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Headlines
for the month of August 2001
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Communications
minister introduces Communications Convergence Bill in
Parliament (31
August 2001) |
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National
Geographic to speak more Hindi (31
August 2001) |
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Sony
goes pay Saturday at Rs 12 sticker price (31
August 2001) |
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Oberoi
Films wins 'Yeh Jo Hain Zindagi' rights legal battle
(30
August 2001) |
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Phones
haven't stop ringing for new Zee show (30
August 2001) |
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'Office
Office' and new shows 'Dial 100' and 'Paisa Vasool' central
to SABe TV programme push (30
August 2001) |
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Effort
to introduce Convergence Bill tomorrow (30
August 2001) |
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Swaraj
to meet cable operators today
(30
August 2001) |
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Madhuri
to host Sony marriage-show 'Shubh Vivaah'
(29
August 2001) |
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Walt
Disney launches portal in China (29
August 2001) |
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'Junior
Shaktiman' will have to wait some more for his day on
DD (29
August 2001) |
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Mandy
Moore to host inauguaral MTV Asia Awards
(28
August 2001) |
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Cartoon
Network launches programming franchise Toonami on 8 September
(28
August 2001) |
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Alpha
Marathi scores in Ganesh festival coverage
(27
August 2001) |
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Convergence
Bill likely to be tabled on Tuesday (25
August 2001) |
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Production
and post-production trade show on 1 November in Mumbai
(25
August 2001) |
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No
MTV-INCablenet deal on local adds in offing
(25
August 2001) |
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Zee
pulls out all the stops to get relaunch message across
(24
August 2001) |
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Star
Movies strikes output deal for 40 Dreamworks films (24
August 2001) |
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ZILS
focus on Zed Career Academy (24
August 2001) |
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Liberty
Media to be Zee's strategic partner? (23
August 2001) |
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Hallmark
in tie-up for workshops in 600 schools (23
August 2001) |
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ASCI
braces for rash of complaints as awareness drive set to
take off (24
August 2001) |
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Action
plan in place, new Zee line-up kicks off 27 August (21
August 2001) |
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Chandra
to offload more shares to clear ZTL outstanding within
next few weeks? (20
August 2001) |
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etc
claims lead among music channels (18
August 2001) |
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Chandra
offloads 2.5 million shares for Rs 270 million (18
August 2001) |
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ESPN
Star Sports, Malaysia's Astro in English Premier League
coverage deal (17
August 2001) |
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ETV
Urdu hopes to score on the programming front (17
August 2001) |
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MTV,
20th Century Fox tie up to promote 'Planet Of the Apes'
(17
August 2001) |
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Nickelodeon
launching Hindi band 4 September (17
August 2001) |
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On
Fridays, get SET for some cricket talk on MAX (16
August 2001) |
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Ariane
5 may launch Insat-3C in November (16
August 2001) |
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Mumbai's
local trains will see many a 'Kangan' as serial launches
Thursday on Star Plus (16
August 2001) |
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Modi
Entertainment hopes to push FTV's ad sales (14
August 2001) |
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Adobe
launches After Effects 5.0 in India (14
August 2001) |
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SportsCenter
launches in English for S-E Asia, Mandarin for China (14
August 2001) |
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B4U
pulls plug on distribution deal with Modi Entertainment
(13
August 2001) |
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ESPN
hopes to hit the target with English Premier League soccer
(12
August 2001) |
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Casbaa
turns up the heat on Thai pirates (11
August 2001) |
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Zee
enters pageant arena with Teen Queen contest (11
August 2001) |
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Tenders
sought for marketing, distribution of DD-World, DD-News
in UK, Europe (10
August 2001) |
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DD
seeks content providers for sports programmes (10
August 2001) |
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BPL
Mobile, MTV India forge Relationship (10
August 2001) |
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Star,
UTV announce JV for Vijay TV (9
August 2001) |
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Zee
introduces 'Break-Free' programming as brand positioning
excercise (9
August 2001) |
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Enter
Media 2001 ends; industry fears overregulation in new
convergence bill (9
August 2001) |
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Sabe
TV readies new programming; says it beats Zee and Sony
in rest of Maharashtra (9
August 2001) |
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TV18
Net down by 69 per cent (9
August 2001) |
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Need
for addressability stressed at Entermedia 2001 (7
August 2001) |
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Maharashtra
govt. waives entertainment tax on new multiplexes as sop
to exhibitors (7
August 2001) |
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ESPN
Star Sports splits Asian telecast beam (7
August 2001) |
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Star,
UTV to sign deal on Vijay TV handover Wednesday?(6
August 2001) |
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CNBC
Asia launches SMS feature (6
August 2001) |
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ESPN
Star Sports back in Hong Kong after deal with Cable TV
(6
August 2001) |
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Discovery
unveils new programming strategy; targets launch of Travel
and Adventure channel before year-end (3
August 2001) |
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Tara
takes on a new look (3
August 2001) |
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etc's
switch to digital feed to be complete in September (3
August 2001) |
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Stage
set for Enter Media 2001 conference
(3
August 2001) |
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New
shows 'Kya Masti Kya Dhuum', 'Khullja Sim Sim' do a Star
turn: Tam data
(3
August 2001) |
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It
happens only in indya, Star opts to buy out portal
(2
August 2001) |
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Sony,
Hathway expect to resolve connectivity dispute soon
(2
August 2001) |
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ETC
posts similar Q1 results to last year
(2
August 2001) |
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Balaji
Telefilms shows impressive Q1 results
(1
August 2001) |
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UTV
sets up non-fiction TV division, looks to international
co-productions (1
August 2001) |
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MTV
India joins the party as channel turns 20 in the US
(1
August 2001) |
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Zee
TV says it needs time for results to show
(1
August 2001) |
