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UK ratings: Star Plus surges pass 1.2m weekly reach

4 November 2014

 Even though its weekday fictions have slipped in the ratings, the channel overall continues to climb up in the UK ratings.

According to official data from BARB for week ending Sunday 26th October, Star Plus was top choice during Diwali week.
The channel attracted a reach of 1,221,000 viewers – up from 1,134,000 last week. UMP Movies remained the second choice amongst the Asian TV channels with 751,000 viewers (down from 854,000 viewers) and Colors in third with 719,000 viewers (up from 703,000 viewers). Rishtey was in fourth with 672,000 viewers (down from 702,000 viewers) and Zing rounding off the Top 5 with 646,00 viewers (641,000 viewers).
The next tier saw Star Life Ok with 522,000 viewers (last week 533,000 viewers), Star Gold was next with 456,000 viewers (last week 413,000 viewers), SAB TV with 413,000 viewers (last week 562,000 viewers), Lamhe with 367,000 viewers (last week 347,000), Hum TV Europe with 356,000 viewers (last week 522,000 viewers).
The bottom tier consisted of PTC Punjabi with 183,000 viewers (last week 258,000) and PTV Global with 218,000 viewers (last week 152,000 viewers).
ARY News was the leading South Asian news channel with 501,000 viewers (last week 516,000 viewers), followed by Geo News with 253,000 viewers, SAMAA TV with 243,000 viewers, ABP News with 226,000 viewers, Aaj Tak with 215,000 viewers, NDTV 24×7 with 188,000 viewers and News18 India with 64,000 viewers.
Source: Media247.co.uk
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FICCI Frames 2014: Uday Shankar calls for repairing media-state relationship

Uday Shankar, Chairman, FICCI Media & Entertainment Committee and CEO of Star India, pointed out that “amidst an environment of gloom and doom, the media and entertainment (M&E) industry registered an impressive growth of 12 per cent last year. The fact that we have been able to deliver this in light of an overall economic growth of 4 per cent and a major resetting of exchange rates is a testament to the tenacity of the industry’s leaders and stakeholders.”

Digitisation to drive media & entertainment industry growth

The Indian media & entertainment industry grew 11.8% last year over 2012, touching Rs 91,800 crore on the back of digitisation growth in regional media, according to a KPMG report released at 15th Ficci Frames global convention on Wednesday.

Media will not get a poll boost, says KPMG

Uday Shankar, Ficci Frames chairman and STAR India chief executive, said while the growth was encouraging when compared with the growth of the economy, many gaps existed. “While delivering a growth rate three times that of the country at large is a cause for satisfaction, the truth is that in dollar terms, we have barely made a dent this year. And, even more important we remain at a great distance from the goal of growing the sector to $100 billion,” he said.

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