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  • Zee Telugu to telecast two epic Mahasangamam episodes

    Zee Telugu to telecast two epic Mahasangamam episodes

    MUMBAI: Zee Telugu will telecast two epic Mahasangamam episodes of Prema Entha Madhuram and Trinayani on 2-3 May from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm.

    The channel’s current primetime fiction shows like Prema Entha Madhuram and Trinayani have developed a completely different cult following for themselves. Both the shows have impressed the audience with their intriguing storyline and characters.

    “During the Mahasangamam episode, we will see Nayani getting a vision that Arya would get into some trouble at an award function where the latter is being presented the Best Entrepreneur Award,” the channel said in a statement.  

    “She will try everything in her power to save him, but with several twists and turns in the Mahasangamam episode, viewers will be at the edge of their seats to find out if Vishal and Nayani will be able to help Arya or not,” it said.

     

  • Zee Telugu to premiere ‘Dhrusti’ on 15 Dec

    Zee Telugu to premiere ‘Dhrusti’ on 15 Dec

    MUMBAI: Zee Telugu always brings the best of Telugu entertainment with a wide array of classic movies for its viewers on small screen. Decked with cinematic splendor and super visual experience, the channel has always taken the onus to showcase new enchanting movies for its audience, since inception.

    Adding to its vast repertoire of movies across genres, Zee Telugu will now host the exciting Premiere of Dhrusti on  December 15, 2019 at 12:00 PM. Drushti is directed by Ram Abbaraju staring Rahul Ravindran, Pavani Gangireddy, Vennala Kishore, Ravi Varma and Pramodini among others who play other pivotal characters in the film.The camaraderie between Rahul and Vennala Kishore turns out to be the USP of the film.

    ‘Dhrusti’ revolves around Mohan, played by Rahul Ravindran, a freelance photographer with a fractured limb, who happens to be a witness to a murder of an apartment neighbor. Despite being unaware of the killer’s identity and having reported the incident to the police, Mohan shockingly emerges as the key suspect to the murder. Will the police trust him? Just when the police think they have solved the case, a new twist leads the film.

    The film also showcases well-executed cinematography by P. Bal Reddy and mesmerizing music by Naresh Kumaranthat is sure to satiate the entertainment needs of the audiences.

    To ensure you do not miss out on your favorite Zee Telugu shows, choose the Zee Prime Pack that includes Zee Telugu, and Zee Cinemalu alongside 7 other top channels of the Zee Network that cater to the daily entertainment needs of your entire family at Rs. 20 per month only. For further information, contact your DTH or Cable operator.

  • Sun TV tops rating across genres

    Sun TV tops rating across genres

    MUMBAI: Sun TV continued its run at the top position in week 27 of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) All India data, followed by Star Plus in second place.

    Sun TV reported ratings of 950112 Impression (000s), while Star Plus with a score of 705486 Impression (000s) followed.

    Colors reserved the number three slot in week 27 with 646452 Impression (000s). Zee TV gained fourth place with 608027 Impressions (000s).

    Zee Anmol grabbed fifth space with 474293 Impressions (000s). Star Utsav moved up to sixth place with 459621 Impressions (000’s) , while Sony Max secured seventh place with437187 Impressions (000’s).

    Gemini TV held to eighth place with 433909 Impressions (000s) and Zee Telegu took ninth spot with 430625 Impressions (000s). Sony Pal bagged tenth place with 409663 Impressions (000s).

  • Sun TV tops rating across genres

    Sun TV tops rating across genres

    MUMBAI: Sun TV continued its run at the top position in week 27 of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) All India data, followed by Star Plus in second place.

    Sun TV reported ratings of 950112 Impression (000s), while Star Plus with a score of 705486 Impression (000s) followed.

    Colors reserved the number three slot in week 27 with 646452 Impression (000s). Zee TV gained fourth place with 608027 Impressions (000s).

    Zee Anmol grabbed fifth space with 474293 Impressions (000s). Star Utsav moved up to sixth place with 459621 Impressions (000’s) , while Sony Max secured seventh place with437187 Impressions (000’s).

    Gemini TV held to eighth place with 433909 Impressions (000s) and Zee Telegu took ninth spot with 430625 Impressions (000s). Sony Pal bagged tenth place with 409663 Impressions (000s).

  • ‘Hum Hain… Umeed-e-Kashmir’ says Zee TV

    ‘Hum Hain… Umeed-e-Kashmir’ says Zee TV

     MUMBAI: Bollywood’s youngest superstars Parineeti Chopra and Sushant Singh Rajput joined the Charity concert held at the Indira Gandhi Indoor stadium in Delhi for the flood victims of Kashmir and Assam.  A total of 35 Zee channels will simulcast this initiative on 26 October. Also, Zee Marathi, Zee Kannada and Zee Telegu will air the event on 2 November. This fund-raiser campaign, “Hum Hain… Umeed-e-Kashmir” is an initiative to raise funds and awareness for flood-stricken Kashmir that has devastated and unhinged the lives of many leaving, many casualties and loss of homes, property and livelihoods in its wake.
     
    This evening, 18 October, Hum Hain…Ummeed e Kashmir was hosted by the Zee TV’s Jamai Raja; Ravi Dubey and the charming Sameer Kochchar at the Indira Gandhi Indoor stadium in Delhi and featured a veritable who’s who: Farhan Akhtar, Amir Khan, Shaan, Shantanu Moitra, Mohit Chauhan, Anupam Kher, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Neha Dhupia, Aditi Rao Hydari, Vivek Oberoi, Daler Mehendi, Neeti Mohan, Aditi Singh Sharma and Harsheep Kaur  to perform and appealed to viewers to donate graciously to rebuilt Kashmir.  
     
    Send your donations to www.zeetv.com/humhain/

  • Zee Entertainment notches up stellar results in FY 2013

    MUMBAI: The folks at Zee Entertainment Enterprise Ltd (Zeel) have been working with a lot of zeal, it would seem. Especially if one looks at its latest Q4-2013 financials and also its results for the financial year ended 31 March 2013. A big upward tick of 21.6 per cent in its net profit to Rs 718.2 crore on 31 March 2013 over the previous year‘s Rs 591 crore is a hallmark of the Zeel performance.

    As far as its Q4-FY-2013 results were concerned they were in line with various analysts’ bullish expectations. Commanding an astounding 670 million plus viewers worldwide, a scale of operations across 169 countries with 32 channels and over 100,000 hours of programming to its credit, it has maintained its leading position in most of its major business operations including television broadcasting, cable distribution, DTH services etc.

    Says Zeel chairman Subhash Chandra: “FY 2013 was a defining year for the media sector in many ways. The biggest transformation was the implementation of DAS in 42 cities nationally. There were 33 million DTH subscribers and 16 digital cable TV homes as fiscal 2013 ended as against 29 million DTH and 4 million DAS homes in the previous year. We believe we can continue to return meaningful amount of capital even as we strengthen our business and invest in the growth of our businesses. We will continue to pursue growth opportunities which would enhance long term shareholder value.‘

    “DAS phase 2 has been implemented across the country. Industry ARPUs on DTH seem to be growing with exciting consumer offers being provided by operators on premium channel subscriptions,” adds Zeel managing director and chief executive officer Punit Goenka. “We believe similar effort by digital cable operators will ensure a robust growth of the industry for all stakeholders. The improving economic outlook augurs well for the media and entertainment sector. We are hopeful that a steady growth in ratings will help Zee deliver better performance in the coming quarters. Our content focus approach combined with better monetisation of subscription revenues, especailly from digital markets, will contribute to the company delivering steady and sustainable returns in the year ahead.”

    Let us look at the consolidated Q4-2013 financials as against the corresponding Q4-2012

    The Q4-2013 financials report a fair positive trend with the operating revenues for the quarter standing at Rs 964.3 crore, an increase of 11 per cent from the previous year‘s corresponding quarter’s (Q4-2012) which stood at Rs 869 crore. Q4-2013 ad revenues at 479.2 crore are up 15.5 per cent over Q4-2012‘s Rs 415 crore. Subscription revenues have surged to Rs 454.5 crore as against Q4-2012’s Rs 402.1 crore, a 13 per cent increase, courtesy the spread of digitisation and the fact that it was able to draw further benefits of its distribution joint venture with Star India – MediaPro. Of this, domestic subscription revenues rose to Rs 337.4 crore in Q4 2013 (its accounting treatment for MediaPro changed in Q4 2012 hence it says the figures can‘t be compared with Q4 2012). International subscription revenues climbed 11.7 per cent to Rs 117.2 crore in Q4 2013.

    Zeel has managed to tighten the screws on its total expenses, allowing these to rise by only 2.2 per cent over the previous corresponding quarter. As a result, its EBITDA skyrocketed 51 per cent to Rs 242.3 crore as against Rs 160 crore in the last corresponding fiscal quarter. At those numbers, its EBITDA margin is a fat 25.1 per cent. Even its PAT numbers are looking good. They are up 10.7 per cent in Q4-2013to Rs 180.35 crore as against the corresponding last Q4-2012’s Rs 163 crore.

    On the business front, Zeel‘s flagship Zee TV, the flagship Zeel channel had an average of 220 GRPs in Q4 and a 19 per cent market share, and was placed among the top six Hindi GECs.

    As far as its regional language offerings are concerned, all its channels including Zee Marathi, Zee Bangla, Zee Telegu and Zee Kannada have reported good growths in average GRPs.

    While the sports business has yet to breakeven, an improving and promising trend is anticipated with various events and leagues lined up for telecast. The sports business revenues for the quarter stood at Rs 107.2 crore. Dish TV, the largest DTH service provider reported an ARPU of over Rs 159, significantly higher than its peers in the segment.

    Let us look at the consolidated results for FY-2013

    Thanks to the sharp rise in net profit in the full fiscal year and its net margin of 19.4 per cent, its earnings per share (EPS) too climbed up to a handsome Rs 7.51 as against last fiscal’s Rs 6.08.

    Zeel‘s total income for the year to 31 March 2013 (advertising sales and subscription revenues) registered healthy growth with FY-2013’s total revenues standing at Rs 3669.57 crore, up by 19.7 per cent from last year’s Rs 3040.56 crore.

    Its full year domestic subscription revenues were up to Rs 116.48 crore, and international subscription revenues were Rs 458.6 crore, a growth of 26.3 per cent and 14 per cent respectively, over the previous fiscal year‘s revenues. Overall ad revenues for the full year have shown a double digit growth of 24 per cent to Rs 1963.9 crore from the last fiscal’s Rs 1584 crore.

    The YOY expenses have sharply risen 19.4 per cent, with FY-2013’s expenses standing at Rs 2785.18 crore. This increase is majorly contributed by a 21.5 per cent increase in its operating cost and its employee benefit expenses rising over 19 per cent. The latter cost is justified for a conglomerate commanding an employee base of over 2050 employees.

    Zeel‘s EBITDA (operating profit) for the full year FY-2013 stands at Rs 954.3 crore, growing 29 per cent YoY as against Rs 739.6 crore in FY 2012.

    With this fiscal year marking the 20 years of Brand Zee in the industry, the Board has recommended a cash dividend of Rs 2 on a face value of Re 1 per share. In addition to this the board has also announced a distribution Rs 2,000 crore through a bonus issue of redeemable preference shares.

    The company’s share is currently being traded at Rs 241. Many analysts have predicted that the stock will cross Rs 270, as it starts deriving more and more subscription revenues courtesy cable TV digitisation.

    The outlook for the media conglomerate is extremely bright. It has a loyal viewer base for its GEC channels, it has a presence in cable TV through Siticable, then its DTH operation DishTV has a huge subscriber base of 13-14 million. It recently announced it would take a stab at the movies through its subsidiary Zee Motion Pictures which plans a couple of film launches in the near future. In the television space, Zee reported a decent market-share for the full year FY-2013, while revenues significantly poured in from its international operations, especially with the launch of Zee TV across several networks in Canada. Zee TV and Zee Cinema did well in the UAE and were the No 1 TV channel among south Asians for the March 2013 quarter.

    Meanwhile, Zeel’s board has said it would be approaching shareholders to approve its plan to increase the FII investment limit in the company to beyond the existing 49 per cent and to the maximum allowed under the government’s FDI norms for the media sector.

  • Zee Telefilms creates 3 new business entities; to list them

    Zee Telefilms creates 3 new business entities; to list them

    MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra promoted Zee Telefilms board today approved splitting of its broadcasting business into three entities — news operations, broadcast and content creation, and Siti Cable, which will also include the initiatives on the CAS front.

    After the restructuring, which is expected to be completed within six to eight months, the new entities involved in cable business, and news operations, would be listed on the stock exchange.
    It also announced an ‘in principle’ approval of a proposal to demerge the consumer services business for Dish TV. The board of directors has approved the restructuring proposal related to the de-merger of news and cable business while directing the management to evaluate the direct consumer services business (Dish TV related) and the assess the effect of de-merging it.

    According to Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra, the company had a complex structure, which needed to be simplified as required by the regulatory environment and market needs.

    * ZTL holds 33 per cent in Zee News Limited, while promoters of Zee hold the balance. Zee News Ltd delivers news uplinked fto the satellite for Zee News, Zee Business and News content of regional channels.
    He added, “Due to regulatory restrictions, the business of Dish TV was structured in a very fractured manner and hence was difficult for ZTL shareholders to understand.

    “At the same time, the structure was also tax inefficient. The management of the businesses under the same board was not focused and thus unable to capture the growth opportunities in the market as different skill sets are required for distribution to trade, which in this case is cable business.”

    He continues that the regulation in the news and news related broadcast content is different from regulation in entertainment and other content.

    Due to technological advancements and changes, the media businesses have to be prepared for a forthcoming digital age, the company said.

    “We feel confident that these measures of restructuring these businesses subject to necessary approval would result in streamlining operations and better exploitation of opportunities in each area to build long term shareholder value. It would also clear the ground for acquisitions and strategic or financial partners in the demerged businesses, apart from unlocking shareholders value,” Chandra says.

    Queried as to whether he saw the demerged cable business (Siti Cable) and the direct consumer services business (Dish TV) as being the most likely to invite international interest for strategic and financial partnerships, Chandra replied in the affirmative.
    Restructuring of consumer business for Dish TV
    The direct consumer business is marked by division of activities between the DTH license holder ASC Enterprises Limited (ASCEL) and the subsidiaries of Siti Cable.

    * Percentage holding to be decided by the board after valuation by independent valuers.
    As per the proposal, the direct consumer related business of ZTL would be de-merged into ASCEL, with the shareholders of ZTL receiving shares in ASCEL in proportion.

    This has been done due to lack of clarity in structure, inefficiencies in tax and diffuse strategic focus.

    The proposal has met with in principle approval of the Zee board. The board has authorised management to evaluate the proposal and its effect and present to board for final approval.

    The scheme of arrangement would require approval of the stock exchange, shareholders and creditors of Zee and from Bombay High Court.

    Restructuring of news business; regional channels included

    # ZTL shareholders would get 137 shares of Zee News Ltd for 100 shares in ZTL. ZTL foreign shareholders will get upto a maximum of 26 per cent. Any additional shares accruing would be converted into Preference Shares. Currently the FII holding is 31 per cent, hence everyone will get equity shares. The equity shares held by foreign promoters would be shifted to India as domestic holdings.
    In compliance with the news uplinking guidelines with effect from October 2005, newsgathering activities of ZTL were transferred to Zee News Limited, while downlinking and commercial exploitation of all news-bearing channels was retained under ZTL.

    “Despite a compliant corporate structure for news bearing channels (particularly regional channels), we have felt it important to bridge the divide and bring all the operational activities together, to create strategic focus, remove tax efficiencies and unlock shareholders value,” Chandra said.

    Under the scheme of arrangement, the news-related business (Zee News, Zee Business, Zee Bangla, Zee Punjabi, Zee Marathi, Zee Telegu and shortly to be launched Zee Kannada will be subsumed into Zee News Limited (ZNL).

    The company will in due course be suitably changing the name of Zee News Ltd.

    As the result of preparation of news business the shareholders of Zee Telefilms will get proportionate shareholding in ZNL. As per the formula that has been worked out 137 ZNL shares will fetch 100 shares in ZTL.

    In case the allotment works out to more than 26 per cent (which is the permissible limit of foreign investment in news ventures in India), the FIIs would be allotted preferentail shares of equivalent value on a proportionate basis.

    Zee News Limited would be listed on all stock exchanges where ZTL is listed.

    Restructuring of cable business

    Siti Cable has been hived off into a separate entity, Chandra pointed out, as the cable assets were under-utiliseted, despite large and well-positioned investments in the cable business.

    To properly address the emerging business opportunities in digitisation of cable and convergence, there also are large funding requirements. And the regulatory requirement applicable to cable distribution is very different to broadcasting.

    Combined with the fact that the competitive environment of distribution business is also different, the Zee board felt that an invigorated corporate and governance set up was essential to aggressively address the emerging opportunities.

    * Shares held by foreign promoters will be shifted in India as domestic holding to bring down the overall foreign holding to about 35 per cent. Cable business is allowed foreign holding upto 49 per cent.

    As per the scheme of arrangement, the cable business of Siti Cable, a 100 per cent subsidiary of ZTL, and the cable related business of ZTL would be de-merged into Wire and Wireless (India) Limited (WWIL), a new company incorporated for the purpose.

    The shareholders of ZTL would receive shares in WWIL in proportion, as consideration.

    WWIL would in turn issue preference shares to the shareholders of ZTL.

    Meanwhile, the Zee scrip moved in a narrow band today. While opening at the BSE on 238.90, the scrip touched a high of 243.35 and a low of 236.10 before closing the day at 239.55. The stock is expected to react tomorrow as the restructuring of Zee’s businesses was announced in the evening, after the bourses had closed.

    MY Khan joins Zee board

    Dr MY Khan, chairman of Banking and Advisory Council, YES Bank Ltd, has joined Zee as a director on the board of the company. Dr Khan has previously served as chairman of J & K Bank. He is also a director on the Board of Bharat Hotels, as well as an advisor for Berenson & Company, New York.