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  • BARC week 40: Dangal most watched channel across genres

    BARC week 40: Dangal most watched channel across genres

    BENGALURU: Two channels – Enterr 10 Television’s free to air (Free or FTA) Hindi GEC Dangal and the Sun Tv Network’s flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV having been vying for the top slot in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly lists of Top 10 Channels across genres as mentioned by us earlier.
    During the Indian cricketing bonanza tourney, the IPL, it is Star India Hindi Sports channel Star Sports 1 Hindi that often held onto the numero uno status. Between week 13 and week 40 of 2019, it is Dangal that has held first rank in BARC’s weekly lists for 16 of the 28 weeks. Dangal has held on to first place for four consecutive weeks until week 40. Further, since B4U Movies exited BARC’s weekly list across genres on all platforms in week 38 of 2019, Dangal is the only FTA channel in its fold. The other 9 channels have been pay channels. Dangal retook the numero uno mantle in BARC’s Across Genres on all platforms weekly list.

    It must be noted that BARC had stopped publishing viewership data in the public domain since week 6 of 2019 to allow ratings to stabilise after the implementation of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) New Tariff Order. BARC recommenced putting up ratings in the public domain only in week 13 of 2019.

    BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 Channels Across Genres on All Platforms in week 40 of 2019

    Six Hindi GECs, two Tamil channels and one channel each from the Hindi Movies and Telugu genres comprised BARC’s Weekly list of Top 10 Channels Across Genres for week 40 of 2019 (Saturday, 28 September 2019 to Friday, 4 October 2019, week or period under review). From the networks’ perspective, there were three channels each from Star India and Sony Pictures Network India (SPN), and one channel each from Enterr 10 Television, Sun Tv Network, Viacom18 and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zeel) in BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 Channels Across Genres on All Platforms in week 40 of 2019.

    The list of channels in BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 Channels Across Genres on All Platforms in week 40 of 2019 was the same as in week 39 with some shuffling of ranks. Please refer to the figure below:

    BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 Pay Channels Across Genres in week 40 of 2019

    Except for Dangal, BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 Pay Channels Across Genres in week 40 of 2019 had the same nine channels as the above across genres on all platforms list. The tenth channel in week 40 of 2019 was different from week 39 – Zeel’s Kannada GEC Zee Kannada exited the list to be replaced by Viacom18’s Kids genre channel Nick in week 40 of 2019.

    BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 Pay Channels Across Genres in week 40 of 2019 had five Hindi GECs, two Tamil channels and one channel each from the Hindi Movies genre, Kids genre and Telugu genres. From the network’s perspective, there were three channels each from Star India and SPN, two channels from Viacom18 and one channel each from the Sun Tv Network and Zeel.

    Please refer to the figure below

    BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 Free Channels Across Genres in week 40 of 2019

    BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 Free Channels Across Genres in week 40 of 2019 had the same channels as in week 39 with some shuffling in ranks. 

    Three channels each from Hindi Movies genre and Bhojpuri genre, two channels from the Hindi GEC genre and one channel each from the Marathi and Sports genres made up BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 Free Channels Across Genres in week 40 of 2019. There were three channels each from B4U and Enterr 10 Television, two channels from Zeel and one channel each from SkyStar and Star India networks.

    Please refer to the figure below.


     

  • BARC week 38: Advantage Dangal in ding dong tussle across genres with Sun TV

    BARC week 38: Advantage Dangal in ding dong tussle across genres with Sun TV

    BENGALURU: Enterr 10 Television’s free to air (FTA) Hindi GEC Dangal was ranked first in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly list of Top 10 Channels Across Genres on All Platforms for the second time in week 38 of 2019 (Week 38: Saturday, 14 September 2019 to Friday, 20 September 2019, week or period under review). The channels in BARC’s weekly lists for both the week were same with some shuffling in ranks. As mentioned by us earlier Dangal and the Sun Tv Network’s flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV have each been vying for the numero uno position in BARC’s Across Genres on All Platforms list over the past few weeks. In week 37,Dangal retook the numero uno mantle in BARC’s Across Genres on all platforms weekly list.

    Top 10 channels Across Genres on All Plaforms

    The list of channels in BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 channels Across Genres on All Platforms in week 38 of 2019 was the same as in week 37, with a small tweak in ranks. Six Hindi GECs, two Tamil GECs and one channel each from the Hindi Movies and Telugu GEC genres comprised BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 channels Across Genres on All Platforms in week 38 of 2019. From the network’s perspective, there were three channels from Star India, two channels from Sony Pictures Network (SPN) and one channel each from B4U, Enterr 10 Television, Sun Tv Network, Viacom18 and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel) in the weekly list of Top 10 channels Across Genres on All Platformsin week 38 of 2019. Eight of the channels in the list were Pay TV, while two – One Hindi GEC and one Hindi Movies, were Free TV in the week under review.

    Please refer to the chart below:

    Top 10 channels Across Genres on the Pay Platform

    There was only one change in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels Across Genres on the Pay Platform in week 38 of 2019 as compared to week 3. The Network18/Viacom18 associated Telugu GEC ETV Telugu re-entered the list while SPN’s Hindi Movies channel Sony Max exited it during the period under review as compared to week 37 of 2019. 

    There were three channels each from Star India and SPN, two channels from Zeel and one channel each from Sun Tv Network and Viacom18 in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels Across Genres on the Pay Platform in week 37 of 2019.  Five of the channels were Hindi GEC, there were two Tamil GECsand one channel each from the Hindi Movies, Kannada and Telugu genres in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels Across Genres on the Pay Platform in week 38 of 2019. Unlike in week 37, the two most watched Pay channels in week 38 were a Tamil GEC at rank one and a Hindi GEC at rank two. In the previous week, the most watched Pay TV channels had been one Tamil GEC and one Telugu GEC ranked one and two respectively. 

    Please refer to the chart below:

    Top 10 channels Across Genres on the Free Platform

    All the channels in BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 channels on the Free Platform in week 38 of 2019 were the same as in the previous week, with a slight tweaking in ranks. There were three channels each from the Bhojpuri and Hindi Movies genres, two channels from Hindi GEC and one channel each from the Marathi and Sports genres. There were three channels each from B4U and Enterr 10 Television, two channels from Zeel and one channel each from the Skystar and Star India networks in week 38 of 2019. 

    Please refer to the chart below:


     

  • BARC week 37: Dangal retakes top spot in yo-yo struggle across genres

    BARC week 37: Dangal retakes top spot in yo-yo struggle across genres

    BENGALURU: Enterr10 Television network’s Hindi GEC was the most watched channel Across Genres on All Platforms as well on the Free Platform in week 37 of 2019 (Saturday, 7 September 2019 to Friday, 13 September 2019, week or period under review). The channel was ranked first in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly list of Top 10 channels across genres on all platforms during the period under review as compared to second rank in week 36 of 2019 (previous week). As mentioned by us earlier(https://www.indiantelevision.com/television/tv-channels/viewership/barc-week-36-dingdong-struggle-for-top-slot-between-dangal-and-sun-tv-190913) Dangal and the Sun Tv Network’s flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV have each been vying for the numero uno position in BARC’s across genres on all platforms list over the past few weeks.

    Top 10 channels Across Genres on All Platforms

    The list of channels in BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 channels Across Genres on All Platforms in week 37 of 2019 was the same as in week 36, with a small tweak in ranks – the biggest one being Dangal replacing Sun TV at first place as mentioned above. Six Hindi GECs, two Tamil GECs and one channel each from the Hindi movies and Telugu GEC genres comprised BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 channels Across Genres on All Platforms in week 37 of 2019. From the network’s perspective, there were three channels from Star India, two channels from Sony Pictures Network (SPN) and one channel each from B4U, Enterr 10 Television, Sun TV Network, Viacom18 and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel) in the weekly list of Top 10 channels across genres on all platforms in week 37 of 2019. Eight of the channels in the list were Pay TV, while two were Free TV in the week under review.

    Please refer the chart below:

    Top 10 channels Across Genres on the Pay Platform

    There was only one change in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels Across Genres on the Pay Platform in week 37 of 2019 as compared to week 36. The Network18/Viacom18 associated Telugu GEC ETV Telugu exited the list while Zeel’s Kannada GEC Zee Kannada entered it in week 37 of 2019. There were three channels each from Star India and SPN, two channels from Zeel and one channel each from Sun TV Network and Viacom18 in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels Across Genres on the Pay Platform in week 37 of 2019.  Five of the channels were Hindi GEC, there were two Tamil GECs and one channel each from the Hindi movies, Kannada and Telugu genres in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels Across Genres on the Pay Platform in week 37 of 2019. As in week 37, the two most watched Pay channels on the Pay TV platform were not Hindi GECs’ – they were Tamil and Telugu GECs’ ranked one and two respectively. 

    Please refer to the chart below:

    Top 10 channels Across Genres on the Free Platform

    All the channels in BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 channels on the Free Platform in week 37 of 2019 were the same as in the previous week, with a slight tweaking in ranks. There were three channels each from the Bhojpuri and Hindi movies genres, two channels from Hindi GEC and one channel each from the Marathi and sports genres. There were three channels each from B4U and Enterr 10 Television, two channels from Zeel and one channel each from the Skystar and Star India networks. 

    Please refer the chart below:


     

  • BARC week 36: Dingdong struggle for top slot between Dangal and Sun TV

    BARC week 36: Dingdong struggle for top slot between Dangal and Sun TV

    BENGALURU: Enterr 10 Television’s free to air (FTA) Hindi GEC Dangal and the Sun Tv Network’s flagship pay TV Tamil GEC Sun TV have been interchanging ranks one and two in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly list of Top 10 Channels Across Genres on All Platforms over the past few weeks.

    Sun TV led the list in week 36 of 2019 (week or period under review). The list of Top 10 Channels Across Genres on All Platforms in week 36 of 2019 had the same channels with some tweaks in the ranks as compared to week 35. As in the previous week, there were six Hindi GECs, two Tamil GECs and one channel each from the Hindi movies and Telugu genres in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres on all platforms in week 36 of 2019.

    From the network perspective, there were three channels from the Star India Network, two channels from Sony Pictures Network India (SPN), one channel each from B4U Network, Enterr 10 Television, the Sun TV Network, Viacom18 and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd in BARC’s across genres weekly list on all platforms for week 36 of 2019. There were eight pay TV channels and two FTA channels in the list during the week under review.

    Please refer to the figure below:

    Sun TV also headed BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 Pay Channels Across Genres in week 36 of 2019. Nine of the channels in the list in week 36 of 2019 were the same as in week 36. Zeel’s flagship Telugu GEC Zee Telugu exited the list as SPN’s Hindi movies channel Sony Max re-entered it during the week under review. 

    BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 Pay Channels Across Genres in week 36 of 2019 had five Hindi GECs, two each of Telugu and Tamil GECs and one Hindi movie channel. There were four channels from Star India, three from SPN, two from Viacom18 and one channel from Zeel. It is interesting to note that the top 2 pay channels in week 36 of 2019 were not Hindi GECs – they were Tamil and Telugu GECs.

    Please refer to the figure below:

    BARC’s weekly list of Top 10 Free Channels Across Genres in week 36 of 2019 saw the exit of Zeel’s Music channel Zing and the entry of Star India’s Sports channel Star Sports First. There were three channels each from the Bhojpuri and Hindi movies genres, two channels from Hindi GEC and one channel each from the Marathi and sports genres.  
    There were three channels each from B4U and Enterr 10 Television two channels from Zeel and one channel each from the Skystar and Star India networks. 

    Please refer to the figure below:


     

  • BARC week 35: Not much change in across genres lists

    BARC week 35: Not much change in across genres lists

    BENGALURU: There was no attrition in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India’s (BARC) list of top 10 channels across genres on all platforms in week 35 of 2019 as compared to the previous week. The ranking was also almost identical in week 35 of 2019 as compared to week 34, except that Sony Pictures Network India’s (SPN) flagship Hindi GEC Sony Entertainment Television (SET) interchanged ranks with Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd’s (Zeel) flagship Hindi GEC Zee TV. In BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres on all platforms for week 35 of 2019 (Saturday, 24 August 2019 to Friday, 30 August 2019), there were six Hindi GECs, two channels from the Tamil genre and one channel each from Hindi movies and Telugu genres. From the network’s perspective there were three channels from Star India, two channels from SPN and one channel each from B4U, Enterr 10 Television, the Sun TV Network, Viacom18 and Zeel. Eight of the channels were from the pay platform and there were two channels from the free-to-air of FTA channels. Please refer to the list below.

    In the case of top 10 pay channels across genres, SPN’s Hindi movie channel Sony Max exited the list in week 35 of 2019 while Zeel’s flagship Telugu GEC Zee Telugu entered the list. The list comprised of five Hindi GECs, two channels each from the Tamil and the Telugu genres and one Hindi movies channel. Three of the channels were from Star India, two channels each were from SPN, Viacom18 and Zeel and one channel from the Sun TV Network. Please refer to the list below

    BARC’s list of top 10 free to air channels across genres also saw just one change – Enter 10 Television’s Hindi movie channel Enterr 10 exited the list and was replaced by Zeel’s music channel Zing. There were three channels each from the Bhojpuri and Hindi movies genres, two channels from Hindi GEC and one channel each from the Marathi and music genres.  
    There were three channels each from B4U, Enterr 10 Television and Zeel and one channel from Skystar. Please refer to the charts below:


     

  • BARC week 34: Dangal retakes top slot; 2 more Hindi GECs return in across genres

    BARC week 34: Dangal retakes top slot; 2 more Hindi GECs return in across genres

    BENGALURU: Enterr 10 Television’s Hindi GEC Dangal returned to first place in  Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly list of top 10 channels across genres on all platforms (across genres list) in week 34 of 2019 (Saturday, 17 August 2019 to Friday, 23 August 2019, week or period under review). Two Hindi GECs – Sony Pictures Network India (SPN) flagship channel Sony Entertainment Television or SET and the Viacom18 flagship channel Colors returned to BARC’s across genres list on all platforms at the cost of two Hindi movies channels in week 34 of 2019.

    Six Hindi GECs, two Tamil channels and one channel each from the Hindi movies and Telugu genres made up BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres on all platforms in week 34 of 2019. From the Network’s perspective, there were three channels from Star India, two channels from SPN and one channel each from B4U, Enterr10, the Sun TV Network, Viacom18 and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel). Eight of the channels in the list were on the pay platform and two were free to air or FTA.

    In BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres on the pay platform, there were five Hindi GECs, three Telugu channels and one channel each from the Hindi movies and Tamil genres. There were three channels each from SPN and Star India, two channels from Viacom18 and one channel each from the Sun TV Network and Zeel in BARC’s across genres list on the pay platform. Besides the eight pay channels that were present in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres on all platforms, the two more channels present in the across genres weekly list on the pay platform were SPN’s Hindi movies channel Sony Max and the Network18 associated Telugu GEC ETV Telugu. The Sun TV Network’s flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV headed the across genres on the pay platform weekly list.

    In BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres on the free platform for week 34 of 2019, there were three channels each from the Bhojpuri, Hindi GEC and Hindi movies genres, and one channel from the Marathi genre. Four of the channels were from Enterr 10 Television, three were from B4U, two were from Zeel and one channel was from Skystar during the period under review. Quite obviously, Dangal headed this list also.

    As mentioned above, Dangal headed BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres on all platforms in week 34 of 2019 with 860.070 million weekly impressions as compared to second rank and 827.063 million weekly impressions in week 33.

    Sun TV slipped a place to second rank in week 34 of 2019 with 850.711 million weekly impressions in week 34 of 2019 as compared to first rank and 902.564 million weekly impressions in the previous week.

    Star India’s flagship Hindi GEC Star Plus climbed up a place to third place with 837.519 million weekly impressions as compared to fourth place and 751.106 million weekly impressions in week 33.

    Star India’s flagship Telugu GEC Star Maa dropped a place to fourth rank with 784.095 million weekly impressions as compared to third rank and 761.055 million weekly impressions in week 33.

    Zee TV jumped two places to fifth rank with 673.096 million weekly impressions in week 34 of 2019 as compared to seventh rank and 614.306 million weekly impressions in week 33.

    SET re-entered the list at sixth rank with 661.005 million weekly impressions in week 34 of 2019.

    Another SPN pay Hindi GEC Sony SAB climbed down one place to seventh rank in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres on all platforms in week 34 of 2019 with 641.869 million weekly impressions as compared to sixth rank and 632.959 million weekly impressions.

    B4U’s Hindi movies channel B4U Kadak dropped three places to eighth rank in week 34 of 2019 with 617.522 million weekly impressions as compared to fifth rank and 683.075 million weekly impressions in week 33.

    Viacom18’s flagship Hindi GEC Colors reentered BARCs’ weekly list of top 10 channels across genres on all platforms in week 34 of 2019 with 569.158 million weekly impressions at ninth rank.

    Star India’s flagship Tamil GEC dropped a place to tenth rank in week 34 of 2019 with 522.916 million weekly impressions as compared to ninth rank and 529.953 million weekly impressions in week 33.

  • BARC week 33: 2 Hindi movie channels push out 2 Hindi GECs from across genres list

    BARC week 33: 2 Hindi movie channels push out 2 Hindi GECs from across genres list

    BENGALURU: Hindi movies such as Vidroh Lets Fight Back, Policewala Gunda 2, Dangerous Khiladi 3, and Dil Hi To Hai (Jackie Shroff) helped push up free-to-air (FTA) Hindi movie channel B4U Kadak to fifth rank in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly list of top 10 channels across genres on all platforms in week 33 of 2019 from sixth place in the previous week. The four movies were among the top 5 Hindi movies programmes in the combined urban and rural Hindi speaking markets – HSM (U+R) as well as in rural HSM – HSM (R) per BARC’s weekly lists of top 5 Hindi movies programmes in HSM (U+R) and HSM (R).  Week 33 of 2019 (Saturday, 10 August 2019 to Friday, 16 August 2019) is the week or period under review.

    Two other Hindi movies channels, Zee Cinema and Sony Max, both pay TV, thrust their way into the same list at eighth and tenth ranks respectively during the same week. Movies beamed on both these two pay Hindi movies channels had higher viewership in urban HSM or HSM (U) based on their presence in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi movies programmes in HSM (U) only. Two major Hindi GECs – Colors and Sony Entertainment Television which exited the BARC across genres list on all platforms, however had the solace of retaining their presence in BARC’s weekly list of to 10 pay channels across genres with improvement in their respective ranks in week 33 of 2019 vis-à-vis week 32. BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres on all platforms had three Hindi movies channels in the week as compared to only one in the previous week.

    Four Hindi GECs, three Hindi movies, two Tamil and one Telugu channel comprised BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres on all platforms. From the network’s perspective, there were three channels from Star India, two channels each from Sony Pictures Network India (SPN) and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd and one channel each from B4U, Enterr 10 Television and the Sun TV Network. Hence there were more regional languages – especially Telugu and Tamil, and Hindi movies combined than there were Hindi GECs in BARC's weekly lists of top 10 channels across genres on all platforms during the period under review.

    In the case of BARC’s weekly list of top 10 pay channels across genres, like in week 32 of 2019, there were five Hindi GECs, two each of Hindi movies and Tamil channels and one Telugu channel in week 33. The channels were the same in week 33 as in week 32 with some shuffling in ranks. From the network’s perspective, there were three channels each from SPN and Star India, two channels from Zeel and one channel each from the Sun TV Network and Viacom18. In BARC’s weekly list of top 10 pay channels across genre in week 33 of 2019 were occupied by a Tamil (Sun TV) and Telugu (Star Maa) like in week 32. A Hindi GEC in the form of Star India’s flagship Hindi GEC Star Plus was at third rank in this BARC list in week 33. As mentioned above, the eight pay channels in BARC's weekly list of top 10 channels across genres on all platforms were also present in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 pay channels across genres, along with Zee Cinema and Sony Max in week 33 of 2019.

    This article’s focus hereon will be on ‘all platforms’ – BARC publishes three across genres weekly lists – on all platforms, on pay platforms and on free platforms. There were eight pay channels and two FTA channels in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres on all platforms in week 33 of 2019, same as in week 32.

    Sun TV Network's flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV reclaimed first rank in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres on all platforms in week 33 of 2019 with 902.564 million weekly impressions as compared to second rank and 870.981 million weekly impressions in week 32.

    At second rank in week 33 of 2019 was Enterr 10 Television’s FTA Hindi GEC Dangal with 827.063 million weekly impressions as compared to first rank and 872.724 million weekly impressions the previous week.

    Star India’s Telugu GEC Star Maa retained its third rank in week 33 of 2019 with 761.055 million weekly impressions as compared to 767.337 million wekly impressions in week 32.

    Star India’s flagship pay Hindi GEC Star Plus also retained its fourth place in week 33 of 2019 with 751.106 million weekly impressions as compared to 719.127 million weekly impressions in week 32.

    As mentioned above, B4U’s FTA Hindi Movies channel B4U Kadak climbed to fifth rank in week 33 of 2019 with 683.075 million weekly impressions as compared to sixth rank and 651.413 million weekly impressions.  

    SPN’s pay Hindi GEC Sony Sab climbed up a place to sixth rank in week 33 of 2019 with 632.959 million weekly impressions as compared to seventh rank and 621.116 million weekly impressions in week 32.

    Zeel’s flagship Hindi GEC Zee TV dropped two place in week 33 of 2019 to seventh rank with 614.306 million weekly impressions as compared to 678.991 million weekly impressions.

    Zeel’s pay Hindi movies channel Zee Cinema found a place in BARC’s weekly lists of top 10 channels across genres on all platforms with 602.894 million weekly impressions in week 33 of 2019.

    Star India’s flagship Tamil GEC Star Vijay climbed a place to ninth rank with 529.953 million weekly impressions in week 33 of 2019 as compared to tenth rank and 522.129 million weekly impressions in week 32.

    SPN’s Hindi movies channel Sony Max also entered BARC’s weekly list top 10 channels across genres on all platforms at tenth rank with 523.074 million weekly impressions.

  • BARC wk 28: Regional channels continue to hold forte

    BARC wk 28: Regional channels continue to hold forte

    MUMBAI: Sun TV continued to be in the leading position in Tamil (urban + rural) HSM with 779347 weekly impressions (000). The channel was followed by Star Vijay, Zee Tamil, KTV and Star Sports 1 Tamil at second, third, fourth and fifth positions respectively. 

    Rank

    Channel Name

    Weekly Impressions (000s) sum

     

     

    Week 28

    1

    Sun TV

    779347

    2

    STAR Vijay

    519030

    3

    Zee Tamil

    370192

    4

    KTV

    266773

    5

    STAR Sports 1 Tamil

    120412

    Tamil Nadu/ Puducherry (U+R) : NCCS All : 2+ Individuals,

     

    In the Telugu space Star Maa, ETV Telugu, Zee Telugu, Gemini TV and Gemini Movies were at first, second, third, fourth and fifth positions respectively. 

     

    Rank

    Channel Name

    Weekly Impressions (000s) sum

     

     

    Week 28

    1

    STAR Maa

    648920

    2

    ETV Telugu

    435883

    3

    Zee Telugu

    398764

    4

    Gemini TV

    361879

    5

    Gemini Movies

    187486

    AP/ Telangana (U+R) : NCCS All : 2+ Individuals,

    In the Bengali space, Zee Bangla was in the leading position. The channel was followed by Star Jalsha, Jalsha Movies, Zee Bangla Cinema and Sony Aath. 

    Rank

    Channel Name

    Weekly Impressions (000s) sum

     

     

    Week 28

    1

    Zee Bangla

    301191

    2

    STAR Jalsha

    259397

    3

    Jalsha Movies

    81904

    4

    Zee Bangla Cinema

    58770

    5

    Sony Aath

    58219

    WB (U+R): NCCS All : 2+ Individuals,

    Bhojpuri Cinema, Big Ganga, B4U Bhojpuri, Dabangg and Bhojpuri Dhamaka DISHUM were the top 5 channels in the Bhojpuri space.

    Rank

    Channel Name

    Weekly Impressions (000s) sum

     

     

    Week 28

    1

    Bhojpuri Cinema

    54249

    2

    Big Ganga

    48194

    3

    B4U Bhojpuri

    47088

    4

    Dabangg

    15522

    5

    Bhojpuri Dhamaka DISHUM

    13893

    Bihar/Jharkhand (U+R) : NCCS All : 2+ Individuals

    Zee Marathi, Fakt Marathi, Colors Marathi, Zee Talkies and Star Pravah were the top 5 channels in the Marathi genre.

    Rank

    Channel Name

    Weekly Impressions (000s) sum

     

     

    Week 28

    1

    Zee Marathi

    379312

    2

    Fakt Marathi

    244501

    3

    Colors Marathi

    175923

    4

    Zee Talkies

    153550

    5

    STAR Pravah

    97017

    Mah/ Goa (U+R) : NCCS All : 2+ Individuals,

    In the Malayalam space, Asianet continued to hold its leading position. Flowers TV, Mazhavil Manorama, Asianet Plus and Surya TV were at second, third, fourth and fifth positions respectively.

    Rank

    Channel Name

    Weekly Impressions (000s) sum

     

     

    Week 28

    1

    Asianet

    273655

    2

    Flowers TV

    115038

    3

    Mazhavil Manorama

    92616

    4

    Asianet Plus

    57324

    5

    Surya TV

    54740

    Kerala (U+R) : NCCS All : 2+ Individuals,

    Zee Kannada, Colors Kannada, Udaya TV, Star Survarna and Udaya Movies were the top 5 channels in the Kannada space in week 28 of BARC India Ratings

    Rank

    Channel Name

    Weekly Impressions (000s) sum

     

     

    Week 28

    1

    Zee Kannada

    397827

    2

    Colors Kannada

    290193

    3

    Udaya TV

    215579

    4

    Star Suvarna

    153160

    5

    Udaya Movies

    149786

    Karnataka (U+R) : NCCS All : 2+ Individuals,

    PTC Punjabi, Pitaara TV, DD Punjabi, T TV and Manoranjan Movies were the top 5 channels in the Punjabi space

    Rank

    Channel Name

    Weekly Impressions (000s) sum

     

     

    Week 28

    1

    PTC Punjabi

    53114

    2

    Pitaara TV

    25435

    3

    DD Punjabi

    18843

    4

    T TV

    17388

    5

    Manoranjan Movies

    17144

    Pun / Cha (U+R): NCCS All: 2+ Individuals,

    In Oriya space, Tarang, Zee Sarthak, Alankar, Prarthana, and Tarang Music were the top 5 channels

    Rank

    Channel Name

    Weekly Impressions (000s) sum

     

     

    Week 28

    1

    Tarang

    160987

    2

    Zee Sarthak

    133773

    3

    Alankar

    49124

    4

    Prarthana

    27619

    5

    Tarang Music

    26697

    Odisha (U+R) : NCCS All : 2+ Individuals,

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Sun TV appoints Suriyanarayanan Ramsai as national sales head–Malayalam cluster channels

    Sun TV appoints Suriyanarayanan Ramsai as national sales head–Malayalam cluster channels

    MUMBAI: Sun TV Network has appointed Suriyanarayanan Ramsai as national sales head for Malayalam cluster channels.

    Prior to this, he was with Wavemaker as general manager for almost two years. He started his career in 1999 as regional manager-North at Dinamalar.

    After his eight years of stint with the company, he joined Lintas Media Group as associate vice president. Ramsai has experience in marketing and advertising and he is specialised in the areas of media planning, marketing management, negotiation, advertising, integrated marketing and strategic planning. 

  • Zee channels top Kannada, Bangla markets in BARC week 13

    Zee channels top Kannada, Bangla markets in BARC week 13

    MUMBAI: In the Bengali market, Zee Bangla emerged as the leader in BARC data week 13. Big Ganga garnered the second spot in the Bhojpuri market. In the Kannada segment, Zee Kannada dominated the market. Kochu TV secured fifth position in the Malayalam space. Colors Marathi bagged third position in the Marathi market. Sun TV and Star Maa emerged as the dominant players in the Tamil and Telugu space respectively.

    Bangla

    Zee Bangla, Star Jalsha and Jalsha Movies stood at first, second and third positions respectively. Aakash Aath and Zee Bangla Cinema secured fourth and fifth positions respectively.

    Bhojpuri

    Bhojpuri Cinema, Big Ganga and Dabangg stood at first, second and third positions respectively. Bhojpuri Dhamaka Dishum and Oscar Movies Bhojpuri secured fourth and fifth positions respectively.

    Kannada

    Zee Kannada stood at first position, followed by Colors Kannada, Udaya TV, Star Suvarna and Udaya Movies securing second, third, fourth and fifth positions respectively.

    Malayalam

    Asianet, Flowers TV, Mazhavil Manorama, Surya TV and Kochu TV stood at first, second, third, fourth and fifth positions respectively.

    Marathi

    Fakt Marathi, Zee Marathi and Colors Marathi stood at first, second and third positions respectively. On the fourth and fifth slots, Zee Talkies and Star Pravah secured positions.

    Tamil

    Sun TV, Zee Tamil, Star Vijay, KTV and Star Sports 1 Tamil garnered first, second, third, fourth and fifth positions respectively.

    Telugu

    Star Maa, Zee Telugu, ETV Telugu, Gemini TV and Star Maa Movies stood at first, second, third, fourth and fifth positions respectively.