Page 7 - Television

Shrinking screens: Why would a customer pay Rs 250 a month for cable?

From Rs 27,000 crore in 2010, cable's share of subscription revenues is now estimated at Rs 13,000 crore

'Squid Game' ranks first on Netflix global chart for 29 days

In addition, it is notable that 'My Name' and tvN drama 'Hometown Cha Cha Cha' have been listed in the top 10

Broadcasters take another hit

The battle of wills between the world's second largest TV market and its regulator, which began maybe five years ago, continues

Fraudulent trades: Sebi bars TV anchor, five others from securities markets

Passing an interim order, the regulator also directed impounding Rs 8.4 crore-worth proceeds from the fraudulent trades.

Facebook wraps up deals with Aussie media firms, drops TV broadcaster SBS

The U.S. social media giant has inked deals with a range of Australian big media companies including News Corp (NWSA.O) to the Australian Broadcasting Corp

Television prices likely to rise 3-4% in June, say industry players

Prices of LED televisions are expected to rise by 3-4 per cent this month as cost of panels have gone up in the global market besides an increase in logistics expenses. It will be the second hike by the manufacturers in the last three months. In April, the prices were hiked due to a rise in operating cost on account of increased ocean freight charges, and domestic transportation costs. Brands such as Panasonic, Haier and Thomson are considering increasing the prices of LED televisions. Panasonic India & South Asia President and CEO Manish Sharma said that in line with the commodity price increase, "we are also looking at increasing prices for some of the products in the range of 3-4 per cent". Haier Appliances India President Eric Braganza said there is no other option than to increase the price. "The panel prices have gone up. Everyone has been left with no option but to increase the price. Panel prices of 32 inches, which are largely sold in India, and large screen sizes (such)

Television broadcast major Sun Network registers 11% growth in net profit

The advertisement revenues for the year was at Rs 994.03 crore as against Rs 1,336.91crore for the previous year

Realme set to expand in new TV price segments in India, says CEO

With the latest Android 10 version, the viewers will have access to unlimited content like Prime Video, Netflix, YouTube and Google Play, the company said.

Covid-19: Producers Guild of India to vaccinate members from Tuesday

PGI, the association of Indian film, television and digital content producers, on Monday announced a vaccination drive for its members and associated production crews beginning from June 1

OnePlus launches Y Series TV 40 at Rs 23,999: Sale info, specs, and more

OnePlus Y Series 40 goes on sale from May 26, exclusively on home-grown e-commerce platform Flipkart, at an introductory price of Rs 21,999

Best of BS Opinion: Future of television, Unicorn seeding, and more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces on Thursday

TV-owning households in India grew 6.9% to 210 mln in two years: BARC

The Broadcast Audience Rating Council (BARC) said on Thursday

Xiaomi debuts Redmi X-series smart TVs in India: Price, features, and more

Xiaomi Redmi X-series smart TVs come in three screen size variants - 65-inch, 55-inch and 50-inch

TV prices have soared 300% in the last eight months

The per unit cost of TVs will go up by at least Rs 2000-3000 starting April 1st, 2021

TV makers jump on PLI bandwagon as more AC companies evince interest

Apart from offering inducement to any incremental production over the next five years, the scheme has the potential to transform the manufacturing landscape in the country

Larry King, American broadcasting giant for half-century, dies at 87

Larry King's broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes helped define American conversation

Committee on TRP ratings submits report to I&B minister Javadekar

The committee constituted to make the Television Rating Points (TRPs) of TV channels more transparent, submitted its report to the Union Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday.

TRP scam: Ex-BARC CEO Dasgupta's police custody extended

The Mumbai police told a local court here that Partho Dasgupta, arrested former CEO of Broadcast Audience Research Council manipulated the television rating points of Republic TV and its Hindi arm.

Prices of TV and appliances likely to go up by around 10% from January

Prices for LED TV and appliances such as refrigerator, washing machines are expected to go up by around 10 per cent from January next year on account of rise in costs of key input materials like copper, aluminium and steel and increase in ocean and air freights charges. Besides, prices of TV panels (Opencell) have also gone up by over two-folds due to short supply by the global vendors, while cost of plastic has also gone up due to rise in crude oil prices, said manufacturers. Terming it as imminent and unavoidable, manufacturers such as LG, Panasonic and Thomson are going to increase the prices from January, however, Sony is still reviewing the situation and is yet to take a call on this. "We expect the increase in commodity prices to impact our product pricing in near future. I anticipate the prices to go up by 6-7 per cent in January itself and may go up to 10-11 per cent towards end of FY Q1," said Panasonic India President & CEO Manish Sharma. LG Electronics India is also ...

TRP rigging case: Former operations head of ratings agency BARC arrested

This is the 14th arrest in the case