When Channel admins share multiple media posts with their followers, WhatsApp will organize them automatically into albums
The feature will roll out in Singapore and Colombia first but CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it will come to more countries, including India.
Video creators can now live stream their videos on YouTube, as the streaming site rolled out a mobile live streaming feature today for channels with at least 10,000 followers.
To expand its DTH platform, Doordarshan plans to come out with new set-top boxes having MPEC-4 technology and provide 104 channels by March-end, its Director General Supriya Sahu said today.
Operating profit (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) was up 9.3 percent year-on-year to Rs 432.23 crore. Margin contracted by 170 basis points on yearly basis to 76 percent but sequentially it has seen substantial increase of 1680 basis points due to no IPL cost.
It also recommended that the Reserve Prices in 11 border cities in the 'Others' category in Phase-III should be Rs 5 lakh per channel.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who dwelt at length on issues related to the media, said there was an ongoing debate on the quantum of foreign investment allowed in media.
It‘s election season, and that generally means increased viewership for television news channels. Exhaustive coverage also means that voters are now accustomed to a range of gadgetry, punditry and minute-by-minute scoring to a degree unequaled in the past. So, what makes for good election coverage?
TRAI has been pushing for imposition of a rule from October 1 as per which TV channels, including news broadcasters, can show not more than 12 minutes of advertisements every hour. The news broadcasting industry has been claiming such a move would damage viability of channels.
At any given time, you would see a flurry of ads issued by different TV channels all claiming to be No 1 at the same time. Now ratings agency TAM says that its data is being selectively used and misrepresented to make these tall claims.
With barely a month left for digitisation to kick in, broadcaster and MSOs are engaged in hectic negotiations over distribution revenues. Sajeet Manghat and Ashmit Kumar of CNBC-TV18, report that initial indications suggest MSOs are at a price disadvantage to DTH operators and deals with broadcasters are proving difficult to clinch.
In this role, Praveen will be responsible for growing and driving EMC's partner strategy in the region.
Media consulting, marketing and advertising sales firm Aidem Ventures has been appointed as the media representative for Al Jazeera channels in the country.
The Indian television viewer seems to have a hearty appetite. At least, that's the sense one gets given the recent barrage of 24-hour food channels hitting TV screens. CNBC-TV18’s Manasi Phadnis and Sweta Sriram report.