BENGALURU: The Kalanithi Maran-headed Sun TV continued its dominance over ratings in week 13 (Saturday, 25 March 2017 to Friday, 31 March 2017) Top 10 Channels Across Genre: All India (U+R) : 2+ Individuals as per Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) data.
Three channels each from the Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zeel – Zee TV, Zee Telugu and Zee Anmol) and the Network 18 (Colors, ETV Telugu and Rishtey) stables were present in the top 10 channels across genres list for week 13. They were joined by two channels from the Sun Network (Sun TV and Gemini TV), one channel each mentioned above from Star India and SPN networks.
From the languages or market’s point of view, six channels from the Hindi-speaking market, three from the Telugu market and one from the Tamil market were present in the top 10 channels list based on Impressions (000s) Sums.
Sun TV clocked ratings of 12,14,083 Impressions (000s) Sums in week 13, followed by Star India’s Star Plus with a distant 7,45,942 Impressions (000s) Sums at second place. Sony Pictures Network’s (SPN) Sony Pal moved up to third place in the list with 7,09,372 Impressions (000s) Sums from last week’s fifth place.
At the fourth place was Network 18’s Colors with 670812 Impressions (000s) Sums followed by Gemini TV which retained its week 12 fifth spot in week 13 with 6,66,919 Impressions (000s) Sums. Zee TV with 5,79,994 Impressions (000s) Sums was sixth followed by a sister channel – Zee Telugu with 5,43,129 Impressions (000s) Sums at the seventh spot.
Network 18’s ETV Telugu was at eighth spot with 5,24,475 Impressions (000s) Sums, followed by Network 18’s Rishtey at the ninth spot with 5,01,508 Impressions (000s) Sums. Zeel’s Zee Anmol completed the list at the tenth spot with 4,85,640 Impressions (000s) Sums.