Sony Pal
| Sony Pal | |
|---|---|
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| Launched | 1 September 2014 |
| Owned by |
Sony Pictures Networks Parent: (Sony Pictures) |
| Picture format | 576i SDTV,1080p HDTV |
| Slogan | Yeh Pal Hamara Hai |
| Country | India |
| Headquarters | Mumbai |
| Sister channel(s) |
Sony TV Sony MAX Sony MAX 2 Sony SAB Sony LIV Sony SIX Sony Mix Sony AATH AXN India Sony Le PLEX Animax Sony PIX Sony ESPN TEN 1 TEN 2 TEN 3 TEN Golf HD TEN 1 HD Sony PIX HD Sony SIX HD Sony ESPN HD AXN HD Sony TV HD Sony SAB HD Sony Wah Sony ROX HD Sony MAX HD |
| Website | sonypal.in |
Sony Pal (stylized as: Sony पल) is a Hindi GEC that launched on 1 September 2014. It is aimed at women, with stories about women and family. The channel is owned by Multi Screen Media.
The channel was launched in 1 September 2014 with the concept of targeting women audiences with Juhi Chawla as the ambassador. The channel mostly aired women-centric shows dealing with their day-to-day lives.SET India and Sony SAB airs original content catering audiences of urban male and family audiences respectively. Sony Pal was launched to compete with mainstream Hindi GECs like Star Plus, ZEE TV, Colors whose core TG is women audience.
The channel had a slow start of the beginning of its launch. It had a low TVT (television viewership in thousands) of 11,000 as compared to other channels like Life OK, Star Plus, Zee TV and Colors TV. Colors TV was launched with 81,000 GVTs in 2008 which turned out to be a successful channel launch in the crowded Hindi GEC space. Due to this, the channel ceased its business operations on 13 February 2015, broadcasting re-runs of Sony TV and Sony SAB shows.
The network stopped losses it was incurring in running Sony Pal by converting it into a free-to-air (FTA) service. It started re-runs of successful shows from SET India and Sony SAB like Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah, CID, Baalveer. As it was available on DD Freedish, the channel is garnering good ratings in 2016 such that it is competing with the likes of mainstream GECs like Star Plus, Zee TV, Colors, Sony SAB or the FTA channels like Star Utsav, Zee Anmol and Rishtey.
In week 11 of BARC ratings, it turned out to become India's No.1 FTA. There is a stiff competition in the FTA space but success of Sony Pal as an FTA is challenging decade old Star Utsav and ZEE Anmol. Today these FTAs are challenging mainstream channels in the Hindi GEC space.
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