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HD services offerings in India – Options galore!
Were you the one impressed by High-definition ads telecasted during IPL? Aamir Khan in Tata Sky+ HD ad saying that he can record and watch 625 hours of High Definition Cricket and other stuff on TV and Shahrukh on the other hand claiming…
Lukup for i-Ads on TV: revolutionary idea? [Media Monday]
Lukup, a Bangalore based company run by Headstart founder Kallol Borah has come out with first of it’s kind concept in India- interactive Ads on Television sets! The ads are 100/100 pixel small ads which are shown as hot spot format at…
Movie rental in India falls flat before even taking off? [Media Monday]
That’s a question I have been asking people for quite sometime, not before I asked it on Quora (How Indian Movie rental services are doing? Subscription numbers for services like bigflix.com and seventymm.com?) and it was Sidharth’s answer…
DTH+3G: Can it bring the next big revolution? [Media Monday]
These days I’m in Mumbai, and as I entered here while coming from Delhi I found almost every slum house on the way fitted with Airtel DTH. That’s some awesome thing, isn’t? DTH subscribers are over 20 Million now and guess what? It added 10…
Govt to Allow more Television Channels – A boon or a bane?
How many TV channels do you watch on an average? 10?... 15?... 20?... 25?... Certainly not more than that, for sure. So, do we still have any scope for new television channel launches in India? Yes, of course! Over the last few years,…
Kids spend about 5 hours a day watching TV !!
Yes, it is yet another survey, but probably a startling and scary one, especially if you are a parent. According to survey released by ASSOCHAM, kids spent about 35 hrs a week watching TV or about 5 hours a day on average. That’s about 150…
Why Bigg Boss should be banned? [Media Monday]
Well there are good shows and there are bad shows, but then there are ugly and non-sense shows too! Yes, I’m talking about Bigg Boss which is already in trouble due to the scenes where inmates are making out in front of Camera, there…
Indian TV Channels- market share Vs profit?
There is a race. A race with no real goal. A race where anyone can compete as they are fed with ample food to get started, and then they are asked to RUN! But there is no direction and no ultimate goal, do you think the race will do any…
Despite losses Anil eyes BIG in media business- To launch 20 new TV channels [Media Monday]
Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd. (RBNL) recently raised Rs. 2.83 Billion via preferential allotment of 33.32 million equity shares at a price of Rs 85 per share. Even though RBNL which houses the radio and Out-of-Home business of R-ADAG…
Does Internet TV pose a real threat to DTH in India?
When DTH came into market there were loads of speculation as whether Indians would use it or not. CAS wasn’t working even when Govt tried to put regulations around it. But thanks to the vision of Private Companies, DTH took off in India and…
Media’s stand against Commonwealth Games- Good or bad? [Media Monday]
Commonwealth Games is in news for all the bad reasons and it would be unfair if we don’t cover this over here and present our views regarding the same! No. We don’t want to cover the illness of games or the Media’s exposure of Corruption,…
More Reality and Cricket on TV: Are you bored? [Media Monday]
Are you watching the recent “Airtel Champion League” on TV? If ‘YES’ then it’s great, but if ‘NO’ then why? Are you getting bored with too much of Cricket? Do you think that there is an overdose of ‘county’ style cricket? Well recent…
Modern Technology but Traditional Content: Experimentation has just begun in India’s TV Market…
On one hand you can see Steve Jobs’ keynote on “Apple TV” which is a revolutionary step towards Web-TV integration and on the other you can find Indian TV producers experimenting with local content to make interesting programs. India has…
Nokia partners with RCom to provide personalized content, but where is the media presence? [Media…
After a year of seeing local brand Mobile phones all over my TV Screen, I have actually started believing that these phones are good and Nokia doesn’t have the expertise to create such ‘feature rich’ phones at damn cheap costs. But do you…
What reality shows are doing for Indian society and some more ideas! [Media Monday]
Well, for quite sometime my posts have been more of news and less of insights. Hence today I thought of writing something which can make the left side of your Brain to work ;). Reality shows as we know today is favourite genre of all…
Free Direct-to-Home [DTH] from Doordarshan soon!
The DTH space is hotting up – Past couple of years have seen many new entrants in this, now-competitive, Direct-to-home market . DTH technology has moved from simple digital signals to Mpeg 4 to High definition now. Consumers can even…
Media Monday: Rise of sports viewership other than Cricket in India
During first two days of FIFA World cup 2010, viewership data read a whopping 20 Million viewers according to TAM in India, a 35% rise from World cup of 2006. This may be nearly half of IPL-3’s first 3 days viewership of 37.1 million…
Media Monday: Use social media but with caution!
No. This discussion is not about me or you. It’s about big brands, brands which seem to be in a social media war in getting more number of followers/fans over Twitter/Facebook. The problem usually arises when Big companies hire other…
Media Monday: Can FIFA become as big as IPL?
FIFA World Cup has a huge FAN following in India, Indian’s usually support “Argentina” or “Brazil” during any World Cup but when it comes to viewership, every match is watched with same enthusiasm. This time FIFA matches are held in…
Media Monday: Radio channels with innovative content ideas!
If you think its only Television Channels which come up with innovative ideas these days, read this- Radio Channels are going a step ahead and are implementing out of the Box ideas. Recently ‘Radio Mirchi’ came up with the idea of playing…