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GEC Watch: Colors and Zee Anmol continue to be the No.1 channels in Urban and Rural markets

In Week 43, Naagin Season 2 remains the most watched show in the Urban market.

BARC Data: Top Hindi 5 GECs of Week 43 - October 22 - October 28, 2016-HSM: NCCS All: 4+ Individuals: BARC India base - All India (U) and (R). (Impressions in 000s.)

Top five Channels in Urban market:

GEC Watch: Colors and Zee Anmol continue to be the No.1 channels in Urban and Rural markets

In Week 43 of BARC's television viewership data for the urban market, Colors continued its domination at top the table in spite of drop in the ratings with 454724 Impressions compared to 495475 in the previous week.

Star Plus continued to be at No.2 position with 440275 Impressions versus 466433 Impressions in the previous week. Sony Sab that was at No.5 position in the last week, jumped to No.3 position with an increase in the Impressions of 287036 compared to 279240 Impressions in last week.

Sony Entertainment Television and Zee TV stood 4th and 5th with 272659 Impressions and 269745 Impressions, respectively.

Top five shows in Urban market:

Colors' Naagin Season 2 remained the most watched show with 7979 Impressions, followed by the same channel's Shakti - Astitva Ke Ehsaas Ki at 7688 Impressions and Star Plus' Ye Hai Mohabbatein with 6828 Impressions. Zee TV's Kumkum Bhagya stood at No.4 with 6221 Impressions while Star Plus' Saath Nibhaana Saathiya raked in 6179 Impressions.

Top five Channels in Rural market:

Zee Anmol with 387086 Impressions this week compared to the previous week's 390836 remained at the top while Sony Pal replaced Star Utsav at No.2 with 322007 Impressions (last week: 312533). Star Utsav is at No.3 with 306435 Impressions versus 315393 Impressions in Week 42.

Rishtey is fourth with 295230 Impressions and Colors stayed at fifth spot with 228678 Impressions.

Top five shows in Rural market:

Rishtey's Naagin continued to lead in Week 43 with 8558 Impressions while Zee Anmol's Bandini follows with 6255 Impressions. Star Utsav's Saath Nibhaana Saathiya is third with 5364 Impressions. Zee Anmol's Jodha Akbar is fourth with 5335 Impressions while Sony Pal's Baalveer is at No.5 with 5231 Impressions.

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