75-615: The Kapil Sharma Show , also known as TKSS , is an Indian Hindi language stand-up comedy and talk show broadcast by Sony Entertainment Television . Hosted by Kapil Sharma , the first season of the show premiered on 23 April 2016. The series revolved around Sharma and his neighbours in the Shantivan Non Co-operative Housing Society. The filming of the show took place at Film City situated in Goregaon East, Mumbai . The first season of
150-486: A Tamil channel called GEC (Golden Eagle Communication), which was later acquired by Vijay Mallya and renamed as Vijay TV . In Telugu, Telugu daily newspaper Eenadu started its television division called ETV Network in 1995 and later diversified into other Indian languages. The same year, another Telugu channel called Gemini TV was launched which was later acquired by the Sun TV Network in 1998. Throughout
225-492: A commercial star cast. Later, film actor Anupam Kher denied allegations of Vivek Agnihotri. The Kapil Sharma Show' s first season received a mixed reception from critics and audiences. Namrata Thakker of Rediff.com gave it 2.5 stars out of 5 stars, liking the characters of Sunil Grover and Ali Asgar but saying that "the series has big shoes to fill considering how successful their earlier show Comedy Nights With Kapil was." Chaya Unnikrishnan of Daily News and Analysis gave
300-406: A heterogeneous and fragmenting television market ORG-MARG (Operations Research Group - Multiple Action Research Group) introduced INTAM (Indian National Television Audience Measurement). Ex-officials of Doordarshan ( DD ) claimed that INTAM was introduced by vested commercial interests who only sought to break the monopoly of DD and that INTAM was significantly weaker in both sample size, rigour and
375-414: A huge advertising industry. In 2021, India's advertising sector generated revenue worth 74,600 crore rupees, which included type types advertising. Traditionally organisations and manufacturing industries used to advertise through Television due to its vast reach. Indian TV and print media frequently run advertisements are often types of Surrogate advertisings , False advertisings etc. Alcohol advertising
450-546: A sample size of 11,000 Bar-o-meters, and covered the towns and cities with a population of 1,00,000 or more. Although this was less than what BARC India had assured to launch with, by October 2015, the sample reporting was scaled up to 20,000 Bar-o-meters, covering all 153mn TV owning homes in India. The sample has been since scaled up to 30,000 homes. As of 1 July 2017, BARC India has stopped reporting of analogue TV homes, in line with Government of India's DAS-4 deadline. At launch,
525-545: A statutory autonomous body was established. Doordarshan along with the AIR were converted into government corporations under Prasar Bharati . The Prasar Bharati Corporation was established to serve as the public service broadcaster of the country which would achieve its objectives through AIR and Doordashan. This was a step towards greater autonomy for Doordarshan and AIR. However, Prasar Bharati has not succeeded in shielding Doordarshan from government control. The transponders of
600-460: A subscription that varies depending on how many channels a subscriber chooses to pay for and how much the provider is charging for the packages. Channels are usually sold in groups or a la carte . All television service providers are required by law to provide a la carte selection of channels. India is the second largest pay-TV market in the world in terms of subscribers after China and has more than doubled from 32% in 2001 to 66% in 2018. In India,
675-507: A television. As of 2016, the country had over 900 channels of which 184 were pay channels . National channels operate in Hindi and English , in addition to channels in several other languages including Telugu , Tamil , Kannada , Malayalam , Bengali , Marathi , Odia , Punjabi , Assamese , Gujarati , Urdu , Bhojpuri , Kashmiri , Konkani and Haryanvi , among others. The Hindi, Telugu and Tamil language television industries are by far
750-486: A viewing population of more than 400 million individuals through more than 100 channels. There are at least five basic types of television in India : broadcast or "over-the-air" television, unencrypted satellite or " free-to-air ", Direct-to-Home (DTH) , cable television, IPTV and OTT . Over-the-air terrestrial and free-to-air TV (such as DD Free Dish ) is free with no monthly payments while Cable, DTH, and IPTV require
825-649: Is also noted that Bengali filmmaker Prabir Roy had the distinction of introducing colour television coverage in India in February–March 1982 during the Nehru Cup , a football tournament which was held at Eden Gardens , Kolkata , with five on-line camera operation, before Doordarshan started the same during the Delhi Asian Games in November that year. The central government, under the leadership of
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#1732790934727900-427: Is an annual research study that gathers specific details of households and individuals to be used together with Census data in the preparation of universe estimates for TV audience characteristics – geographic, demographic, socio-economic status, etc. The Survey also serves as a randomly selected pool of TV owning households for use in the ongoing selection and recruitment of panel households. Broadcast India 2016 Survey
975-576: Is at 64% as of September 2014. India now has over 850 TV channels (2018) covering all the main languages spoken in the nation and whereby 197 million households own televisions. The growth in digital broadcast has been due to the introduction of a multi-phase digitization policy by the Government of India. An ordinance was introduced by the Govt. of India regarding the mandatory digitization of Cable Services. According to this amendment made in section 9 of
1050-410: Is defined as the reception of satellite programmes with a personal dish in an individual home. As of December 2012, India had roughly 54 million DTH subscribers. DTH does not compete with CAS . Cable TV and DTH are two methods of delivery of television content. CAS is integral to both systems in delivering pay channels. Cable TV is through cable networks and DTH is wireless, reaching direct to
1125-544: Is illegal in India but brands frequently run surrogate advertising campaigns. The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA), the consumer rights protection body of the Consumer Affairs Ministry issued guidelines against surrogate advertising. Television metrics in India have gone through several phases in which it fragmented, consolidated and then fragmented again. One key difference in Indian culture
1200-544: Is not the whole of television but it is certainly the most significant link in the system" and added that the demonstration of the sort could be the "first in India ". The first TV transmitter in India was installed in the Electronics and Telecommunications engineering department of the Jabalpur Engineering College , on 24 October 1951. In Srinagar, television was first used in the house of
1275-566: Is provided by Airtel Digital TV , DD Free Dish , DishTV , Sun Direct , Tata Play and Videocon D2H . Dish TV was the first one to come up in Indian Market, others came only years later. These services are provided by locally built satellites from ISRO such as INSAT 4CR, INSAT 4A, INSAT-2E, INSAT-3C and INSAT-3E as well as private satellites such as the Dutch-based SES, Global-owned NSS-6 , Thaicom-2 and Telstar 10. DTH
1350-588: Is that families traditionally limit themselves to owning only one screen. During the days of the single-channel Doordarshan monopoly, DART ( Doordarshan Audience Research Team ) was the only metric available. This used the notebook method of recordkeeping across 33 cities across India. DART continues to provide this information independent of the Private agencies. DART is one of the rating systems that measure audience metrics in Rural India. In 1994, claiming
1425-501: The 1990s, along with a multitude of Hindi -language channels, several regional and English language channels flourished all over India. By 2001, international channels HBO and the History Channel started providing service. In 1995–2003, other international channels such as Cartoon Network , Nickelodeon, VH1 and Toon Disney entered the market. Starting in 2003, there has been an explosion of news channels in various languages;
1500-539: The American satellites PAS-1 and PAS-4 helped in the transmission and telecast of DD. An international channel called DD International was started in 1995 and it telecasts programmes for 19 hours a day to foreign countries-via PAS-4 to Europe, Asia and Africa, and via PAS-1 to North America. The 1980s was the era of DD with shows like Hum Log (1984–1985), Wagle Ki Duniya (1988), Buniyaad (1986–1987) and comedy shows like Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi (1984), other than
1575-604: The Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Amendment Ordinance, 1995, the I&;B ministry is in the process of making Digia tal Addressable System mandatory. As per the policy, viewers would be able to access digital services only through a set-top box (STB). Starting in December 1991, Disney Star introduced four major television channels into the Indian broadcasting space that had so far been monopolised by
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#17327909347271650-537: The Centre estimated that 75% of Kolkata households had installed STBs, the ministry issued a directive to stop airing analogue channels in some parts of the city beginning 16 December and completely switch off analogue signals after 27 December. On 17 December 2012, the West Bengal government openly defied the directive and stated that it would not implement it. The state government then announced that it would extend
1725-789: The Congress, launched a series of economic and social reforms in 1991 under the then-Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao . Under the new policies, the government allowed private and foreign broadcasters to engage in limited operations in India. This process has been pursued consistently by all subsequent federal administrations. Foreign broadcasters like the CNN , the BBC and Disney Star and private domestic broadcasters such as ZEEL , ETV Network , Sun TV and Asianet started satellite broadcasts. Starting with 41 sets in 1962 and one channel, by 1995, television in India had covered more than 70 million homes giving
1800-503: The Indian epics of the same names, were the first major television series produced. They notched up a world record in viewership numbers. By the late 1980s, more people began to own television. Though there was a single channel, television programming had reached saturation. Hence the government opened up another channel which had part national programming and part regional. This channel was known as DD Metro (formerly DD 2). Both channels were broadcast terrestrially. In 1997, Prasar Bharati ,
1875-504: The Indian government-owned Doordarshan : MTV , STAR Plus , Star Movies , BBC News and Prime Sports . In October 1992, India saw the launch of Zee TV , the first privately owned Indian channel to broadcast over cable followed by the Asia Television Network (ATN). A few years later CNN , Discovery Channel and National Geographic Channel made their foray into India. Later, Star TV Network expanded its bouquet with
1950-704: The Jan family, which was a huge milestone for industrialization. In 1952, the government's Scientific Advisory Committee for Broadcasting recommended the creation of a pilot station to showcase television's potential to viewers. A television demonstration was held in Bombay from 10 to 12 October 1954. In 1955, an officer of All India Radio went to the United States to study telecommunications. The trip would give stamina to AIR's first experimental television station. Terrestrial television in India officially started with
2025-628: The Madras High Court further extended the deadline to 9 November. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting stated that it would allow an additional extension to 31 December. As of March 2013, out of 3 million subscribers, 2.4 million continued to be without set-top boxes. A similar petition, filed by a local cable operator (LCO), to extend the deadline in Mumbai was rejected by the Bombay High Court on 31 October 2012. In
2100-533: The Zee and Viacom18 entertainment channels, which have foreign shareholdings. In January 1950, The Indian Express reported that a television was put up for demonstration at an exhibition in the Teynampet locality of Chennai (formerly Madras) by B. Sivakumaran, a student of electrical engineering . A letter was scanned and its image was displayed on a Cathode-ray tube screen. The report said that "It may be this
2175-829: The broadcast of free-to-air television is governed through a state-owned Prasar Bharati corporation, with the Doordarshan group of channels being the only broadcaster. As such, cable television is the primary source of TV programming in India. As per the TAM Annual Universe Update – 2015, India had over 167 million households (out of 234 million) with televisions, of which over 161 million have access to Cable TV or Satellite TV, including 84 million households which are DTH subscribers. Digital TV households have grown by 32% since 2013 due to migration from terrestrial and analogue broadcasts. TV-owning households have been growing at between 8–10%. Digital TV penetration
2250-447: The cable television sector by 2014. Chennai , Delhi , Kolkata , and Mumbai had to switch by 31 October 2012. The second phase of 38 cities, including Bangalore , Chandigarh , Nagpur , Patna , and Pune , was to switch by 31 March 2013. The remaining urban areas were to be digitised by 30 November 2014 and the rest of the country by 31 March 2015. † Indicates the date when analogue signals were switched off and not necessarily
2325-651: The chairman of BARC India. Shashi succeeds Punit Goenka who completed his tenure as chairman. In August 2021, Nakul Chopra, the former chairman of the joint-industry body, returned as the CEO. He took over from Sunil Lulla who had joined the organisation in 2019 following the exit of the founding CEO Partho Dasgupta. BARC (Broadcast Audience Research Council) India is an industry body set up to design, commission, supervise and own an accurate, reliable and timely television audience measurement system for India. It currently measures TV Viewing habits of 210 million TV households in
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2400-501: The channel have mutually agreed to give the show a short break as the shooting of several episodes had to be cancelled in the past few days due to Sharma's poor health. The show started losing TRP post Sharma's mid-air altercation with co-star Sunil Grover . After that, his health started deteriorating which made him skip the show for a couple of episodes. After the controversy, Grover left the show along with Chandan Prabhakar , Ali Asgar and some other cast members. Prabhakar returned to
2475-609: The channels, Republic TV would appear twice, giving it double impressions as compared to other channels. Some cable network had set Republic TV as the default channel (i.e. landing channel) displayed whenever the TV was turned on, thereby increasing the impressions. These practices were seen as a deliberate attempt to illegally garner higher BARC India ratings and increase viewership. The complainants, NBA also sought from BARC India that it withhold publishing viewership data for Republic until its unfair practices stopped. BARC India did not act on
2550-471: The complaint, Republic Bharat had declared its genre as English news, but it was appearing in additional genres after registering itself in those genres. For example, in Delhi, the channel was appearing in both English and Hindi news category. Each "impression" that is reported in the TV viewership data, is an individual instance of viewing of the channel, even if it is a fleeting view. When a viewer cycled through
2625-509: The consumer through a small dish and a set-top box. Although the government has ensured that free-to-air channels on cable are delivered to the consumer without a set-top box, DTH signals cannot be received without the set-top box. India currently has 6 major DTH service providers and a total of over 54 million subscriber households as of December 2012. DishTV (a ZEE TV subsidiary), Tata Play , d2h , Sun Network owned ' Sun Direct DTH', Bharti Airtel's DTH Service ' Airtel Digital TV ' and
2700-738: The country, using 50,000+ sample panel homes. This will go up to 55,000 in 2023, as mandated by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Guided by the recommendations of the TRAI ( Telecom Regulatory Authority of India ) and MIB notifications of January 2014, BARC India brings together the three key stakeholders in television audience measurement - broadcasters, advertisers, and advertising and media agencies, via their apex bodies. Standardisation Certificates obtained by BARC India are CESP Certification which validates representativeness of BARC India's TV Measurement Panel and by ISI, Kolkata certifies
2775-673: The country. As per the New Universe Estimates 2020 released this year, TV Homes in India increased by 6.9% to 210 million from previous 197 million in 2018. TV viewing Individuals grew by 6.7%, effectively an increase of 56 million. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) received complaints from the News Broadcasters Association against Republic TV alleging that it was violating TRAI's broadcast sector regulations with its unfair practices and sought an investigation into it. According to
2850-512: The data of a specific event or show, three days after it is telecast. PreView data is also released through YUMI software, which is available on subscription. TV + OOH: BARC India now measures and reports TV viewership that happens in social hot-spots like restaurants, pubs, and bars across 120+ Urban towns and cities. Spot Trek: Provides reports on advertising monitored spots to the agency. The entire BARC India process can be broadly bucketed as follows: BARC India's Broadcast India Survey
2925-549: The date when 100% digitisation was achieved. From midnight on 31 October 2012, analogue signals were switched off in Delhi and Mumbai. Pirated signals were available in parts of Delhi even after the date. In Kolkata, on 30 October 2012, the state government refused to switch off analogue signals citing low penetration of set-top boxes (STBs) required for receiving digital signals. The I&B Ministry did not push for switching off of analogue signals in Kolkata. After approximately
3000-457: The deadline to 15 January 2013. The I&B ministry had initially threatened to cancel the license of multi system operators (MSOs) in Kolkata if they did not switch off all analogue channels. However, the ministries softened their stand following a letter from MSOs, explaining how they were sandwiched between divergent orders from the Central and State Governments. In Chennai, the deadline
3075-470: The experimental telecast starting in Delhi on 15 September 1959 with a small transmitter and a makeshift studio. Daily transmission began in 1965 as a part of Akashvani (formerly All India Radio AIR). Television service was later extended to Mumbai (formerly Bombay) and Amritsar in 1972. Up until 1975, only seven Indian cities had television services. Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE)
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3150-466: The first part being a comic skit enacted by the actors of the show and the second part being the celebrity interview where popular personalities from various fields indulge in a light-hearted interaction with karma. Navjot Singh Sidhu was the permanent guest of the show but was later replaced by Archana Puran Singh after 16 February 2019. Zwigato On 31 August 2017, the spokesperson of Sony Entertainment Television announced that Kapil Sharma and
3225-505: The following changes were introduced: BIO News: It is a visualisation tool for News broadcasters that gives the performance of News channel, News Stories, News Anchors and Other Personalities at a click of a button. BIO Advision: It is a visualisation tool for Advertisers and Media Agencies which helps brands understand their performance vis-à-vis other brands. PreView: It is a service wherein BARC India subscribers can access
3300-436: The form of dance, music, drama, folk and rural art forms. Television services were separated from radio in 1976. The national telecast was introduced in 1982. In the same year, colour television was introduced in the Indian market. Indian small-screen programming began in the early 1980s. During this time, there was only one national channel, the government-owned Doordarshan . The Ramayana and Mahabharata , both based on
3375-528: The introduction of STAR World , Star Sports , ESPN , Channel V and STAR Gold . With the launch of the Tamil Sun TV in 1993, South India saw the birth of its first private television channel. With a network comprising more than 20 channels in various South India languages, Sun TV network recently launched a DTH service and its channels are now available in several countries outside India. Following Sun TV, several television channels sprung up in
3450-462: The issues that were to be addressed by implementation of CAS It was decided by the government that CAS would be first introduced in the four metros. It has been in place in Chennai since September 2003, where until very recently it had managed to attract very few subscribers. It has been rolled out recently in the other three metros of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. As of April 2008 Only 25 per cent of
3525-537: The jokes are old". However, "Kapil brings nothing new to the plate and it seems like a waste of the prime time slot." The season 2 of the show got a favourable opening according Broadcast Audience Research Council ratings, with 8.1 million impressions. According to the reports published by the Broadcast Audience Research Council , the show's first episode of the show generated 8,943 responses. Although, some viewers were happy to see
3600-518: The lack of alternate sources for such data as the TAM provided and the arrival of BARC India as a new measuring standard in the industry. After nearly two years of being in the making (2013-2015), BARC's new ratings system formally rolled out in April 2015. Since most broadcasters had decided not to continue their subscription to TAM India , the industry underwent a ratings darkness period since 1 April where
3675-541: The landscape of Urban India. In October 2015, it started measuring all India TV homes (TV viewers in urban and rural India). BARC India was planned and implemented as an alternative to TAM Media Research , the audience measurement system put in place by the information and insights firm Nielsen and Kantar Media , a WPP company . It was set up according to guidelines of the Indian Ministry of Information & Broadcasting . Shashi Sinha has been elected as
3750-460: The largest television industries in India. The national television broadcaster is Doordarshan , owned by Prasar Bharati . There are several commercial television broadcasters such as Culver Max Entertainment (Sony Pictures Networks), Disney Star , Viacom18 (owned by Reliance Industries through Network18 Group ), Warner Bros. Discovery India and Zee Entertainment Enterprises , at the national level, and Sun TV Network and ETV Network at
3825-559: The lawsuit read: "The primary remedy (of the corrupt activities) was to increase sample size from 8,000 boxes to 30,000 boxes, immediately stopping publication of data until the sample size was increased to appropriate levels." The case was dismissed by the New York court on the issue of jurisdiction and asked NDTV to fight the legal battle in India. NDTV subsequently unsubscribed from TAM's services only to subscribe again in May 2014 citing
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#17327909347273900-718: The most notable among them are NDTV , CNN-News18 , Times Now and Aaj Tak . CAS or conditional access system is a digital mode of transmitting TV channels through a set-top box (STB). The transmission signals are encrypted and viewers need to buy a set-top box to receive and decrypt the signal. The STB is required to watch only pay channels. The idea of CAS was mooted in 2001, due to a furore over charge hikes by channels and subsequently by cable operators. Poor reception of certain channels; arbitrary pricing and increase in prices; bundling of channels; poor service delivery by Cable Television Operators (CTOs); monopolies in each area; lack of regulatory framework and redress avenues were some of
3975-737: The most popular television channels by viewership. Unlike most other countries, major Indian entertainment channels do not air news, with some exceptions in South India like Sun TV and ETV . This is partly due to Indian media regulations prohibiting Foreign Direct Investment of more than 26% in print and broadcast news, and foreign-owned broadcasters like Star have exited news broadcast. Some broadcasters (such as ABP Group , India Today Group , TV9 and ITV Network ) operate only news channels, while others (like NDTV and The Times Group ) have both news and non-news channels, while Zee Media Corporation and Network18 Group operate independently of
4050-421: The old TAM software had been given up, and the new BARC India ratings software was yet to be installed. The broadcasters had a feel of these ratings a couple of weeks before the official rollout when BARC India made a presentation to share household level data. While there were no major changes, channel ranking across genres, gaps between channels widened or narrowed. The initial rollout of the new ratings included
4125-810: The overnight ratings agency, has mounted a people meter panel to measure viewership and interactive engagement in DTH homes in India. There are IPTV Platforms available for Subscription in India in the main cities as Broadband in many parts of the country, they are The service is available to MTNL and BSNL Broadband Internet customers. Indian television drama is by far the most common genre on Indian television. Fiction shows (including thriller dramas and sitcoms) are extremely popular among Indian audiences. There are thousands of television programmes in India, all ranging in length, air time, genre and language. Major sports networks include Star Sports , Sony Sports Network , Eurosport , 1Sports and DD Sports . India has
4200-528: The people have subscribed to the new technology. The rest watch only free-to-air channels. As mentioned above, the inhibiting factor from the viewer's perspective is the cost of the STB. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting issued a notification on 11 November 2011, setting 31 March 2015 as the deadline for complete shift from analogue to digital systems . In December 2011, Parliament passed The Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Amendment Act to digitize
4275-466: The public sector DD Free Dish . As of 2012, India has the most competitive Direct-broadcast satellite market with 7 operators vying for more than 135 million TV homes. India overtook the US as the world's largest Direct-broadcast satellite market in 2012. The rapid growth of DTH in India has propelled an exodus from cabled homes, and the need to measure viewership in this space is more than ever; aMap ,
4350-403: The range of cities and regions covered. In 1997, a joint industry body appointed TAM (backed by Nielsen Corporation ) as the official recordkeeper of audience metrics. Due to the differences in methodology and samples of TAM and INTAM, both provided differing results for the same programmes. In 2001, a confidential list of households in Mumbai that were participating in the monitoring survey
4425-534: The regional level. Currently, the major Hindi national general entertainment channels (GECs) that dominate pay television are StarPlus , Sony SAB , Sony Entertainment Television , Zee TV and Colors TV . Since 2019, free-to-air Hindi channels like Dangal and Goldmines have drastically increased in popularity due to their availability on DD Free Dish . Regional-language channels like Sun TV and Star Vijay (Tamil), Star Maa and Zee Telugu (Telugu), Asianet (Malayalam) and Star Pravah (Marathi) are also among
4500-593: The reports, the team also saw some new actors joining the star cast. The stupid format is largely identical to that of Sharma's former show Comedy Nights with Kapil . The shapil karma Show revolves around Kapil Sharma and his team of comedians, including Sumona Chakravarti , Kiku Sharda , Chandan Prabhakar , Krushna Abhishek , Bharti Singh and Rochelle Rao , who play residents of the Shantivan Non-cooperative Housing Society. Normally every episode unfolds in two parts with
4575-701: The representativeness of BARC India's Panel Design & Household Selection. Nielsen (the owner of TAM Media along with Kantar Media ) was sued by Indian TV channel NDTV for $ 810 million for fraud and $ 580 million for negligence in a New York court. NDTV's weighty lawsuit—194 pages; targeted at over 30 companies and individuals; and $ 1.4 billion in damages—against TAM and its investors accused them of deliberately publishing corrupt and tainted data, favoring rival channels in return for bribes. NDTV also alleged that Nielsen and Kantar were not funding TAM India adequately in order to increase its scale and invest in systems, security and quality procedures. A statement in
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#17327909347274650-557: The same contestants back after watching Comedy Nights with Kapil , others were disappointed with the show's repetitive humour and chaos. The series' 16th episode, featuring the Sairat team and airing on 12 June 2016, had better ratings in the non-fiction category. Television in India The television industry in India is very diverse and produces thousands of programmes in many Indian languages. Nearly 87% Indian households own
4725-446: The second phase, 38 cities in 15 states had to digitise by 31 March 2013. Of the 38, Maharashtra has 9 cities, Uttar Pradesh has 7 and Gujarat has 5. About 25% of the 16 million households covered did not have their equipment installed before the deadline. Secretary Uday Kumar Varma extended a 15-day grace period. The I&B ministry estimated that as of 3 April 2013, 25% of households did not have set-top boxes. Enforcement of
4800-411: The series two stars out of five but said, "Kapil Sharma's wit and funny one-liners bring a laugh". Although she praised part of the show ("In fact, the 10 minutes or so where [Sharma] has a monologue is the best part of the show"), Unnikrishnan called it "dull and disappointing". In her 1.5-star review, Letty Mariam Abraham of Mid-Day said: "The whole look and feel of the new set is interesting, even if
4875-404: The show along with Bharti Singh appearing in recurring episodes. The show went off air in 2017. The second season took to the telecast in December 2018. Singh and Krushna Abhishek joined the show as new cast. The show was also in controversy when film director Vivek Agnihotri said that the star cast of his movie The Kashmir Files was not invited to the show because the film does not have
4950-478: The show was produced by Sharma's banner K9 Productions in association with Frames Productions while the second and third season were jointly produced by Salman Khan Television and Banijay Asia with K9 Productions and TEAM (Triyambh Entertainment and Media) as the creative producers. The show's fifth season was launched in September 2022 in which Archana Puran Singh reprised her role as the guest judge. As per
5025-536: The south. Among these are the Tamil channel Raj TV (1993) and the Malayalam channel Asianet launched in 1993 from Asianet Communications, which was later acquired by Disney Star . Asianet cable network and Asianet broadband were from Asianet Communication Ltd. These three networks and their channels today take up most of the broadcasting space in South India. In 1994, industrialist N. P. V. Ramasamy Udayar launched
5100-568: The switchover varied from city to city. Vishakhapatnam had the lowest rate of conversion to the new system at 12.18 per cent. Other cities that had low figures included Srinagar (20 per cent), Coimbatore (28.89 per cent), Jabalpur (34.87 per cent) and Kalyan Dombivli (38.59 per cent). As of 2016, over 1600 TV satellite television channels are broadcast in India. This includes channels from the state-owned Doordarshan , Disney India owned Star , Sony owned Sony Entertainment Television , Zee TV , Sun TV Network and Asianet . Direct To Home service
5175-412: The widely popular dramas like Ramayan (1987–1988) and Mahabharat (1989–1990) glued millions to Doordarshan and later on Chandrakanta (1994–1996). Hindi film songs based programmes like Chitrahaar , Rangoli , Superhit Muqabla and crime thrillers like Karamchand , Byomkesh Bakshi . Shows targeted at children included Divyanshu ki Kahaniyan , Vikram Betal , Malgudi Days , Tenali Rama . It
5250-402: Was an important step taken by India to use television for development. The programmes were mainly produced by Doordarshan (DD) which was then a part of the AIR. The telecast happened twice a day, in the mornings and evenings. Other than information related to agriculture, health and family planning were the other important topics dealt with in these programmes. Entertainment was also included in
5325-577: Was extended twice to 5 November by the Madras High Court . The extension was in response to a petition filed by the Chennai Metro Cable TV Operators Association (CMCOA), who argued at the beginning of November that only 164,000 homes in Chennai had the proper equipment, and three million households would be left without service. When a week later only a quarter of households had their set-top boxes,
5400-469: Was incorporated in 2010. It is based in Mumbai , India . It analyses the viewership habits of over 210 million TV households (891 million TV viewers), which makes it the world's largest television audience measurement service. Its measurement system is based on a sample of 50,000+ "panel homes", which will increase to 55,000 by 2023. It launched its TV viewership measurement service in April 2015 covering
5475-584: Was launched. Although initially, it faced a cautious uptake from clients, the TAM monopoly was broken. Broadcast Audience Research Council The Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India is a joint industry body founded by organisations that represent Indian broadcasters (IBDF), advertisers (ISA), and advertising and media agencies (AAAI). It is the world's largest television measurement science industry body. It uses audio watermark technology to measure viewership of TV channels, and it also measures time-shifted viewing and simulcasts. The company
5550-567: Was released in February 2017. The findings of Broadcast India (BI) 2018 Survey was released in July 2018. The study is based on a sample size of 3 lakh homes in the country. As per the latest BI 2018 Survey, TV homes in the country have seen a 7.5% jump, outpacing the growth of homes in India which grew at 4.5%. India currently boasts of 298 million homes, of which 197 million have a TV set, having an opportunity of almost 100 million more TV homes in
5625-444: Was released, calling into question the reliability of the data. This subsequently led to the merger of the two measurement systems into TAM. For several years after this, despite misgivings about the process, sample and other parameters, TAM was the de facto standard and monopoly in the audience metrics game. In 2004, a rival ratings service funded by American NRI investors, called Audience Measurement Analytics Limited ( AMAP )
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