17 July 2012 Newsletter Subscription Email this Page Volume 35 - Issue No: 24
 
 
 
Headlines
Star lands lucrative Indo-Pak TV rights

India and Pakistan return to the playing arena to compete against each other after a gap of over five years; Star to pay Rs 322.6 million per match, the same amount that it is forking out for the first two years of the BCCI rights.
Karthikeya Sharma's ITV Media snaps up News X

ITV Media acquires the financially ailing English news channel to complement its clutch of news channels including India News.
 
Cocktail nets Rs 359 mn at BO in first weekend

Cocktail hits it off with the youth, especially at elite plexes, with its contemporary approach to a love triangle; Bol Bachchan ends first week with Rs 615 mn.BOX OFFICE!
 
 
AIR's hiring halts
 
HDIL exits media, Live India & Mi Marathi go to Agro firm
 
History TV18 kicks off 'The Kennedy's at 10 pm
 
Billionaire Stokes’s Seven West Media to raise A$440 mn
 
MTV's 1st primetime scripted series for 3rd season run
 
truTV teams up with basketball star O'Neal for show
 
Tower Productions inks deals with German broadcasters
 
 
Ice Age: Continental drift is No. 1 at overseas BO
Hasselhoff set to play himself in film Baywatch
 
Comcast acquires Microsoft's stake in MSNBC.com
 
Court rules for Sky Italia in state broadcaster's case
 
BBC launches app for Olympics
 
ITC teams up with Hungama for digital talent hunt
 
James Hart to take master class on horror at 12th Osian’s Cinefanto
 
FTII student one of few selected for Russian Winter Project
 
Spanish filmmaker to shoot road movie in India
 
News Releases

Amitabh Bachchan extends his support to NDTV-Aircel “Save Our Tigers” campaign

zoOm introduces a special award category at the EMVIES 2012
 
TV Ratings

Top 10 Programmes (27/05/2012 to 02/06/2012)
Doordarshan's Top 10
Top 10 In All TV Homes
Top 10 in Cable & Satellite Homes


Top 100 Programmes (27/05/2012 to 02/06/2012)
SONY MAX
Star Plus
Z Zee TV
Colors Viacom18
SONY ENTERTAINMENT TV
SONY SAB
Life OK
Sun TV
Star Pravah
Star Jalsha
Disney XD
GEMINI
Star Gold
ETV Marathi
Z Marathi
 
 
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Today's Newsbreakers.......India News
    		• ESPN to offer customised feed from London Olympics
    		• Microsoft exits news venture with NBC for $300 m
    Source: Hindu Business Line
       
    		• UK's Pearson eyes stake in Manipal Global
    		• Reliance Entertainment to enter video-on-demand market in US, Canada
    		• Skype calls instant-message privacy bug 'rare'
    		• YouTube becoming major news platform: Study
    		• Microsoft, NBC dissolve MSNBC.com joint venture
    		• Flipkart needs big money to keep delivering
    Source: Economic Times
       
    		• First full-face veil TV channel on Ramadan raises controversy in media
    Source: Daily Bhaskar
       
    		• NBC News Acquires Full Ownership of Msnbc Digital Network
    Source: IT News Online
       
    		• YouTube source for news, disaster footage
    Source: Hindu
       
    		• ITV Media acquires NewsX for an undisclosed sum
    		• Yahoo snags Google's Mayer as CEO in surprise hire
    Source: Business Standard
       
    		• Information TV to buy NewsX channel
    		• Microsoft breaks with NBC, to launch news portal
    Source: Livemint
       
    		• Reema Vohra approached for Siddhanth Cinevision’s next on Life OK
    		• Facebook turning teens into gambling addicts: Experts
    		• Disha Vakani’s new avatar in Tarak Mehta Ka....
    Source: Times of India
       
    		• I&B, MHA spar over FDI in DTH
    		• “Web+TV optimizer is a neutral planning tool”
    Source: Financial Express
       
    		• The Web of Entertainment
    		• David Hasselhoff to play himself in 'Baywatch' film
    Source: Indian Express
     
    International News
    		• AMC Drama Returns to Record Premiere Ratings
    		• TNT Orders Drama Pilot With Michael Bay as EP
    Source: TV Week
       
    		• Microsoft and NBC split
    		• BBC Radio stays with analogue
    Source: Advanced Television
       
    		• BSkyB's Now TV to launch tomorrow
    Source: Media Week
    		• Cable TV Firms Step Up Bidding For Sports Content
    Source: investors.com
       
    		• Sky takes on Netflix with Now TV internet service
    Source: Guardian
       
    		• Commercial TV ads to dip during Games
    Source: Financial Times
       
    		• Sky's NOW TV streaming move 'risky', warns analyst
    Source: Digital Spy
     
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