Willow days are back on SET Max
SET Max is wooing audiences with live cricket again.
The Kerry Packer HFCL joint venture Nine Broadcasting claims to have lifted the sagging fortunes of DD?s Metro channel as per recent TAM ratings. A news release issued by it says it has achieved consistent growth since its launch 60 days ago. From the launch week high of 5.2, the TRPs have reached a recent high of 9.6 during the 5 - 11 November week, claims the broadcaster.
Additionally, Nine Broadcasting claims that the recent surge in DD metro?s ratings has dampened the rapidly improving fortunes of Star Plus. The ratings which were already on the rise have supposed to have recieved a boost after the Helen concert on Nine Gold, thus grabbing a sizable cable and satellite audience. DD Metro, it says, has surged ahead of Star Plus to take the leadership position with a 70% increase in the average of the top 10 slots across this segment. (Refer to Graph 1) in the SEC AB segement. The figures for SEC A along are even more impresssive: the growth is 82 per cent since the launch (Refer Graph 2).
Across all SEC?s and all TV household?s, the average of the Top 10 DD Metro shows is more than double that of the other satellite channels, claims Nine Broadcasting. DD National follows in close second. (Refer Graph 3).
The channel claims that post-Helen the ratings had increased by one percent equivalent to an 108% increase. (Refer Table 2).
Programming such as Kundali, Dushman, Zindagi Milkar Bitayenge and Nargis amongst others, are claimed to be the reason behind the sucess of Nine Gold on DD Metro. This phenomena cuts across all SEC segments (Refer Graph 4).
ANNEXURE - SUPPORTING DATA
The Helen concert was introduced in the seventh week
Table 1
City |
Week
1 |
week
2 |
Week
3 |
Week
4 |
Week
5 |
Week
6 |
Week
7(H) |
Week
8 |
Week
9 |
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Mumbai |
4
|
5.5
|
3.5
|
4.7
|
4.5
|
5
|
3.9
|
4.9
|
8.2
|
|||
Delhi |
11.6
|
10.4
|
18.1
|
13.1
|
14.4
|
15
|
13.4
|
15.6
|
18.5
|
|||
Calcutta |
8.4
|
11.2
|
12.4
|
10.2
|
9.5
|
10.3
|
11.5
|
11.8
|
12.4
|
|||
Kanpur |
11
|
11.4
|
13.5
|
10.4
|
13.6
|
11.6
|
11.1
|
14.3
|
19.1
|
|||
Ahmedabad |
8.2
|
8.7
|
8.7
|
10.1
|
13
|
11
|
9.9
|
13.2
|
13.3
|
|||
All centers |
3.1
|
3.6
|
4.4
|
3.7
|
4.2
|
4.3
|
4.1
|
4.8
|
5.9
|
|||
All minus South |
4.1
|
4.7
|
6
|
5
|
5.5
|
5.8
|
5.6
|
6.8
|
7.6
|
|||
TRP Cities |
5.2
|
6
|
7.4
|
5.8
|
6.2
|
6.8
|
6.2
|
7.5
|
9.6
|
City |
Week
1 |
Week 2
|
Week 3
|
Week 4
|
Week 5
|
Week 6
|
Week 7(H)
|
week
8 |
Week
9 |
Prior Helen
|
Post
Helen |
% increase
|
Mumbai |
1.7
|
1.1
|
1.1
|
1.3
|
1.6
|
1.6
|
1.4
|
1.7
|
3.5
|
1.4
|
2.6
|
85.7 |
Delhi |
1.6
|
1.4
|
|
1.8
|
1.9
|
2.5
|
1.6
|
2.3
|
5.0
|
1.8
|
3.7
|
102.8 |
Calcutta |
0.3
|
1.5
|
0.3
|
0.3
|
0.3
|
0.8
|
1.6
|
1.1
|
3.1
|
0.7
|
2.1
|
188.2 |
Kanpur |
0
|
1.1
|
1.9
|
0.7
|
1.4
|
2
|
1.9
|
2.2
|
3.4
|
1.3
|
2.8
|
117.8 |
Ahmedabad |
5.1
|
3.9
|
4
|
3.5
|
4.2
|
5.7
|
3.4
|
5.5
|
6.6
|
4.3
|
6.1
|
42.1 |
All Centers |
0.5
|
0.6
|
0.7
|
0.4
|
0.6
|
0.6
|
0.4
|
0.8
|
1.6
|
0.5
|
1.2
|
121.1 |
All minus South |
0.9
|
0.9
|
1.1
|
0.7
|
0.9
|
1.1
|
0.8
|
1.3
|
2.4
|
0.9
|
1.9
|
102.3 |
TRP Cities |
0.8
|
0.8
|
1.2
|
0.7
|
0.9
|
0.8
|
1
|
1.2
|
2.5
|
0.9
|
1.9
|
108.9 |
major brawl has broken out between Zee TV-owned Siticable and the management of Nickelodeon, the Viacom-owned kid?s channel launched in India last year. The reason: the latter?s discontent about how the channel is being distributed by Siticable in India. Apparently, the pay TV service has managed to get a cable TV penetration of less than 3-4 million, and a paying subscriber base less than one tenth of that.
The Nickelodeon Singapore office has been working on handing over the management of the business to MTV India. The details of the distribution deal will become clearer in the next two months. According to sources within MTV, the company would like to distribute the channel on its own as its management feels it has built up enough of a relationship with Indian cable operators. MTV India managing director Alex Kuruvilla believes that his company has enough strengths in distribution to take on independent channels outside of the Viacom network and distribute them in India.
The problem as far as the kid?s channel is concerned, according to sources, is that Nickelodeon and Siticable are bound together by a five year agreement. Of this just about a year has been completed. And there is no way Siticable will give it up easily. MTV India is just as determined to distribute it itself. The battle therefore may have just begun.
The Emerald island is going to see a lot of Harish Thawani, the promoter of media firm Nimbus Communications. The reason: Thawani has in partnership with the World Sports Group bagged the rights for Sri Lankan cricket for the next three years. The deal covers 14 tours and would involve 180 days of international cricket, reveals Thawani, who has emerged as one of the most important players of the sports rights business over the past two years.
While he is unwilling to give any fix on the price that WSG-Nimbus put in to be the successful bidder for the rights, industry estimates are that they cost him close to $30 million. The other bidder TWI apparently was not willing to match the bid.
The bid covers global telecast (both radio and TV) , sponsorship and stadium signage rights. Sources indicate that the final tab that WSG-Nimbus may have to cough up could be in the range of $45 million. WSG-Nimbus is a 50:50 joint venture between the UK based WSG plc and India?s Nimbus.
According to industry sources, WSG-Nimbus is likely to cut a deal with Zee Sports as the latter is quite hungry to grab quality cricket content, or whatever is left of it. News Corp has got the telecast rights to ICC backed cricket. And close associate, ESPN-Star Sports, has the rights to almost all the international cricket matches in Australia, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, England, West Indies, Pakistan.The only other player with cricket rights is Mark Mascarenhas of World-Tel who apparently has not found too many takers for the Bangladesh cricket property he has acquired for some $12 million for four years.
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