{"id":1001418,"date":"2026-04-06T08:09:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001418"},"modified":"2026-04-06T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:14:00","slug":"tv-industry-bracing-for-decline-in-sales-on-rising-production-costs-amid-west-asia-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/06\/tv-industry-bracing-for-decline-in-sales-on-rising-production-costs-amid-west-asia-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"TV industry bracing for decline in sales on rising production costs amid West Asia crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The TV industry, which already faces soaring prices of memory chips (RAM), is bracing for a decline in sales, weighed down by rising cost of plastics to ocean freight on account of ongoing geopolitical tensions in West Asia. <\/p>\n<p>Some manufacturers are also flagging concerns over a potential downtrading trend as buyers shift towards smaller screen sizes amid rising prices. Moreover, rupee depreciation has pushed up overall production costs, leading to higher television retail prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The TV industry, which already faces soaring prices of memory chips (RAM), is bracing for a decline in sales, weighed down by rising cost of plastics to ocean freight on account of ongoing geopolitical tensions in West Asia. Some manufacturers are also flagging concerns over a potential downtrading trend as buyers shift towards smaller screen sizes amid rising prices. Moreover, rupee depreciation has pushed up overall production costs, leading to higher television retail prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}