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  • 7 Star India, Sony Pictures channels amongst top 10 across genres

    7 Star India, Sony Pictures channels amongst top 10 across genres

    BENGALURU: Four channels from Star India and three channels from Sony Pictures Network India (SPN) were among Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly list of top 10 channels across genres for week 33 of 2018 (Saturday, 11 August 2018 to Friday, 17 August 2018). The three other channels in the list were from two networks – two channels from Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zeel) and one channel from the Sun TV Network Limited.

    BARC’s across genres list for week 33 comprised of six Hindi GEC channels, two Hindi Movies channels and one channel each from the Tamil and the Telugu GEC genres.

    As is the norm, Sun TV led the across the genres list at first place in week 33 with ,1027.548 million weekly impressions as compared to 1,133.028 million weekly impressions in week 32 of 2018. Sun TV also led BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Tamil channels in the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry market and four of the 5 programmes in BARC’s list of top 5 Tamil programmes during primetime in these markets based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week under review were aired on Sun TV.

    Retaining its previous week’s second rank was Zeel’s free to air or FTA Hindi GEC Zee Anmol in week 33 of 2018 with 762.485 million weekly impressions as compared to 749.977 million weekly impressions in week 32. Zee Anmol was also ranked first in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs in the combined urban and rural Hindi speaking market – HSM (U+R) and HSM (R). The Balaji Telefilms produced soap Kumkum Bhagya aired on Zee Anmol was ranked  fifth in BARC’s list of top 5 Hindi GEC programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week in HSM (U+R) and was ranked first in HSM (R). Another soap from the channel, Mahek, was ranked fourth in HSM (R).

    SPN’s Hindi Movies channel Sony Max returned to BARC’s across genres list in week 33 of 2018 with 718.388 million weekly impressions.  Sony Max was also ranked first in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi Movies channels in the HSM (U+R) and HSM (U) and was ranked fifth in HSM (R).  S S Rajamouli’s sequel Bahubali -2 or Bahubali the Conclusion was ranked first in BARC’s list of the top 5 Hindi Movies programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week in HSM (U+R) and HSM (U).  Three other Hindi feature films – Sooryavansham, Tiger Zinda Hai and Paisa Vasool were also among BARC’s list of top 5 Hindi Movies programmes during primetime list in HSM (U).

    Star India’s FTA Hindi GEC Star Utsav also retained its fourth rank in week 33 of 2018 with 717.238 million weekly impressions as compared and 675.211 million weekly impressions in week 32. Star Utsav was ranked second in BARC’s list of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in HSM (U+R), second in HSM (R) and was ranked seventh in HSM (U). The soap Rabba Ve aired on Star Utsav was ranked third in BARC’s weekly in BARC’s list of top 5 Hindi GEC programmes during primetime  based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week in HSM (R).

    Dropping down two ranks from the previous week to fifth place in week 33 of 2018 was Star India’s flagship Hindi GEC Star Plus with 698.754 million impressions as compared to 726.112 million weekly impressions in the previous week. Star Plus was ranked third in BARC’s weekly lists of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in HSM (U+R) and was ranked first in HSM (U). Director’s Kut Productions produced Hindi soap Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai aired on Star Plus was ranked fourth in BARC’s list of top 5 Hindi GEC programmes during primetime  based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week in HSM (U+R) and was ranked second in HSM (U).

    Star India’s flagship Telugu GEC Star Maa was ranked sixth in BARC’s across genres list for week 33 of 2018 with 683.334 million weekly impressions as compared to fifth rank and 659.642 million weekly impressions in week 32. Star Maa was ranked first in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Telugu channels in the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana market. All the five top programmes that were aired on Star Maa were present in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Telugu programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week.

    At seventh rank was SPN’s Hindi Movies channel Sony Wah with 681.055 million weekly impressions in week 33 of 2018 as compared to 628.865 million weekly impressions in week 31. Sony Wah was ranked second in BARC’s list of top 5 Hindi Movies channels in HSM (U+R), first in HSM (R) and fifth in HSM (U). Hindi feature films (HFF) that featured on Sony Wah – Sultan and Shivaji the Boss were among the top 5 most watched Hindi Movies programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) for the week in BARC’s list in HSM (U+R) and HSM (R). A third HFF- Koi Mil Gaya on Sony Wah was also on BARC’s list of top 5 Hindi Movies programmes during primetime in HSM (R).

    At eighth rank was SPN’s FTA women focused Hindi GEC Sony Pal rank in week 33 of 2018 with 621.147 million weekly impressions as compared to tenth rank and 618.547 million weekly impressions in week 32. Sony Pal was ranked fourth in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi channels in HSM (U+R), was ranked third in HSM (R) and was ranked eighth in HSM (U). The sitcom Tarak Mehta ka Ooltah Chashmah aired on Sony Pal was ranked second in BARC’s list of top 5 Hindi GEC programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week in HSM (R).

    At ninth rank was Star India’s Hindi GEC Star Bharat in week 33 of 2018 with 619.664 million weekly impressions compared to seventh rank and 619.402 million weekly impressions in week 32. Star Bharat was ranked fifth in BARC’s list of top 10 Hindi channels in HSM (U+R), sixth in HSM (R) and HSM (U) in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GEC channels during the week under review.

    At tenth rank was Zeel’s flagship Hindi GEC Zee TV with 619.458 million weekly impressions in week 33 of 2018 as compared to sixth rank and 657.079 million weekly impressions in week 32. Zee TV was ranked sixth in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in HSM (U+R), third in HSM (U) and seventh in HSM (R) during the week. One programme that was aired on Zee TV- Kumkum Bhagya, was ranked second in HSM (U+R)  and was ranked fifth in HSM (U) in BARC’s list of top 5 Hindi GEC programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week. Kumkum Bhagya on Zee TV was also ranked fourth in HSM (U) in BARC’s lists of top 5 Hindi GEC programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week.

  • Sony Max continues dominance over Hindi channels in across genres

    Sony Max continues dominance over Hindi channels in across genres

    BENGALURU: Sony Pictures Network India (SPN) Hindi Movies channel Sony Max was ranked second in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly list of top 10 channels across genres in week 29 of 2018 (Saturday, 14 July 2018 to Friday, 20 July 2018, week udder review). Like during week 28, when it pipped Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited free to air (FTA) Hindi GEC Zee Anmol to second spot, Sony Max was the most watched Hindi channel during the week under review. The channel was also the most watched channel in BARC’s list of top 5 Hindi Movies channels in the combined urban and rural Hindi speaking market – HSM (U+R), as well is in HSM (U). In HSM (R) Sony Max was ranked fifth in the Hindi Movies genre.

    As is normal, the Sun TV Network’s flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV was ranked first in BARC’s weekly across genres lists in week 29 of 2018. The channel continued for to draw billion plus weekly impressions for the second week in a row.

    Six Hindi GEC, two Hindi Movies and one channel each form the Tamil GEC and Telugu GEC genres made up BARC’s list of top 10 channels across genres during week 29 of 2018. From the networks perspective, three channels each from SPN and Star India, two channels from Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zeel) and one channel each from the Sun TV Network Limited and Viacom 18 made up BARC’s across genres list for week 29 of 2018.

    Sun TV led the across the genres list in week 29 with 1,071.451 million weekly impressions as compared to 1051.589 million weekly impressions in week 28 of 2018. Sun TV also led BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Tamil channels in the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry market and all the 5 programmes in BARC’s list of top 5 Tamil programmes during primetime in these markets based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week under review were aired on Sun TV.

    At second rank was Sony Max with 746.904 million weekly impressions in week 29 as compared to 669.742 million weekly impressions in week 28 of 2018. Two Hindi feature films (HFF) that featured on Sony Max – Kanchana 3 and Sarrainodu were among the top 5 most watched Hindi Movies programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week in HSM (U+R) and HSM (U). Another HFF-Bhairava was also among the top 5 Hindi Movies programmes during primetime in HSM (U).

    Retaining third place in week 29 was Zeel’s FTA Hindi GEC Zee Anmol with 717.589 million weekly impressions as compared to 653.296 million weekly impressions in week 28 of 2018. Zee Anmol was also ranked first in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in the combined urban and rural Hindi speaking markets or HSM (U+R) as also in HSM (R). The Balaji Telefilms produced soap Kumkum Bhagya aired on Zee Anmol was ranked  fourth in BARC’s list of top 5 Hindi GEC programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week in HSM (U+R) and was ranked first in HSM (R). Another soap from the channel, Mahek, was ranked third in HSM (R).

    Climbing up a rank to fourth place in week 29 of 2018 was Star India’s flagship Telugu GEC Star Maa with 673.849 million weekly impressions as compared to 572.455 million weekly impressions in week 28 of 2018. Star Maa was ranked first in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Telugu channels in the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana market. Three programmes that were aired on Star Maa were present in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Telugu programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week.

    Moving down one rank to fifth place was Zeel’s flagship Hindi GEC Zee TV with 649.355 million weekly impressions in week 29 of 2018 as compared to 614.840 weekly impressions in week 28. Zee TV was ranked second in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in HSM (U+R), third in HSM (U) and seventh in HSM (R) during the week. Two programmes that were aired on Zee TV- Kundali Bhagya, a spinoff of Kumkum Bhagya, was ranked second, Kumkum Bhagya was ranked third in HSM (U+R) in BARC’s list of top 5 programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week. Kundali Bhagya was also ranked fifth in HSM (R) in BARC’s lists of top 5 Hindi GEC programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week. In the HSM (U) market, Kundali Bhagya, Kumkum Bhagya and another soap Ishq Subhan Allah on Zee TV were ranked second, third and fifth respectively during the week under consideration

    Also retaining its previous week’s sixth place with 636.700 million weekly impressions in week 29 of 2018 as compared to 561.361 million weekly impressions in week 28 was Viacom18’s flagship Hindi GEC Colors. Colors was ranked third in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in HSM (U+R) and was ranked first in HSM (U). Naagin 3  found the top place in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi GEC programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week in HSM (U+R) and HSM (U), while Naagin 3 was ranked fourth in HSM (R).

    Star India’s FTA Hindi GEC Star Bharat also climbed up a rank to seventh place with 598.615 million weekly impressions in week 29 of 2018 as compared to 548.708 million weekly impressions in week 28. Star Bharat was ranked fourth in BARC’s list of top 10 Hindi channels in HSM (U+R) was ranked fifth in HSM (R) and was ranked sixth in HSM (U) in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GEC channels during the week under review.

    Re-entering BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genres in week 29 of 2018 at eighth rank was another Star India FTA channel – Star Utsav with 597.617 million weekly impressions. Star Utsav was ranked sixth in BARC’s list of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in HSM (U+R), was ranked second in HSM (R) and was ranked eighth in HSM (U).

    Dropping down two ranks to ninth place in week 29 of 2018 was SPN’s women focused Hindi GEC Sony Pal with 590.263 million weekly impressions as compared to 555.366 million weekly impressions in week 28 of 2018. Sony Pal was ranked fifth in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi channels in HSM (U+R), was ranked third in HSM (R) and was ranked seventh in HSM (U). The sitcom Tarak Mehta ka Ooltah Chashmah aired on Sony Pal was ranked second in BARC’s list of top 5 Hindi GEC programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week in HSM (R).

    At its previous week’s tenth rank was another SPN Hindi Movies channel Sony Wah with 584.938 million weekly impressions in week 29 as compared to 518.879 million weekly impressions in week 28 of 2018. Sony Wah was ranked second in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi Movies channels in HSM (U+R), first in HSM (R) and fifth in HSM (U) during week 29 of 2018. HFF The Return of Rebel that aired on the channel was ranked third in BARC’s list of top 5 Hindi Movies programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week in HSM (U+R)  and was ranked first in HSM (R).

  • Sony Max pushes its way to most watched Hindi channel across genres

    Sony Max pushes its way to most watched Hindi channel across genres

    BENGALURU: Sony Pictures Network India (SPN) Hindi movies channel Sony Max was ranked second in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly list of top 10 channels across genres (across genres list) for week 28 of 2018 (Saturday, 7 July 2018 to Friday, 13 July 2018, week or period under review). There were eight other Hindi channels in the across genres list in week 28 of 2018. This made Sony Max the most watched Hindi channel in BARC’s during the period under review. The channel was also the most watched channel in BARC’s list of top five Hindi movies channels in the combined urban and rural Hindi speaking market – HSM (U+R), as well as in HSM (U). In HSM (R) Sony Max was ranked fifth.

    At its normal first rank (except during IPL and a couple of weeks when Zee Anmol got ahead) was the Sun TV Network’s flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV, which returned to the billion pus weekly impressions after a long hiatus from that threshold number.

    Six Hindi GEC, two Hindi movies and one Tamil GEC and Telugu GEC made up BARC’s list of top 10 channels across genres during week 28 of 2018. From the networks perspective, three channels each from SPN and Star India, two channels from Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zeel) and one channel each from the Sun TV Network Limited and Viacom 18 made up BARC’s across genres list for week 28 of 2018.

    As mentioned above, Sun TV led the across genres list in week 28 with 1051.589 million weekly impressions as compared to 947.652 million weekly impressions in week 27 of 2018. Sun TV also led BARC’s weekly list of top five Tamil channels in the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry market and all the five programmes in BARC’s list of top five Tamil programmes during primetime in these markets based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week under review were aired on Sun TV.

    At second rank was Sony Max with 669.742 million weekly impressions in week 28 of 2018 as compared to fourth rank and 626.781 million weekly impressions. Two Hindi feature films (HFF) that featured on Sony Max – Bahubali 2 – The Conclusion and the world television premiere of HFF Mummy were among the top five most watched Hindi movies programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week in HSM (U+R) and HSM (R). The concluding part of S S Rajamouli’s magnum opus was also among the five most watched Hindi movies programmes during primetime in HSM (R) during the week under review.

    Moving down a rank to third place in week 28 was Zeel’s FTA Hindi GEC Zee Anmol with 653.296 million weekly impressions as compared to 700.502 million weekly impressions in week 27 of 2018. Zee Anmol was also ranked first in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs in the combined urban and rural Hindi speaking markets or HSM (U+R) as also in HSM (R). The Balaji Telefilms-produced soap Kumkum Bhagya aired on Zee Anmol was ranked fourth in BARC’s list of top five Hindi GEC programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week in HSM (U+R) and was ranked first in HSM (R). Another soap from the channel, Mahek, was ranked second in HSM (R) as in the previous few weeks.

    Also moving down one rank to fourth place was Zeel’s flagship Hindi GEC Zee TV with 614.840 weekly impressions in week 28 as compared to 652.386 million weekly impressions in week 27. As in the previous week Zee TV was ranked second in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R), second in HSM (U) and seventh in HSM (R) during the week. Two programmes that were aired on Zee TV- Kundali Bhagya, a spinoff of Kumkum Bhagya, was ranked second and Kumkum Bhagya was ranked third in HSM (U+R) in BARC’s list of top five programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week. Kundali Bhagya was also ranked fifth in HSM (R) in BARC’s lists of top five Hindi GEC programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week. In the HSM (U) market, Kundali Bhagya, Kumkum Bhagya and another soap Ishq Subhan Allah on Zee TV were ranked third, fourth and fifth respectively during the week under consideration.

    Climbing up a rank to fifth place in week 28 of 2018 was Star India’s flagship Telugu GEC Star Maa with 572.455 million weekly impressions as compared to 565.462 million weekly impressions in week 27. Star Maa was ranked first in BARC’s weekly list of top five Telugu channels in the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana market. Three programmes that were aired on Star Maa were present in BARC’s weekly list of top five Telugu programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week.

    Viacom18’s flagship Hindi GEC Colors dropped a rank in week 28 of 2018 to sixth place with 561.361 million weekly impressions as compared to 576.642 million weekly impressions in week 27. Colors was ranked fifth in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R) and was ranked first in HSM (U). Naagin 3  found a place in BARC’s weekly list of top five Hindi GEC programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week in HSM (U+R) and HSM (U), while Naagin 3 was ranked fourth in HSM (R).

    SPN’s women focused FTA Hindi GEC retained its seventh rank in week 28 of 2018 with 555.366 million weekly impressions as compared to 555.128 million weekly impressions in week 27 of 2018. Sony Pal was ranked third in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi channels in HSM (U+R), was ranked second in HSM (R) and was ranked seventh in HSM (U). The sitcom Tarak Mehta ka Ooltah Chashmah aired on Sony Pal was ranked third in BARC’s list of top five Hindi GEC programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week in HSM (R).

    Star India’s FTA Hindi GEC Star Bharat also retained its eighth rank with 548.708 million weekly impressions in week 28 as compared to 551.302 million weekly impressions in week 27 of 2018. Star Bharat was ranked fourth in BARC’s list of top 10 Hindi channels in HSM (U+R) was ranked fifth in HSM (R) and was ranked sixth in HSM (U) in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GEC channels during the week under review.

    Re-entering BARC’s weekly across genres list was Star India’s flagship Hindi GEC Star Plus at ninth rank with 522.935 million weekly impressions in week 28 of 2018. Star Plus was ranked third in BARC’s list of top 10 Hindi GEC in HSM (U).

    Dropping down a rank to tenth place was another SPN Hindi movies channel Star Wah with 518.879 million weekly impressions in week 28 as compared to 526.551 million weekly impressions in week 27 of 2018. Sony Wah was ranked second in BARC’s weekly list of top five Hindi movies channels in HSM (U+R), first in HSM (R) and fourth in HSM (U) during week 28 of 2018. HFF Kanchana that aired on the channel was ranked fourth in BARC’s list of top five Hindi movies programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week in the HSM (R) market.

  • Sun TV, Zee Anmol almost neck-to-neck in across genres

    Sun TV, Zee Anmol almost neck-to-neck in across genres

    BENGALURU: Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zeel) free to air (FTA) Hindi general entertainment channel (Hindi GEC) Zee Anmol entered the bastions held by either the Sun TV Network’s flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV or the channel that aired the Indian Premier League (IPL) in week 21 of 2018. Zee Anmol had then topped Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly list of the top 10 channels across genres, only to be overtaken by the normal occupant of the numero uno rank Sun TV in the following week. In week 23 of 2018 (Saturday, 2 June 2018 to Friday, 8 June 2018), the difference in the ratings between the top channel in the list, Sun TV, and Zee Anmol narrowed to just 1.073 million weekly impressions as compared to the normal difference between Sun TV and the second ranked channel of around 2-5 million weekly impressions in the previous year.  Of course, during IPL weeks, it was generally the channel that aired the world’s richest cricket league competition that was ranked first in BARC’s weekly across genres lists.

    Six Hindi GECs’, two Telugu GECs’ and one channel each from the Hindi Movies and the Tamil genres comprised BARC’s top 10 channels across genres list during the week under consideration. From the network’s perspective, three channels each from Star India and Zeel, two channels from Sony Pictures Network India and one channel each from the Sun TV Network and Viacom 18 made up BARC’s list of top 10 channels across genres in week 23 of 2018.

    As mentioned above, Sun TV topped BARC’s across genres weekly list with 807.338 million weekly impressions in week 23 of 2018 as compared to 856.341 million weekly impressions in the previous week. The channel also was ranked first in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Tamil channels in the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry markets and the first four programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week were aired on Sun TV in these markets.

    At second rank in BARC’s weekly across genres list was Zee Anmol with 806.265 million weekly impressions in the week under review as compared to 824.521 million weekly impressions in week 22 of 2018. Zee Anmol also topped BARC’s list of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in the combined urban and rural Hindi speaking markets or HSM (U+R) and in HSM (R). The Balaji Telefilms produced soap Kumkum Bhagya that was aired on the channel was ranked third in the HSM (U+R) and was ranked first in HSM (R) in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi GEC programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week.

    Climbing up three ranks was SPN’s women focused Hindi GEC Sony Pal with 654.741 million weekly impressions in week 23 as compared to 581.109 million weekly impressions in week 22 of 2018. Sony Pal was ranked second in BARC’s weekly lists of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in HSM (U+R) and HSM (R). The sitcom Tarak Mehta ka Oolath Chasma was ranked fourth in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi GEC programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week in HSM (R).

    Zeel’s flagship Hindi GEC Zee TV climbed up a rank to fourth place with 634.961 million weekly impressions in week 23 of 2018 as compared to fifth rank and 624.069 million weekly impressions. Zee TV was ranked third in HSM (U+R) and second in HSM (U).  Kumkum Bhagya, which was aired on Zee TV, and its spinoff Kundali Bhagya were ranked second and fourth in HSM (U+R), Kumkum Bhagya was ranked fifth in HSM (R), while in HSM (U) three programes on the channel – the two Bhagyas’ and Ishq Subhan Allah were among BARC’s top 5 Hindi GEC programmes based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week. 

    SPN’s Hindi Movies channel Sony Max was ranked fifth in week 23 of 2018 with 592.577 million weekly impressions as compared to rank four and 664.599 million weekly impressions in week 22. Sony Max also topped BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi Movies channels in the week in HSM (U+R) and HSM (U) and was ranked fifth in HSM (R). In week 23 it was the airing of the first part of SS Rajamouli’s two film tale – Bahubali the beginning that helped the channel to its ranks in various BARC’s weekly lists including in the top 5 Hindi Movies programmes list based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in HSM (U+R) and HSM (R). Other films aired on the channel during the week under consideration that were among the top 5 programmes lists were Kanchana Returns and Sultan.

    The Balaji Telefilms produced supernatural seasonal soap Naagin has always catapulted Viacom18’s flagship Hindi GEC Colors to amongst the ranks in BARCs’ top channels and programmes charts. Colors re-entered BARC’s top 10 channels across genres list in week 23 of 2018 at rank six with 571.151 million weekly impressions. Colors was ranked fifth in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in HSM (U+R) and was ranked first in HSM (U). The third season of Naagin or Naagin 3 started in week 23. In the week of commencement itself, the programme entered BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi GEC programmes based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in HSM (U+R), HSM (U) and HSM (R). Another offering from the channel, the reality show  Dance Deewane also entered BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi GEC programmes in HSM (U+R) and HSM (U).

    Retaining its previous week’s seventh rank in week 23 of 2018 was Star India’s FTA Hindi GEC Star Bharat with 559.746 million weekly impressions as compared to 540.519 million weekly impressions in week 22.  Star Bharat was ranked fourth in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in HSM (U+R) and ranked fifth in HSM (U) and HSM (R).

    Pushing its Telugu sibling channel Star Maa one rank to eighth place was another Star India FTA channel Star Utsav with 531.697 million weekly impressions in week 23 as compared to ninth rank and 501.065 million weekly impressions in week 22 of 2018.  Star Utsav was ranked sixth in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in HSM (U+R) and was ranked fourth in HSM (R).

    At ninth rank was Star India’s Telugu GEC Star Maa with 513.783 million weekly impressions in week 23 of 2018 as compared to eighth rank and 539.206 million weekly impressions in week 22.  Star Maa was ranked second in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Telugu channels in the Telangana and Andhra Pradesh markets three of its programmes were among BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Telugu programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week in these markets.

    Also re-entering the list was Zeel’s Telugu GEC Zee Telugu at tenth place with 510.127 million weekly impressions in week 23 of 2018. Zee Telugu topped BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Telugu channels in the Telangana and Andhra Pradesh markets and one of its programmes was included in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Telugu programmes during primetime based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) in the week in these markets.

  • Star Sports 1 Hindi tops across-genre list

    Star Sports 1 Hindi tops across-genre list

    BENGALURU: Star India’s Hindi Sports channel Star Sports 1 Hindi topped the Broadcast Audience Research Council of India’s (BARC) weekly list of top-10 channels across genres in week 17 of 2018 (Saturday, 21 April 2018 to Friday, 27 April 2018), replacing Sun TV Network’s flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV. Star Sports 1 Hindi is one of the 10 Star India channels that air the Indian mega cricketing bonanza. IPL 11 is broadcast live in six languages—English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Bengali.

    Seven Hindi GECs and one channel each from Hindi sports, Tamil GECs and Hindi Movies made up the top-10 channels across-genre list for week 17 of 2018. Hence, Sun TV was the lone non-Hindi channel on the list. From the networks’ perspective, four channels from Star India, two channels each from Sony Pictures Network India (SPN) and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel) and one channel each from Viacom 18 and the Sun TV Network were on the list.

    Star Sports 1 Hindi topped the list in week 17 with 985.930 million weekly impressions during the week under review as compared with 949.032 million weekly impressions in the preceding week. Star Sport 1 Hindi also topped BARC’s weekly list of top-five sports channels. All the top-five sports programmes in week 17 of 2018 were aired on Star Sports 1 Hindi. The match involving two IPL teams from the south—Mahindra Singh Dhoni-led Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Virat Kohli-led Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)—was the top programme with ranking based on average rating across all airings (original and repeat) during the week under review.

    Sun TV was second in week 17 of 2018 with a huge drop in ratings (13.7 per cent drop) to 890.534 million weekly impressions as against 1,032.408 million weekly impressions in week 16. Sun TV was the most-watched Tamil channel in BARC’s list of top-five Tamil channels in the Tamil Nadu (TN) and Puducherry markets and all the top-five Tamil programmes in these markets were beamed on Sun TV.

    Retaining its third rank in the list in week 17 of 2018 was Zeel’s free-to-air (FTA) Hindi GEC Zee Anmol with 774.763 million weekly impressions as compared with 717.079 million impressions in week 16. Zee Anmol also topped BARC’s weekly list of top-10 Hindi GECs in the Hindi-speaking urban and rural or HSM—(U+R) and in HSM (R). Zee Anmol was ranked ninth in HSM (U). Balaji Telefilms-produced family drama Kumkum Bhagya, which airs on Zee Anmol, was the second most-watched show during prime time in HSM (U+R) and was the most-watched show on HSM (R). Two other shows, Ganga and Mahek that were also aired on Zee Anmol, were the third and fourth most-watched shows during prime time in HSM (R).

    Climbing up a rank in week 17 of 2018 was Viacom18 FTA Hindi GEC Rishtey with 677.772 million impressions as compared with 631.658 million impressions in week 16. Rishtey was ranked second in BARC’s list of top-10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R) and HSM (R) while it was ranked eighth in HSM (U).

    Dropping down a rank to fifth place in BARC’s across-genre list was Star India’s FTA Hindi GEC Star Bharat. The channel gained 1.2 per cent ratings in week 17 of 2018 to reach 664.618 million impressions as against 637.080 million impressions in week 16. Star Bharat was ranked third in BARC’s weekly list of top-10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R) and HSM (U) and was ranked fifth in HSM (R). Daily soap Jiji Maa, which was aired on Star Bharat, was the fifth most-watched Hindi GEC programme during prime time in HSM (U+R).

    Also retaining its previous week’s rank of sixth in week 17 of 2018 was SPN’s women focused Hindi GEC Sony Pal. The channel had 610.822 million impressions in week 17 as compared with 606.067 million weekly impressions in week 16 of 2018. Sony Pal was ranked fourth in BARC’s list of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in HSM (U+R), third in HSM (R) and was ranked seventh in HSM (U). Two Sony Pal programmes—Tarak Mehta ka Ooltah Chashma and Baalveer—were ranked as the second and fifth-most watched Hindi GEC programmes during prime time, respectively, in HSM (R).

    Zeel’s flagship Hindi GEC Zee TV was ranked seventh in week 17 of 2018 with a huge 14.1 per cent increase in ratings to 609.069 million weekly impressions (533.901 million impressions in week 16). The channel was also ranked seventh in week 16. Zee TV was the fifth and sixth most-watched Hindi GEC in BARC’s list of top-10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R) and HSM (R), respectively. Zee TV was the most-watched Hindi GEC in HSM (U). Three shows aired on Zee TV—Kundali Bhagya, a spinoff of Kumkum Bhagya, Ishq Subhan Allah and Kumkum Bhagya—were ranked first, third and fourth watched Hindi GEC programmes during prime time, respectively, in HSM (U+R). The shows were also the first, second and third most-watched Hindi GEC programmes during prime time in HSM (U).

    Another Star India FTA Hindi GEC, Star Utsav, was ranked eighth in BARC’s list of top 10 channels across genres in week 17, the same rank as in week 16. Star Bharat lost 2 per cent in ratings in week 17 at 522.110 million impressions as compared with the previous week’s 532.947 million weekly impressions. Star Utsav was ranked sixth in BARC’s weekly list of top-10 Hindi GECs in HSM (U+R), fourth in HSM (R) and tenth in HSM (U) in week 17 of 2018.

    Re-entering BARC’s list of top-10 channels across genres in week 17 was SPN’s Hindi Movies channel Sony Max. The channel garnered 519.052 million weekly impressions during the week under review. Sony Max was the most watched Hindi Movies channel inn HSM (U+R) and HSM (U) and was ranked fifth in BARC’s list of top 5 Hindi Movies channels in HSM (R). Hindi feature films (HFF) Bahubali: The Beginning and Kanchana 2 were among the top-five most-watched Hindi movie programmes during prime time in HSM (U+R) and HSM (U). Hindi-dubbed feature film Son of Satyamurthy, which aired on Sony Max, was the fourth most-watched Hindi movie programme during prime time in HSM (U). Bahubali: The Beginning was also the fifth most-watched Hindi movie programme during prime time in HSM (R).

    Star India’s flagship Hindi GEC Star Plus also re-entered the across genres list in week 17 of 2018 at tenth rank with 484.387 million weekly impressions. Star Plus was ranked seventh in HSM (U+R); ninth in HSM (R) and second in HSM (U) in week 17 of 2018.

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