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Broadcasters formally write to ICC, say tender for media rights doesn't 'encourage' them to bid

MUMBAI: All four cricket broadcasters - Disney, Viacom18, Sony and Zee - who participated in the e-auction for media rights of the Indian Premier League (IPL) have written to the International Cricket Council (ICC), letting the governing body of the game know that the current tender document does not encourage…

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‘You will see a change’: Congress finally has a new media strategy, but will its aggression pay off?

On July 1, something unexpected happened.

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No bills, low attendance, 10 questions: A recap of Subhash Chandra’s Rajya Sabha tenure

When he took oath as a Rajya Sabha MP in August 2016, media baron Subhash Chandra said it was now time to “give back to society” since he had done “a great deal of business in life”.

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TV Newsance 181: Ranveer Singh’s ‘bum’ makes it to primetime

Believe it or not, Ranveer Singh’s nude shoot made it to primetime TV news discussion this week. Sudhir Chaudhary, now on Aaj Tak, wondered about the actor’s majboori, while giving us gyaan on sanskaar. We also catch him repeating his show theme from Zee News: in the span of a…

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Who Owns Your Media: The highs and lows of the India Today Group

Forty seven years ago, in 1975, Madhu Trehan founded India Today magazine, although her father Vidya Vilas Purie had originally envisioned it as a tabloid. Trehan had returned from the United States, where she studied journalism at Columbia University and worked with the UN and India Abroad, among other organisations.

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India Today Group really is a ‘natural home’ for Sudhir Chaudhary

In a memo to the India Today Group staff, vice chairperson Kalli Purie excitedly introduced Sudhir Chaudhary as their new consulting editor. We are certain the newsroom was just as excited. As the employees were reminded by their boss, Chaudhary brings the experience and fanbase of his last show, DNA…

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'The natural home for a household name': Sudhir Chaudhary to join Aaj Tak as consulting editor

Ten days after his resignation from Zee was accepted, Sudhir Chaudhary has been announced to join Aaj Tak as consulting editor.

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Why did Sudhir Chaudhary leave Zee?

There’s hardly a primetime show on Indian news TV that is not identified with its host. “Shouty” to “communal”, it’s not hard to predict how a show will tackle a subject if you know the host. So, it’s quite surprising for the news industry that one of the country’s “most…

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Media rights sale: BCCI nets ₹44,075 cr. on day 2; spills over to third day

Experts expect revenue to cross ₹60,000 crore for five-year cycle

The Hindu

IPL Media Rights: Disney Star gets TV deal for Rs 23,575 crore, Viacom18 bags digital for Rs 20,500 crore

NEW DELHI: Disney Star won the coveted IPL Indian sub-continent TV rights for a whopping Rs 23,575 crore while Viacom18 grabbed the digital rights with a bid of Rs 20,500 crore at the media rights auction on Monday.

The Times of India

IPL Media Rights: per match value crosses ₹100 crore mark on Day 1 of rights auction

Viacom18, Disney-Star, Sony, and Zee were involved in an inconclusive seven-hour slugfest of day 1 bidding war over TV Rights and Digital Rights fetching upwards of $5.37 billion and counting

The Hindu

IPL Media Rights: IPL per match value crosses Rs 100 crore mark on Day 1, Digital Rights rule the roost

NEW DELHI: The Indian Premier League's media rights auction witnessed a robust bidding for TV and Digital rights of the Indian sub-continent with the valuation of per match of the cash-rich league being earmarked at more than a whopping Rs 100 crore.

The Times of India

IPL Media Rights Auction: IPL per match value crosses Rs 100 crore mark on Day 1, Digital Rights rule the roost

The Times of India

IPL Media Rights: Amazon pulls out; Star, Viacom18, Sony, Zee in 4-way race

NEW DELHI: The much-anticipated duel between Jeff Bezos and Mukesh Ambani for acquisition of one of world's costliest sporting properties won't materialise now as OTT giants Amazon on Friday pulled out of IPL media rights bidding, scheduled to start on Sunday.

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Invesco divests 7.74% stake in ZEEL for Rs 2,092 crore

NEW DELHI: Investment firm Invesco on Thursday offloaded 7.74 per cent stake in Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) for Rs 2,092 crore through an open market transaction.

The Times of India

Invesco funds to divest up to 7.8% stake in ZEEL

NEW DELHI: Investment firm Invesco on Wednesday said three funds managed by its developing markets investment team, including Invesco Developing Markets Fund, will sell up to 7.8 per cent of the share capital of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) to align exposures to the firm with other funds managed by…

The Times of India

IPL media rights: Big boys on board

TV18-Viacom, Amazon, Disney, Sony, Zee buy ITT; Apple could join

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DD writes to BARC, I&B to act against 9 Zee channels

Authorities at Doordarshan have written to the Broadcast Audience Research Council to take action against nine channels linked to the Zee network – which have not been allotted slots on the DD Free Dish by Prasar Bharati but are available on free to air set top boxes.

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TV Newsance 165: Arnab’s Pakistan love, Sudhir’s hypocrisy, News18’s journey from tehzeeb to tezaab

Petrol prices have reached a record high in India. Meanwhile on primetime, the turmoil in Pakistan is all many of our dear anchors can speak of. Imran Khan and Pakistan-bashing is entertainment, after all, not news – while the economic crisis in Sri Lanka gets little attention.

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Why news channels have approached the government against Zee

With auctions for DD Free Dish slots for news channels kicking off earlier this month, dozens of networks are in a tight contest through auctions to reach 38 million regional viewers with Doordarshan’s free direct-to-home service. But the competition has doled out confrontation, when one channel has been perceived to…

The Times of India

IPL media rights: Can Amazon be among the prime contenders?

MUMBAI: A local ship-builder in Rotterdam, Netherlands, has requested city authorities to dismantle the historic Koningshaven Bridge over the Lower Rhine so that a custom-made superyacht can sail from there into the sea. It happened this week and local officials are considering the request.

The Times of India

IPL media rights: Can Zee and Sony live happily ever after?

MUMBAI: If last year's merger between media giants Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd and Sony Pictures Network India (SPNI) was akin to a marriage, the buying of all or any cricket rights this year, will be the newlyweds' perfect honeymoon. That bit is a given.

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