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  • Sun TV, Star Maa only non-Hindi players in across genre list

    Sun TV, Star Maa only non-Hindi players in across genre list

    BENGALURU: The Sun TV Network’s flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV and Star India’s flagship Telugu GEC Star Maa were the only non-Hindi channels among Broadcast Audience Research Council’s (BARC) weekly list of top 10 channels across genre all India (U+R): 2+ Individuals for week 6 of 2018 (Saturday, 3 February 2018 to Friday, 9 February 2018). The Tamil channel occupied its normal numero uno place in the list with 984.137 million weekly impressions. Besides Sun TV and Star Maa, the eight other channels in the week under review were Hindi – six Hindi GEC and two Hindi Movie channels. In week 5 of 2018, Sun TV’s weekly ratings were less than 1 billion weekly impressions although the channel had scored slightly higher 998.106 weekly impressions in week 5 of 2018. Sun TV also topped the BARC’s top 5 Tamil channels in the Puducherry and Tamil Nadu markets, and as usual, all the 5 Tamil programmes in the week in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Tamil programmes were aired on Sun TV.

    Three channels each from the Sony Pictures Network India (SPN) and Star India, two channels from Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zeel) and one channel each from Network 18 and Sun TV Network comprised BARC’s top 10 channels across genre list for week 6 of 2018.

    Following Sun TV was Zeel’s free to air (FTA) Hindi GEC Zee Anmol also at it its regular second spot in the list with 769.300 million weekly impressions. Zee Anmol also topped the top 10 Hindi GEC channels in the Hindi Speaking Markets (HSM) – both urban and rural (U+R), and HSM (R). The Balaji Telefilms-produced Kumkum Bhagya and its spinoff Kundali Bhagya that aired on the channel were among the top 5 Hindi GEC programmes during primetime in HSM (U+R). Kumkum Bhagya, Ganga and Jamai Raja were among the top 5 Hindi GEC programmes during primetime in HSM (R).

    Star India’ FTA channel Star Bharat was also at its regular third spot in week 6 of 2018 with 737.259 million weekly impressions. Star Bharat was also ranked second in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GEC channels in HSM (U) during the week. Nimki Mukhiya and Kya Haal Mr Panchaal that aired on the channel were among the top 5 Hindi GEC programmes during primetime in HSM (U+R).

    SPN’s women-focused FTA Hindi GEC was at fourth rank in week 6 of 2018 with 642.370 million weekly impressions. Sony Pal was also ranked third in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in HSM (U+R) and HSM (R). The programmes Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah and CID that were aired on the channel were among BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi GEC programmes during primetime.

    Network18’s flagship Hindi GEC Colors was ranked fifth in week 6 of 2018 with 609.569 million weekly impressions. Colors topped BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GEC channels in HSM (U+R) during the week. Shakti – Astitva Ke Ehsaas Ki and Ishq Mein Marjawan that featured on the channel were among BARC’s top 5 Hindi GEC programmes during primetime in HSM (U).

    Zeel’s flagship Hindi GEC Zee TV was ranked sixth in week 6 of 2018 with 606.162 million weekly impressions. Kumkum Bhagya and Kundali Bhagya that were also aired on the channel were among BARC’s top 5 Hindi GEC programmes in HSM (U+R) and HSM (U).

    Another Star India FTA Hindi GEC, Star Utsav, was ranked seventh in week 6 of 2017 in BARC’s across genre list with 565.459 million weekly impressions. The channel was ranked third in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GEC channels in HSM (R)

    Star Maa was ranked eighth in week 6 of 2018 with 529.864 million weekly impressions. The channel topped BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Telugu channels in the Telangana and Andhara Pradesh markets. Four of the top 5 Telugu programmes in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Telugu programmes during primetime featured on Star Maa during the week.

    SPN’s Hindi movies channel – Star Max was ranked ninth in week 6 of 2018 in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genre.  Sony Max topped BARC’s list of top 5 Hindi movies channels in HSM (U). The world television premiere of the Hindi feature film (HFF) Kanchana The Wonder Car on Sony Max was among the top 5 Hindi movies in HSM (U+R). HFF’s Kanchana 2 and Son Of Satyamurthy were among the top 5 Hindi Movie programmes during primetime in HSM (U).

    Another SPN Hindi Movies channel – Sony Wah completed BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genre in week 6 of 2018 with 518.369 million weekly impressions. HFF-Sooryavansham that featured on the channel was among the list of top 5 Hindi Movie programmes during primetime in HSM (U+R) and HSM (R). Another HFF – Dangerous Khiladi which also featured on the channel was among the top 5 Hindi movie programmes during primetime in HSM (R) during week 6 of 2018.

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  • Paisabazaar adds Tamil to its new campaign

    Paisabazaar adds Tamil to its new campaign

    MUMBAI: Paisabazaar.com, a marketplace for loans and cards, has launched a new TV campaign on its free credit score feature. Along with three new commercials in Hindi, Paisabazaar.com has also launched its first regional campaign in Tamil. The regional campaign features popular actor Arjun Chidambaram, talking about the relevance of checking credit score.

    Paisabazaar.com CEO and co-founder Naveen Kukreja says, “While in the last one year, we have run nation-wide campaigns through TV and digital, we now have also begun focusing on specific geographies for a better and deeper impact. We have started this strategic campaign from Tamil Nadu, one of our biggest markets and are already seeing great results. Arjun Chidambaram is an extremely popular actor among the youth and one of the future stars of Tamil cinema. We hope that making him the face of our free credit score campaign in Tamil Nadu will help us reach out to the millennial population in the state and help them get more credit-savvy.”

    Paisabazaar.com offers a credit report along with monthly updates at no cost. The free credit score feature on Paisabazaar.com, built in partnership with Experian Credit Information Company, is easy, instant and completely online.

    Paisabazaar.com chief product officer Radhika Binani adds, “We are running India’s biggest credit awareness programme, which is not only enabling customers to choose the right credit products and lenders, but also helping them improve their credit score for better credit offerings in the future. With our regular campaigns on TV, we hope to spread the free credit score message further and wider.”

    This is Paisabazaar’s second big TV campaign on their free credit score feature in less than six months. The national campaign is already on air on Star Sports HD, Star Sports SD, Sony Max, Aaj Tak, NDTV India, etc. The Tamil commercial is being aired on Tamil channels like Sun TV, KTV, Jaya Plus, News18 Tamil Nadu and others.

  • Kumkum Bhagya, spinoff, SaReGaMaPa help Zee TV dominate Hindi GECs across genres

    Kumkum Bhagya, spinoff, SaReGaMaPa help Zee TV dominate Hindi GECs across genres

    BENGALURU: Two family soaps and a homegrown reality show have been time and again propping up Zee TV’s ratings in 2017– one soap – Kumkum Bhagya did it for the channel in the previous calendar year also. The other soap, a spinoff of the same – Kundali Bhagya has been rocking the ratings for the channel right from the time of its launch on 12 July 2017. And Zee TV’s home grown reality show is the music talent hunt Amul Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Little Champs. These programmes, along with other programmes on the channel seemed to have done a fair bit in helping viewership stickiness/enhancement in week 44 of 2017 (Saturday, 28 October 2017 to Friday, 3 November 2017). So much so that Zee TV topped the ratings amongst the Hindi GEC in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly data for top 10 channels across genre: All India (U+R) : 2+ Individuals. Zee TV was ranked second after the Sun Network’s flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV in week 44 of 2017. This time around for Zee TV, it was the spinoff that had a larger viewership in the Hindi GEC HSM (U+R) and Hindi GEC HSM (U) market than the original.

    Three channels from Sony Pictures Network, two channels each from Network 18, Star India and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zeel) and one channel from the Sun Network made up the top 10 channels list for week 44 of 2017. From the genres perspective, seven Hindi GEC channels and one channel each from the Hindi Movies, Tamil GEC and Telugu GEC space made it to BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genre.

    In week 44 of 2017, Sun TV was the leader across genres with 1,014.077 million weekly impressions. All the five programmes in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Tamil programmes (TN/ Puducherry (U+R) : NCCS All : Prime Time (1800 – 2330 hrs) : 2+ Individuals) were from Sun TV. Among Sun TV’s programmes that made it to the top five, Tamil programmes is a multilingual (Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada) supernatural television drama – Nandini claimed to be the second biggest budgeted series on Indian television after Naagin and the biggest in South India.

    Sun TV was followed by Zee TV with 795.129 million weekly impressions at second place. Star India’s recently renamed and free to air (FTA) channel Star Bharat was at third place with 707.563 million weekly impressions. At fourth place was Zee TV’s FTA Hindi GEC sibling – Zee Anmol with 678.924 million weekly impressions followed by Network 18 (Viacom 18) flagship Hindi GEC Colors with 614.118 million weekly impressions.

    Women focused Hindi GEC Sony Pal from the Sony Pictures Network India (SPN) stable was at sixth place in week 44 of 2017 with 597.676 million weekly impressions. SPN’s Hindi movies channel Sony Max was at seventh place with 573.083 million weekly impressions followed by Star India’s flagship Hindi GEC Star Plus at eighth place with 565.534 million weekly impressions. The Network 18 associated Telugu GEC ETV Telugu was at ninth place with 537.726 million weekly impressions in week 44 of 2017. Helped along by the Amitabh Bahchan anchored Kaun Banega Crorepati or KBC was SPN’s flagship Hindi GEC Sony Entertainment Television (SET) with 491.791 million weekly impressions at tenth place in week 44 of 2017.

     

  • Subs revenue boosts Sun TV earnings

    Subs revenue boosts Sun TV earnings

    BENGALURU: Riding on the high of an increase in subscription revenue, Sun TV Network Ltd (Sun TV) reported improved numbers across all important parameters for the quarter ended 30 September 2017 (Q2 FY 2017-18, current quarter) as compared with the corresponding quarter of the previous year (Q2 FY 2016-17). The company’s subscription revenue for the current quarter increased by 14.3 percent year-on-year (y-o-y) to Rs 2,776.8 million from Rs 2,429.0 million.

    Sun TV reported 5.6 percent increase in consolidated total income during the quarter to Rs 7,131.3 million as compared with Rs 6,754.7 million in Q2 FY 2016-17. Operating revenue rose by 8.1 percent y-o-y to Rs 6,759.0 million from Rs 6,254.9 million. The board of directors of Sun TV has declared a second interim dividend of the year of 50 per cent per equity share of Rs 5.

    During the quarter, the company’s profit after tax improved by 5.3 percent to Rs 2,846.7 million (42.1 percent of operating revenue) as compared with Rs 2,703.5 million (35.5 percent of operating revenue) in Q2 FY 2016-17.

    Sun TV’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortisation (EBITDA) during the quarter were Rs 4,960.9 million (73.4 per cent of operating revenue), growth of 6.7 percent as against Rs 4,650.2 million (68.8 percent of operating revenue) in Q2 FY 2016-17.

    Total expenditure during the quarter increased by 7.2 percent to Rs 2,825.6 million (41.8 percent of operating revenue) as compared with Rs 2,636 million (34.6 percent of operating revenue) in the corresponding quarter of the previous year.

    Operating expense in Q2 FY 2017-18 grew by 24.8 percent to Rs 640.8 million (9.5 per cent of operating revenue) from Rs 513.3 million (6.7 per cent of operating revenue) in the corresponding quarter of the previous year.

    Employee benefits expense in during the second quarter increased by 7.7 percent to Rs 773.9 million (11.4 per cent of operating revenue) as against Rs 718.3 million (9.4 per cent of operating revenue) in Q2 FY 2016-17.

    Other expenses in the Q2-18 increased 2.8 percent to Rs 384.3 million (5.7 percent of operating revenue) as compared to Rs 373.1 million (4.9 percent of operating revenue) in the corresponding quarter of the previous year.

  • Zeel channels continue to rule Hindi GEC in steady across genres’ list

    Zeel channels continue to rule Hindi GEC in steady across genres’ list

    BENGALURU: The channels present in the top 10 channels Across Genres list for week 38 of 2017 (Saturday, 16 September 2017 to Friday, 22 September 2017) by Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) remained the same as in week 37 of 2017. There were small movements lower down in order with some channels moving up and some moving down the ranks in week 38 as compared to week 37.

    Once again, in what seems to have become almost normal over the last few weeks, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zeel) channels Zee TV and Zee Anmol continued their Hindi GEC supremacy in the weekly top 10 channels across genres list for week 38 of 2017,with improved ratings as compared to the previous week. Zeel’s flagship Hindi GEC Zee TV was at second place behind the Sun Network’s flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV. At third place was Zeel’s FTA Hindi GEC Zee Anmol. Like in the previous week, the Balaji Telefilms produced Kumkum Bhagya and its spinoff Kumkum Kundali (Kumkums’) continued to contribute to Zee TV’s ratings in the overall Hindi GEC market (U+R).It was the Grazing Goat Pictures Pvt. Ltd produced soap Jamai Raja in the Hindi GEC rural markets that have helped Zee Anmol bolster its ratings. Both the Kumkums’ have also helped Zee TV gain ratings in the Hindi GEC urban markets.

    Seven Hindi GEC channels, two Telugu GEC channels and one Tamil channel made up BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genre All India (U+R): 2+ Individuals list for week 38 of 2017. From the network’s perspective, three channels from Star India, two channels from Zeel, Sun Network and Sony Pictures Network India (SPN) each and one channel from Network 18 or Viacom 18 comprised the top 10 channels across genres list for week 38 of 2017.

    As mentioned above, Sun TV ruled the across genre list in week 38 of 2017 with 1,033.729 million weekly impressions followed by Zee TV with 717.655 million weekly impressions. Zee Anmol was at third place with 701.571 million weekly impressions followed by the Star Network’s flagship Hindi GEC Star Plus with 596.472 million weekly impressions as compared to last week’s 635.67 million weekly impressions, at fourth place.

    Star India’s newly renamed and FTA Hindi GEC channel Star Bharat was at fifth place in week 37 of 2017 with 594.202 million weekly impressions followed by Viacom 18’s flagship Hindi GEC Colors at sixth place with 592.831 weekly impressions, higher than the 571.014 million weekly impressions of week 37 of 2017. Once again led by the viewership of the Kaun Banega Crorepati, SPN’s flagship Hindi GEC Sony Entertainment Television was at seventh place with 547.79 million weekly impressions.

    Sun Network’s flagship Telugu GEC with 540.683 million weekly impressions was at eighth place as compared to the tenth place in week 37.  Star India’s flagship Telugu GEC Star Maa was at eighth place in the weekly top 10 channels across genre list with 537.934 million weekly impressions  at ninth place followed by SPN’s women focused Hindi GEC Sony Pal with 527.803 million weekly impressions completed the top 10 channels across genre list at tenth place in week 37 of 2017.

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  • Zee Anmol tops Hindi GECs across genres as Star Bharat climbs

    Zee Anmol tops Hindi GECs across genres as Star Bharat climbs

    BENGALURU: Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited or Zeel’s FTA Hindi GEC channel – Zee Anmol, at the second place in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly list for top 10 channels across genre, topped the Hindi GEC channels in that list.

    Zee Anmol garnered 821.210 million weekly impressions in week 36 of 2017 (Saturday, 2 September 2017 to Friday, 8 September 2017) in BARC’s list of top 10 Channels Across Genre: All India (U+R): 2+ Individuals. Zee Anmol had obtained 778.876 million impressions in BARC’s weekly list across genres for week 35 of 2017 (the previous week) and hence gained in viewership in week 36.

    Star India’s newly-renamed FTA GEC — Star Bharat — climbed up to third spot in the weekly list of top 10 channels across genres with 678.781 million weekly impressions. Star Bharat was relaunched on 28 August 2017 and in its very first week under the renamed avatar, (and BARC week 35 of 2017), Star Bharat attained rank eight in BARC’s top 10 channels across genre list with 531.083 million impressions.

    The pole position in BARC’s across genres top 10 channels list was yet again held by the Sun TV Network’s Tamil flagship GEC Sun TV, however with lower weekly impressions of 968.3564 million in week 36 as compared to the 1,009.285 million weekly impressions in week 35. Because of the fall in Sun TV’s weekly impressions in week 36, the gap between the top 2 channels in the across genres list –Sun TV and Zee Anmol has narrowed considerably.

    Three channels from Star India, two channels from The Sun TV Network, Zeel and Sony Pictures Network India (SPN) and one channel from Network 18 (or Viacom 18) made it to the top 10 channels across genre list in week 36 of 2017. From the market’s perspective, seven Hindi GECs’, two Telugu GECs’ and one Tamil GEC made it to the weekly top 10 channels across genre list for week 36 of 2017.

    Zeel’s flagship Hindi GEC Zee TV was placed fourth 667.948 million impressions in week 36 – the channel had been ranked fourth in week 35 with lower weekly impressions of 642.612 million. Star India’s flagship Hindi GEC Star Plus was ranked fifth in week 36 and 35 with 628.518 million weekly impressions and 626.212 million weekly impressions respectively.

    Viacom 18’s flagship Hindi GEC Colors was ranked sixth in week 36 of 2017 with 588.154 million weekly impressions, followed by the Sun Network’s flagship Telugu GEC Gemini TV with 532.878 million weekly impressions at seventh place.

    SPN’s flagship Hindi GEC Sony Entertainment Television was eighth in week 36 of 2017 with 522.701 million weekly impressions followed by the same network’s women focused Hindi GEC Sony Pal with 500.173 million weekly impressions at ninth place.

    Star India’s flagship Telugu GEC was tenth the top 10 channels across genre in week 36 of 2017 with 492.482 million weekly impressions.

  • KBC returns SET to top 10 channels across genre list

    KBC returns SET to top 10 channels across genre list

    BENGALURU: The ninth season of the Indian spin-off of the very popular Who Will Become a Millionaire under the Indian moniker Kaun Banega Crorepati or KBC commenced on Monday, 28 August 2017.

    According to sources, this season has broken registration records of all previous seasons by registering 19.8 million citizens on the show. And,the viewership of the game show’s episodes over five days until Friday, 1 September 2017 was good enough to bring Sony Pictures Network’s flagship Hindi GEC Sony Entertainment Television (SET) into the top 10 channels across genre list for week 35 of 2017.

    SET garnered ninth rank with 504.095 million weekly impressions Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) list for week 35 of 2017 (Saturday, 26 August 2017 to Friday, 1 September 2017) – Top 10 Channels Across Genre : All India (Urban+Rural or U+R) : 2+ Individuals. The channel had last appeared in the top 10 channels list across genres in week 11 of 2017 (Saturday, 11 May 2017 to Friday, 17 May 2017) at eighth place with 472.118 million weekly impressions.

    KBC was the second most watched primetime programme in the Hindi GEC (U) markets in week 35 of 2017 with 6.253 million impressions according to BARC data for the top 5 Hindi GEC programmes in the Hindi Speaking Market (HSM) Urban NCCS All : Primetime (1800 – 2330 hrs) : 2+ Individuals.

    Six Hindi GEC and two GEC channels each from the Tamil and Telugu markets made up the list of the top 10 channels across genres list in week 35 of 2017. A remarkable feature for week 35 of 2017 was the presence of four Star India channels in the top10 across genres list. Further, two channels each from the Sun TV Network and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zeel) and one channel each from Network 18 (Viacom 18) and Sony Pictures Network India (SPN) made up the top 10 channels across genre list for week 35 of 2017.

    The Sun TV Network’s flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV retained its pole position in the top 10 channels across genres list for week 35 of 2017 with 1,009.285 million weekly impressions. All five programmes in the top 5 Tamil programmes list for the TN/ Puducherry (Urban+Rural): NCCS All : Primetime (1800 – 2330 hrs) : 2+ Individuals in week 35 of 2017 were from Sun TV.

    Sun TV was followed by Zeel’s FTA Hindi GEC Zee Anmol that also retained its week 34 position of second place in week 35 with 778.876 weekly impressions. The channel’s programmes Jamai Raja and Kaala Teeka were the ranked first and second respectively in the top 5 Hindi GEC programmes in the HSM (R) : NCCS All : Prime Time (1800 – 2330 hrs) : 2+ Individuals. Further Jamai Raja on Zee Anmol was also ranked third in week 35 during primetime in the HSM GEC (U+R) markets in week 35 of 2017.

    Network 18’s flagship Hindi GEC Colors moved up one place to third rank in week 35 with 645.973 million impressions on the back of strong support from the HSM (U+R) and the HSM (U) markets during primetime for the eighth season of its reality and stunt television show Fear Factor Khatron Ke Khiladi. Zeel’s flagship Hindi GEC moved down one place to fourth place with 642.612 million impressions. Three of its shows – Kumkum Bhagya and its spinoff Kumkum Kundali and reality singing show Sa re ga ma pa Little Champs were present in the top 5 programmes list during primetime for HSM (U+R) and Kumkum Bhagya was present in the top 5 programmes list during primetime for HSM (U) for week 35 of 2017.

    Star India’s flagship Hindi GEC Star Plus was placed fifth with 626.212 million weekly impressions followed by the Sun TV Networks flagship Telugu GEC Gemini with 538.077 million impressions. Star India’s flagship Telugu GEC Star Maa was ranked seventh with 531.41 million weekly impressions followed by Star India’s FTA Hindi GEC and newly christened Star Bharat with 531.083 million weekly impressions at eighth place.

    As mentioned above SET was ranked ninth followed by Star India’s flagship Tamil GEC Star Vijay at tenth place with 486.959 million impressions.

  • Kumkum, its spinoff and Amul Sa Re Ga…help retain Zee channels at top slots across genres

    Kumkum, its spinoff and Amul Sa Re Ga…help retain Zee channels at top slots across genres

    BENGALURU: Over the past few weeks, either Zee TV or its free to air (FTA) network peer channel Zee Anmol have been topping the Hindi GEC’s in the top 10 channels Across Genre : All India (U+R) : 2+ Individuals weekly lists. Both the channels are from the Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zeel) stable. In Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) list for week 34 of 2017 (Saturday, 19 August 2017 to Friday, 25 August 2017), the pole position continued to be held by the Sun TV Network’s Tamil flagship GEC Sun TV with 1,057.511 million weekly impressions.

    Following behind with 817.317 million weekly impressions was Zee Anmol at second place among BARC’s list of top 10 channels across genres. Zee TV was placed third with 661.541 million weekly impressions.

    Zee TV was followed by Network 18’s flagship Hindi GEC Colors with 649.852 million weekly impressions at fourth place. Star India’s flagship Hindi GEC Star Plus was at fifth place with 648.518 million impressions followed by its network peer and flagship Telugu GEC Star Maa at sixth place with 568.169 million weekly impressions.

    Network 18’s FTA Hindi GEC Rishtey with 524.829 million weekly impressions was seventh with the Sun TV’s flagship Telugu GEC climbing up one place as compared to last week at eighth place with 523.591 million weekly impressions. Sony Pictures Network India (SPN) women oriented Hindi GEC Sony Pal was at ninth place with 511.107 million impressions while Zeel’s flagship Telugu GEC Zee Telugu completed the list of top 10 channels with 502.844 million impressions.

    In brief, three channels from the Zeel network, two channels each from the Sun TV Network, Star India and Network 18 stables and one channel from SPN made up the top 10 channels across genre list for week 34. All the ten channels were general entertainment channels or GECs’. From the language perspective, six Hindi GECs’, three Telugu GECs’ and one Tamil GEC made up the top 10 channels across genre list for week 34 of 2017.

    Four properties in the Hindi GEC (Urban+Rural), two properties each in the Hindi GEC (Urban) and Hindi GEC (Rural) spaces have helped Zee TV and Zee Anmol retain places in the top 10 channels lists of these markets for week 34 of 2017.

    For Hindi GEC (U+R), Zee Anmol topped the top 10 channels lists with Zee TV at third place. Four programmes – three on Zee TV – Kumkum Bhagya and its spinoff Kumkum Kundali and Sa re ga ma pa little champs and one on Zee Anmol – Jamai Raja were among the top 5 programmes list for week 34 in Hindi GEC (U+R) market.

    Though Zee TV was placed third and Zee Anmol seventh in the top Hindi GEC (U) channels lists, Amul Sa re ga ma pa little champs and Kumkum Bhagya were in the top five programs list for week 34. For the Hindi GEC (R) market, Zee Anmol was placed first and Zee TV fifth in the top 10 channels lists for week 34. Jamai Raja and Kaala Teeka on Zee Anmol were among the top five programmes in the Hindi GEC (R) lists during week 34 of 2017.

  • Views-based journalism scores, Sun TV’s Udaya News to cease ops

    Views-based journalism scores, Sun TV’s Udaya News to cease ops

    MUMBAI: Every business and television channel faces competition sooner or later. Competing companies generally bring in better products. But, Udaya News, the first 24×7 Kannada channel that ruled the roost for over 15 years, saw a decline as rival channels presented stories with strong views — a la Arnab Goswami. 

    Placed at the sixth position among the Kannada-language news channels as per the latest BARC India data, it is on the verge of closure. However, other Sun channels such as Udaya Movies, Udaya TV and Udaya Comedy will continue operations.

    Ratings of Udaya News had started declining after a series of news channels came in, in the past few years and the former failed to put up a fight. 

    Karnataka viewers in the 1990s relied entirely on Doordarshan till Udaya News lauched in 1998; it is now shutting down owing to huge losses. In a letter addressed to the Karnataka government secretary, owner of Udaya News, Sun Network stated that the channel would cease operations on 24 October, and 73 employees would lose their jobs.

    Udaya News enjoyed a wonderful viewership till the rise of TV 9 Kannada — the leader today, followed by Public TV and Suvarna News. 

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  • Sun TV gets ‘buy’ rating from ICICI & Edelweiss

    MUMBAI: Leading brokerages in India have recommended a ‘buy’ rating for Sun TV, the television channel consistently leading across genres for weeks as per BARC India ratings.

    ICICI Direct has recommended ‘buy’ rating with a target price of Rs 830 in its research report dated 14 August, and Edelweiss too has maintained a ‘buy’ rating with Rs 1,024 target price.

    Revenues came in Rs 7863 million (up 3.4 per cent YoY) versus ICICI’s estimate of Rs 7634 million supported by higher subscription revenues, which grew 15.3 per cent YoY to Rs 2705 million (better than ICICI’s estimate of eight per cent YoY growth).

    Sun TV, ICICI says, continued to disappoint on the advertisement revenue front. Ad revenues declined approximately four per cent YoY to Rs 3260 million EBITDA came in at Rs 4484 million, up 2.7 per cent YoY, better than its estimate of Rs 4206 million supported by lower IPL losses (loss of Rs 220 million versus expected loss of Rs 550 million). Though market share erosion in Sun TV is a concern owing to intense competition from Star Vijay, Edelweiss believed it is temporary as viewership is intact. However, competition from Colors is a key monitorable.

    The near-term competitive pressures, ICICI notes, have led to concerns over the expected full throttle ad recovery. However, it has highlighted that the overall levers such as low base, the upcoming festive season and monetisation of improved rating in non-Tamil markets, would provide healthy visibility of ad growth revival ahead. A faster resolution of Chennai digitisation could also provide strong subscription revenue growth. ICICI rates well Sun TV’s strategy of revamping its content strategy and focussing on superior ad yield.

    Edelweiss notes Sun TV’s main positives of approx 29.7 per cent y-o-y growth in cable subscription supported by catch-up revenue and 9.4 per cent y-o-y jump in DTH subscription and IPL losses were stable at Rs 241 million in FY17, even though it lost the series in FY18. The main negatives, Edelweiss notes, was the 4.1 per cent y-o-y dip in ads base of 3.7 per cent y-o-y decline owning to GST.

    The company guided for 15 per cent y-o-y growth in subscriptions in FY18, led by south markets, ex-Tamil Nadu. With phase-III digitisation on track, Edelweiss estimated 15 per cent / 12.0 per cent y-o-y growth in subscriptions in FY18/FY19.

    Factoring in lower ad growth in Q1FY18, Edelweiss cut FY18E ad growth to 9.0 per cent y-o-y from 11.0 per cent earlier.

    Hit by GST, Sun’s ad revenue fell 4.1 per cent y-o-y. However, Edelweiss expects it to bounce back riding on strong content in H2FY18 following improvement in Telugu and Malayalam ratings.

    Sun’s overall subscription grew 16.1 per cent y-o-y supported by catch-up revenue and upswing in digital revenues. The content cost rose 37.6 per cent y-o-y as Sun TV shifted to commissioned model from the ad slot model. It moved entirely into the commissioned model in all its markets, except Tamil Nadu, 2 out of 18 programmes are on commissioned model.

    Sun TV now expects August and September to report better ad growth as GST impact withers away.