September 28th, 2020 11:37 AM 0 COMMENTS

Tata Sky to Revise EPG Numbers of Over 20 Bengali Channels

Tata Sky, the largest Direct-to-Home (DTH) operator in India announced that the Bengali regional channels on its platform would have electronic programming guide (EPG) number revisions beginning September 29, 2020. The operator said that the two day exercise ending on September 30, 2020 would affect over 20 Bengali regional channels including Colors Bangla, Zee Bangla and Star Jalsha. The operator since early September has been revising the EPG numbers of... Read More

August 3rd, 2020 5:41 PM 0 COMMENTS

Prasar Bharati Announces Addition of New Channels on DD Free Dish Platform

Prasar Bharati, India’s public service broadcaster on Friday announced that two new channels have secured slots on its DD Free Dish platform, India’s only free Direct to Home (DTH) service. The broadcaster announced that the slots secured by the two channels would be valid between August 6, 2020 to March 31, 2021. Prasar Bharati on July 20, 2020, had invited applications from TV channels for filling up the vacant slots... Read More

June 23rd, 2020 7:04 AM 0 COMMENTS

Tata Sky Adds 4 New Channels to its Platform in 3 Days

Tata Sky, one of the largest Direct-to-Home (DTH) operators in India has added four new channels to its platform in the past three days. The operator on Friday added Dhinchaak, a Hindi movie channel along with Power TV, a Kannada news channel and Manjari, a Odia general entertainment channel. Further, the DTH operator on Monday added Hindi devotional channel Ishwar TV to its platform. Tata Sky has introduced several new... Read More

May 8th, 2020 9:11 PM 0 COMMENTS

English and Business News Channels Get Highest Viewership in Week 17: BARC and Nielsen Study

TV channels viewership has drastically increased in the lockdown period. Since people are staying at home, they are watching multi-genre channels to have an informative and entertaining quarantine period. Among all the genres, News genre is attracting TV viewers from the past seven weeks. As reported by Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC), both English and business news channels have witness increased viewership in Week 17. English news channels... Read More

May 2nd, 2020 6:29 PM 1 COMMENTS

MIB Invites Feedback on New Policy Guidelines of TV Channels, Net Worth Requirement Specified

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) on Thursday issued a new draft policy guidelines for uplinking and downlinking of television channels with the ministry seeking suggestions and comments from stakeholders. According to the circular from the ministry, the new guidelines are said to “address the challenges from fast evolving broadcasting technology.” The stakeholders are provided 15 days to submit their suggestions and comments on the new policy guidelines. The... Read More

April 22nd, 2020 12:03 PM 0 COMMENTS

Trai NTO 2.0: These Are the Complete Pay TV Channels Available on DTH Platforms

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) changed the landscape of broadcasting sector last year with the introduction of the National Tariff Order (NTO). The NTO 1.0 raised a lot of eyebrows in the industry because of several factors like sub-par implementation from operators, pricier channel scheme and not-so-impressive overall structure. However, Trai tweaked the NTO 1.0 and announced the National Tariff Order (NTO) 2.0 with several changes. The NTO... Read More

April 20th, 2020 3:14 PM 0 COMMENTS

Tata Sky Adds Eurosport HD, Zee Biskope and 1Sports Channels in the Midst of Lockdown

Tata Sky on Monday added three channels including Eurosport HD, Zee Biskope and 1Sports to its platform with the company making the channels free for the first 10 days to all users. According to the data available on Tata Sky, the channels will be charged between Rs 0.10 to Rs 6 exclusive of taxes post the 10 day period. It has to be noted that Eurosport was earlier known as... Read More

April 3rd, 2020 4:34 PM 0 COMMENTS

Indian TV Viewership Increased By 1.2 Trillion Minutes: BARC and Nielsen Study

The precautionary lockdown period has blessed the broadcasters as their viewership has been increased in the second week of COVID-19 outbreak. As per a joint study by BARC and Nielsen, the weekly viewing minutes have been increased from 887 Billion per minute in week 1 to 1215 billion in week 2. Not only this, but the users are daily spending approximately five hours in week 2, which was nearly 3... Read More

March 25th, 2020 7:47 PM 3 COMMENTS

South Indian Sun TV and Star MAA Become Most Watched Pay TV Channels: BARC

Southern Channels Sun TV and Star MAA dominated the Pay TV viewership from the beginning of 2020. Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) in their weekly report stated that Tamil and Telegu language channels that are Sun TV and Star MAA was the most-watched Pay TV channels across multiple genres. One step below, Hindi GEC Colors grabbed the second spot in the most-watched Pay-TV channel at the beginning of... Read More

January 21st, 2020 2:59 PM 0 COMMENTS

Tata Sky Optimise Feature Helps the Users Reduce Their Channel Pack Prices

Of all the four pay DTH operators right now, Tata Sky is leading the chart thanks to the wide range of channel packs and several other features on offer. Tata Sky offers unique features like recording and setting reminders on the Set-Top Box right from the mobile app itself. And there's another unique feature on offer called 'Optimisation.; Tata Sky users can reduce their channel pack prices using this optimisation... Read More

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