MUMBAI: TAM Media Research, the only television audience measurement service in India, will conduct a survey in November in the four metros to get an estimate...
MUMBAI: India will have no television ratings for nine weeks till 8 December as it moves towards digitisation in the four metros of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata...
NEW DELHI: Brushing aside allegations of corruption in its television audience measurement system, TAM Media Research CEO L V Krishnan on Friday said the parameters of...
Mumbai: Advertisers may have to enter into transitory arrangements with broadcasters if some homes are left without digital cable connections in the four metros after 1...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati, which had been asked by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry to consider action against TAM, is expected to file a petition before...
MUMBAI: It had been pacing on the sidelines for the past seven weeks, waiting to reoccupy the second slot in the Hindi GEC sweepstakes. And week...
MUMBAI: Global communications conglomerate WPP Plc and its group companies have filed an application for dismissal of New Delhi Television Ltd‘s (NDTV) lawsuit against them in...
MUMBAI: Why New York? This is the question those keenly following the NDTV’s lawsuit against TAM Media Research would want answered. For the past several years,...
MUMBAI: News broadcaster New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV) on Thursday hit back hard at global communications agency WPP, which indirectly owns 50 per cent of TAM...
MUMBAI: WPP, the world’s largest communications services group, has threatened to file defamation proceedings against New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV) for offensive allegations made by the...
MUMBAI: Television broadcasters need to have patience as all the stakeholders are taking steps to move to a system of audience measurement acceptable to all, said...
MUMBAI: TAM, the television ratings provider, has assured the Indian Society of Advertisers (ISA) and the Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) that it will work...
Mumbai: Some television channels pay bribes to have their viewership ratings falsely boosted. Those who help the television channels in subverting the ratings system are the...
MUMBAI: In a week when the other GECs lost or maintained GRPs, Sab from the Sony Entertainment stable was the only channel to notch an increase...
MUMBAI: With NDTV‘s lawsuit against television ratings provider TAM Media raising concerns among the industry affiliates, the Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) and the Indian...
NEW DELHI: TAM Media, the sole television ratings agency in India, is now under attack from the pubcaster. The Prasar Bharati board Monday formally gave approval...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati, which has the largest reach terrestrially through local cable operators and around 20 per cent of the market through various DTH platforms,...
MUMBAI: Television news broadcaster NDTV has filed a lawsuit in New York seeking injunction against publication of television ratings by TAM Media Research and also compensation...
MUMBAI: The viewership for the fifth edition of Indian Premier League has gone a notch up due to two qualifiers and the lone eliminator match that...
MUMBAI: Ahmedabad, Chennai and Hyderabad have emerged as the growth markets for the radio industry, according to the second round of ‘9 Indian Cities Listenership Sweeps‘...
MUMBAI: With the government pressing for a new set of guidelines to check misleading ads, Asci, India’s advertising industry watchdog, has swung into action. The Advertising...
MUMBAI: Colors is one step behind Sony Entertainment Television, the closest it has got to this year as it strives to occupy the No. 2 spot...
MUMBAI: The Hindi GEC (general entertainment channel) genre has seen a 6.5 per cent fall over the prior year due to audience fragmentation particularly in the...
MUMBAI: The top two Hindi general entertainment channels (GEC) – Star Plus and Sony entertainment channel (Set), which saw a dip in the GRPs (gross rating...
MUMBAI: A combination of several factors, including lack of big names, has resulted in a weak ratings performance for the current India versus West Indies cricket...
MUMBAI: The ratings for the Indian Premier League (IPL) 4 continue to drop, indicating the impact the World Cup could have had on the cricketing property...
From time immemorial movies have served as an extra value pack to general entertainment channels. While fiction remained the staple diet for the lot, movies dished...
So, as one captain of the industry says, if the advertisers stay with the credible, then some channels will die out and TAM would have to...
Why has phenomenon of unrestrained inputs developed is one question that if answered well, will rid us of taking moralistic positions. In this the points made...
The floodgates opened in 2007. The year gone by was a time when years of hard work and patience finally paid off for the radio industry...
It’s that time of year, for the annual tea leaf-reading ritual, as the media pundits herald a new round of trends. Looking back, 2007 was an...
MUMBAI: Of the three metros, Mumbai leads in Cas (conditional access system) adoption with a 25 per cent penetration in set-top boxes (STBs), according to a...
MUMBAI: Building on the momentum provided in 2006, the kids genre is expected to scoot at an even faster clip this year. Backed with experience in...
MUMBAI: If the last six months’ TAM ratings in the English news space could tell a story this is what they would reveal: What started as...
MUMBAI: Ratings measurement service Tam is in expansion mode. Earlier this month it came out with an Elite Panel for Mumbai and Delhi. The aim is...
MUMBAI: It has taken quite a while but media research agency Tam has finally got its Elite Panel up and running. This latest value addition for...
Spatial Access Solutions managing partner Meenakshi Madhvani, while reviewing the predictions she made last year as to what the critical drivers in the television and media...
MUMBAI: The leap theory has delivered yet again for India’s lead Hindi entertainment channel Star Plus. The channel’s second biggest show Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii’s generation...
MUMBAI: Two years after launching its television ratings service in the country, Audience Measurement and Analytics (AMA) has announced that aMap, which provides data on overnight...
Television Eighteen has been on the acquisition mode for a while now to create more revenue opportunities for its shareholders. After creating a new division for...
BENGALURU: What good would a FICCI MEBC event be in Bengaluru without a discussion on the current status of regional TV, ratings, content and formats? The...
New Delhi, September 4, 2006: CNN-IBN, has reinforced and consolidated on its No. 1 position in the English news genre. The latest TAM report indicates that...
Discovery Lifestyle Networks VP Aditya Tripathi began his professional career with Living Media India Ltd., and has worked in senior positions with some of the biggest...
Mumbai, August 16th: TIMES NOW, the 24 hours English news television channel with more news and more shows has established, when it comes to big stories,...
The lack of adequate measurement of SEC A! That is seen among media buyers as a big stumbling block for ad revenue growth in the niche...
If news channels are largely described as niche, then Awaaz is a niche within the niche. Positioned as a consumer Hindi news channel, it breaks the...
It was in early October 2005 that we last had a close look at the Hindi entertainment space. What did we see then? The top programmes...
When Zee Telefilms director Punit Goenka was appointed Zee TV business head in September this year, the industry by and large considered it a conscious decision...
As a career bureaucrat, KS Sarma is neither a stranger to the Indian political system nor the opportunities that it throws up if one wants to...
MUMBAI: 28 October, the last day of the three-day Casbaa conference in Hong Kong, saw Tam India presenting a paper on gauging the success of product...