Disney bags India, Asia b’cast rights for Aussie cricket

Disney bags India, Asia b’cast rights for Aussie cricket

The Australian cricket chief said Sunday they had agreed to sell broadcasting rights in India to Disney Star in a seven-year deal, reportedly worth hundreds of millions of dollars, which includes the popular men’s and women’s Big Bash T20 leagues.

The Walt Disney-owned media group is...


India TV corners max market share of 13.0% amongst Hindi news channels

India TV dominates with 13% mkt. share in Hindi news category

India TV’s dominance of the Hindi-speaking market (HSM) continued for yet another week as, according to BARC India data, its market share was the highest (13.0 percent) amongst the twelve Hindi news channels. A close second was Aaj Tak, which had a market share of 12.8 percent in the HSM with Republic Bharat in the third position with 12 perc...


British MPs for continuance of BBC public funding

British MPs for continuance of BBC public funding

Members of the Communications and Digital Committee of the UK House of Lords (Upper House) while frowning down on BBC’s “stagnation and decline”, have, however, favoured continuance of public funding of the broadcaster, apart from additional alternatives.

The new report, titled ‘Lice...


TV9 launches multilingual personal finance OTT app

TV9 launches multilingual personal finance OTT app

TV9 Network has announced the launch of Money9, India’s first multilingual personal finance OTT channel. A unique proposition, the company said in a statement, the Money9 OTT app is now live on Android and IOS platforms with seven language options—- Hindi, English, Bangla, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati and Kannada. Money9 is committed to de-ja...