While the world is still battling the effects of the pandemic and the resulting shutdowns and restrictions, ZEE5 has risen to the occasion to keep all those at home constantly entertained. With constant innovations and upgrades, the Super-App has been ceaselessly leading digital transformations to create a wholesome entertainment ecosystem that caters to each segment of their diverse audience.
Furthering these efforts, ZEE5 now offers its premium subscription to JioFiber users. This complimentary subscription to ZEE5’s premium content is available to new as well as existing JioFiber users on Silver plan and above.
After months of standstill, GECs across some states have been permitted to resume indoor shooting of serials with strict guidelines. Regional channels are slowly treading the path to normalcy, Malayalam GECs being one.
Zee Telugu continued to provide ardent viewers with non-stop entertainment in the comfort of their homes with a focus on adhering to the government guidelines to maintain safety during the Covid2019 pandemic, by providing fresh episodes of Queen. Maintaining precautionary measures successfully resulted in allowing channel shooting to resume by continuing to adopt necessary precautions. Zee Telugu is going to air the fresh episodes from 22 June 2020.
Colors Tamil has planned an initiative titled “Yoga for World Health” in association with Rotary Club of Madras Central. This virtual event will bring experts, talent and fans all on one platform, and will stress on the importance of practicing yoga in our everyday lives for mental and emotional wellbeing.
Malaysia-based Astro has added more Tamil HD content on the platform including Zee Tamil HD, Star Vijay HD, Colors Tamil HD. The Chakravarthy Pack will be offering premium content to over 300,000 Tamil households in Malaysia.
Zee South Cluster, part of the Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd, has cumulatively donated Rs 1.35 crore to support more than 1,000 pandemic-hit daily-wage workers in the television industry across Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Kerala. The aid has been directly sent to their bank accounts, thus avoiding delays.
TRT Tamil Olli radio from Paris, France - which is the first 24 H Tamil radio station in Europe started on Pongal day in 1997, ended its normal schedule of programmes in April due to the corona (COVID-19) crisis in France. The web- and satellite transmission was replaced by non-stop music and main news broadcast and some recorded programmes. 
In the crowed free-to-view live Tamil TV channels space online and through IPTV, some new channels have launched and more are to come. Here is an overview of some of the channels that we are aware of:
The channel has started airing popular shows from 1 June.
The Kerala State Government has recently announced online classes for Class 1 to Class 12 (except Class 11) which will be accessible to students through the Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE) Victers channel. The online classes will be available through live stream on the official KITE Victers channel that falls under the State General Education Department. The sessions have been organised to make sure that students in Kerala do not miss out on the classes due to the current lockdown situation in the country.
After a two-month break, the serials of ZEE Keralam are starting afresh with new content. The seven serials that were already running successfully in the channel will start its telecast from 1 June onwards.
