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  • News X exits, BBC World News enters: BARC week 51

    News X exits, BBC World News enters: BARC week 51

    MUMBAI: News X made an exit this week making way for the entry of BBC World News in the English News genre. The channels in the genre witnessed a substantial decline in its ratings.

    According to the week 51 ratings data of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India, players in the English Business News observed a significant increase in its viewership.  

    Aaj Tak remained as the number one channel in the Hindi News space both in rural and urban markets. The players in the Hindi News space witnessed mixed ratings this week.

    The channels in the Hindi Business News genre noted a hike in its ratings this week.

    English News

    Times Now with a decrease in its ratings continued to dominate the genre with 576 Impressions (000s) as compared to 708 Impressions (000s) in week 50. NDTV 24×7 sustained its second slot with 245 Impressions (000s) while CNN News18 took the third position with 204 Impressions. India Today Television with 195 Impressions (000s) and BBC World News with 72 Impressions (000s) took the fourth and fifth position, respectively.

    English Business News

    CNBC TV18 continued to lead with an increase in ratings from 181 Impressions (000s) in week 50 to 237 Impressions (000s) this week. ET Now was at the second spot with 146 Impressions (000s). NDTV Profit and NDTV Prime continued to be at the third position with 41 Impressions (000s). BTVi was on the fourth spot with 17 Impressions (000s). CNBC TV 18 Prime HD sustained at the fifth place with 1 Impressions (000s).

    Hindi News

    Aaj Tak observed an increase in the ratings and stood at the first spot with 168964 Impressions (000s) as to 168632 Impressions (000s) in last week followed by India TV at the second position with 139977 Impressions (000s). ABP News took the third position with 125091 Impressions (000s) followed by Zee News at the fourth position with 112289 Impressions (000s). India News took the fifth position with 96608 Impressions (000s).

    Hindi News Rural

    Aaj Tak with a decrease in the ratings dominated the rural market with 79384 Impressions (000s). India TV was at the second slot with 62500 Impressions (000s) followed by ABP News at the third place with 55976 Impressions (000s). India News took the fourth place with 53753 Impressions (000s) followed by Zee News with 45694 Impressions (000s) at the fifth position.

    Hindi News Urban

    Aaj Tak stood at the number one position with 89580 Impressions (000s) followed by India TV at the second position with 77477 Impressions (000s). ABP News took the third position with 69115 Impressions (000s) followed by Zee News at the fourth position with 66595 Impressions (000s). India News took the fifth position with 42855 Impressions (000s).

    Hindi Business News

    CNBC Awaaz witnessed an increase in ratings though it continued at the number one position with 1223 Impressions (000s) as compared to 1089 Impressions (000s) in week 50. The second spot was taken by Zee Business with 1079 Impressions (000s).

     

  • News X exits, BBC World News enters: BARC week 51

    News X exits, BBC World News enters: BARC week 51

    MUMBAI: News X made an exit this week making way for the entry of BBC World News in the English News genre. The channels in the genre witnessed a substantial decline in its ratings.

    According to the week 51 ratings data of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India, players in the English Business News observed a significant increase in its viewership.  

    Aaj Tak remained as the number one channel in the Hindi News space both in rural and urban markets. The players in the Hindi News space witnessed mixed ratings this week.

    The channels in the Hindi Business News genre noted a hike in its ratings this week.

    English News

    Times Now with a decrease in its ratings continued to dominate the genre with 576 Impressions (000s) as compared to 708 Impressions (000s) in week 50. NDTV 24×7 sustained its second slot with 245 Impressions (000s) while CNN News18 took the third position with 204 Impressions. India Today Television with 195 Impressions (000s) and BBC World News with 72 Impressions (000s) took the fourth and fifth position, respectively.

    English Business News

    CNBC TV18 continued to lead with an increase in ratings from 181 Impressions (000s) in week 50 to 237 Impressions (000s) this week. ET Now was at the second spot with 146 Impressions (000s). NDTV Profit and NDTV Prime continued to be at the third position with 41 Impressions (000s). BTVi was on the fourth spot with 17 Impressions (000s). CNBC TV 18 Prime HD sustained at the fifth place with 1 Impressions (000s).

    Hindi News

    Aaj Tak observed an increase in the ratings and stood at the first spot with 168964 Impressions (000s) as to 168632 Impressions (000s) in last week followed by India TV at the second position with 139977 Impressions (000s). ABP News took the third position with 125091 Impressions (000s) followed by Zee News at the fourth position with 112289 Impressions (000s). India News took the fifth position with 96608 Impressions (000s).

    Hindi News Rural

    Aaj Tak with a decrease in the ratings dominated the rural market with 79384 Impressions (000s). India TV was at the second slot with 62500 Impressions (000s) followed by ABP News at the third place with 55976 Impressions (000s). India News took the fourth place with 53753 Impressions (000s) followed by Zee News with 45694 Impressions (000s) at the fifth position.

    Hindi News Urban

    Aaj Tak stood at the number one position with 89580 Impressions (000s) followed by India TV at the second position with 77477 Impressions (000s). ABP News took the third position with 69115 Impressions (000s) followed by Zee News at the fourth position with 66595 Impressions (000s). India News took the fifth position with 42855 Impressions (000s).

    Hindi Business News

    CNBC Awaaz witnessed an increase in ratings though it continued at the number one position with 1223 Impressions (000s) as compared to 1089 Impressions (000s) in week 50. The second spot was taken by Zee Business with 1079 Impressions (000s).

     

  • 9X Media sale: Pradeep Guha & Rajat Sharma rubbish reports

    9X Media sale: Pradeep Guha & Rajat Sharma rubbish reports

    MUMBAI: The entities that were said to be involved in acquisition talks have no clue about the development. It seems to be pure speculation.

    The media and entertainment industry was since morning rife with speculation that India TV promoter Rajat Sharma is acquiring a controlling stake in the New Silk Route (NSR)-backed 9X Media. Reports emerged in the last few hours that also state the value of the deal was Rs 200 crore (Rs. 2,000 million).

    9X Media’s CEO Pradeep Guha, however, rubbished this news. He told Indiantelevision.com, “All the reports are absolutely rubbish. We are not selling 9X Media.” When Rajat Sharma was contacted, he retorted: “I have no idea where these reports are coming from. I am out of the country. All these reports are absolutely false.”

    Though, Sharma has been keen on evaluating several opportunities to diversify the business portfolio of Independent News Service, which depends entirely on advertising revenue from India TV, acquiring 9X Media is not in his list. Yet. Sharma and his wife Ritu Dhawan are the largest shareholders of INS, which is the parent company of India TV. They own close to 60 per cent stake in the company.

    According to reports that are making the rounds in the industry, Sharma may seek help for the fund transaction from existing investors in INS like the Silicon Valley-based media investor Keyur Patel who also owns a stake in NDTV through his CV Global Holdings, a Mauritius based investment arm.

    NSR was earlier looking to sell its 80 per cent stake in 9X Media to Sony Pictures Networks in August. Its CEO Pradeep Guha directly owns five per cent stake whereas 9X Media Employee Trust has a 13 per cent stake. NSR has Drag Along/Tag rights over Guha’s shareholding and can cause him to sell his entire holding if the transaction materialises.

    9X Media was founded in 2007 by Peter Mukerjea and Indrani Mukerjea and owns a bouquet of music channels that include regional language channels in Marathi and Punjabi. Its flagship channels are 9XM and 9X Jalwa.

    The rise of India TV as India’s leading news channel within a fairly short span of its existence owes a lot to the vision of its chairman and editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma who, along with his wife Ritu, leads a team of professionals.

    Sharma, considered close to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, co-founded India TV with his wife Ritu Dhawan in April, 2004 from a swanky studio-cum-office in Film City, Noida. Sharma and Dhawan had set up their own production house, Independent News Service (INS), the parent company which owns India TV, in 1997 that has now transformed into a broadcasting company — a la NDTV and TV18/Network18.

  • 9X Media sale: Pradeep Guha & Rajat Sharma rubbish reports

    9X Media sale: Pradeep Guha & Rajat Sharma rubbish reports

    MUMBAI: The entities that were said to be involved in acquisition talks have no clue about the development. It seems to be pure speculation.

    The media and entertainment industry was since morning rife with speculation that India TV promoter Rajat Sharma is acquiring a controlling stake in the New Silk Route (NSR)-backed 9X Media. Reports emerged in the last few hours that also state the value of the deal was Rs 200 crore (Rs. 2,000 million).

    9X Media’s CEO Pradeep Guha, however, rubbished this news. He told Indiantelevision.com, “All the reports are absolutely rubbish. We are not selling 9X Media.” When Rajat Sharma was contacted, he retorted: “I have no idea where these reports are coming from. I am out of the country. All these reports are absolutely false.”

    Though, Sharma has been keen on evaluating several opportunities to diversify the business portfolio of Independent News Service, which depends entirely on advertising revenue from India TV, acquiring 9X Media is not in his list. Yet. Sharma and his wife Ritu Dhawan are the largest shareholders of INS, which is the parent company of India TV. They own close to 60 per cent stake in the company.

    According to reports that are making the rounds in the industry, Sharma may seek help for the fund transaction from existing investors in INS like the Silicon Valley-based media investor Keyur Patel who also owns a stake in NDTV through his CV Global Holdings, a Mauritius based investment arm.

    NSR was earlier looking to sell its 80 per cent stake in 9X Media to Sony Pictures Networks in August. Its CEO Pradeep Guha directly owns five per cent stake whereas 9X Media Employee Trust has a 13 per cent stake. NSR has Drag Along/Tag rights over Guha’s shareholding and can cause him to sell his entire holding if the transaction materialises.

    9X Media was founded in 2007 by Peter Mukerjea and Indrani Mukerjea and owns a bouquet of music channels that include regional language channels in Marathi and Punjabi. Its flagship channels are 9XM and 9X Jalwa.

    The rise of India TV as India’s leading news channel within a fairly short span of its existence owes a lot to the vision of its chairman and editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma who, along with his wife Ritu, leads a team of professionals.

    Sharma, considered close to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, co-founded India TV with his wife Ritu Dhawan in April, 2004 from a swanky studio-cum-office in Film City, Noida. Sharma and Dhawan had set up their own production house, Independent News Service (INS), the parent company which owns India TV, in 1997 that has now transformed into a broadcasting company — a la NDTV and TV18/Network18.

  • India TV bags ITA award, dislodges Aaj Tak

    India TV bags ITA award, dislodges Aaj Tak

    MUMBAI: India’s newsleader India TV bagged the viewers’ choice best Hindi news channel award at the ITA Awards ceremony held in Mumbai.

    The award was received by India TV chairman and editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma along with channel’s MD and CEO Ritu Dhawan.

    The victory is significant owing to the fact that 15 consecutive times winner news channel — Aaj Tak — has been dislodged from the top slot, said sources quoted by indiatvnews.com.

    Sharma said that the relentless pursuit for excellence in news gathering and delivery was at the core of their success. The viewers must also be congratulated to have made sure that the competition feels the heat, he added.

    An elated Dhawan said that they had achieved many milestones in the past, and continued to do so. She claimed they had broken all ratings records.

  • India TV bags ITA award, dislodges Aaj Tak

    India TV bags ITA award, dislodges Aaj Tak

    MUMBAI: India’s newsleader India TV bagged the viewers’ choice best Hindi news channel award at the ITA Awards ceremony held in Mumbai.

    The award was received by India TV chairman and editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma along with channel’s MD and CEO Ritu Dhawan.

    The victory is significant owing to the fact that 15 consecutive times winner news channel — Aaj Tak — has been dislodged from the top slot, said sources quoted by indiatvnews.com.

    Sharma said that the relentless pursuit for excellence in news gathering and delivery was at the core of their success. The viewers must also be congratulated to have made sure that the competition feels the heat, he added.

    An elated Dhawan said that they had achieved many milestones in the past, and continued to do so. She claimed they had broken all ratings records.

  • Facebook-Google building 120-Tbps submarine cable to Asia by mid ’18

    Facebook-Google building 120-Tbps submarine cable to Asia by mid ’18

    MUMBAI: Two internet majors Facebook and Google have come together with Pacific Light Data Communications to build the first direct submarine cable system between Los Angeles (U.S.) and Hong Kong in efforts to speed up connections in Asia’s most happening business centre.

    The Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN) will have 12,800km of fibre and an estimated cable capacity of 120 Tbps, making it the highest-capacity trans-Pacific route, a record held at present by Faster. another Google-backed cable system. PLCN will then provide enough capacity for Hong Kong to have 80 million concurrent HD video conference calls with Los Angeles.

    Google Networking Infrastructure director, Brian Quigley said Google’s mission was to connect people to the information by providing fast and reliable infrastructure, India TV reported. From data centres to cables under the sea, Google was dedicated to building infrastructure that reaches more people than ever before.

    Scheduled for commercial launch in summer of 2018, PLCN will include TE SubCom’s C+L technology, a major step forward in available cable transmission capacity that effectively doubles the available bandwidth and capacity per fiber pair over a traditional C-band-only designed system. Once completed, PLCN will be the highest-capacity transpacific route.

    “PLCN will be among the lowest-latency fiber optic routes between Hong Kong and the U.S. and the first to connect directly using ultra-high-capacity transmission,” said PLDC. chairman Wei Junkang.

    “It is certainly gratifying that global technology companies like Google and Facebook have become co-investors in PLCN. It is a strong signal that PLCN will be trusted to address the capacity needs for internet and international communications services throughout the Pacific Rim. We envision this deployment as the initial step in PLDC’s construction of a global network.”

    “PLCN will showcase the ultra-high-capacity designs and industry-leading wet plant technologies that have enabled TE SubCom to become the manufacturing partner of choice for the world’s most advanced undersea networks,” said Aaron Stucki, president of TE SubCom.

    Pacific Light Data Communication is set to become a leading regional broadband communications service provider that will build and operate the first subsea cable directly connecting Hong Kong and the US.

    TE SubCom, as a vertically integrated supplier, SubCom designs, manufactures, deploys, and maintains the industry’s most reliable fiber optic cable systems. Its solutions include long-haul and regional systems, repeaterless networks, capacity upgrades, offshore oil and gas, and scientific research applications. TE Connectivity is a $12 billion global technology leader whose connectivity and sensor solutions are essential in today’s increasingly connected world.

  • Facebook-Google building 120-Tbps submarine cable to Asia by mid ’18

    Facebook-Google building 120-Tbps submarine cable to Asia by mid ’18

    MUMBAI: Two internet majors Facebook and Google have come together with Pacific Light Data Communications to build the first direct submarine cable system between Los Angeles (U.S.) and Hong Kong in efforts to speed up connections in Asia’s most happening business centre.

    The Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN) will have 12,800km of fibre and an estimated cable capacity of 120 Tbps, making it the highest-capacity trans-Pacific route, a record held at present by Faster. another Google-backed cable system. PLCN will then provide enough capacity for Hong Kong to have 80 million concurrent HD video conference calls with Los Angeles.

    Google Networking Infrastructure director, Brian Quigley said Google’s mission was to connect people to the information by providing fast and reliable infrastructure, India TV reported. From data centres to cables under the sea, Google was dedicated to building infrastructure that reaches more people than ever before.

    Scheduled for commercial launch in summer of 2018, PLCN will include TE SubCom’s C+L technology, a major step forward in available cable transmission capacity that effectively doubles the available bandwidth and capacity per fiber pair over a traditional C-band-only designed system. Once completed, PLCN will be the highest-capacity transpacific route.

    “PLCN will be among the lowest-latency fiber optic routes between Hong Kong and the U.S. and the first to connect directly using ultra-high-capacity transmission,” said PLDC. chairman Wei Junkang.

    “It is certainly gratifying that global technology companies like Google and Facebook have become co-investors in PLCN. It is a strong signal that PLCN will be trusted to address the capacity needs for internet and international communications services throughout the Pacific Rim. We envision this deployment as the initial step in PLDC’s construction of a global network.”

    “PLCN will showcase the ultra-high-capacity designs and industry-leading wet plant technologies that have enabled TE SubCom to become the manufacturing partner of choice for the world’s most advanced undersea networks,” said Aaron Stucki, president of TE SubCom.

    Pacific Light Data Communication is set to become a leading regional broadband communications service provider that will build and operate the first subsea cable directly connecting Hong Kong and the US.

    TE SubCom, as a vertically integrated supplier, SubCom designs, manufactures, deploys, and maintains the industry’s most reliable fiber optic cable systems. Its solutions include long-haul and regional systems, repeaterless networks, capacity upgrades, offshore oil and gas, and scientific research applications. TE Connectivity is a $12 billion global technology leader whose connectivity and sensor solutions are essential in today’s increasingly connected world.

  • Venkatramani new NBA president

    Venkatramani new NBA president

    MUMBAI: ABP News Network CEO Ashok Venkatramani has been elected as the new president of News Broadcasters Association (NBA). Venkatramani was earlier the vice president and director on the board of NBA India.

    Venkatramani has replaced India TV chairman and editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma. Sharma will however continue to be a board member. Venkatramanialso chairs the sales and HR committee of NBA and has been with ABP since 2008. Prior to that, he was the vice president and business head for the consumer goods firm Unilever in India for 18 years.

    The board has also elected India Today Group CEO Ashish Bagga as the vice president and Times Network MD and CEO M. K. Anand as the honorary treasurer.

    Other board members include New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV) executive vice chairperson K. V. L. Narayan Rao, TV18 chief executive, news, and group editor-in-chief Rahul Joshi, Zee Media group CEO Bhaskar Das, News24 chairperson and MD Anurradha Prasad and Mathrubhumi Printing & Publishing whole time director M.V. Shreyams Kumar.

  • Venkatramani new NBA president

    Venkatramani new NBA president

    MUMBAI: ABP News Network CEO Ashok Venkatramani has been elected as the new president of News Broadcasters Association (NBA). Venkatramani was earlier the vice president and director on the board of NBA India.

    Venkatramani has replaced India TV chairman and editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma. Sharma will however continue to be a board member. Venkatramanialso chairs the sales and HR committee of NBA and has been with ABP since 2008. Prior to that, he was the vice president and business head for the consumer goods firm Unilever in India for 18 years.

    The board has also elected India Today Group CEO Ashish Bagga as the vice president and Times Network MD and CEO M. K. Anand as the honorary treasurer.

    Other board members include New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV) executive vice chairperson K. V. L. Narayan Rao, TV18 chief executive, news, and group editor-in-chief Rahul Joshi, Zee Media group CEO Bhaskar Das, News24 chairperson and MD Anurradha Prasad and Mathrubhumi Printing & Publishing whole time director M.V. Shreyams Kumar.