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Republic TV has 51.9% viewership in debut week: BARC gives data to paid subs despite NBA’s request

MUMBAI/BENGALURU: It’s a coup of sorts. The leader in the English news genre has been surprised by the newcomer — Republic TV. According to BARC India viewership data for week 19, Republic TV has got 2117 weekly impressions and Times Now lags with 1148. NDTV 24×7 (352), India Today Television (350) and CNN News18 (315) have respectively bagged the third, fourth and fifth positions.

The controversy-ridden Arnab Goswami-headed English News channel claims on its channel a 52 percent viewership in the very first week of operations which started on 6 May 2017 – this would be Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) week 19 (Saturday, 6 May 2017 to Friday 12 May 2017). The channel started mentioning this news around 11am today. BARC in normal course gives data to paid subcribers at 11am. It has done it is this time too despite NBA’s caution.

The channel says that the English News genre leader until week 18, Times Now could garner only 25 percent viewership. Comparative numbers for other channels mentioned by Republic TV are: CNN News 18 and NDTV 24 X 7 – 7 percent each and India Today Television 8 percent.

As reported by us earlier, the News Broadcaster Association (NBA) had written to BARC on 17 May urging it not to release Republic TV’s viewership data until Republic TV completely stopped the NBA alleged malpractice of being on multiple LCNs’/genres on several DPOs’ and MSOs’.

The channel has been running a special show – at the time of writing – on which it celebrated its leadership position, bringing in its representatives of its 14-odd news partners who could not praise Arnab, his style of journalism, and his achievement enough. As well as journalists, editors from its team in different parts of the country. Most of them talked about the fact that the channel was put together in a matter of three to five months, and that its pole position was attained in English news in just its first week. And they also patted each other on their back for the stories that the channel has been reporting on for the past 10-11 days.

“They have raised him to demi-god status,” says a media observer. “Or maybe God status. What will the establishment do now? And what will Arnab and his team do?”

May 18, 2017
How English News channels have fared so far

BENGALURU: Amongst the twenty or so channels (about 10 domestic, rest international) that beam English News into India, Times Now lead the genre by far during for the first 18 weeks of 2017 (or a little more than two thirds of calendar year 2017) according to Broadcast Research Council of India (BARC) data. This paper is based on BARCData for Top 5 English News channels weekly lists for weeks 1 to 18 of 2017: All India (U+R) : NCCS AB : Males 22+ Individuals. BARC weeks 1 to 18 cover the period from Saturday, 31 December 2016 to Friday, 5 May 2017.

Combined weekly impressions (CWI) means the sum of all the weekly impressions of channel of all the weeks under consideration. It may be noted that the CWI of other channels that have not made it to top five English News channels list during the weeks under consideration could be higher, but have not been considered in this paper.

Of the six channels that made it to BARC’s top 5 lists in terms of weekly impressions,four were present in the lists during all the first 18 weeks of 2017. One channel – BBC World News made it to the top 5 English News channels list for 16 of the first eighteen weeks of 2017, while News X made it to the top 5 lists twice (weeks 11 and 12) during the first 18 weeks of 2017.

Times Now was ranked first during all the first 18 weeks of 2017 in terms of the combined sum of BARC’s weekly impressions in sums of thousands – (000s) Sums during all the first 18 weeks of 2017. Times Now had CWI of 13,412 (000s) Sums during the period under consideration. Trailing behind at second place was India Today Television at second placewith CWI of 6,687(000s) Sums. India Today Television was ranked second during 12 of the eighteen weeks of 2017 and third during the rest of the six weeks.

India Today Television was followed by CNN News 18 with 5,940 (000s) Sums. CNN News 18 was ranked second for 2 weeks, third for seven weeks and fourth for nine of the first 18 weeks of 2017. Close on the heels of the Network 18 groups flagship news channel was NTDV 24X7 with CWI of 5,706 (000s) Sums at fourth place. NDTV 24 X 7 was ranked second for four weeks, third for five weeks, fourth for eight weeks and fifth for one week during the first 18 weeks 0f 2017.

Please refer to the figure below for weekly data for the six English News channels considered in this paper.All the top four channels scored their highest ratings of year 2017 until week 18 during week 11 of 2017.The simple average of the combined weekly impressions of all the top five news channels in BARC’s list works out to 1922.765 including the figures for week 11 of 2017. Excluding week11, the simple average for the combined weekly impressions (000s) Sums of all the top five news channels in BARC’s list works out to 1,706.353 (000s) Sums, or more than 200,000 Sums of impressions lower. The sum of the highest combined weekly impressions of the all the English News channels in the top 5 channels list during weeks 1 to 18 of 2017 was in week 11 at 4,897 (000s) Sums, while the lowest was in week two of 2017 at 1,179 (000s) Sums.

The highest ratings scored by Times Now, the leader of the English News genre, was in week 11 with 2,282 (000s) Sums in week 11and the lowest was 475 (000s) Sums impressions in week 5 of 2017. Excluding data for week 11 of 2017, the simple average of Times Now weekly impressions was 654.706 (000s) Sums during the first 18 weeks of 2017

India Today Television scored the highest rating in week 11 of 805 (000s) Sums impressions (it was ranked third in week 11) and the lowest rating of 225 (000s) Sums impressions in week 2 of 2017 and its simple average of weekly impressions excluding data for week 11 was 346 (000s) Sums during the first 18 weeks of 2017.

CNN News 18 had a score of 1,006 (000s) Sums impressions in week 11 (it was ranked second in week 11). Its lowest score of 175 (000s) was in week one of 2017, and its simple average of weekly impressions was 290.235 (000s) Sums during the first 18 weeks of 2017.

NDTV 24X7 had a score of 656 (000s) Sums impressions in week 11. Its lowest score of 192 (000s) was in week three of 2017, and its simple average of weekly impressions was 297.059 (000s) Sums during the first 18 weeks of 2017.As is obvious, the ratings for week11 were the decider for the third place during weeks 1 to 18 of 2017.

On Saturday, March 11, 2017 (the first day of BARC week 11 – March 11 to Friday 17 March 2017) assembly elections results for Indian five states of the country were announced. On that single day, the top four English News channels ratings exceeded the simple average ratings for an entire week during the first 18 weeks of 2017. Please refer to the figure below.

May 16, 2017
Seven Indian channels added to StarHub TV in Singapore

MUMBAI: Festive season is the time when channels make the best use of the opportunity served to them. This time, it’s also happening overseas as StarHub TV, Singapore’s only cable operator service has decided to give its viewers a treat of seven new Indian channels to view, increasing its lineup of channels from the country to nine.

The channels that are now a part of the bouquet include: Life Ok, NDTV 24 X 7, NDTV Good Times, Verna, Zee Tamizh, Zee Khana Khazana and Zee TV HD. While the channels became a part of StarHub from 18 October, subscribers can get a free preview till 4 November.

StarHub TV also has a facility called ‘Anywhere TV’ that allows subscribers to view TV on their personal devices through a subscription plan. Except for Life OK, remaining six new channels along with three others Vannithirai, Zee Cinema and Zee TV can be viewed through ‘Anywhere TV’.

“India is a colourful country with a rich cultural tapestry,” said StarHub TV head of media business unit Lee Soo Hui. “The diversity of content across these seven new channels will ensure that our customers are now spoilt for choice when it comes to Indian programmes,” she added.

As part of Diwali celebrations, the existing channels will also be available for free from 1 to 4 November. These include Colors, Asianet, Channel V India, Sony, Star Gold, Sony Max, Star Plus, Star Vijay, Sun Music, Sun TV and Zee News apart from the nine that will be available on ‘Anywhere TV.’

A ‘Manoranjan’ pack gives eight entertainment channels including Life Ok and Zee TV at $25.90 per month while the NDTV pack comes at $6.24 per month. Verna and Zee Tamizh are available at a la carte price of $8.56 and $6.42 respectively per month.

October 19, 2013
CNN YJA ’07 honours 12 awardees across India and Pakistan

NEW DELHI: The Fifth CNN Young Journalist Awards saw an amazing entry in the “Citizen Journalist” category and Kusum Devi, a poor woman from the outskirts of Delhi, walked away with the first prize while Anchal Vohra (NDTV 24 X 7) and Priyanka Pathak Narain (Mint, Mumbai) won the CNN YJA of the Year 2007 for the TV and print/online categories.

The winner for the two new categories to mark the 60th anniversary of India and Pakistan’s Independence, Journalist Award and Photo Journalist of the Year Award, went to Rubab Karar (The Herald, Karachi, Pakistan) and Sujan Singh (Planman Media) respectively.

While Ananya Sengupta (The Telegraph, Mumbai) was adjudged runner up in the CNN Young Journalist in the print/online category, the runner up for the CNN YJA 2007 in the TV category was Maryam Pervaiz of Dawn News from Lahore, Pakistan.

Subuhi Khan from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi, won the CNN Aspiring Journalist Award in the TV category and Nina Mehta from the Asian College of Journalism won in the print/online category.

The runners up for the for the category are Jamma Jagannath and Divya Gojer, both from the Indian Institute of New Media, Bengaluru, for the print and TV categories respectively.

Shabaz Khan from Press Trust of India, New Delhi came runner up in the Indian Photo Journalist of 2007 category, while Dharmesh Shah from Chennai and Puneet Joshi from Bengaluru shared the runner up award in the Citizen Journalist category.

The two outstanding reportages, by any standards, were those by Kusum Devi and Rubab Karar.

Kusum Devi was refused admission for her two children in schools and used the Right to Information Act to get them in, but followed it up with an AV coverage of the antipathy of government school officials that led to 50 (so far) children getting admitted.

Rubab Karar’s work was also equally gutsy, as she recorded on video the statements of women on what happened in the infamous Lal Masjid stand off between Pakistani army and Taliban fighters in July, and it was more unusual because it got women to respond to allegations that the ladies’ madrasa inside was being used for flesh trade.

The Journalist of the Year 2007 won a laptop and citation, while the Photo Journalist of 2007 received an SLR digital camera and citation for his series of photographs titled “Police Comes to Culprits Rescue”.

The extraordinary eight-day sting operation of an Ashram where the Baba was systematically raping mentally challenged children, an operation from NDTV 24 X 7, by Anchal Vohra bagged the CNN YJA in the TV category. The expose had shaken the establishment and forced the government to act.

Speaking on the occasion, CNN’s India head Phil Turner said that the basics of being fair, objective and balanced must be also seen along with for whom the story is being done: for the camera, for your self aggrandisement or for the reader of viewer.

Ananya Sengupta, who came runner up in the print category for her story “Heartbreak House” on why young women with loving partners are increasingly committing suicide, along with Maryam Parvaiz for his TV reportage “Chained People”, got Nokia N Series Phones, trophies and citations.

And for the first prize winners in the category, Priyanka Pathan Narain (Sethsamudram Series) and Anchal Vohra of NDTV 24 X 7, it is an all expenses paid trip to the News Xchange Conference 2008, a meet of global leaders of the media professionals and broadcasters.

February 15, 2007
With more news & more shows Times Now beats nearest competition!

Mumbai, August 16th: TIMES NOW, the 24 hours English news television channel with more news and more shows has established, when it comes to big stories, it has the viewer’s attention. In the last two weeks, it is clearly ahead of CNN IBN and has narrowed the gap with NDTV 24 X 7.

The interactive and comprehensive coverage of the Prince story saw TIMES NOW emerge as the leading English News channel on the news which had the entire country hooked.

TIMES NOW has 30% share to NDTV 24 X 7’s 31% in prime time, with 6 Times Now shows featuring among the top 10 English news genre shows (ref: TAM Top 10 list). In the last week, Times Now’s 31% share in Prime Time to CNN IBN’s 18% share establishes the channels growing popularity.

Further, at an all day level, TIMES NOW has a 21.5% share of Viewership to CNN IBN’s 17.4% share, again with 4 of the top 10 shows.

Commenting on TIMES NOW’s leading viewer ship growth, Sunil Lulla, CEO, TIMES NOW said, “With more news & more shows, Times Now is clearly winning the minds and hearts of viewers. It will continue to up the ante to build leadership in the market place”.

(Data source: TAM 1 Million+ Markets, SEC AB, 25 + M, Weeks 23rd July to 5th August)

About TIMES NOW

TIMES NOW is a 24 hour English news television channel that provides the Urbane viewers the complete picture of the news that is relevant, presented in a vivid and insightful manner, which enables them to widen their horizons & stay ahead.

TIMES NOW is brought to you by Times Global Broadcasting, a Times Group & Reuters service. Times Now operates out of its dual centers at Mumbai and Delhi and has bureaus in all major locations across India, complemented by the news gathering teams of The Times of India and The Economic Times, in India and globally by the Reuters international network.

The Times Group is the largest media conglomerate in south Asia, with Leadership in newspaper publishing; magazines; music retailing; FM Radio; Internet; interactive media; mobile services and lifestyle television.

Reuters is a global information company providing indispensable news and financial information to financial professionals, media organizations and consumers around the world. Its news operation of 2300 editorial staff in 196 bureaux serving 129 countries, makes Reuters the world’s largest international multimedia news agency

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August 16, 2006