BARC Week 11: Sony Pal climbs to fourth spot; Discovery Channel claims the throne

General entertainment

Star Plus continued to lead with 714086 GVTs, followed by Colors and Zee TV with 704932 and 646350 GVTs, respectively. Sony Pal climbed to fourth spot with 520529 GVTs, while Zee Anmol slipped to fifth position with 498891 GVTs.

Star Utsav remained at sixth spot with 492293 GVTs. Life OK stood at seventh position with 487474 GVTs, followed by Rishtey and Sony Sab with 450993 and 390053 GVTs, respectively. Sony Entertainment occupied tenth position with 298307 GVTs.

Top shows

Colors’ Naagin claimed the throne with 20164 GVTs. ICC World T20 India 2016 Live – S10 – India vs New Zealand on DD National stood at second spot with 17192 GVTs.

Zee TV’s Kumkum Bhagya occupied third position with 14464 GVTs, followed by Star Plus’ Saath Nibhaana Saathiya with 12066 GVTs. Star Plus’ Ye Hai Mohabbatein stood at fifth spot with 11875 GVTs.

News channels

Aaj Tak maintained its lead with 79605 GVTs, while India TV remained at second spot with 72602 GVTs. India News climbed to third position with 58344 GVTs, whereas ABP News slipped to fourth position with 48198 GVTs. News Nation stood strong at fifth spot with 45567 GVTs.

Movies

Zee Cinema stood strong at top spot with 433900 GVTs. Star Gold climbed to second position with 335637 GVTs, while Sony Max slipped to third spot with 329907 GVTs. Movies Ok and &pictures remained at fourth and fifth spots with 191072 and 187834 GVTs, respectively.

Sports

With 408361 GVTs, Star Sports retained its lead position, followed by sister channel Star Sports 3 with 391976 GVTs. Ten Sports remained at third position with 120217 GVTs, followed by Star Sports 2 with 74808 GVTs. Sony Six climbed to fifth spot with 29865 GVTs, surpassed Ten Cricket.

Music

Mastiii topped the chart once again with 104018 GVTs, followed by B4U Music and Sony Mix with 91712 and 79905 GVTs, respectively. 9XM remained at third spot with 75840 GVTs and Bindass Play occupied fifth position with 36438 GVTs.

Kids

Nick continued to lead with 81322 GVTs. Pogo TV stood strong at second spot with 78603 GVTs, followed by Disney Channel and Cartoon Network with 64638 and 56542 GVTs, respectively. Hungama remained at fifth position with 54574 GVTs.

Youth

Once again, MTV led the chart with 14045 GVTs. Zing retained its second position with 10376 GVTs, followed by Bindass with 10190 GVTs. Zoon stood at fourth position with 8981 GVTs and Channel V occupied fifth spot with 5505 GVTs.

Infotainment

Discovery Channel claimed the throne with 4873 GVTs, while last week’s topper History TV18 slipped to second position with 4656 GVTs. National Geographic Channel stood strong at third position with 3158 GVTs, followed by Animal Planet and Nat Geo Wild with 2902 and 1683 GVTs, respectively.

Source: IndianMediaBook - Television

BARC Week 11 English Genre: Movies Now claims the throne; Star World climbs to second spot

Entertainment channels

With 217 GVTs, Comedy Central maintained its lead, while Star World jumped from fourth spot to second position with 157 GVTs. AXN stood strong at third spot with 155 GVTs, while Zee Cafe slipped to fourth position with 133 GVTs. Colors Infinity SD was at fifth spot with 59 GVTs.

News channels

Times Now continued to lead with 290 GVTs, followed by India Today TV and NDTV 24×7 with 251 and 122 GVTs, respectively. News9 climbed to fourth spot with 116 GVTs, while CNN IBN slipped to fifth position with 111 GVTs.

Business news

CNBC TV18 topped the chart once again with 268 GVTs. ET Now stood at second position with 238 GVTs, followed by NDTV Profit and NDTV Prime with 58 GVTs. Bloomberg TV occupied fifth position with 17 GVTs.

Movies

Movie Now claimed the throne with 4143 GVTs, while last week’s topper Star Movies slipped to second spot with 2344 GVTs. Zee Studio climbed to third position with 1727 GVTs, while Sony Pix and HBO slipped to fourth and fifth spots with 1513 and 1475 GVTs, respectively.

Source: IndianMediaBook - Television

BARC Week11 Regional Mapping: Colors Oriya climbs to third spot; Star Parvah slips to fifth position

Marathi

Once again Zee Marathi led the chart with 142080 GVTs. Colors Marathi stood at second spot with 92789 GVTs, followed by Zee Talkies with 71631 GVTs. Fakt Marathi returned to fourth position with 40767 GVTs, while Star Parvah slipped to fifth spot with 30570 GVTs.

Bangla

With 219892 GVTs, Star Jalsha maintained its lead, followed by Zee Bangla and Jalsha Movies with 143283 and 57647 GVTs, respectively. Zee Bangla Cinema remained at fourth spot with 33785 GVTs and Colors Bangla stood at fifth position with 30582 GVTs

Bhojpuri

Big Ganga continued to lead with 20514 GVTs, while rival Bhojpuri Cinema stood strong at second spot with 10367 GVTs. Dangal TV remained at third position with 7765 GVTs, followed by Dabangg with 7494 GVTs. ETV Bihar Jharkhand remained at fifth spot with 3110 GVTs.

Oriya

Sarthak TV stood strong at top spot with 117979 GVTs. Tarang TV remained at second position with 49625 GVTs. Colors Oriya climbed to third spot with 15447 GVTs, while Odhisha TV slipped to fourth position with 12324 GVTs. Alankar TV surpassed Parathana TV and claimed fifth spot with 6669 GVTs.

Tamil

With 902222 GVTs, Sun TV led the chart once again, followed by KTV and Star Vijay with 243557 and 178720 GVTs, respectively. Zee Tamil stood strong at fourth spot with 88776 GVTs, while Polimer returned to fifth position with 71059 GVTs.

Telugu

ETV Telugu maintained its lead with 431543 GVTs. Zee Telugu remained at second spot with 427286 GVTs, followed by Maa TV with 401335 GVTs. Gemini TV occupied fifth position with 272817 GVTs, followed by Gemini Movies with 168861 GVTs.

Kannada

Colors Kannada topped the chart once again with 226437 GVTs, followed by Survana with 160662 GVTs. Zee Kannada stood at third position with 14410 GVTs. Sister channels UdayaMovies and Udaya TV occupied fourth and fifth spots with 134610 and 114486 GVTs, respectively.

Malayalam

Asianet continued to lead with 340747 GVTs, followed by Mazhavil Manorama with 90603 GVTs. Flowers TV remained at third spot with 70323 GVTs, while Surya TV occupied fourth position with 54468 GVTs. Asianet Movies stood at fifth spot with 49204 GVTs.

Source: IndianMediaBook - Television

Ten Sports Network unveils a new identity with Never Stop as the network positioning

Ten Sports Network announced a new identity for its bouquet of sports channels with Never Stop as the network positioning. The network will also be re-branding its existing bouquet of channels as Ten 1, Ten2, Ten 3 and Ten 1HD respectively. The new logos and positioning will be officially unveiled on air on Friday, 1st April 2016.

Commenting on the re-branding of the channel bouquet, Rajesh Sethi, Global CEO, Ten Sports Network, said, “As a sports network, we have been continuously providing high quality sports programming from across the world, for our viewers. Our rebranding effort signals the start of a new era, a contemporary and energized approach to how the network views its sport sphere, with maximum excitement and engagement for its viewers.”

Ten Sports Network’s logo as well as the individual channel logos, have been designed keeping in mind the elements of action and dynamism, as well as immediacy and the spirit to achieve. These powerful thoughts behind the logos point to the Italic nature of the fonts used. The flame has been an intrinsic part of Ten Sports’ identity since inception and it has consciously been retained to maintain a connection with viewers, even while it is now surrounded by the new and dynamic network and individual channel fonts.

 “As we bring across a variety of sports and sportainment for our viewers from across the world, at times it becomes a hurdle to allocate content to a particular sports-specific channel. In order to break free from sports-specific channels, we are taking the numeric route. We strive to bring international-quality sports to our viewers and we want them to watch sports as it is consumed internationally with numeric-based channels. It is our endeavour to ‘Never Stop’ delivering sporting action to our fans,” added Sethi.

Post rebranding, the network will be spreading content amongst all the channels. Ten1 will focus on WWE Weekly Shows and Specials, Ten 2 on UEFA Champions League, Europa League, Super Cup and other football content, as well as US Open, Moto GP and Tour de France, while Ten 3’s primary focus will be Cricket from South Africa, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe.

Among the HD channels, Ten1 1 HD will broadcast the best of content from across the Ten Sports Network’s SD Channels while Ten Golf HD will primarily showcase premium golf content including the European tour, Asian Tour, Rider Cup and US PGA Championship.

As a part of its rebranding, Ten Sports Network will also roll out a brand new logo for Tensports.com. It will showcase extensive live sports content with a special focus on Video-On-Demand.

The live streaming will include football content from UEFA Champions League and Europa League, including matches that are not broadcast on TV, as well as content from Ligue 1, I-League, Cricket from across the five boards, Tennis, Golf, Moto GP multi-angle feeds and much more.The brand refresh will also be accompanied by a new programming rollout which will be developed via insights from new media and fan involvement to the greatest extent.

Source: IndianMediaBook - Television

MIB grants permission to 995 private satellite TV channels;869 private satellite TV channels holds valid permission

The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB) has granted permission to 995 satellite TV channels. However, it has also cancelled the permission for 126 channels.

MIB informed in an official release said that there are 869 private satellite TV channels that have valid permission. Out of which 402 are news and current affairs channels, whereas 467 channels are non-news and current affairs channels.

Out of 755 permitted uplink TV channels from India and also downlink to India, 380 are news channels and 375 are non-news.

Likewise, there are only 20 TV channels which have permission for uplink from India but not permitted to downlink in India, which includes 7 news channels and 13 non-news genre.

Out of 94 TV channels which have permission to only downlink into India, 15 are news channels and rest 79 are from non-news category.

Source: IndianMediaBook - Television