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Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

(IS/ISO 9001: 2015 Cerꢀfied Organisaꢀon)

Annual Report
2017-18

Mahanagar Doorsanchar Bhawan, Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg,
(Old Minto Road), New Delhi-110002
Telephone : +91-11-23664147
Fax No:+91-11-23211046
Website:hꢁp://www.trai.gov.in

LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

To the Central Government through Hon’ble Minister of Communicaꢀons and Informaꢀon Technology

It is my privilege to forward the 21st Annual Report for the year 2017-18 of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India to be laid before both Houses of Parliament. Included in this Report is the informaꢀon required to be forwarded to the Central Government under the provisions of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997, as amended by TRAI (Amendment) Act, 2000.

The Report contains an overview of the telecom and broadcasꢀng sectors and a summary of the key iniꢀaꢀves of TRAI on regulatory maꢁers with specific reference to the funcꢀons mandated to it under the Act. The Audited Annual Statement of Accounts of TRAI is also included in the Report.

(RAM SEWAK SHARMA)
CHAIRPERSON

Dated: September 2018
III

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Sl.No.
  • Parꢀculars
  • Page

Nos.

Overview of the Telecom and Broadcasꢀng Sectors Policies and Programmes

1-8
9-60
A. Review of General Environment in the Telecom Sector B. Review of Policies and Programmes C. Annexures to Part – I
Part – I Part – II Part – III

Review of working and operaꢀon of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

61-130
131-150 151-220

Funcꢀons of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India in respect of maꢁers specified in Secꢀon 11 of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act

Part – IV Organizaꢀonal maꢁers of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and
Financial performance

A. Organizaꢀonal maꢁers of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India B. Audited Accounts of TRAI for the year 2017-18 C. Audited Contributory Provident Fund Accounts of TRAI for the year 2017-18

V

OVERVIEW
OF
TELECOM & BROADCASTING SECTORS

1
2

OVERVIEW

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) was established in the year 1997 and has been regulating the telecom sector for more than two decades. The broadcasting sector was brought under the ambit of TRAI since 2004. During these two decades of existence, TRAI has performed with a mission to create and nurture conditions for growth of telecommunications in the country in a manner and at a pace which will enable India to play a leading role in emerging global information society.

During the year 2017-18, a number of iniꢀaꢀves were taken by TRAI to conꢀnue its mandate for creaꢀon of conducive environment for the growth of telecommunicaꢀons, broadcasꢀng & cable sectors resulꢀng in healthy compeꢀꢀve markets and recogniꢀon of India as one of the leading players in the emerging global informaꢀon society. The various measures taken by the Authority have helped in promoꢀng the growth and development of the telecom and broadcasꢀng sectors during 2017-18. These measures have also resulted in the overall benefits to the consumer in terms of choice of services, affordable tariff, beꢁer quality of services etc. This is evident from the exponenꢀal growth which could be achieved in these sectors. These growth stories have been further fuelled by a mix of several important factors, which include the emergence of new growth opportuniꢀes; healthy investments in the sectors and rapid development of technology. The resulꢀng vibrant compeꢀꢀon among players has led to affordable prices for users. At the same ꢀme, increasing awareness about the availability of telecom and broadcasꢀng services has conꢀnued to fuel the user demand for more and beꢁer services. The detailed account of this growth story is elaborated in the following chapters.

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The growth of data usage by wireless subscribers has reached a new level showing an unprecedented growth of the sector. There has been an increase in the overall mobile coverage and data usage in the country adding more rural areas to the coverage map. With increased availability of smart phones at much affordable prices, mobile phone has become more than a communicaꢀon device, and services are becoming increasingly linked through mobile, Internet and other digital modes of delivery. The growth of 4G services has added a large number of first ꢀme subscribers who experience the advent of data revoluꢀon using these services. The mobile network is serving as a major backbone on which the important sectors of economy like banking, health and educaꢀon are riding and therefore, this sector is a great enabler in the overall economic growth of the country.
“Net Neutrality”, “Ease of Doing Telecom Business”, “In-flight Connecꢀvity”, “Inputs for framing Naꢀonal Telecom Policy” etc. As far as the Tariff policy is concerned, TRAI conꢀnued with the general approach of forbearance in respect of most of the services. Important Amendments in Telecom Tariff Order (TTO) were made to ensure Transparency, Non-discriminaꢀon and Nonpredaꢀon in telecommunicaꢀon services

Broadcasting sector has also been going through

transition from analogue to digital era. TRAI has made efforts to meet the regulatory challenges which are being faced by broadcasting sector. In the year 2017-18, TRAI has taken several effective measures in the interest of consumers of broadcasting services. For instance the digitization of the cable sector was one of the important measures taken by TRAI which will empower the consumer and provide him with better service quality and enhanced choices. This digitization process was continuously pursued and monitored against various odds and challenges. The Authority also initiated a number of steps aimed towards bringing in measures to ensure stability and uniform growth of the sector that is presently undergoing a transformation. During the year, recommendations were made by TRAI to the Government on key issues concerning broadcasting sector such as “Issues related to Digital Radio Broadcasting in India”, “Ease of Doing Business in Broadcasting Sector” etc.
Telecom sector is a fast evolving sector due to technological advancement which facilitates introducꢀon of new types of services. During the year, while discharging various recommendatory and regulatory funcꢀons, TRAI has tried to address various issues and new challenges being faced by the telecom sector. Recommendaꢀons were made to the Government on key issues including those on the subjects like “Cloud Services”, “Spectrum, RoamingandQoSrelatedrequirementsinMachineto-Machine (M2M) Communicaꢀons”, “Approach

  • towards
  • Sustainable
  • Telecommunicaꢀons”,

“Regulatory framework for Internet Telephony”,

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2. The significant developments relaꢀng to Telecom and Broadcasꢀng sectors during the year 2017-18 are briefly menꢀoned below: shows subscribers exercising their preference of service provider. The Internet subscriber base in the country as on 31st March 2018 stood at 493.96 million as compared to 422.19 million as on 31st March 2017. The total broadband subscriber base in the country has increased from 276.52 million as on 31st March 2017 to 412.60 at the end of 31st March 2018.

I. TELECOM SECTOR

The Indian telecom sector is the second largest in the world in terms of the number of subscribers. The sector has witnessed exponenꢀal growth over the last few years which was due to many factors such as affordable tariffs, wider service availability, roll out of new faciliꢀes and services such as Mobile Number Portability (MNP), 3G and 4G, evolving consumpꢀon paꢁerns of subscribers, and conducive regulatory environment.
In order to create an enabling and stable environment for telecommunicaꢀons services and to ensure greater access, transparency, non-discriminaꢀon, consumer protecꢀon, and stable growth in funcꢀoning of the sector, a comprehensive review of the regulatory framework for the telecommunicaꢀons sector has been undertaken by TRAI, which included tariff, interconnecꢀon and quality of service. To ensure transparency while proposing any change in the exisꢀng regulatory framework, TRAI follows transparent consultaꢀon process in order to give an opportunity to the stakeholders to deliberate and offer their views on the proposed regulatory framework. As part of this criꢀcal exercise that ensures that robust regulaꢀon emerges from the consultaꢀveprocess,TRAIissuedvariousimportant consultaꢀon papers inviꢀng wriꢁen comments / counter comments from the stakeholders during this year. This included Consultaꢀon Papers on “Data Speed under Wireless Broadband Plan”, “Privacy, Security and Ownership of Data in the Telecom Sector”, “Promoꢀng Local Telecom Equipment Manufacturing”, “Next Generaꢀon
Conꢀnuing the growth trend, the Telecom Sector has witnessed a substanꢀal growth of subscriber base during the year 2017-18 also. At the end of the financial year, the subscriber base was 1206.22 million out of which 1183.41 million were wireless subscribers. During the year, wireless subscriber base recorded an increase of 13.23 million, with the overall tele-density of 92.84% at the end of March 2018. The year also saw an increase in the rural tele-density from 56.91% to 59.05%, while the urban tele-density decreased from 171.80% to 165.90%. During the year 2017- 18, 98.07 million subscribers have submiꢁed theirporꢀngrequeststodifferentserviceproviders for availing Mobile Number Portability (MNP) facility. With this the MNP requests increased from 272.76 million at the end of March 2017 to 370.83 million at the end of March 2018, which

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Public Protecꢀon and Disaster Relief (PPDR) Communicaꢀon Networks”, “Making ICT Accessible to Persons with Disabiliꢀes”, “Method of Allocaꢀon of Spectrum for Public Mobile Radio Trunking Service (PMRTS) including aucꢀon as a transparent mechanism”, “Voice Services to LTE Users (including VOLTE and CS Fallback)” etc. telecommunicaꢀons sector, TRAI also issued the following key amendments and regulaꢀons during the course of the year:

  • 1.
  • The Standards of Quality of Service of

Basic Telephone Service (Wireline) and Cellular Mobile Telephone Service (Fiꢂh Amendment) Regulaꢀons, 2017

  • 2.
  • The Telecommunicaꢀon Interconnecꢀon

Usage Charges (Thirteenth Amendment) Regulaꢀons, 2017
An important aspect of TRAI’s funcꢀons as mandated under the TRAI Act is to make recommendaꢀons to the Government on diverse subjects including market structure, entry of new operators in the sector, the licensing framework, management of scarce resources such as spectrum, consumersafetyandsecurityetc. While exercising this mandate, several significant policy regulatory recommendaꢀons were made during the year which included recommendaꢀons on “Adopꢀon of e-KYC service UIDAI for Fixed-line, InternetandBroadbandConnecꢀons”, “Addiꢀonal Recommendaꢀons on Sale/Rent of Internaꢀonal Roaming SIM Cards/Global Calling Cards of foreign Operators in India”, “Capꢀve VSAT CUG Policy Issues”, “Cloud Services”, “Spectrum, Roaming and QoS related requirements in Machine-toMachine (M2M) Communicaꢀons”, “Approach
3. 4.
The Telecommunicaꢀon Interconnecꢀon Regulaꢀons, 2018 The Telecommunicaꢀon Interconnecꢀon Usage Charges (Fourteenth Amendment) Regulaꢀons, 2018

  • 5.
  • Telecommunicaꢀon Mobile Number

Portability Per Port Transacꢀon Charge and Dipping Charge (Amendment) Regulaꢀons, 2018

II. BROADCASTING SECTOR

Television and Radio services together consꢀtute the Broadcasꢀng Sector. India has the world’s second largest TV market aꢂer China. As per industry esꢀmates, at the end of year 2017-18, out of a total of 2861 million households in India, around 1831 million households have Television sets. These 183 million households are being served by cable TV services, DTH services, HITS services, IPTV services, in addiꢀon to a terrestrial TV network of Doordarshan. The terrestrial TV

  • towards
  • Sustainable
  • Telecommunicaꢀons”,

“Regulatory framework for Internet Telephony”, “Net Neutrality”, “Ease of Doing Telecom Business” and “In-flight Connecꢀvity”.

In order to keep abreast with the changing policy and regulatory requirements of the

1 Source : FICCI –EY Report 2018

6network of Doordarshan covers about 922 per cent of country’s populaꢀon through a vast network of terrestrial transmiꢁers. The pay TV sector consists of around 98.51 million Cable TV households, 67.533 million net acꢀve DTH subscribers and 1.5 million1 Head-end-in-the-sky (HITS) subscribers. The television broadcasꢀng sector comprises of 3584 broadcasters, out of which, 493 are running pay channels. On the television distribuꢀon side, there are 14694 Mulꢀ System Operators (MSOs) registered with the Ministry of Informaꢀon and Broadcasꢀng (MIB), an esꢀmated 60,0001 cable operators, 2 HITS operators, 5 pay DTH operators and a few IPTV operators. In addiꢀon, the public service broadcaster - Doordarshan also provides a free-to-air DTH service in India. At present, there are 8754 private satellite TV channels permiꢁed by the Ministry of Informaꢀon and Broadcasꢀng as on 31 March 2018, out of which, 2135 are SD pay TV channels (including 1 adverꢀsement free pay channel) and 955 are HD Pay TV channels. a 59.5% share of the overall industry revenue, other part being the advertising revenue. Subscription revenues rose from Rs. 38,7006 crore in 2016-17 to Rs. 39,3006 crore in 2017-18. Advertisement revenues grew from Rs. 20,1006 crore in 2016-17 to Rs. 26,7006 crore in 2017-18 growingbyawhopping32.8%duringtheyear. The FM (Frequency Modulation) radio broadcasting sector has also registered an impressive growth. There were 3245 private FM radio stations operational at the end of March 2018, besides the terrestrial radio network of public service broadcaster- All India Radio (AIR). AIR has network of 4697 centres and 6627 terrestrial radio transmitters [1397 MW (Medium Wave), 4758 FM and 488 SW (Short Wave)]. AIR service covers around 99.20% of the geographical area of the country while serving 99.19% of the population8. As regards Community Radio Stations, at the end of March 2018, 2169 community radio stations have become operational. The radio industry is entirely dependent on advertisement revenues and has registered a growth of around 6.03 percent during the year 2017-18. Advertisement revenues have also risen from Rs. 2046.54 crore10 in 2016-17 to Rs. 2170.04 crore10 in year 2017-18.
India’s television industry revenue has grown from Rs 58,8006 crore in 2016-17 to Rs 66,0006 crore in 2017-18, thereby registering a growth of 12.24%. Subscription revenues account for

2 Source : MIB Annual Report 2017-18 3 Source : As reported by DTH operators to TRAI 4 Source : MIB website www.mib.gov.in 5 Source : As reported by broadcasters to TRAI 6 Source : FICCI –EY Report 2018
7 Source : AIR website – www.air.org.in 8 Source : AIR website – www.air.org.in 9 Ministry of I & B 10 As reported by private FM Radio operators to TRAI

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PART – I
POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES

9
10

ꢂAꢃ REVIEW OF GENERAL ENVIRONMENT
IN THE TELECOM SECTOR

The growth trend in the Telecom Sector continued in 2017-18 also assisted with timely Regulatory interventions of TRAI. The sector witnessed a substantial increase in the number of subscribers during the year. At the end of financial year 2017-18, the overall telecom subscriber base has increased to 1206.22 million as compared to 1194.58 Million at the end of financial year 2016-17 registering an increase of 11.64 million subscribers. The overall subscriber base and tele-density is depicted in

Table-1.
Table-1: Overall Subscriber base and Tele-density

  • Parꢀculars
  • Wireless
  • Wireline
  • Total

Wireless+ Wireline

Total Subscribers (Million)

Urban Subscribers (Million) Rural Subscribers (Million)

Overall Tele-density
1183.41
662.18 521.23
91.09
22.81 19.43
3.38
1206.22
681.61 524.61

  • 92.84
  • 1.76

  • Urban Tele-density
  • 161.17

58.67

  • 4.73
  • 165.90

  • 59.05
  • Rural Tele-density
  • 0.38

Share of Urban Subscribers Share of Rural Subscribers

No. of Broadband Subscribers (Million)

55.96% 44.04%

394.65

85.19% 14.81%

17.95

56.51% 43.49%

412.60

The details of subscriber base in wireless & wireline segments; requests for Mobile Number Portability (MNP); Tele-density; Internet subscribers

11 and Quarterly Telecom Services Performance Indicators are explained in subsequent paragraphs. in comparison to the subscriber base of 1170.18 million as on 31st March

  • 2017 registering
  • a
  • growth rate of

1.13% during the financial year 2017- 18. A comparative status of wireless subscriber base during the last 6 years

is depicted in Figure-1.

Wireless

1.1.1 The wireless subscriber base was
1183.41 million as on 31st March 2018

Figure - 1: Wireless Subscribers Base for the last six years since March 2013

(in million)

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MNP requests have increased from

  • (b)
  • Mobile Number Portability

272.76 Million subscribers at the end of March 2017 to 370.83 Million at the end of March 2018. The service area wise cumulative porting requests
1.1.2 During the year 2017-18, 98.07 million subscribers have submitted their porting requests to their service providers for availing Mobile Number Portability (MNP) facility. With this the at the end of March 2018 is depicted

in Table-2.

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Table-2: Service area wise cumulative porting requests at the end of March 2018

Cumulaꢀve MNP Requests (Service Area-wise) at the end of March, 2018
MNP requests processed by
Total Number of Port-

ing Requests
Service Area
Zone-I

18,006,488 24,369,182 13,562,586
1,785,847
682,538

Zone-II

  • 365,940
  • Delhi
  • 18,372,428

24,513,496 13,644,337
1,798,714
688,816
Gujarat Haryana
144,314
81,751
Himachal Pradesh Jammu & Kashmir Maharashtra Mumbai
12,867
6,278
25,249,877 19,486,807 13,569,350 30,747,021 19,628,916 16,011,919
168,692

  • 252,192
  • 25,502,069

19,701,422 13,777,897 30,871,344 19,738,024 16,072,254 31,240,032
2,600,946
13,882,646 36,160,940
9,065,245 9,175,055
24,849,063
991,342
214,615

  • Punjab
  • 208,547

  • Rajasthan
  • 124,323

Uꢁar Pradesh (East) Uꢁar Pradesh (West) Andhra Pradesh Assam
109,108
60,335
31,071,340
2,575,145
13,621,992 35,866,990
9,010,215 9,107,948
24,627,876
978,073
25,801

  • Bihar
  • 260,654

  • Karnataka
  • 293,950

  • Kerala
  • 55,030

  • Kolkata
  • 67,107

Madhya Pradesh North East Orissa
221,187
13,269

  • 54,825
  • 7,261,516

31,008,035 19,666,836

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    March 2, 2015 For Immediate Release DECKER, STARRING TIM HEIDECKER, RETURNS TO ADULTSWIM.COM FOR SEASON 2 ON MARCH 9TH! SEASON 1 NOW STREAMING CONTINUOUSLY ON ADULTSWIM.COM WATCH SEASON 2 TRAILER - http://youtu.be/3AlrLjDNb5Q Next Monday, March 9th sees the premiere of season 2 of AdultSwim.com’s Decker, the hit web series conceived as an ego-driven vehicle for On Cinema At The Cinema's multi-talented host, Tim Heidecker. Fed up with the dearth of movies featuring true American heroes capable of getting the job done, Tim has created the unforgettable character of Agent Jack Decker, who battles terrorism and Washington D.C. bureaucracy in a constant fight for freedom and family values. In the much-expanded second season, Decker fights to free ineffectual President Davidson (Hollywood veteran Joe Estevez) and to save the island of Hawaii from a Taliban takeover. Aided by easily-distracted CIA code-breaker Kington (On Cinema's Gregg Turkington) and up against a new cast of local Hawaiian bad guys, Tim will have to utilize every talent in his bag of tricks-- from music, zip lining and paragliding--to save America. The beautiful settings ensure that suspense, action, and adventure have never looked so good! Season 2 of Decker premiers next Monday, March 9th on AdultSwim.com, and new episodes will premiere every day, Monday to Friday, for the foreseeable future. As of today, AdultSwim.com is streaming Decker Season 1 on a continuous loop - http://www.adultswim.com/videos/astv/decker. Additionally, DECKER: CLASSIFIED, the novelization of Decker by Jamie Grefe and first book from Heidecker Publishing, is now available for purchase.
  • Magical Realism in Transnational Cinema

    Magical Realism in Transnational Cinema

    MAGICAL REALISM IN TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA CODY LANG A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY GRADUATE PROGRAM IN CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES YORK UNIVERSITY TORONTO, ONTARIO August 2020 © Cody Lang, 2020 ii Abstract This project is an analysis of the magical realist genre in cinema, specifically its multiple forms found in transnational cinema. The status of magical realism in film as a genre will be questioned and this project argues that the concept is best understand as a transgeneric critical category rather than a genre in the conventional understanding of the term. Magical realism as academic concept has been discussed in-depth in literary theory and this project extends those discussions into the field of cinema. The history of criticism of magical realism is summarized as it applies to studying film with special attention given towards the semiotic differences between literature and cinema. Furthermore, this project explicates the distinct ways that magical realism operates in cinema in contrast to literature while also noting the shared aesthetic strategies between each media. Each section covers a thematic topic observed in transnational magical realist cinema: metafiction in overt and covert forms; the representation of historicity; and the representation of marginalized subjectivities, specifically looking at how magical realist cinema presents issues of class, gender, race, and sexual identity. The final thematic discussion discusses the possibility of utopian discourses in magical realist cinema, the attempts to envision a less exploitative social collective according to a variety of cultural and national contexts in late-capitalism.
  • Readily Admits) That Was Provoked by a Growing Interest in the Female Sex

    Readily Admits) That Was Provoked by a Growing Interest in the Female Sex

    Martin Scorsese’s Divine Comedy Also available from Bloomsbury: The Bloomsbury Companion to Religion and Film, edited by William L. Blizek Dante’s Sacred Poem, Sheila J. Nayar The Sacred and the Cinema, Sheila J. Nayar Martin Scorsese’s Divine Comedy Movies and Religion Catherine O’Brien BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA BLOOMSBURY and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in Great Britain 2018 Copyright © Catherine O'Brien, 2018 Catherine O'Brien has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this work. For legal purposes the Acknowledgements on p. vi constitute an extension of this copyright page. Cover design by Catherine Wood Cover image © Appian Way / Paramount / Rex Shutterstock All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: O’Brien, Catherine, 1962- author. Title: Martin Scorsese’s divine comedy: movies and religion / Catherine O’Brien. Description: London; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Includes filmography. Identifiers: LCCN 2017051481|
  • Cinema Studies: the Key Concepts

    Cinema Studies: the Key Concepts

    Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts This is the essential guide for anyone interested in film. Now in its second edition, the text has been completely revised and expanded to meet the needs of today’s students and film enthusiasts. Some 150 key genres, movements, theories and production terms are explained and analysed with depth and clarity. Entries include: • auteur theory • Black Cinema • British New Wave • feminist film theory • intertextuality • method acting • pornography • Third World Cinema • War films A bibliography of essential writings in cinema studies completes an authoritative yet accessible guide to what is at once a fascinating area of study and arguably the greatest art form of modern times. Susan Hayward is Professor of French Studies at the University of Exeter. She is the author of French National Cinema (Routledge, 1998) and Luc Besson (MUP, 1998). Also available from Routledge Key Guides Ancient History: Key Themes and Approaches Neville Morley Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (Second edition) Susan Hayward Eastern Philosophy: Key Readings Oliver Leaman Fifty Eastern Thinkers Diané Collinson Fifty Contemporary Choreographers Edited by Martha Bremser Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers John Lechte Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers Dan Cohn-Sherbok Fifty Key Thinkers on History Marnie Hughes-Warrington Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations Martin Griffiths Fifty Major Philosophers Diané Collinson Key Concepts in Cultural Theory Andrew Edgar and Peter Sedgwick Key Concepts in Eastern Philosophy Oliver Leaman Key Concepts in
  • October 19, 2020 TIM HEIDECKER ANNOUNCES

    October 19, 2020 TIM HEIDECKER ANNOUNCES

    October 14, 2020 For Immediate Release TIM HEIDECKER ANNOUNCES HIS FIRST-EVER STAND-UP COMEDY SPECIAL AN EVENING WITH TIM HEIDECKER PREMIERES ON OCTOBER 23RD, ​ WATCH THE TRAILER HERE ​ Today, Tim Heidecker, one of the top 5 comedians in America, is pleased to announce ​ ​ his first-ever stand-up special, An Evening With Tim Heidecker, which will premiere ​ ​ ​ on October 23rd at 9 PM EST/6 PM PST via Youtube in conjunction with 800 Pound ​ ​ ​ Gorilla Records. Filmed in Los Angeles in pre-COVID times, produced by Abso Lutely ​ ​ ​ Productions, and directed by Ben Berman, An Evening With Tim Heidecker features ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Tim’s unique, no-holds-barred takes on modern inconveniences, PC culture, politics and marriage. You can call it a send-up, a parody, a character, a performance piece, or whatever you’d like, but at the end of the day, it’s jokes! Please clap. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR AN EVENING WITH TIM HEIDECKER ​ RSVP FOR THE YOUTUBE PREMIERE NOW Tim Heidecker is an actor, comedian, producer, musician and podcast host. He is the ​ ​ co-creator of Adult Swim’s Tom Goes To The Mayor, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, ​ Great Job!, Tim & Eric’s Bedtime Stories, Beef House, Decker, and On Cinema, and ​ ​ ​ star and writer of the film Mister America. He also hosts the weekly podcast, Office ​ ​ ​ Hours. In addition to An Evening With Tim Heidecker, next month sees the Showtime ​ ​ ​ premiere of Moonbase 8, the astronaut comedy series starring Heidecker, Fred ​ ​ Armisen and John C. Reilly. Heidecker’s new album, Fear of Death, is out now on ​ ​ Spacebomb Records.
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    00:00:00 Music Music Gentle, trilling music with a steady drumbeat plays under the dialogue. 00:00:01 Promo Promo Speaker: Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR. [Music fades out.] 00:00:12 Jesse Host I’m Jesse Thorn. It’s Bullseye! Thorn 00:00:13 Music Music “Huddle Formation” from the album Thunder, Lightning, Strike by The Go! Team plays. A fast, upbeat, peppy song. Music plays as Jesse speaks, then fades out. 00:00:21 Jesse Host Time, now, for a segment that we call The Craziest [censored] Day of My Entire Career—where we let some of our favorite people tell us the wildest stories from their long careers in showbusiness. Next up, Tim Heidecker. Tim is, of course, half of the very funny comedy duo, Tim and Eric—a partnership that has spawned four television shows, countless tours, and a feature film. [Music fades out.] Also, this song—which they proposed as a commercial jingle for Rolos. 00:00:46 Sound Transition Music swells and fades. Effect 00:00:47 Clip Clip Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim: [chanting rhythmically with no musical accompaniment] Rolo Tony brown town. Check yourself at the door. Gimme some more, gimme some more, gimme some more of your Rolos! 00:00:55 Sound Transition Music swells and fades. Effect 00:00:56 Jesse Host Tim has also kept himself busy with other pursuits. As an actor, he appeared in Bridesmaids and Jordan Peele’s Us, among others. He also hosts Adult Swim’s On Cinema at the Cinema, alongside Gregg Turkington.