'In the lockdown, family viewing became even more important.' 'Kids saw adult content and adults saw a lot of kids content.' 'The audience is no longer just the housewife, but the whole family.'
With the acquisition of Hotstar, Disney gets immediate access to the OTT market.
From Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan to Chiranjeevi and Prabhas, India's film stars are stepping forward to do their bit for migrants, daily wage workers and those from their own film industry facing joblessness and near starvation in an unprecedented pan-India lockdown.
...it won't be a cakewalk Former England opener Mark Butcher says a series win in Australia will seal India's greatness
The India-Australia series comes at the end of the calendar year, in a quarter when most brands are close to the end of their advertising budgets.
The entire series consists of the shorter format of cricket, which draws more audiences.
'The way he's made that adjustment, mental adjustment, that is brilliant, fantastic. And that is the reason why he was able to get big runs'
Demerging print and TV news businesses will allow for separate investment by interested players.
The $385 million acquisition of TEN Sports is set to make Sony Pictures Networks a major cricket broadcaster in Asia as it seeks to expand its Twenty20-dominated portfolio. Sony Corp-owned SPN holds broadcast rights for the annual cash-rich Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament while also having the rights for the domestic leagues in South Africa and the West Indies.
YRF may come out of the debacle fairly unscathed financially. The exhibitors and smaller distributors will take almost 75% of the hit.
he battle has moved to the small screen and guess who's winning? Urvi Malvania reports.
'For the first couple of years, it is about building the league.' 'We are positive that the quality of matches will attract eyeballs.'
In 2015, e-commerce contributed significantly to the growth in television advertising revenues.
Sony eyes a 2 billion payoff from telecasting the Fifa World Cup.
The four south Indian languages grew by 7% while regional languages within the Hindi speaking markets (such as Bhojpuri, Bangla, Marathi, etc) grew by 26%.
Urvi Malvania reveals STAR India's big plans for IPL-11.
Teams play safe, retain star players, total purse at Rs 148 crore versus Rs 198 crore last year
Best vs Best. Tiger vs Tiger. Star India, BCCI team up for a high decibel campaign for the cricket jamboree.
Coffee Board of India has signed on P V Sindhu, P Gopichand and Prabhas and Rana Daggubatti from the Baahubali star cast as brand ambassadors
The current broadcasting platforms believe the road ahead for Netflix might not be a cakewalk
OTT players like Netflix, Hotstar, and Voot are keen to find a common currency to measure viewership numbers and improve advertising options as well as content. Urvi Malvania reports.
Star's maths is simple: It expects to make something close to Rs 40 billion from the two properties in the first year (2018) itself, which is pretty close to its break even point
It is all about hitting the ball high and timing it right.
New players from India and abroad have caught the attention of brand managers.
He was blessed with celestial ability, a once-in-a-generation player destined to pull India out of its hockey inertia and lay down for it a new, exciting, path of greatness. Then he was shot and unsure if he would walk, let alone play hockey again. Dhruv Munjal hopes Soorma, the biopic on Sandeep Singh's life, will bring him back where he belongs -- in the spotlight.
Mythological and historical shows are lapped up not just by the young, but equally by grown men and women.
'And Tina, that girl inside that woman, wants to try different things.'
'The IPL is by the biggest sports property in the country and having it will give any digital video player an edge.'
An upcoming film on Mohammad Azharuddin promises to be a potboiler, though not a true biopic.
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