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Arnab Goswami Elected as Prez of NBF
Four Vice Presidents to be part of governing board - Jagi Mangat Panda, Shankar Bala, Sanjive Narain, Kartikeya Sharma
Arnab Goswami, Managing Director and Editor in Chief of Republic TV, has been elected as the new President of News Broadcasters Federation (NBF). NBF, the country’s largest industry association of more than 78 news channels representing broadcasters from 14 languages and 25 states of the country, met on Saturday to firm up the governance and management structure, as well to finalize on the modalities of a self-regulatory organization – News Broadcasters Federation Authority – with an aim to bring in transparent self-regulation on content. The members unanimously elected Goswami as the new President of NBF’s Governing Board.
BARC Week : ABP Retains Top Rank
ABP curated special programming for Ayodhya verdict, Maharashtra political crisis, Supreme Court’s Rafale Verdict
ABP News Network has retained the top ranking from Week 45 to Week 48 with 238 gross million viewership, according to BARC. ABP curated special programming for when the Ayodhya Verdict, Maharashtra Political Crisis, Supreme Court’s Rafale Verdict, and Maharashtra government formation were transpiring among the regional channels of ABP News Network - ABP Ananda, ABP Asmita, ABP Majha and ABP Sanjha. Speaking on this achievement, Avinash Pandey, CEO, ABP News Network said, “We are extremely elated to see the faith of the viewers in our news channels, which has steered us on top. Our unwavering commitment towards delivering the best possible content to the viewers has always been of paramount importance, and has ensured our dominance in the industry.
FB with a New Road Map on Privacy
At a recent summit, Facebook India's Managing Director Ajit Mohan said that they are creating a new roadmap that is more focused on privacy
At the Global Technology Summit by Carnegie India in Bengaluru, Facebook India’s Managing Director Ajit Mohan said that Facebook today is quite a different company than it was two years ago and that here is an effort to create a new roadmap that is a lot more focused on privacy. Mohan also mentioned that Facebook is now fairly large and used widely around the world. About 2.8 billion users use the Facebook family of apps every month. “There should be scrutiny on a company that is so deeply embedded into the social fabric of societies around the world. Facebook was linked to access of third-party developers, which was not intended. Although it violated Facebook's own policies. I do think the company is acknowledged that there were fundamental assumptions that third-party developers would behave in some ways and adhere to our policies that didn't work out.”
ABP Majha Leads BARC Week 48
As per BARC Week 48 data, the Marathi news genre saw 37 million unique viewers as compared to the previous four weeks
On the back of Maharashtra government formation Marathi and Hindi news genre witnessed a tremendous growth in viewership, as per the BARC India data of Maharashtra and Goa region. The Marathi news genre witnessed 57% growth in viewership. The genre saw 37 million unique viewers in week 48 as compared to the previous four weeks. Similarly, Hindi news genre witnessed 34million unique viewers in the same week and also saw 24% growth in viewership. In the Marathi news genre, ABP Majha led the genre with 144173 impressions followed by TV9 Marathi on the second spot with 140860 impressions. Saam TV, Zee 24Taas and News18 Lokmat bagged third, fourth and fifth spot with 78285 impressions,71741 impressions and 37646 impressions respectively.
'Power of Print' : Jury Duty
The ‘Power of Print’ judges series returns with the country’s leading creatives sharing their views on what makes a great print ad
‘Power of Print’ invites creative minds to build an impactful print campaign based on a real brief and make it work for a company or a brand. Creatives from across agencies will battle not only to win the Power of Print award, but also see their winning campaign released in the pages of the Times of India group publications. In the past two editions, over 400 agencies from across the country participated with unique and engaging campaigns that pushed the envelope, creating impact for the cause (like girl child education) and the client.
BARC Week 48 : Aaj Tak Rises to the Top
ABP News and News18 India have swapped positions in urban + rural HSM
MUMBAI: ABP News has jumped to the second position in urban HSM while News18 India has fallen to the fifth position, as per BARC India data for week 48. Zee News has moved to the fifth position while the other two positions have remained unchanged.In rural HSM, Zee News has jumped to the third spot while Republic Bharat has entered the table at the fourth position. News18 India has fallen to the fifth position. ABP News and News18 India have swapped positions in urban + rural HSM.
Confident of Bouncing Back to the Top : Punit Goenka
The Zee Entertainment CEO has also said there was a need to strengthen the board with appointments from media and digital space
Zee Entertainment CEO and Managing Director Punit Goenka in an exclusive interview to CNBC has said an independent agency has been appointed on the company board to examine his compensation and contract. The development comes in respect to issues raised by Niharika Vohra, an Independent Director, who stepped down recently. The decision was taken by the board after detailed talks, Goenka said. The agency’s results will be out in around 8 weeks.On corporate governance issues raised by directors who have left the company, Goenka said in the interview: "(I) respect the decision of the directors to resign. I do not think they have sullied the reputation of the company.
Now Zee Hindustan Available in Tamil and Telugu
With this move, Zee Media aims to become the voice of the southern market
ZEE Media, a pioneer in the broadcasting industry had the vision to change the way news is consumed in India with the ZEE Hindustan channel re-launch and its one-of-a-kind content format- ‘Anchorless News Channel’. At the heart of this campaign was the determination to break the barrier of bias and an ability to innovate with an unusual, yet useful idea. With a disruptive idea and championing the success of channel’s re-launch, ZEE Hindustan takes another big step by making itself a National News Channel also available in Tamil & Telugu. The main message of this provocative campaign 'Ab Anchor Nahi, Khabrein Khud Bolengi, Kyun Ki Aap Samajhdaar Hai - ZEE Hindustan now available in Tamil & Telugu’ was followed with the message like – “since the news is speaking for itself what would the leading anchors of South Indian news channel do?” Even when it comes to news channels, viewers are biased with their favourite anchors.
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