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  • Chrome Data: Not much gain in week 27

    Chrome Data: Not much gain in week 27

    MUMBAI: As per Chrome Data Analytics & Media which collates opportunity to see (OTS), week 27 didn’t see any gain.

     

    Hindi Movies in the Hindi speaking markets (HSM) rose marginally by 0.4 per cent. Sony Max continued its successful run with 95.9 per cent OTS.

     

    Music channels in the HSM and Infotainment channels across India gained 0.2 per cent. Sony Mix with 88.3 per cent OTS and National Geographic Channel with 86.2 per cent OTS gained in their respective genres.

     

    However, a lot of genres did see downsize. English Entertainment channels in the eight metros saw the maximum fall of 2.3 per cent. AXN with 70.1 per cent OTS reigned in the genre.

     

    English movies in eight metros and sports channels across India saw a drop of 1.9 per cent. Movies Now with 75.1 per cent OTS and Ten Sports with 76.1 per cent OTS were at top, respectively.

     

    Business News dropped 1.8 per cent in the eight metros. Zee Business with 77.5 per cent OTS was the topper of the category.

  • Chrome Data: English channels gain in week 26

    Chrome Data: English channels gain in week 26

    MUMBAI: According to Chrome Data Analytics & Media that week 26 saw the rise in English Movie channels when it comes to opportunity to see (OTS).

     

    In the eight metros, the genre jumped 2.1 per cent. Movies Now topped the chart with 75.1 per cent OTS.

     

    English Entertainment channels in the eight metros followed suit and gained 2 per cent. AXN with 72.2 per cent OTS topped the genre.

     

    Business News with 1.3 per cent and Sports channels across the country jumped 1.3 per cent and 0.8 per cent, respectively.

     

    Zee Business with 78.6 per cent OTS and Ten Sports with 76.5 per cent OTS continued the roost in their respective genres.

     

    Only three genres dipped this week.

     

    Religious channels in the Hindi Speaking Market (HSM) fell 0.9 per cent. Aastha channel with 96.5 per cent continued its reign in the genre.

     

    Hindi News in the HSM dropped 0.5 per cent followed by Hindi Movies with 0.1 per cent. ABP News garnered 94.3 per cent OTS while Max got 95.9 per cent OTS.

  • CricHQ expands India executive team

    CricHQ expands India executive team

    MUMBAI: CricHQ, a cricket technology company is on an expansion spree. The company, which is looking at expanding its executive team in India has appointed Karthik Ramanujam as director of digital sales and marketing for the India market.

     

    Ramanujam brings with him over 16 years of experience in ad sales, content and digital marketing, with earlier stints at NDTV Media, Sony Entertainment Television, Ten Sports, Vdopia and Qyuki Digital Media. In his current role, he will support global sales and user acquisition for CricHQ’s online and mobile platforms.

     

    CricHQ CEO Simon Baker said, “We are very bullish about the Indian market opportunity and are building a strong team here to take full advantage of this opportunity. Karthik’s appointment is a significant boost for CricHQ’s India operations and it also sets the stage for more senior level hires in the near future.”

     

    The company plans to hire 15 professionals for its corporate office in Bangalore in the next few months, which are in addition to over 70 professionals currently employed in India. CricHQ currently has presence in Chennai and Kochi. The Chennai office has 50 employees engaged in product development and data capture and analysis; whereas the Kochi office focuses on CricHQ’s global operations. The company aims to expand its India head count to over 400 employees in the next three years.

  • Chrome Data: Sport scores a goal in week 25

    Chrome Data: Sport scores a goal in week 25

    MUMBAI: The week 25 belonged to Sports channels. In the data collated by Chrome Data Analytics & Media for opportunity to see (OTS), the genre gained 2.4 per cent.

     

    Ten Sports across the nation scored the highest with 76.2 per cent OTS.

     

    It was followed by Infortainment channels, pan nation, with a minor jump of 0.5 per cent. In the genre, National Geographic Channel topped the list with 85.7 per cent OTS.

     

    Next came, the Hindi Movie channels and Music channel in the Hindi speaking markets (HSM). Both gained 0.4 per cent.

     

    Star Gold with 95.7 per cent and MTV with 88.0 per cent OTS reined their respective genres.

     

    As for the bottom genres, Business News channels saw a drop of 2.0 per cent in the eight metros. Zee Business with 76.8 per cent OTS gained the most.

     

    English Movie channels in the eight metros fell by 1.6 per cent. Movies Now continued its supremacy in the genre with 74.8 per cent OTS.

     

    Hindi News in the HSM and Kids channels across India both saw a fall of 0.3 per cent. ABP News with 94.6 per cent and Cartoon Network with 83.7 per cent OTS topped their respective genres.

  • “With Taj Television, we bring the best of channels to our customers”

    “With Taj Television, we bring the best of channels to our customers”

    MUMBAI: Zee Entertainment has got on board a subsidiary company that will handle the distribution of the entire Zee Network in the form of Taj Television India. It will distribute channels of both Zee Entertainment as well as Zee Media.

     

    This apart, it will act as an agent for Turner International India channels as well. The latest addition and the start for Taj Television is the new general entertainment channel Zindagi.

     

    Commenting on the development, Zee MD and CEO Punit Goenka said, “I am very pleased to announce that Taj Television, which earlier was distributing Ten Sports channels, will now distribute all the channels of Zee Entertainment and Zee Media Corporation, while also representing Turner channels as its authorized agent. I would like to thank all our DTH and Cable partners who have been part of our growth journey and look forward to their continued support to Taj Television.”

     

    Arun Kumar Kapoor who was earlier CEO of MediaPro, Zee’s distribution JV with Star India, will be the CEO at Taj Television too. Rajesh Sethi will continue to be CEO for the sports broadcasting network of Zee which includes the Ten brand of channels.

     

    Said Kapoor, “Zee has been the pioneer in Indian television and has the experience and leadership capability to shape the future of pay revenues in India. With Taj Television being created as the distribution entity for the network, we bring together the best of television channels to our customers. We are confident that the new channel Zindagi will really connect with the viewers and help grow Taj Television offering even stronger. We are committed to quality and achieving leadership through fair and transparent business practices.”

     

    Taj Television president Atul Das commented, “With digitization having been completed in Phase I and Phase II cities in India, we now look forward to its implementation in rest of the country. Taj Television would aim to create a harmonious relationship within the ecosystem and create value for all stakeholders. With a leading portfolio of television channels, both in the national and regional space and with a powerful portfolio of sports programming, we are excited about the future of pay revenues in the country.”

     

    Taj Television has a list of 47 channels. Taj Television distributes Zee’s well-known brands like Zee TV, Zee Cinema, &pictures, Ten Sports, Zee Cafe, Zee Studio, Zing and a powerful repertoire of regional language channels including Zee Marathi, Zee Bangla, Zee Telugu, Zee Kannada and Zee Tamizh, besides the HD channels like Zee TV HD, Zee Cinema HD, Zee Studio HD and Ten HD. Taj Television also distributes channels of Zee Media Corporation with two national and eight regional channels. Taj is also distributing channels in the kid’s space and English movie segment, including HBO, Cartoon Network, Pogo, CNN and Warner Brothers as an authorised agent of Turner International.  

  • Taj Television to distribute Zee and Ten Sports channels; agent for Turner

    Taj Television to distribute Zee and Ten Sports channels; agent for Turner

    MUMBAI: Two months after the distribution joint venture (JV) between Star India and Zee Turner called MediaPro dissolved; Zee has decided to hand over its distribution to Taj Television India, a wholly owned subsidiary of Zee Entertainment.

     

    While initially Taj Television was the sole distributor of Ten Sports channels, it will now act as agent for Zee Entertainment, Zee Media and Turner along with Ten Sports. Zee’s sports broadcasting business will continue to be headed by Rajesh Sethi.

    According to sources the move is to integrate all the Zee channels in one bouquet and give an additional push to the whole network.

     

    After the news of MediaPro split broke, Zee Turner had announced that it will set up its independent distribution arm. In the latest, the Network has announced that the new distribution agreements with the various operators will be done under the name of Taj Television. Arun K Kapoor will be the CEO of Taj Television, who was the CEO at MediaPro, earlier.

     

    Taj Television has a suite of 47 television channels. This includes: Zee TV, Zee Cinema, &pictures, Ten Sports, Zee Cafe, Zee Studio, Zing, Zee Marathi, Zee Bangla, Zee Telugu, Zee Kannada, Zee Tamizh, Zee TV HD, Zee Cinema HD, Zee Studio HD, Ten HD, Zee News, Zee Business, HBO, Cartoon Network, Pogo, CNN, Warner Brothers and Zeel’s new channel Zindagi.

  • MSM sub-licenses FIFA World Cup to Seven3Sports

    MSM sub-licenses FIFA World Cup to Seven3Sports

    NEW DELHI: Football fans across Indian subcontinent can now enjoy the biggest sporting event, 2014 FIFA World Cup, thanks to Seven3Sports bagging the sub-license rights from MSM India for telecasting the World Cup in the five countries across Indian subcontinent (excluding India). The media rights includes: TV broadcast through terrestrial transmission on an exclusive and Cable and Satellite on a non-exclusive basis besides mobile and broadband rights.

     

    Seven3Sports has put together an enviable partnership with several leading sports and state-owned government channels across territories, which includes Ten Sports and Pakistan TV in Pakistan; Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation in Sri Lanka; Gazi TV, Maasranga TV and Bangladesh TV in Bangladesh; Nepal TV and Kantipur TV in Nepal and Maldives Broadcasting Corporation and Island Broadcasting Company in Maldives.

     

    Seven3Sports founder and chief executive officer Jatin Ahluwalia said, “We are delighted to take this biggest sporting competition in the world to many more homes across Indian sub-continent countries (excluding India) and want to thank MSM for trusting our vision and for their faith in our abilities to deliver sub-license arrangements. This partnership has bolstered our strength and confidence in delivering to high standards. We are honoured to have been entrusted with this opportunity that has enabled us to notch up with our array of services as a sports media company.”

     

    Through this large scale arrangement, Seven3Sports is democratising viewing experience for the football-lovers through local partnerships, bringing the superior and outstanding soccer experience of 2014 FIFA World Cup  to nearly half a billion people across these states.

     

    Seven3Sports is a young company that has grown manifolds, making its presence felt in the sports & broadcast industry. The new, out-of-the-box approach to offer multi-platform / multi-region of super-premium sporting events makes it different from others.

     

    The company has set out a sustainable plan to build a sports media eco-system through its long term sports media arrangements – it already owns Pepsi IPL TV Broadcast rights for the Indian subcontinent region across Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka from 2014 for five seasons, Digital rights for French Open in India for 2013 and 2014,  Digital rights of Bundesliga the leading soccer league of Germany from 2014-2016, besides delivering India’s tour of New Zealand and Zimbabwe in 2013 across digital platforms.

  • No takers for India-Bangladesh tri series, yet

    No takers for India-Bangladesh tri series, yet

    MUMBAI: With just two days to go for the India –Bangladesh one-day international (ODI) series, the Bangladesh’s official television rights holder, Gazi TV, is yet to get an Indian broadcaster on board according to a report in a daily today.

     

    The report further mentions that Gazi  TV has put a $ 1 million offer for the rights of the three-match ODI series which will be held on 15, 17 & 19 June. The offer was being customised for Star Sports but as of now it has not shown any interest and wants the price to be lowered.

     

    The report quotes Gazi TV CFO Salahuddin Chowdhury saying that it has not received any confirmation from Star. “We don’t want to deprive the Indian fans of live action of the series, unless, something dramatic happens over the next two days, I cannot assure you that the matches will be telecast in India.” 

     

    With FIFA being aired on Sony Six, it is unlikely that the channel from the Multi Screen Media (MSM) kitty would be interested in telecasting the tri-series.

     

    Also, Ten Sports and Neo Sports are currently occupied fighting the big bully Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in court.  It’s safe to assume that they will also not telecast the matches.

     

    However, there could be  some good news for Gazi. India’s state owned broadcaster Doordarshan is open to a revenue-sharing deal.
     

    The three matches will be played at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium at Mirpur.

  • Zeel shares see demand following RBI approval for FII investment

    Zeel shares see demand following RBI approval for FII investment

    MUMBAI: Interest in the Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zeel) appears to be rising. The stock witnessed a 52 week high of Rs 301.90 on 21 May 2014 and has been trading in the Rs 270 plus range today, rising Rs 7 plus in today’s trading.

     

    Not only did the company announce healthy results and a 200 per cent dividend on 21 May 2014, it has also got approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)  for Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) to invest up to 100 per cent in the company under the portfolio investment scheme on 2 June 2014. The investment limit has been revised from the earlier 49 per cent ceiling. The announcement was made by Zeel through a statement issued to the BSE on yesterday. 

     

    “The said communication is based on the proposal approved by the Board of Directors of the Company on 22 May 2013 and by the shareholders by passing a special resolution at the Annual General Meeting held on 25 July 2013,” stated the release on BSE.

     

    The Reserve Bank, through a press statement said, “The Company has passed resolutions at its Board of Directors’ level and a special resolution by the shareholders, agreeing for enhancing the limit for the purchase of its equity shares and convertible debentures by FIIs. The purchases could be made through primary market and through stock exchanges and would be subject to Regulation 5(2) of FEMA Notification No.20/2000 RB dated 3 May 2000 (as amended from time to time) and other terms and conditions stipulated by the Reserve Bank.”

     

    The approval has been given subject to the condition that “the onus of compliance with FDI policy and FEMA regulations including downstream investment would continue to remain on the Indian company, Zeel,” said the RBI in its statement.

     

    The Reserve Bank has notified this under FEMA 1999.

     

    FIIs so far held 48 per cent stake in the company while the promoter and the promoter group’s shareholding was 43 per cent as of March 2013.

     

    Zee Entertainment’s channel portfolio comprises: Zee TV, Zee Cinema, Zee Music, Zee Premiere, ETC, ETC Punjabi, TEN Sports, Zee Studio, Zee Classic and Zee Sports.

     

  • Ten Sports to broadcast DFB Cup in India

    Ten Sports to broadcast DFB Cup in India

    Mumbai: The German football association, Deutscher Fussball-Bund (DFB) and Ten Sports Network, have agreed to a media rights agreement for the DFB Cup. From the 2014-15 and 2017-18 season, the German knock-out competition will be broadcasted across Ten Sports Network. Infront Sports & Media, the exclusive international media rights advisor to the DFB, has helped facilitate the long-term contract.

     

    Ten Sports has acquired the exclusive media rights for live and delayed coverage with a commitment of 11 key matches per season and a potential 19. Territories included in the contract, cover the Indian sub-continent including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Its programming also features other international football properties like the UEFA Champions League.

     

    Ten Sports CEO Rajesh Sethi said, “Ten Sports is proud to re affirm its commitment to DFB and Infront by renewing rights for the DFB Cup for a further four years which will see matches live on Ten Action, Ten Sports & Ten HD and also available for live streaming on tensports.com. As incumbent rights holders for the UEFA Champions League & Europa League and the DFB Cup, we have seen incredible performances by German Clubs on the field as well as their financial stability off it. DFB Cup forms a key part of our premium football bouquet which also includes the UEFA Champions League & Europa League, Copa Del Rey, Capital One Cup, French League among other properties and we are delighted to extend our rights partnership.”

     

    The DFB Cup is an annual German knockout football cup competition run by the Deutscher Fussball -Bund. 64 teams participate in the competition, including all top clubs from the Bundesliga. The most successful team in this competition has been Bayern Munich who have won the DFB Cup for a total of 16 times. This year’s final will see the top two clubs in Germany fight it out on 17 May, as current holders Bayern Munich will face their biggest domestic rivals Borussia Dortmund.