the power of TV
August 2005
rmg david wins creative duties of 'India Broadcast News'
rmg david Delhi has been appointed for the creative duties of the English news channel 'India Broadcast News', IBN, which is promoted by Rajdeep Sardesai, Sameer Manchanda and CNBC-TV18 group. Read More ...
HT Media stock to be listed on BSE, NSE on Sept. 1
The stock of HT Media Limited will be listed on BSE and NSE on Thursday, September 1, 2005. On BSE its ID is 532662, the stock will be included in the B1 group. The issue price has been fixed at RS 530, face value of RS 10 and premium of RS 520. Read More ...
Media Video's net profit at RS 5.71 cr
Media Video LTD, earned a net profit of RS 5.71 crore in fiscal ending June 30, 2005, as against RS 2.65 crore in the last year, showing a growth of 115%. Read More ...
JWT India has Bruce Matchett as national creative director
Bruce Matchett, Chief Creative Officer at Singleton Ogilvy & Mather will join JWT India as Chief Creative Officer and National Executive Creative Director, effectuve from October. Read More ...
NDTV, Astro Broadcast in JV for channel in SE Asia
NDTV and Astro Broadcast Corporation have signed a term sheet that proposes to establish a JV company for setting up and broadcasting 24-hour channels in South East Asia. Read More ...
Indian Express Group takes NRSC to Bombay HC
The Indian Express Group has filed a suit in Bombay High Court against National Readership Studies Council, NRSC, over a dispute of readership figures of Marathi daily, Loksatta in regards to the NRS 2005 figures. Read More ...
Aakar Patel of Mid Day to join Divya Bhaskar
Aakar Patel, Group Editor - In - Chief, Mid Day has decided to leave the Mumbai's only convergent media company, to join the same position at Divya Bhaskar. MR Patel will officially join Divya Bhaskar as Group Editor - In - Chief from December 1, 2005. Read More ...
Zee claims good opening for its foray into cricket telecast
Zee Network first foray into Live cricket telecast has been a roaring success according to the latest figures from TAM Media, claims the channel. Read More ...
DD to telecast one day matches with either Zee or ESPN
The Telecast Warfare, the use of force on the part of two or even more broadcasters for the purpose of deciding the win at an issue that cannot be settled by two biggest contender means, has seen a new turn. Read More ...
Zubin Gandevia promoted as MD to NGCI Asia
Zubin Jehanbux Gandevia, Managing Director, National Geographic Channel India has been promoted as Managing Director, National Geographic Channel International Asia, effective January 2006. Read More ...
MIPCOM 2005 launches first Mobile TV Awards
MIPCOM 2005 has launched the first Mobile TV Awards which will be held 19-20 October, 2005 during the 21st edition of MIPCOM (17-21 October, 2005, Palais des Festivals, Cannes). Read More ...
'Adlabs eyeing PVR Cinemas' - a speculation says Adlabs
With reference to the news item which appeared in the Times of India titled, "Is Anil Ambani's Adlabs eyeing PVR Cinemas?", Adlabs Films LTD has said that as mentioned in the opening line of the given article, the stated news items is based on speculation. Read More ...
History Channel brings 'The Write Stuff', an advanced
This September The History Channel will trace the lives of prominent authors in 'The Write Stuff', which airs every Saturday night at 10 pm. Read More ...
Starwin Media to enter the Asia Pacific
Starwin Media Holdings has announced that they have entered into an agreement of intent to acquire majority control of Strategic Media International Limited, a Hong Kong corporation. Read More ...
Hrithik Roshan is the brand ambassador of John Players
ITC's John Players, has signed on the noted superstar and youth icon Hrithik Roshan as the brand ambassador for its mass market apparel brand John Players. Read More ...
Ravneet joins Nokia's global marketing organization
Nokia India has said that Ravneet Phokela, Nokia India brand marketing and CRM manager will shortly be moving into a global role as a marketing manager in the Nokia Global Marketing organization, based out of London. Read More ...
NDTV, Astro Broadcast in JV for channel in SE Asia
New Delhi Television LTD, NDTV, said that it had agreed to set up a joint venture with Astro Broadcast Corp. Ltd. to run 24-hour channels in Southeast Asia. Read More ...
Green Day dominates MTV Awards in Miami
Punk trio Green Day cleaned up at the MTV Video Music Awards, snagging seven "Moonmen" at the lavish Miami bash hosted by hip-hop mogul Diddy and featured some of the world's top entertainers. Read More ...
'Afghan Oprah' set to hit airwaves
Afghanistan is to get its own Oprah Winfrey style chat show touching on taboo women’s issues, a television station said on Monday, in a move likely to anger hardliners in the conservative Islamic nation. Read More ...
Kohinoor Broadcasting to invest RS 60 crore in UAE
The Chandigarh based production house Kohinoor Broadcasting Corporation LTD will invest RS 60 crore in its 100 per cent subsidiary in Ajman free trade zone in UAE. Read More ...
TRAI mulls for commercial TV broadcasting in dual mode
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, TRAI has suggested to the government that it should allow commercial television broadcasting in both analogue and digital modes. Read More ...
Tamil daily Sudar Oli bombed in Colombo
More tha three persons were injured when men driving motorbikes threw bombs into the compound of a Tamil daily called Sudar Oli in Colombo on Monday. Read More ...
Percept to produce Hollywood multi-starrer
In a first of its kind venture, Percept Picture Company will produce a Hollywood film 'Tree of Life' with Donald Rosenfeld as producer and Terrence Malick as director. Read More ...
Freddie is the Serial Nail Biter
There is always something new coming out everyday about Flintoff. It appears that he is also an avid nail-biter. All this talk of reverse swing has led to the next obvious thing, TV surveillance. Read More ...
BSkyB not to join bid for F1: Sources
Satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC has been approached to join a consortium bidding for Formula One, the motor racing business, but has no plans to get involved. Read More ...
The future of television watching unfolds rapidly
Technology is taking us to the never-never land. Could we have imagined making video recordings without videotapes? Or watching TV programmes on TV sets having no tubes? Digital technology is making all this possible. Read More ...
110.2 million TV households in the US - Nielsen Media
Measurement firm Nielsen Media Research has showed that the total number of TV households in the US, now estimates that there are 110.2 million TV households in the US, Up from 109.6 million in the 2004-05 season, a 0.5% change. Read More ...
Gautam Dheer of Indian Express arbitrarily arrested
The Punjab police on Sunday night has arrested a versatile journalist, Gautam Dheer, of the The Indian Express in Chandigarh, for a media report written by him. Read More ...
TRAI suggests dual mode commercial TV broadcasting
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, TRAI has suggested to the government that it should allow commercial television broadcasting in both analogue and digital modes. Read More ...
DC to meet on Sept 5 to finalise FCCB/GDR issue
Deccan Chronicle Holdings LTD has informed that its Board of Directors are scheduled to meet on September 5 to finalise FCCB/GDR issue. Read More ...
Intelsat to buy PanAmSat Holding for $3.2 billion in cash
Intelsat Limited, has sign a definitive merger agreement to buy PanAmSat Holding Corp., the world's largest distributor of satellite-based television channels, for $3.2 billion in cash to become the world's largest commercial-satellite operator. Read More ...
India TV to launch Gujarati news channel from Nov. 1
Even as the masters of media companies are engaged in a market share battle, India TV has decided to start a new Gujarati news channel for its expansion plans. Read More ...
Maxus bags RS 25 crore IDBI media business account
Maxus has bagged the IDBI media business account in Mumbai. The account size is pegged at RS 25 crore. Read More ...
Fairies from Never Land arrive at Disneyland
Disney Publishing Worldwide will unveil to the world its eagerly awaited novel, Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg, by Newbery Honor-winning author Gail Carson Levine. Read More ...
Stay away from the Press, says I&B ministry
A serious debate is goinf on within the official circles over the immediate provocation behind the Information and Broadcasting ministry's latest circular seeking 'strict compliance' of an age-old government guideline on only top officials authorised to talk to the press. Read More ...
Mudra Hyderabad appointed for the EMRI account
Mudra Hyderabad has been appointed to handle the the creative and media duties of Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI). Read More ...
160 per cent increase in Internet users
Internet usage around the world is increasing by, well, leaps and bounds, going by the figures released by Internet World Stats, which tracks such thing. Read More ...
Thukral to become Comma's new COO
Rakesh Thukral has been appointed chief operating officer of Comma, effective September 1, 2005. Read More ...
Everest Brand Solutions makes account changes
Everest Brand Solutions has made some key additions to its account planning and account management departments. Read More ...
NRAI Delhi conducting Media Workshop
The News Reading Anchoring Institute (NRAI), in New Delhi is conducting a 15-days workshop for aspiring news readers and anchors. Read More ...
Marico forays into male grooming segment
Marico, a leading FMCG player, has forayed into the premium male grooming category with the launch of Parachute After Shower Hair Cream for Men. Read More ...
Oriental Press sells property to TV broadcaster
Hong Kong newspaper publisher Oriental Press Group Ltd has agreed to sell its former printing plant to the city's No. 2 TV broadcaster, Asia Television Ltd, for HK$180 million. Read More ...
TV Ratings rise for IAAF World Championships
The International Association of Athletics Federation, IAAF has said that it is pleased with preliminary ratings for Helsinki's World Championship in Athletics. Read More ...
Oprah Winfrey furious at snubbing allegation
Oprah Winfrey said she is 'furious' at allegations that her absence at the recent funeral for Ebony and Jet magazines founder John H Johnson was a snub of the pioneering black publisher. Read More ...
Freeze Frame: Moments Captured For Posterity
We currently live in a world that revolves around visual impact... design, art, TV, cinema and more recently, still photography as a means of communication, an expression of one's self, and a way of conveying events as a pictorial, has taken on a huge significance. Read More ...
Zee's Subhash Chandra meets Pak's Pervez Musharraf
Zee Telefilms Chairman and Managing Director, Subhash Chandra met the Pakistan President, MR Pervez Musharraf this morning as a courtesy call, during his three-day visit to the nation, primarily to discuss the role of media and entertainment industry can play in improving India and Pakistan relations. Read More ...
Sahara wins Mahatma Gandhi Award, 'Kohinoor' on anvil
The World's largest family Sahara India Pariwar was felicitated with the Mahatma Gandhi Award at during this year's India Independence Day celebrations hosted by the Friends of the Indo-American Community at the Bonaventure hotel in Los Angeles. Read More ...
Zee Telefilms declares 100% dividend
Zee Telefilms has declared a dividend of 100 per cent on the issued and paid up equity share capital of the company for the financial year 2004-2005. Read More ...
Chintamani Rao to join India TV as CEO
Chintamani Rao, the president of Universal McCann, the media services division of McCann Erickson, who has resigned from his position will join Rajat Sharma promoted India TV as Chief Executive Officer, CEO, effective September 1, 2005. Read More ...
Ogilvy Brazil Appoints Marcelo Pires as Creative VP
Ogilvy Brazil has hired Marcelo Pires as Creative Vice President. In this role, Pires is charged with running the creative business of Ogilvy Brazil, headquartered in Sao Paulo. Read More ...
Ashlee Simpson will perform in 'The Oprah Winfrey Show'
Ashlee Simpson, who was busted for a Saturday Night Live lip-synch gone awry, will perform on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' this fall, says her manager-father, Joe Simpson. Read More ...
Comedian Chris Farley gets Posthumous Walk
Comedian Chris Farley was a motivational speaker, a rabid fan and a topless dancer on Saturday Night Live. On Friday, the late comic was the toast of his castmates as they honored him with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, media reports say. Read More ...
WPP group buys Australia's The Communications Group
WPP Group, the UK-based advertising giant, has bought Australia's The Communications Group, a holding company that includes advertising agency George Patterson Partners, the WPP Chief Executive said on Friday. Read More ...
Chintamani Rao of Universal McCann resigns
Chintamani Rao, the president of Universal McCann, the media services division of McCann Erickson, has resigned from his position. Read More ...
Zee Telugu to unveil Sholay in Telugu
Zee Telugu, the regional channel from Zee Network, will be unveiling the dubbed version of the Bollywood blockbuster Sholay in Telugu and will telecast the movie on Sunday, August 30 at 3.30 PM in the High Voltage Sunday segment. Read More ...
Now Log on to watch TV
BBC TV channels could be made available on the Internet, one of the corporation's top executives has said on Friday. Read More ...
Baru urges media to go global
DR Sanjaya Baru, Media Advisor to the Prime Minister, said on Friday that time has come for the Indian media, which has remained obsessively local, to go global and present India's point of view to the world. Read More ...
Ad club to organise Media Review
Spured by the growing interest and competition in advertising the Ad club will organise a Media Review on Wednesday August 31, 2005 at the Presidential Ballroom, Taj President. Read More ...
TRAI releases paper on IPV4 to IPV6 transition
For Accelerating growth of broadband, The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, TRAI has issued a consultation paper on issues relating to transition from IPv4 to IPv6 in the country. The growing number of 'always on' broadband will require a large number of IP addresses. Read More ...
Hero Honda's Atul Sobti quits
Honda marketing vice president Atul Sobti on Friday announced his decision to step down after seven and a half years of steering the company’s bikes on the growth track. Read More ...
Four broadcasters bidding for cricket telecast rights
Zee Sports, ESPN Star Sports, Sony Max and Prasar Bharati are the final four broadcasters, who all are bidding for the cricket telecast rights to be played for a tenure of four years, the Board of Cricket Control of India has announced. Read More ...
HBO India comes with a new customized initiative
HBO's Original Movie 'Undefeated', which will debut on September 6 at 9.00 PM, will see a unique and innovative creativity, markedly specially for Maruti Suzuki, HBO will create for the first time an austere backing opportunity, which is going to benefit both the channel and the sponsor. Read More ...
Fair & Lovely Shikhar on Sony TV from August 28
Tune in to your television sets this Sunday afternoon to watch India’s most celebrated and women extraordinary featured in Fair & Lovely Shikhar on Sony Entertainment Television. Read More ...
ETC completes six successful years on Aug 26
On August 26 2005, today, ETC completes six successful years in entertainment industry. ETC started as a music channel with a handful of enthusiastic entrepreneurs, but today has grown into a formidable exhibition of Current Bollywood and Popular Music with every producer and music creator vying for space on ETC. Read More ...
Channel 7 to air 'Satta ka Hisaab' for Uttar Pradesh
Channel 7 will be airing a special series titled 'Satta ka Hisaab' to evaluate the two years of the Samajwadi Party under the leadership of Mulayam Singh Yadav. The series will broadcast daily on Channel 7 from 7 PM to 8 PM from August 25-28. Read More ...
English Premier League matches on on ESPN Star Sports
The English Premier League enters week 3 with a very impressive line up of matches this weekend, live & exclusive on ESPN Star Sports. The broadcaster will also air the UEFA Super Cup, Champions League winners Liverpool taking on Cup winners CSKA Moscow, live at Midnight on Saturday, August 27. Read More ...
UEFA and Warner sign Long term lincesing agreement
Warner Bros. Consumer Products (WBCP) announced today that they have signed a long-term strategic licensing agreement with UEFA (Union of European Football Association). Read More ...
Zee Network not to drag AIFF to High Court
Zee Network has decided not to drag All India Football Federation, AIFF, to the Bombay High Court through a filing of Public Interest Litigation, PIL, against the football executive committee. Read More ...
Anandam crosses 420 episodes, gets a year extension
Maintaining double digit TRP's in the 7 PM slot in any channel is a difficult task. Anandam is the only daily soap to achieve this feat and it continues to hold that position over all the other Tamil serials put together. Read More ...
'Shakti Channel' by the first week of October 2005
Shakti Bhog Foods LTD, are planning to launch a new channel by name, 'Shakti Channel', by the first week of October 2005. Read More ...
Adlabs Films recommended 40% dividend
Adlabs Films LTD has informed that the Board of Directors of the Company at its meeting held on August 24, 2005, inter alia, has recommended dividend of 40% (RS 2.00 per share) for the year ended March 31, 2005 subject to approval by members at the ensuing Annual General Meeting of the Company. Read More ...
Sony is the top brand in Asia
Sony has been named the top brand in Asia in a survey published on Friday, August 26 2005. Read More ...
FCB-Ulka Delhi and and Lodestar Media win KAPL
FCB-Ulka Delhi and and Lodestar Media has won the creative and media duties of Karamchand Appliances Pvt LTD, a subsidy of US-based consumer packaged goods company SC Johnson & Son INC, which manufactures Baygon and AllOut Repellents. Read More ...
Raycom Media buys Liberty Corp for $987 million
Liberty Corp., said that it agreed to be bought out by private broadcasting conglomerate Raycom Media Inc. for about $877 million in cash plus $110 million in assumed debt, a total of $987 million. Read More ...
'Wedding Crashers' is the Top-Grossing Comedy of 2005
The Time Warner's film 'Wedding Crashers', has passed Hitch to become the top-grossing comedy of the year with a cumulative box office gross of $180 million since its July 15 debut. Read More ...
China sinks Murdoch's TV joint venture
Beijing has scuppered plans by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp to expand its broadcasts in China as the government tries to curb foreign influence in local programming. Read More ...
Japan offers smokers Gold, TV
As fewer and fewer people light up in Japan, the nation's sole tobacco producer is to offer gold bars, top brand television sets and a movie preview for smokers in a campaign starting next month. Read More ...
AXN to launch 'The Shield' 4 in India by Nov 2005
The long-awaited season 4 of 'The Shield' will be launched in India by November 2005, though in other parts of Asia it would be available from September 2005. AXN India currently telecasts the season 3 of 'The Shield'. Read More ...
Stephen Mangham is Chairman of O&M Singapore
Stephen Mangham has been named Chairman of the Ogilvy Group of companies in Singapore, moving from his most-recent position as Managing Director of Ogilvy & Mather Advertising in Taiwan. Read More ...
Programming code on anvil to check obscene materials
The Information & Broadcasting Ministry is in final phase to bring in a programming code to check the obscene materials on television,which are beamed in India from abroad, Kapil Sibal, Science and Technology Minister, on behalf S Jaipal Reddy, Information and Broadcasting Minister, informed the Lok Sabha on Thursday, August 25. Read More ...
News Corp. paid Lachlan Murdoch $7.8 million as Salary
Media conglomerate News Corporation said that former Deputy COO Lachlan Murdoch received a salary and bonus totaling $7.8 million for the year ended June 30. Read More ...
Launch of 3 New Communication Satellites on the Block
India will see the launch of three new communication satellites, Insat 4a, 4b and 4c in the next two year, so as, the nation will have an additional 60 transponders, the total climbing to 210 transponders from the present 150 transponders of Indian satellites. Read More ...
Crest-Lions Gate tie-up for three animation films
Crest Animation Studio a subsidiary of US based RichCrest Animation and Lions Gate Entertainment, the premier independent production and distribution studio will jointly produce three animation films. The key clients of Crest include HTA, Lintas, O&M, among others. Read More ...
India's first animated film, Bhaggmati out on Aug 26
Bhaggmati - The Queen of Fortunes, India's first and World's largest classic animated film will be out on Friday, August 26, to be released nationwide, is a 2D animation film that also has living characters. Read More ...
Top Gear promises lifestyle, enthusiast-oriented look
Top Gear, an internationally renowned automobile magazine, which was launched on August 17, the latest entrant in India’s burgeoning automobile-press industry. The second new automobile magazine to be launched this year, TopGear promises a more lifestyle and enthusiast-oriented look into the motoring world. Read More ...
Zee to launch Khalsa Punjabi channel in last week of Sept
Zee Network will launch its third Punjabi channel, Khalsa, an 24 hour religious channel to be launched in the last week of September, 2005. Read More ...
Dutch TV to air sperm donor show
Dutch billionaire television producer John de Mol, the man behind the pioneer show Big Brother, will test the limits of reality TV with a programme in which a woman searches for a potential sperm donor to conceive a child. Read More ...
Shania Twain is back to sing for Desperate Housewives
The new Shania Twain single Shoes will lead the album Music From And Inspired by Desperate Housewives, due on September 20. Read More ...
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan releases 'Biography'
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, who is considered to be a master in traditional and cultural music has released a collection of his works called 'Biography' amidst an impressive gathering. Information and broadcasting minister S Jaipal Reddy was also present on the occasion. Read More ...
Hitachi unveils first terabyte DVD recorder
Japan’s Hitachi on Wednesday unveiled the world’s first hard disk drive/DVD recorder that can store one terabyte of data, or enough to record about 128 hours of highdefinition digital broadcasting. Read More ...
NDTV's foreign asset to reach 26 %, after shares transfer
New Delhi Television LTD, NDTV has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange, BSE, that the two applications of the Company which are pending consideration before the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, if are approved the company's foreign investment cap will reach 26 per cent. Read More ...
Glu Mobile secures Strategic Investment from Time Warner
Glu Mobile, a leading creator and global publisher of mobile entertainment, has announced that Time Warner Inc. has made a strategic investment in the company's series D round of financing that was led by Granite Global Ventures in May of 2005. Read More ...
MTV Pre Awards parties commence in Miami
MTV said that it has plans in place to deal with rough weather leading up to its Video Music Awards. Read More ...
'WWE Smackdown!' is now 'Friday Night Smackdown!'
Starting Sept 9, World Wrestling Entertainment will rename 'WWE Smackdown!' to 'Friday Night Smackdown!'. Read More ...
Google to launch messaging, voice service
A new programme, Google Talk, will compete against similar free services offered for several years by AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Read More ...
Mid Day to raise RS 17.96 Cr from T Rowe Price
Mid Day Multimedia said that T Rowe Price International, Inc. will pick up 21,90,000 fully paid up equity shares of the Company through a preferential allotment at RS 10/- each for RS 82/- per share (including premium of RS 72/- per share). T Rowe Price will pay RS 17.96 crore for this acquisition. Read More ...
HC rejected to pass interim orders on TV Rights Issue
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday, August 24, rejected to pass interim orders on Zee Telefilms plea to sort out the cricket telecast row, the clouds hovering over the cricket series to be played for four years seem to have blown away. The HC has also asked the Centre and ESPN Star Sports to file their replies. Read More ...
Media Video top line up 35% to RS 107 Cr
Media Video LTD has announced its audited financial results as on June 30, 2005, in the board meeting held on August 22, 2005. Read More ...
Nick unviels 'Hear My Voice' contest
As part of its ongoing 'Nick 2015' campaign which urges kids to get involved with key issues affecting their world, Nick now gives Indian kids an opportunity to communicate with world leaders at the United Nations through a unique art contest called 'Hear My Voice'. Read More ...
Raja Sharma from Delhi is 'Pepsi [v] TV champion'
The nationwide search for the country’s 'champion' who has got the spirit to go on television, use their creativity and get viewers to want to watch them has come an exciting end with Raja Sharma from Delhi being crowned as the winner. Read More ...
ABC crashes into lifestyle magazine sector
The ABC will launch a lifestyle magazine for grown-ups this September, pitched straight at the heart of the core ABC fan: the cashed-up, 35-plus, AB adult. Read More ...
Viacom, Yahoo! in an Web Advertising, Search deal
Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. has announced that it has entered into a Multi-year search marketing and Web search distribution agreement with Yahoo!. Read More ...
Sahara One Sangeet Awards 2005 on Sept 24
Sahara One in association with PDM International and US-based Mehta Entertainment, has announced the second season of Sahara One Sangeet Awards 2005, the awards which honour the Indian Cinema and Music on the International platform. Read More ...
Satish Ramachandran joins FCB-Ulka
Satish Ramachandran has been appointed as General Manager, Interactive – direct, digital, database and Healthcare Business, FCB-Ulka Mumbai. Earlier, he was General Manager, Healthcare Business at Ambience Publicis, where he had a five-year stint. Read More ...
Henkel appoints Mudra to handle Magikleen Oxy Power
Henkel has appointed Mudra to handle the brand Magikleen Oxy Power, an instant stain removing powder. The agency already has Henkel brands such as Henko and Fa. Read More ...
India Vision to launch new channel in Bahrain
India Vision, a leading Malayalam 24-hour news channel, to strengthen its presence in Bahrain will launch a new entertainment channel with an eye on the youth in Gulf countries. Read More ...
Whirlpool in pact to acquire Maytag
Whirlpool Corp said it reached a definitive agreement to buy US appliance icon Maytag Corp for $1.7 billion in cash and stock in a deal that would create the world’s largest appliance maker. Read More ...
US radio suspends talk show host for anti-Islam remarks
A radio talk show host in Washington is out of a job after refusing to apologise for calling Islam 'a terrorist organisation'. Read More ...
AOL launches Secondary Ticket Marketplace
AOL.com is now a one-stop-shopping resource for competitively priced 'secondary tickets', those available for resale by the consumer, at AOL’s new Ticket Marketplace, available to everyone on the Web at www.AOLCityGuide.com. Read More ...
Garofalo to star on NBC's The West Wing
Janeane Garofalo will guest star as a controversial media strate gist on NBC's The West Wing this fall. Read More ...
Toshiba, Sony to make rival DVDs
Japanese electronics firms Toshiba and Sony have been unable to reach a common standard for nextgeneration DVDs and each is going to produce their own format, incompatible with the other's. Read More ...
Mid Day denies stake sale; to meet for preferential share
The media had reports that a local media company is close to buying a majority stake in Mid Day Multimedia Limited. Read More ...
Doordarshan Tower B, inaugurated by Jaipal Reddy
S. Jaipal Reddy, Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting, today inaugurated the New Broadcasting House and Doordarshan Bhawan Tower B, the state-of-the-art studios and modern office blocks have been provided in the new premises. Read More ...
Rajesh Sawhney of Times Internet is now President of REL
Rajesh Sawhney, the Chief Operating Officer of Times Internet has been appointed as President of Reliance Entertainment Limited, REl, an Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Enterprises, ADAE, company. Read More ...
Sony Electronics unveils Brand BRAVIA
Sony Electronics has introduced a new sub-brand for its line of high-definition LCD TVs with an unveiling of a right field sign at Yankee Stadium before the New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays game. Read More ...
Foreign channels beaming local ads may be Barred
The government is contemplating prohibiting foreign news channels downlinking into India from carrying any programmes or advertising specifically targeted for the Indian audience. Read More ...
Consultative Committee of I&B deliberate FM Radio
The Consultative Committee attached to the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting today deliberated on the issue of Private FM Radio Stations, which are slated to come out during the second phase of FM radio. Read More ...
Airtel's new campaign to claim mobile as low cost option
Airtel will encourage the landline subscribers in Tamil Nadu to tun on to mobile services, with a new advertising campaign beautifying mobile services as a low cost option, when compared with landline services. Read More ...
Permira, KKR to buy SBS Broadcasting for $2 billion
Permira and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co have agreed to buy SBS Broadcasting for 1.691 billion euros ($2.07 billion) in cash, the European television broadcaster said on Monday. Read More ...
Toon Disney to be launched in Hindi from September 1
Toon Disney, the Kids channel from Walt Disney Television will now be launched in Hindi from September 1 2005 to strengthen the Disney position in India. Read More ...
Indiatimes Strategy Summit with Lindstrom on Aug 30
'Sound + sight + smell + taste + touch = brand,' believes the legendary futurist Martin Lindstrom. Read More ...
Sahara acquires entire library of Boney Kapoor's films
Sahara India Mass Communication LTD has acquired the satellite and pay TV broadcast rights of the entire library of film producer Boney Kapoor's films. Read More ...
SPTI makes two senior level promotions
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has announced two senior level promotions to help lead its continued global expansion. Read More ...
HBO Latino to offer Hispanic Heritage month
HBO Latino will be premiering a powerful lineup of robust and diverse programs during Hispanic Heritage Month, which will spotlight Latino talent in front and behind the camera. Read More ...
TV channels, national daily face court heat in MMS scam
A Juvenile court has held, NDTV, Zee News TV channels and The Times of India, the national English daily, guilty of revealing the identity of a minor boy involved in the shocking MMS scandal. Read More ...
BCCI deferrs TV Rights last date bid to Aug 26
The Board of Control for Cricket in India, BCCI has deferred the last date for submission of bids for television rights to August 26 from earlier scheduled to close on August 23 at 2 PM. The bids are for four-year television rights from October 1, 2005 to September 30, 2009. Read More ...
Delhi HC serves Notice to BCCI on Zee Telefilms petition
The Delhi High Court has issued notices to the Centre and the Board for Control of Cricket in India, BCCI on a Zee Telefilms petition. Read More ...
Emmis Communications to sell 9 of its 16 tv stations
Emmis Communications Corp. will sell nine of its 16 television stations in transactions worth a total of $681 million. Read More ...
Delhi HC serves Notice to BCCI on Zee Telefilms petition
The Delhi High Court today served notice to the Board for Control of Cricket in India, BCCI on a petition filed by Zee Telefilms, seeking quashing of BCCI's Invitation to Tender, ITT, for telecast and broadcast rights for the next four years alleging that the eligibility conditions were framed to oust Indian bidders. Read More ...
TV Today launches Tez News Channel
TV Today Network Limited has launched its Third News Channel, 'Tez - Khabrein Fataphat' in Hindi, from today, August 22, in a ceremony organised in New Delhi. Tez, which claims to provide faster and crisper Hindi news was launched by S. Jaipal Reddy, Information & Broadcasting Minister, today at 6:00 PM. Read More ...
Intelsat in talks to acquire New Skies Satellites Holdings
Intelsat Limited, is in talks to acquire smaller rival New Skies Satellites Holdings, The Wall Street Journal said on Friday. Read More ...
Ten studios of Doordarshan to be fully digitalized: Reddy
The Information & Broadcasting Minister, S. Jaipal Reddy in written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today, August 22, said that during 2005-06 and 2006-07, ten studio centres of Doordarshan are targeted to be fully digitalized and twenty-two partially digitalized, at a cost of about RS 164 crore. Read More ...
Balaji's 'Kosmiic Chat' on Zoom TV turns 50
Ever wondered how lucky is the 'K' factor is in your life? Before you can begin to imagine the 'K' effect on yourself, tune into the 50th special episode of Kosmiic Chat on Zoom Television this Sunday, August 28, 2005 at 7:30 PM. Read More ...
Star News retains No. 1 position
Star News has once again claimed as the number one Hindi news channel, among all news channels in the Hindi speaking markets, citing the latest TAM Media report. Read More ...
PM Manmohan Singh believes in the freedom of press
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh believes in the freedom of press. It was evident during his speech at a seminar on The Press and Nation organised by the Telugu daily Prajashakti, celebrating it's 25th year on Sunday, August 21 at Hyderabad. Read More ...
BMC to submit its report to HC
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, BMC, will submit its report to the Bombay High Court on August 22, on the recent water deluge. Read More ...
KBC 2 on Vijay has not work
ndisputedly, Amitabh Bachchan and Star Plus have struck a winning combo with KBC 2 this time as with KBC 1, but truly speaking the the dubbed Tamil version of KBC 2 to an extent has not work. Read More ...
Sultan of Brunei weds former journalist
Brunei’s fabulously wealthy ruler, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, has married a 26-year-old former Malaysian television journalist, making her his second wife. Read More ...
Skyline offers Master's in Mass Communication
The New Delhi based Skyline Education Group, the umbrella organisation for the Skyline Business School, Skyline School of Communications and Skyline Institute of Travel and Tourism, has added Master's in Mass Communication (MMC) programme to its wide array of courses. Read More ...
MTV India strengthing Creative & Ad Sales team
MTV Networks India has strengthened its Creative & Ad Sales teams by elevating two key members of its senior management team. Read More ...
Times NIE Quiz saw over 200 school teams take part
The Times NIE Fundamental Quiz organised in association with Indian Oil Corporation at New Delhi saw over 200 school teams take part. The quiz with a preliminary round of 30 questions posed had six teams make it to the grand finale. Read More ...
Clooney movie to open New York film festival
The New York Film Festival will say hello on opening night with Good Night, and Good Luck, George Clooney's depiction of McCarthyism and TV news in the 1950s. Read More ...
Damp Woes & Muck Fight
What is it with our electronic media these days? Specifically the news channels; they appear to be losing their marbles! They're practically doing somersaults to beat each other at who can come up with more gory and more distressing graphic news... Read More ...
How well Television viewing changed in India from 1970s
Television viewing will no longer be the one affordable ride that beleaguered viewers hitherto enjoyed. Most channels, which had earlier sworn to be free-to-air, have now succumbed to the temptations of the lucre and will now be charging viewers for their broadcasts. Read More ...
ZIMA, the best media institute for Sound technology
'Sholay', a film that changed the very path of Indian cinema, is also the most watched and remembered film ever, 'Sholay' was the first Indian film to make use of several cinematic innovations including Multi track stereophonic sound. Read More ...
Fox seeks transfer of its stations to News Corporation
Fox Television Stations, has filed applications with the Federal Communications Commission seeking approval of the transfer of the licenses of its 35 owned-and-operated stations to a domestic subsidiary of News Corporation and its shareholders. Read More ...
Sony wins rights of Mangal Pandey
Mangal Pandey — The Rising, the 2005's Biggest Bollywood blockbuster, under the Kaleidoscope Entertainment banner, has sold its Television broadcasting rights to Sony Entertainment Television for about RS 7.00 crore. The Music rights are sold to Sony Music on commission basis. Read More ...
David Droga of Publicis to form new company for parent
David Droga will leave his post as worldwide chief creative officer of advertising network Publicis to create a new venture for corporate parent Publicis Groupe, the company said on Thursday. Read More ...
Nat Geo goes without photo
National Geographic magazine, known for its breathtaking photography, decided this time a picture wasn't worth a thousand words, or even six, media reports say. Read More ...
Batliwala of Motorola resigns
Percy Batliwala, general manager, South West Asia , Motorola has resigned from the company and Narendra Nayak of sales division is being promoted to the Accessories division for South West Asia. Read More ...
Perfect Relations is Air India's PR agency
Air India has appointed Perfect Relations Ltd as its public relations agency for India. Read More ...
Web map to track the heavy demand of major news
According to Reuters, It’s debatable how big a deal any specific news event is compared to all the other human mayhem that occurs each day. Journalists, editors, historians and the guy at the end of the bar could probably never agree. Read More ...
Marcia Cross of "Desperate Housewives" is engaged
"Desperate Housewives" star Marcia Cross is engaged. Cross last weekend accepted a proposal from her boyfriend, stockbroker Tom Mahoney, the actress's publicist, Heidi Slan. Read More ...
Bob Costas refuses to Host Show on Holloway
Television and sports personality Bob Costas, hired by CNN as an occasional fill-in on "Larry King Live," refused to anchor a US news show, media reports say it was because the Alabama teenager who went missing in Aruba, Chris Pixley filled in at the last minute. Read More ...
Japan to create 3D television by 2020
Imagine watching a football match on a TV that not only shows the players in three dimensions but also lets you experience the smells of the stadium and maybe even pat a goalscorer on the back. Read More ...
Interactive services major for emerging TV technologies
Consumers interested in interactive services such as advertising, gaming, and voting on game shows, who total 27% of all US households, represent a lucrative early market for IPTV services and applications, according to Parks Associates 'IP Video Services: Analysis and Forecast'. Read More ...
ESPN Star Sports to telecast first ever Turkish Grand Prix
ESPN Star Sports will telecast live & exclusive the first ever Turkish Grand Prix from Istanbul. The F1 action continues on ESPN Star Sports with the broadcaster acquiring the telecast rights of all F1 races for India for another 5 years. Read More ...
John Hartigan replaces the window seat of Lachlan Murdoch
News Corp has appointed new chairman for its Australian media operations, News LTD, in the wake of the resignation of the tycoon's son Lachlan Murdoch. MR Murdoch said News LTD chief executive John Hartigan would become executive chairman of the publishing business on September 1. Read More ...