8 November 2007Newsletter SubscriptionEmail this Page Volume 19 - Issue No: 43








Media, Advertising & Marketing Watch

Community radio operators get permission extended to 5 years
 Under new guidelines, existing community radio operators can get their broadcast permission extended to 5 yrs from the present 3.

 

TV18 Group to invest $90.5 million in Viacom JV
TV18 Group's wholly owned subsidiary BK Holding Mauritius to put in $90.5 mn upfront; GBN to invest $40 mn in the JV over 3 years.

Zee network rejigs senior management
 Zee Network rejigs senior team; Punit Goenka is network operating officer, Tarun Mehra elevated to Zee TV business head.

OSO and Saawariya neck-to-neck
 Multiplex owners are gung-ho about the opening day collections for Om Shanti Om, Saawariya as advance bookings look promising.

Nokia ties up with 'Om Shanti Om' for Vas

Starcom is media AOR for Sahara One's Firangi

McDonald's introduces family meals for holiday season

Delhi HC issues restraint order on YouTube and Google

Nick introduces special shows for Diwali

Endemol appoints Venita Coelho as head of fiction

Radio Mirchi upgrades transmission in Mumbai

Yash Raj Films ventures into full movie downloads

Promodome Communications forays into films

TV Ratings
Top 10 Programmes (21/10/2007 to 27/10/2007)
Doordarshan's Top 10
Top 10 In All TV Homes
Top 10 in Cable & Satellite Homes

Top 100 Programmes (21/10/2007 to 27/10/2007)
Zee TV
Star Plus
Sun TV
Sony Entertainment TV


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Today's Newsbreakers.......India
    		• Sports feed to DD not to be encrypted for 4-5 yrs
    		• NPPA takes action against 93 drug brands
    		• Govt relaxes community radio norms for existing players
    		• M&M may be back in race for Ford brands
    Source: Economic Times
     
    		• AdAsia 2007: Enter the ‘digilogue’ mode!
    		• SadAsia 2007
    		• From screen to shelf
    		• Of legacy and brands
    		• ‘We will continue to dominate cricket’
    		• Customer discrimination as strategy
    		• Planet Sports to become independent entity
    		• Festive fervour: FMCG, durables majors go all out to woo consumers
    		• US ad agency starts India ops
    		• TV advertisement volumes post steady 33% climb in Jan-Sept
    		• Entertainment channel 9X set for launch on Nov 12
     Source: Hindu Business Line
      
    		• Kolkata firm unveils cheapest 100cc bike
    Source: Times of India
      
    		• Pay TV revenue leakage touches $1 bn in India
    Source: Financial Express
      
    		• Ring tones jingle the most on TV
    Source: DNA
      
    		•  Diwali ad spend up
    		• Xenitis takes on mobike majors
    		•  Pre-Diwali sales light up retailers` coffers
    		• Reliance spreads `Footprint`
    Source: Business-Standard
      
    		• Now you can market brand preferences on Facebook
    		• Global Automobiles launches bike to Rock two-wheeler segment
    Source: Indian Express
      
    		• Shedding that old skin, Hollywood style
    		• Genpact seeks creative agency
    		• Percept D’Mark is the AoR for MDLR Airlines
    		• How one online video got MTV 73,000 page views
    		• Lastminuteinventory.com goes live on Diwali day
    Source: Agency Faqs
     
    International News
    		• $500 Mil. Samsung Taps Starcom
    		• AOL Continues Shopping Spree
    		•  Reruns Hurt Movie Promo Efforts
    Source: Ad Week
     
    		•  Bewkes: AOL Ad Business 'Slower' Than Recent Quarters
    		• Electronics Giant Samsung Taps Starcom
    		• PIC-TV Renamed PIC Media Group
    Source: Media Week
     
    		• Boost Mobile CMO Cobbin Goes to 20th Century Fox
    		• EXCLUSIVE: Amid Layoffs, Coke Marketers Look Within
    		• New Jersey Nets Sign Jones (Soda)
    		• Bud Says Miller's Ads Are for the Dogs
    Source: Brand week
     
    		• MediaNews, others mull ad network
    Source: Denver Post
     
    		•  Internet advertising market in Russia comes to $ 300 mln.
    Source: CNews
    		• News Corp profit up on 'Simpsons' movie, ad sales
    		• As Google pushes phones, Yahoo zeros in on ad deals
    		• Quigo investor sees mobile ad firms as next targets
    		• News Corp says sold 95 pct of Super Bowl ads
    Source: Reuters
     
    		• China.com Signs Ad Contract
    Source: CNNMoney.com
     
    		• M6 Q3 advertising sales rise 3.2 pct, ahead of expectations
    Source: Forbes
     
    		• China blacklists 16 drugs, medical equipments posting "illegal" ads
    Source: Xinhua
     
    		• Voxant, the Media Network, Extends Advertising Reach
    Source: PR Newswire
     
    		• Gray Television hit by lower ad revenue
    Source: Bizjournals.com
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