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  • Saregama & Kumkum Bhagya prop Zee TV to third place across genres

    BENGALURU: Hindi GEC Urban audiences and Hindi GEC urban+rural audiences of Saregama Little Champs and the Balaji Telefilm’s family soap KumkumBhagya propped Zee TV to third place across genres with 593.708 million weekly impressions in week 26 of 2017 (Saturday, 24 June 2017 to Friday, 30 June 2017). This is the second best rank the channel has had across gneres in calendar year 2017 until week 26. In week 21, the channel held second rank with 735.093 million weekly impressions according to Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly data on Top 10 Channels *Across Genre : All India (U+R) : 2+ Individuals.

    As BARC weekly data for top 5 Hindi GEC HSM (U+R) : NCCS All : Prime Time (1800 – 2330 hrs) : 2+ Individuals and top 5 Hindi GEC HSM (U) : NCCS All : Prime Time (1800 – 2330 hrs) : 2+ Individuals, both the Zee TV programmes stood at first and second place for week 26 of 2017.

    Sony Pictures Network (SPN) Hindi Movies channel Sony Max continued to remain in the across genres list in week 26 of 2017, but at sixth place with 550.026 million impressions as opposed to the sixth place it held in week 25 of 2017 with 543.438 million impressions.

    One each of Hindi Movies and Tamil GEC channels, two Telugu GEC channels and six Hindi GEC channels found a place in BARC’s weekly topn10 channels across genre list for week 26 of 2017. From another perspective, 3 Network 18 channels, two channels each from the Sun TV Network, SPN and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited Network (Zeel) and one channel from Star India were in the weekly top 10 channels across genre list for week 26 of 2017.

    Please refer to the chart below:

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  • Two most watched prime time Hindi GEC soaps in 2017

    BENGALURU: Two of the Ekta Kapoor headed BalajiTelefims Limited soaps on competing networks and channels were the most watched primetime programmes during the first 22 weeks of calendar year 2017. One is a supernatural drama series and the other a family soap. This paper is based on the analysis of Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) ratings data from the weekly list of top five programmes in the Hindi GEC (HSM (U+R) : NCCS All : Prime Time (1800 – 2330 hrs) : 2+ Individuals); Hindi GEC – Rural (HSM (Rural) : NCCS All : Prime Time (1800 – 2330 hrs) : 2+ Individuals); and the Hindi GEC – Urban (HSM (Urban) : NCCS All : Prime Time (1800 – 2330 hrs) : 2+ Individuals) spaces.

    Naagin 2, on Network 18’s flagship Hindi GEC Colors, has been present in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 five Hindi GEC programmes during all the first 22 weeks of 2017, as was KumkumBhagya on Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zeel) flagship Hindi GEC Zee TV.  Both the programmes were continuations from 2016.

    Naagin 2 started off at the top of the charts right from the first week of 2017 as far as the Hindi GEC (Urban+Rural) genre is concerned.Naagin 2 was ranked first for 13 of the first 22 weeks of 2017, second for 8 of the first 22 weeks of 2017 and third for one week of 2017. However, with the onset of the tenth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL 10 or IPL 2017), the programme seems to have lost some of its sheen on the viewership numbers front. The programme has garnered combined weekly impressions (CWI) of 252.084 million impressions (sums) during the first 22 weeks of 2017 in the Hindi GEC (Urban+Rural) genre.

    Naagin 2 is also aired on Network 18’s second Hindi GEC Rishtey. On Rishtey, Naagin 2 was present for 8 of the first 22 weeks of 2017 in the weekly list of top five Hindi GEC (Urban+Rural) programmes at ranks 3, 4 and 5 on different weeks. On Rishtey, Naagin 2 had CWI of 75.340 million impressions while it was present in the top 5 Hindi GEC (Urban+Rural) genre. It must be noted that the actual sum of all the weekly impressions garnered by Naagin 2 were much higher if the weekly impressions of all the weeks during which it was aired on Rishtey are taken into accont.

    KumkumBhagya started sedately in week 1 of 2017, and it has generally shown slowly increasing viewership growth, during the first 22 weeks of 2017, even during the weeks that IPL 10 was aired. The programme garnered CWI of 242.145 million during the first of 2017 in the Hindi GEC(Urban+Rural) market. KumkumBhagya was ranked 1 for seven of the first 22 weeks of 2017, second for 11 of the first 22 weeks of 2017, third and fifth once each and fourth twice during the first 22 weeks of 2017.

    Please refer to the figure below:

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    Naagin 2 was also the most watched programme in the weekly lists of the Top 5 Hindi GEC – Rural and Hindi GEC – Urban programmes during the first 22 weeks of 2017. It was present in the top five  programmes for the Hindi GEC Rural market for 16 of the first 22 weeks of 2017, with a total presence of 20 ranks across both of Network 18’s Hindi GEC channels – Colors as well as Rishtey.

    Naagin 2 was present in all the weekly list of the top 5 Hindi GEC – Urban programmes during all the first 22 weeks of 2017. It was ranked one for 18 of first 22 weeks, second and fourth for one week each and third for two weeks during the first 22 weeks of 2017.

    KumkumBhagya was present in the weekly lists of the Top 5 Hindi GEC – Rural programmes during 13 of first 22 weeks of 2017. It was ranked first and third for one week each, fourth for four weeks and fifth for seven weeks during the first 22 weeks of 2017. The programme was the third most watched Hindi GEC programme in the Hindi GEC – Rural space, after Naagin 2 and Balaveer on Sony Pictures Network India (SPN) channel Sony Pal

    KumkumBhagya was lapped up by Hindi GEC – Urban market- it was present in the weekly list of top 5 Hindi GEC Urban during all the first 22 weeks of 2017. It was ranked first for 4 weeks, second for five weeks, third for six weeks and fourth for seven weeks during the first 22 weeks of 2017.

     

  • Zee TV emerges as leader & Rishtey climbs two spots in Hindi GEC (U+R)

    MUMBAI: Zee TV surprised this week by jumping from the third position last week to the first position. Rishtey too climbed two positions in Hindi GEC (U+R) in BARC Week 21. Zee Anmol made an entry into the top 10 leading GEC Urban channels’ list by replacing Star Utsav.

    Hindi GEC 

    Zee TV led the genre by jumping from the third position to the first position in Hindi GEC channel with an increase with 679456 Impressions (000s) sum this week as compared to 11285 Impressions (000s) sum in week 20. 

    Star Plus with 676078 Impressions (000s) sum witnessed a fall in ratings and came to the second position. Sony Pal also witnessed a fall in ratings and came to the third position 627243 Impressions (000s) sum.

    Colors, which was on the fourth position, slipped a slot with 495240 Impressions (000s) sum, and Rishtey, which was on the sixth position, climbed to the fourth position with 512471 Impressions (000s) sum. 

    Zee Anmol fell a rank and landed at the sixth position whereas Sony Sab, Star Utsav, Sony Entertainment Television, Life OK, respectively, stood at similar seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions as in the last week.

    Hindi GEC Rural 

    Sony Pal retained the top position with a significant ratings increase with 477157 Impressions (000s) sum this week as compared to 435704 Impressions (000s) sum in week 20. 

    Rishtey with 387018 Impressions (000s) sum witnessed a rise in ratings and jumped to the second position. Zee Anmol saw a fall in ratings and came to the third position with 368042 Impressions (000s) sum.

    Zee TV and Star Utsav exchanged their positions and now stood at fourth and fifth positions, respectively, with 275079 Impressions (000s) sum and 273392 Impressions (000s) sum.

    Hindi GEC Urban 

    Star Plus also retained its numero uno position with a crucial ratings increase and 453359 Impressions (000s) sum this week as compared to 427931 Impressions (000s) sum in week 20. 

    Zee TV with 404377 Impressions (000s) sum witnessed a rise in ratings and jumped to the second position with 291346 Impressions (000s) sum.

    Colors witnessed a fall in ratings and came to the third position with 321000 Impressions (000s) sum.

    Sony Sab and Star Entertainment television retained their fourth and fifth positions respectively with 284418 Impressions (000s) sum and 252230 Impressions (000s) sum.

    Life OK, Sony Pal, &TV and Rishtey respectively stood at similar sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth position as in the last week.

    Zee Anmol made an entry in Hindi GEC Urban channels’ list with 99013 Impressions (000s) sum replacing Star Utsav on the tenth position.

  • IPL 10 ramps up Sony channels ratings to numero uno position

    BENGALURU: IPL 10 commenced on 5 April 2017. Just three days of the tenth season of the Indian Premier League cricket had catapulted Sony Pictures Networks India Private Limited (SPN) Hindi Movies channel Sony max to numero uno postion in the Hindi Movies genre for week 14 of 2017 (Broadcast Audience Research Council of India – BARC ratings for week 14 -Saturday, April 2017 to Friday, 7 April 2017). Further, the cricket extravaganza pushed the channel to second place in terms of ratings across genres in that week. Among the other SPN channels that benefitted was Sony Six in week 14.

    BARC week 15 (Saturday, 8 April 2017 to Friday, 14 April 2017) has been even better for SPN channels. Sony Max was the most watched channel across genres during the week with weekly impressions of 14,29,479 (000s) sums, followed by the Sun Network’s Tamil GEC flagship channel Sun TV with weekly impressions 12,47,460 (000s) sums (BARC Data for Top 10 Channels *Across Genre : All India (U+R) : 2+ Individuals).  Star Plus (Hindi GEC), Gemini TV (Telugu GEC), Colors (Hindi GEC), Sony Pal (Hindi GEC) were at third, fourth fifth and sixth spots respectively across genres. The last four places across genres were occupied by Zee TV (Hindi GEC), Rishtey (Hindi GEC), ETV Telugu (Telugu GEC) and Zee Telugu (Telugu GEC) in that order.

    During the preceding weeks of 2017, it was Sun TV which had held pole position with weekly impressions of 12,06,478 (000s) sums in week 14, followed far behind by Sony Max with weekly impressions of 8,53,494 (000s) sums at second place.

    In week 15, Sony Max topped the ratings in Hindi Movies HSM (U+R) : NCCS All : 2+ Individuals, Hindi Movies Rural HSM NCCS All : 2+ Individuals and Hindi Movies Urban HSM NCCS All : 2+ Individuals markets, with IPL matches being the top 5 most watched programmes in these markets.

    In the Hindi Movies market, Sony Max had phenomenal weekly impressions of 13,34,063 (000s) sums, followed far behind by its peer channel Sony Wah which had weekly impressions of 4,27,231 (000s) sums. The Mumbai Indians-Kolkata Knight Riders match was the most watched programme in the genre with impressions of 19,303 (000s) followed by the Mumbai Indians- Sunrisers Hyderabad (The Sun Network owns the Sunrisers Hyderabad team) match with impressions of 18,969 (000s). All the other five most watched programmes in the Hindi Movies market were IPL matches on Sony Max

    Sony Max’s ratings in the Hindi Movies-Rural market – weekly impressions of 6,16,227 (000s) sums. In this market, the Mumbai Indians- Sunrisers Hyderabad was the most watched programme with impressions of 8,828 (000s), while the Mumbai Indians-Kolkata Knight Riders match was the second most watched programme with impressions of 8,231 (000s). All the other five most watched programmes in the Hindi Movies-Rural market were IPL matches on Sony Max.

    Sony Max’s had weekly impressions of 7,17,835 (000s) sums in the Hindi Movies-Urban market. All the top five most watched programmes in this market were IPL matches on Sony Max. Like in the case of the Hindi  Movies market, the Mumbai Indians-Kolkata Knight Riders match was the most watched programme in this market with impressions of 11,071 (000s) followed by the Mumbai Indians- Sunrisers Hyderabad match with impressions of 10,140 (000s).

    In the sports genre, Sony Six was the most watched Sports channel in week 15 with weekly impressions of 4,58,932 (000s) sums followed by an SPN peer channel – Sony ESPN which had weekly impressions of 1,14,119 (000s) sums. The top five programs in the Sports genre were IPL matches on Sony Six– with the Mumbai Indian’s Sunrisers Hyderabad  fixture with Impressions of 7,392 (000s) being the most watched sports programme in week 15.

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  • How Hindi GEC channels fared in first quarter of 2017

    BENGALURU: The Hindi general entertainment (GE or GEC) space has always been fascinating – be it from the viewers or networks or advertisers point of view. Major networks such as Star India, Viacom 18 (or Network 18), the Subhash Chandra headed Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zeel) or Sony Pictures Networks India Private Limited (SPN) have launched multiple channels in standard as well as high definition (HD) format.

    How have the channels performed during the first 13 weeks (Saturday 30 December 2016 to Friday 31 March 2017)? This paper, based on Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) data, attempts to throw some light the most watched Hindi GE channels during the first quarter of 2017. It is based on statistical analysis of Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) data from the following markets: HSM(U+R), HSM (Rural), HSM (Urban): NCCSAll : 2+ Individuals for weeks 1 to 13 of 2016 (Saturday, 30 December 2017 to Friday, 31 March 2017, HSM means Hindi Speaking Market).

    This paper must be read with a caveat: It deals only with the players present in BARC’s top 10 lists of channels per week. The sums/percentages of other genres/players’/channels of other players as well other channels of players in this paper ratings or Impressions (000s) Sums other than those indicated in BARC’s top 10 lists of channels have not been considered/mentioned in this paper during the period under consideration and those numbers could be more/higher. Further, Combined Total or Weekly Impressions (CWI) mentioned in this paper means the sum of all the Impressions (000s) Sums for all the weeks under consideration of a network and/or channel and/or programme/s.

    So how did the Hindi GEC channels fare?

    While the overall networks’ primary channels – Star Plus, Colors, and Zee TV in that order were the three most watched channels in the Hindi GEC genre during the first quarter of 2017, the numbers for the Hindi GEC (Rural) during the same period tell a completely different story. The networks’ second or third channels ruled the Hindi GEC (Rural) roost. Rishtey, Sony Pal, Zee Anmol, Star Utsav were ahead of their older siblings in the Hindi GEC (Rural) markets during the first 13 weeks of 2017. Reliance Broadcast Network’s (RBNL) Big Magic also found a place in the top 10 most watched channels list for 10 of the 13 weeks of 2017 in the Hindi GEC (Rural) markets.

    The Hindi GEC (Urban) market was similar to the overall Hindi GEC market, except that the three most watched channels in this market were Star Plus, Colors and Sony Entertainment Television with Zee TV at fourth spot.

    Hindi GEC and Hindi GEC (Rural) audiences preferred the shortened versions of cricket on DD National more than the Hindi GEC (Urban) market during primetime, more specifically some One day internationals and some T20 matches between India and England, if one were to go by BARC’s top 5 most watched programmes list across the three markets (NCCSAll : Prime Time (1800 – 2330 hrs) : 2+ Individuals). Though DD National figured in the top 10 most watched channels list of all the three markets at different frequencies during the period under consideration, during primetime, its cricket programmes featured in the five top programmes list  for five and six weeks in the Hindi GEC and the Hindi GEC (Rural) markets respectively, but not in the Hindi GEC (Urban) market.

    Hindi GEC

    Eleven channels appeared in the top 10 channels weekly list during the first thirteen weeks of 2017. The overall Hindi GEC space was dominated by Star India’s Star Plus during the first thireen weeks of 2017. The Combined Weekly Impressions for the channel were 1,91,85,359 (000s) Sums during the period under consideration. Network 18’s Colors with CWI of 82,58,798 (000s) Sums was second followed by Zeel’s Zee TV with CWI of 61,91,072 (000s) Sums. Network 18’s Rishtey with CWI of 61,25,507 (000s) Sums and SPN’s Sony Pal with CWI of 57,35,709 (000s) Sums were at fourth and fifth place respectively.

    Please refer to the figure below for other data:

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    In terms of frequency of ranks in a week, it was again Star Plus that was ranked 1 for nine weeks out of the 13, followed by Colors which was ranked 1 in three of the 13 weeks. Sony Pal was ranked 1 in one week (week 13) during the 13 weeks under consideration.

    Please refer to the Rank table below:

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    Hindi GEC (Rural)
    In the Hindi GEC Rural space, twelve channels appeared in the top 10 channels weekly list during the first thirteen weeks of 2017. Network 18’s Rishtey was the most watched channel in weeks 1 to 13 of 2017 with CWI of 45,99,618 (000s) Sums.SPN’s Sony Pal was next with 43,55,224 (000s) Sums followed by Zeel’s Zee Anmol with 42,19,032 (000s) Impressions at third place.

    Please refer to the list below.

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    Rishtey was ranked 1 as the most watched channel in seven of the first 13 weeks of 2017 in the Hindi GEC (Rural) genre. Sony Pal was next – it was ranked 1 for five weeks during the same period, followed by Star India’s Star Utsav which was ranked 1 for one week during the first 13 weeks of 2017. Zee Anmol was next – it was ranked 2 for 7 weeks, followed by DD National which was ranked 3 for one week of 2017.

    Please refer to the list below.

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    Hindi GEC (Urban)
    Twelve channels appeared in the top 10 channels Hindi GEC (Urban) list during weeks 1 to 13 of 2017. Like the Hindi GEC genre, Hindi GEC (Urban) audiences preferred Star India’s Star Plus the most during this period. The channel had CWI of 61,17,130 (000s) Sums. Colors was the second most watched channel in the Hindi GEC (Urban) market with a CWI of 56,12,131 (000s) Sums followed by SPN’s Sony Entertainment Television with a CWI of 38,15,488 (000s) Sums. Zee TV was the fourth most watched channel in the Hindi GEC (Urban) market with CWI of  35,69,444 (000s) Sums.

    Please refer to the chart below for the list of most watched channels in the Hindi GEC (Urban) genre during the first quarter of 2017.

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    Star Plus was ranked first as the most watched channel in the Hindi GEC (Urban) space for 11 of the first thirteen weeks of 2017. Colors was ranked 1 for two of the first thirteen weeks in the same space, followed by Sony Entertainment Television which was ranked third for 10 of the first 13 weeks of 2017. Zee TV was next, with a frequency of three for rank 3 during the same period.

    Please refer to the list below:

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  • Star Plus and Sony Pal retain respective genre leads

    MUMBAI: Star Plus and Colors respectively ranked number 1 and number 2 in Hindi GEC (U+R) and Hindi GEC Urban segments in BARC India week 10 ratings. Sony Pal and Zee Anmol retained their respective number one and two positions last week in the GEC Rural segment.

    In the GEC (U+R) segment, STAR Plus led with 756101 impression followed by Colors with 637027 impressions. Sony Pal with 568043 impressions and Zee TV with 518107 impressions stood at third and fourth positions respectively. Zee Anmol with 466508 impressions and Rishtey with 446592 impressions were next in the row at fifth and sixth positions respectively.

    In GEC Rural segment, Sony Pal with 419333 impressions, Zee Anmol with 365835 impressions and Rishtey with 337483 impressions bagged the first, second and third positions, respectively. STAR Utsav with 331056 impressions, STAR Plus with 255923 impressions and Zee TV with 226532 impressions ranked at the fourth, fifth and six positions in BARC week 10.

    In GEC Urban segment, STAR Plus led with 500178 impressions followed by Colors and Sony Entertainment Television with 421815 and 294125 impressions respectively at the second and third positions. SONY SAB with 292006 impressions, Zee TV with 291574 impressions and Life Ok with 241537 impressions ranked on the fourth, fifth and sixth positions.

  • Star Plus & Rishtey retain respective market leadership

    MUMBAI: In week 8, Star Plus continued to dominate the Urban+Rural and Urban market with a  leadership position whereas Rishtey too maintained its top position. Colors maintained its second spot this week. Apart from top channels, Sony’s free to air (FTA) channel Sony Pal has gained the positive ratings across markets.  

    Hindi GEC

    Star Plus led the genre with an increase in number with 712076 Impressions (000s) against  657742 Impressions (000s) followed by Colors with 640525 Impressions (000s) on second slot and Rishtey on third with 537507 Impressions (000s).

    In week 8 Sony Pal climbed up at number four with 523334 Impressions (000s) and Zee TV stood at five with 508260 Impressions (000s).

    Zee Anmol stepped down at number six with 504534 Impressions (000s) followed by Sony Entertainment Television grabbed seven spot with 467421 Impressions (000s).

     Star Utsav, Sab TV and Life OK ranked on the eighth, ninth and tenth positions with 448900 Impressions (000s), 390487 Impressions (000s) and 390466 Impressions (000s), respectively.

    Hindi GEC Rural

    Rishtey and Zee Anmol respectively bagged the first and second positions in this category with 409571 Impressions (000s) and 400799 Impressions (000s) followed by Sony Pal  on third slot with 373988 Impressions (000s).

    Star Utsav stood on number four with 342382 Impressions (000s) and Star Plus bagged fifth position with 235398 Impressions (000s).

    Zee TV and Colors  grabbed sixth and seventh spot with 227197 Impressions (000s) and 211405 Impressions (000s), respectively.

    Life OK, Sony Entertainment Television and Big Magic garnered eighth, ninth and tenth spot with 154190 Impressions (000s), 142834 Impressions (000s) and 129779 Impressions (000s), respectively.

    Hindi GEC Urban

    In this category, Star Plus led the chart with 476677 Impressions (000s) followed by Colors on second position with 429120 Impressions (000s).

    Sony Entertainment has maintained its position at third slot with 324587 Impressions (000s) followed by Zee TV on number four with 281062 Impressions (000s) and Sab TV on fifth with 269453 Impressions (000s).

    Life OK stood on number six with 236276 Impressions (000s). Sony Pa, &TVl and Rishtey bagged seventh, eighth and ninth slot with 149345 Impressions (000s), 135671 Impressions (000s) and 127935 Impressions (000s), respectively.

    Star Utsav grabbed tenth spot with week and registered 106518 Impressions (000s). 

  • Star Plus takes over Colors, Rishtey retains top position: BARC wk 7

    MUMBAI: Star Plus pushed Colors to the second spot in Hindi GEC and Hindi GEC (Urban) genres in the BARC India ratings week 7 emerging on the top in these two categories. Rishtey retained its first position in the Hindi GEC (rural) category whereas Zee Anmol and Star Utsav respectively bagged the second and third slot interchanging their last week’s positions.

    Hindi GEC

    Star Plus led the genre with 657742 Impressions (000s) immediately followed by Colors with 571698 Impressions (000s) on second slot and Rishtey on third with 428466 Impressions (000s) 

    Zee TV and  Zee Anmol respectively bagged the fourth and fifth spots with 414538 Impressions (000s)and 406528 Impressions (000s) followed by Sony Pal on number sixth with 398584 Impressions (000s)and Sony Entertainment on seventh with 396285 Impressions (000s). Star Utsav, Life Ok    and Sab TV ranked on the eighth, ninth and tenth positions with 392261 Impressions (000s), 373881 Impressions (000s) and 325293 Impressions (000s) respectively. 

    Hindi GEC Rural

    Rishtey and Zee Anmol respectively bagged the first and second positions in this category with 317113 Impressions (000s) and 313648 Impressions (000s) followed by Star Utsav on third slot with 294662 Impressions (000s). 

    Sony Pal stood on number four with 278664 Impressions (000s) and Star Plus bagged fifth position with 198474 Impressions (000s). 

    Colors TV and Zee TV grabbed sixth and seventh spot with 184729 Impressions (000s) and 169147 Impressions (000s) respectively. 

    Life OK, Sony Entertainment Television and Big Magic garnered eighth, ninth and tenth spot with 126148 Impressions (000s), 114837 Impressions (000s) and 109681 Impressions (000s) respectively. 

    Hindi GEC Urban

    In this category, Star Plus led the chart with 459268 Impressions (000s) followed by Colors on second position with 386969 Impressions (000s). 

    Sony Entertainment has maintained its position at third slot with 281448 Impressions (000s) followed by Life OK on number four with 247733 Impressions (000s) and Sab TV on fifth with 245561 Impressions (000s). 

    Zee TV stood on number six with 245392 Impressions (000s). & TV, Sony Pal and Rishtey bagged seventh, eighth and ninth slot with 134598 Impressions (000s), 119920 Impressions (000s) and 111353 Impressions (000s) respectively.

    Star Utsav grabbed tenth spot in week 7 and registered 97600 Impressions (000s).  

  • Bobbles DTH/OTT offers top Indian TV channels in Europe

    Bobbles DTH/OTT offers top Indian TV channels in Europe

    MUMBAI: Bobbles.tv, the German provider of pay-TV packages for expats in Europe, has launched an entertainment platform for Indian viewers. The platform currently offers 16 TV channels from both, Hindi and English languages.

    It includes Bollywood blockbuster channels B4U Movies, B4U Music, Star Gold, Sony Max, Zoom as well as news channels NDTV India, NDTV 24×7, Times Now and Aaj Tak. Colors, Star Plus, NDTV Good Times, NDTV Spice, Sony Entertainment Television (SET), Sony Sab, Life Ok and Rishtey Europe will deliver general entertainment, comedy, drama, lifestyle, reality TV and made-for-TV movies.

    Bubbles Media CEO Arnold C. Kulbatzki is very optimistic with this offering. He said that as many as 1.5 million Indian people living in mainland Europe now have a convenient way to receive their favourite TV shows from home, via satellite or OTT, live or on catch-up.

    Launched in August 2016, bobbles.tv distributes channels from around the globe, aiming to reach a potential audience of around 14 million people originating from Asia, Latin America and Africa, but currently living and working in Europe.

    In addition to its new offering for Indian viewers, bobbles.tv also delivers programming to Chinese, Indonesian and Vietnamese expat communities, with further language packages to follow.

    The DTH platform is available in Europe via Astra. Supported by MX1, the technical services subsidiary of Astra satellite operator SES, it also offers an OTT service for online viewing through connected TV sets or mobile devices.

  • Viacom’s Colors & Rishtey lead the charts in BARC week 6

    MUMBAI: Colors continued to be the leader this week of both Hindi GEC and Hindi GEC Urban market whereas Rishtey emerged as the number one channel in week 6 of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India data.

    Hindi GEC

    Colors continued to take the leadership position with 625658 Impressions (000s) followed by Star Plus on second position with 609140 Impressions (000s) and Rishtey with 437837 Impressions (000s) stood on number three.

    Zee TV maintained its position in top five channels and grabbed number four spot with 410432 Impressions (000s).

    Star Utsav, Sony Entertainment Television and  Zee Anmol  bagged fifth, sixth and seventh position with 405037 Impressions (000s), 404351 Impressions (000s) and 376640 Impressions (000s) respectively.

    Life OK stood on number eight with 373056 Impressions (000s).  Sony Pal and Sab TV garnered ninth and tenth spot with 367942 Impressions (000s) and 332092 Impressions (000s).

    Hindi GEC Rural

    In week 6, Rishtey emerged as the number one channel in rural market  with 328788 Impressions (000s) followed by Star Utsav on number second with 298881 Impressions (000s) and Zee Anmol on third with 286533 Impressions (000s).

    Sony Pal on number four with 260068 Impressions (000s) and Colors stood on fifth position with 198180 (000s) impressions. Star Plus was on sixth slot this week with 181851 (000s) impressions.

    Zee TV grabbed the seventh spot with 170538 (000s) impressions followed by Life OK with 132654 (000s) impressions on eighth and Sony Entertainment Television on ninth with 121982 impressions (000s).

    Big Magic stood last with 115966 (000s) impressions.

    Hindi GEC Urban

    In Urban market, Colors continued to be the leader with 427478 Impressions(000s) followed by Star Plus on second 427289 Impressions (000s) and Sony Entertainment Television with 282368 Impressions (000s) stood on number three.

    Sab TV grabbed fourth spot with 244145 Impressions (000s). Life OK  stood on fifth slot with 240402  impressions (000s) and Zee TV on sixth with 239893 Impressions (000s).

    With no further change in the ranking order &TV, Rishtey and Sony Pal stood on seventh, eighth and on ninth with 131591 impressions (000s), 109048 impressions (000s) and 109048 impressions (000s) respectively. Star Utsav bagged the tenth spot with 106156  impressions (000s).

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