Indiantelevision.com's The Ad Linx Reporter dated 8 Dec 2008 - Global and Indian advertising news, information and data at your fingertips

Media, Advertising & Marketing Watch

Disney, promoters up stake in UTV to 83 per cent
After open offer, Walt Disney and promoters shore up their combined holding in UTV to 83.3 per cent.

BAG Films’ SVP Chadda to join Endemol as director
BAG Films & Media senior VP Rajesh Chadda resigns; to join Endemol India as director.

Sun TV to park Rs 1 bn a year in film rights for TV
Sun TV earmarks annual spend of Rs 1 bn for purchase of movie rights for telecast on its channels.

Lessons from the terror front: Comments

Samir Kale, managing director, CMCG India

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Today's Newsbreakers.......India

	DSK Digital launches tech kits for luxury cars
	Source: Hindu Business Line

	FMCG cos to wait 'n' watch before cutting price
	Source: Times of India

	Sales, producer prices dropped
	M&M to shut five plants for at least three days this months
	The Disney way to working the magic
	The City of Joy in grip of Maradonva mania
	Source: Financial Express

	We’ve stopped supply to some retailers: Adi Godrej
	ICC president urges Indian fans to support Test series
	Source: DNA



	On firm ground
	Slowdown helps sales of private labels
	M&M, Fiat defer launches on terror strike
	Hotels' New Year's Eve revenue to fall 50 per cent
	ESPN's Champions League contract may start next year
	'Web 2.0 strategy a powerful tool to reach connected customers'
	Source: Business Standard

	Mediums, and the message
	Poll ads: terror lends new twist
	Source: Livemint

International News

	Doritos Puts a Face on Good Deeds
	Grey Taps Tilford as ECD
	'08 Set Records for Sports Viewing
	Lubars to Helm Film, Print Juries at Cannes
	A Divided Diagnosis on Healthcare
	Stoli Braves 'Wild Wild East'
	Brien Braces for 'Modest' Ad Spending Decline
	More Media Misery as 'Newsday' Cuts 100
	'Kash' Debuts for Geico
	Judge Beats on Bratz
	Source: Ad Week

	Stolichnaya Ventures Into the 'Wild Wild East'
	Schwan's Taps Intellivent for Product Sampling Program
	Source: Brand Week

	Celebrating celebrities in advertising
	Source: Times Online

	Claire Beale on Advertising: There'll be few winners in this game of chance
	Source: Independent

	Growth of ads in video games still far away
	Advertising, media headed for shake-up
	Source: Reuters

	Greystripe to Enable Flash Advertising on iPhone
	Source: Slash Phone

	Wall Street Journal says advertising recovery has begun
	Source: Press Gazette

	PLDT ventures into ad business via digital signages
	Source: Philstar

	Global advertising spend to tumble $21bn
	Source: Telegraph

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