboola’s personalised content recommendations, full page personalisation, newsroom and audience exchange with the goal of driving user engagement, audience development and revenue.

    India Today Group is India’s leading and most diversified media conglomerate with magazines, newspapers, books, radio, television, print and internet. India Today first partnered with Taboola in January 2014 with the initial goal of introducing high quality native advertising to consumers, whereby in the new agreement Taboola will work hand in hand with India Today to integrate its full Discovery platform across desktop and mobile devices.

    The partnership will leverage Taboola’s suite of platform capabilities. In addition to continuing to serve sponsored content recommendations, India Today will launch Taboola’s Personalization in an effort to increase onsite user engagement. India Today’s properties will also utilize Taboola’s “audience exchange” architecture, which empowers publisher teams to strategically manage and optimize the flow of traffic across the India Today network, driving users to relevant off-site content and high-value video pages.

    “We want to double down on serving content that is tailored to users interests and behaviors, so our readers remain engaged and excited about what they are reading,” said India Today Group Editorial Director (Broadcast & New Media) Kalli Purie. “Taboola has already helped us achieve success, we look forward to working towards our goal of driving increased user engagement and audience development.”

    “India continues to be one of our fastest growing markets with content consumption and mobile growth on a steady rise. We are humbled to be working with the India Today team in years to come on integrating Taboola’s Discovery platform, and go ‘beyond the widget’ to find meaningful growth around engagement, audience and revenue,” said Taboola founder and CEO Adam Singolda. “Especially in light of massive mobile growth in the Indian market, we’re even more excited to work together on connecting people with content they may like and never knew existed.”

    Taboola acts as a search engine in reverse. Instead of expecting people to search for information, Taboola helps information find people at the right time in the form of recommended content. Its predictive engine analyzes hundreds of real-time signals (including location, device type, referral source, social media trends and more) to match users with content they are most likely to be interested in consuming next.

    Media consumption in India is on a steady rise and the country has remained a key priority for Taboola, which has established partnerships with several Indian publishers including Times of India, NDTV, Jagran, Bhaskar, Aajtak, Amarujala, Rediff and Deccan Chronicle. The announcement of India Today follows several recent wins by Taboola with leading publishers globally including Entrepreneur.com, El Universal, and Blasting News.

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