MUMBAI: Zee Anmol and Star Utsav retained their first and second positions in the Hindi (U+R) genre in Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) data for week 43 of 2018. Zee TV and Big Magic replaced their seventh and eighth positions in the rural market. No changes were observed this week in the urban market.
Hindi GEC (U+R)
Zee Anmol and Star Utsav retained their first and second positions with 848655 impressions ‘000s and 743680 impressions ‘000s respectively. Star Bharat climbed to the third position from fourth position as compared to the previous week with 739742 impressions ‘000s.
Zee TV, Star Plus, Colors, Sony Entertainment Television, Sony Pal, Sony Sab and Dangal TV stood at fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions respectively with 695346 impressions ‘000s, 670236 impressions ‘000s, 589766 impressions ‘000s, 570003 impressions ‘000s, 565600impressions ‘000s, 429475 impressions ‘000s and 427464 impressions ‘000s.
Hindi Rural GEC
Zee Anmol, Star Utsav, Sony Pal, Star Bharat, Dangal TV and Rishtey held on to their first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth positions with 687642 impressions ‘000s, 516642 impressions ‘000s, 391792 impressions ‘000s, 382404 impressions ‘000s, 328714 impressions ‘000s and 289803 impressions ‘000s respectively.
Zee TV and Big Magic replaced their seventh and eighth positions respectively with 268031 impressions ‘000s and 233089 impressions ‘000s.
Star Plus and Colors continued to be at ninth and tenth positions with 202908 impressions ‘000s and 182934 impressions ‘000s respectively.
Hindi Urban GEC
No changes were observed in the urban market. Star Plus, Sony Entertainment Television, Zee TV, Colors, Star Bharat and Sony Sab managed to retain their first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth positions with 467328 impressions ‘000s, 431151 impressions ‘000s, 427315 impressions ‘000s, 406832 impressions ‘000s, 357338 impressions ‘000s and 329133 impressions ‘000s respectively.
Star Utsav, Sony Pal, Zee Anmol and &TV also retained their seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions with 227038 impressions ‘000s, 173808impressions ‘000s, 161013 impressions ‘000s and 123168 impressions ‘000s respectively.