Tekno Point appoints Saurabh Shah as Chief Revenue Officer

Tekno Point appoints Saurabh Shah as Chief Revenue Officer

Tekno Point, an award-winning digital experience partner, has announced the appointment of Saurabh Shah as its new Chief Revenue Officer.

Saurabh joins Tekno Point with progressive experience in the sales, go-to-market and management domains. His role as the CRO will be to spearhead ...


Nivedita Basu joins ULLU as head of content strategy & business alliances

Nivedita Basu joins ULLU as head of content strategy & business alliances

Nivedita Basu has joined the homegrown OTT platform ULLU as head of content strategy & business alliances. In her new role, she will entail developing, creating, and producing original content and leading strategic business alliances for the platform. The news was shared on Basu’s LinkedIn profile. She has over two decades of experi...


Several news channels buy DD Free Dish slots

India’s pay Hindi GECs may keep off DD FreeDish

Keeping in mind the larger interest of the broadcast industry in mind, particularly those of the distribution platforms and LCOs, country’s Hindi pay general entertainment channels (GECs) are likely not to actively participate in the auctioning process of slots on Doordarshan’s FTA DTH service FreeDish.


BARC ratings: CNN-News18 tops English news genre

TV ad volumes post double digit growth in 2021: BARC report

The year 2020 was subdued for television advertising, leading to a decline in total ad volumes across the year despite the record stay-at-home rise in viewership. But 2021 has bounced back with a substantial double-digit spike, delivering an all-time high of 1824 million seconds of ad volumes during the year, Broadca...


DD India joins YuppTV platform; widens reach in 7 countries

DD India joins YuppTV platform; widens reach in 7 countries

With a clear aim to widen global reach and spread India’s perspectives on international developments, Doordarshan (DD) India has hopped on to the YuppTV platform.

The agreement with the Atlanta-headquartered OTT platform will get DD India, pubcaster Doordarshan’s international TV cha...


Supreme Court stays, till further orders, MediaOne channel ban

SC to hear MediasOne channel plea against ban on Mar 11

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear on March 11 a plea of Malayalam news channel MediaOne against the Kerala High Court order upholding the federal government’s decision to ban its telecast on security grounds. A bench, comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices A S Bopanna, took note of the submissio...