22 Sep 2012 Newsletter Subscription Email this Page Volume 35 - Issue No: 78
 
 
 
 
 
 
Headlines
No shift in digitisation deadline; MSOs to announce channel package prices soon: Trai

Trai's Parameswaran rules out analog co-existing with digital transmission in 4 metros for brief period after deadline; at IDOS 2012 he also talks about cross-media restrictions.
Digitisation spurs Sony, foreign media firms to invest in India

Digitisation gives Sony the confidence to up its investments in MSM, says CEO Man Jit Singh; to also attract foreign investments in cable and DTH.
MSOs should focus on basic packaging

Hathway CEO Jayaraman says pricing of channels and bouquets for consumers needs to be sorted out; consumers will pay only if they get good packages.
 
 
MSOs, broadcasters want digitisation deadline to stay put
 
All stakeholders confident about future after DAS
 
Former Hindu editor G Kasturi dies at 87
 
BBC should focus on world class content: Entwistle
 
Natpe to look 'Beyond Disruption' in 50th year
 
BSkyB's Sophie Turner Laing among panelists at Mipcom
 
HBO CEO Bill Nelson announces retirement
 
BBC announces Controllers of Business
 
 
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon making Race to the South Pole
Anupam Kher's Hollywood film gets People's Choice Award
 
BBC COO Caroline Thomson calls it quits
 
Arguments on appeals against Tariff Order conclude
 
ESPN gets injunction against illegal carriage of T20 WC
 
Sky is a fit and proper broadcaster: Ofcom
 
Tellem to head Microsoft entertainment, digital media
 
Heroine: Bhandarkar has nothing new to offer
 
Mumbai fest announces this year's highlights
 
Masti sequel to release in summer next year
 
News Releases

Amagi reaches for the cloud at IBC 2012

Josy Paul on the jury of London International Awards

Your friendly neighborhood web-slinger, now in HD!
 
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
 
 
Source: www.indiantelevision.com
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Today's Newsbreakers.......India News
    		• ESPN claims legal win against unauthorised telecast of World T20
    		• Operators expect higher FDI to flow in once digitisation is over
    		• Facebook to require firms to pay for ‘Offers’
    		• Microsoft fixing security bug in Internet Explorer
    		• Microsoft to release an update for IE to fix security issue
    		• ‘In India, Windows 8 will be launched in 11 languages initially’
    Source: Hindu Business Line
       
    		• PY Films Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of Govind Rubber Ltd forays into movie production
    		• Priyanka Chopra's debut album 'In My City', a hit across the country
    		• Yash Raj Films’ Dhoom 3 marks first bollywood film to be released in IMAX
    		• ESPN claims legal win against unauthorised telecast of ICC World Twenty20
    		• Spectrum fee for community radio: Roll back likely
    		• Facebook switches off facial recognition tool
    		• Google says it will shut music download service in China
    Source: Economic Times
    		• Life OK's Mahadev top-viewed
    Source: Business Standard
       
    		• Facebook to charge merchants to run Offers
    		• Prasar Bharati loan waiver?may? be? Rs.11,500?cr
    Source: Livemint
       
    		• TV Channels will not buy films before BO verdict
    Source: Times of india
       
    		• Higher FDI in broadcast biz to boost accessibility: KPMG
    		• Motilal Oswal neutral on Dish TV
    Source: Moneycontrol.com
       
    		• Ofcom withering on James Murdoch's regime
    Source: DNA
       
    		• TV star Aamir Ali choosy about reality shows
    Source: NDTV
       
    		• Microsoft fixes security bug in Internet Explorer
    Source: Hindu
     
    International News
    		• Lifetime Renews Drama Series
    Source: TV Week
       
    		• James Murdoch to head Fox Networks?
    		• Spain pay-TV free fall, PPV collapses
    Source: Advanced Television
       
    		• Sky launches 50-years of Bond offensive
    		• £3.2bn Aegis-Dentsu deal cleared by UK regulator
    Source: Media Week
       
    		• Fox Television Stripper Fine Lawsuit Dropped by US
    Source: Bloomberg
       
    		• National Television Awards: nominations revealed for 2013 show
    Source: ATV Today
       
    		• BT offers free YouView digital TV boxes to new customers
    Source: ComputerActive.co.uk
       
    		• Twitter channels TV viewers: chief
    Source: Yahoo
     
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