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ESPN feed back on INCable Net after agreement on declared
connectivity
More
than three months after the ESPN Star Sports feed to the
Hinduja group promoted INCable Net was switched off in
Mumbai, the two sides finally thrashed out an agreement
in the early hours of Saturday at 1:30 am.
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Balaji apart, book built media IPOs continue stumbling
run
Sporadic spurts apart, media firms' IPOs made through
the book building route between 1999-00 and 2001-2002
have not exactly set the stock exchange ablaze. More
Technology
Update
InterTrust
to showcase Digital Rights Management enabled technologies
at NAB
InterTrust Technologies Corporation will exhibit InterTrust
Digital Rights Management (DRM)-enabled technologies for
media broadcasting and distribution at NAB 2002.
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AT&T
to help media, broadcasting companies manage video distribution
s
AT&T has announced trials of new streaming capabilities
for its Internet-based content delivery network that will
help media and entertainment companies deliver pay-per-view
and subscription-based web services to Internet users...
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Tube
Talk
AXN
features record breakers every Wednesday
AXN continues its action oriented programming strategy
with Guinness World Records every Wednesday at
9 PM.
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'Face
To Face' with Usha Uthup on BBC World
The vivacious first lady of Indian pop will grace BBC
World on 10 April.
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Source:
www. indiantelevision.com
Other
Headlines
Commission
diktat sets off battle for TV set-top box More
New
Malayalam TV channel from April 15 More
Ficci to open office in China More
Source:
The Times of India
CTV
majors eyeing the first goal More
InCableNet,
ESPN row is over More
For
Sony it’s the game that matters not ads More
Liquor brands to flood TV with ‘malternative’ ad blitz
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Stockholm Syndrome on TV More
Source:
The Economic Times
Sai
Baba: The miracle saint More
Discovery
snaps ties with Vijay TV... More
Source: Screen
Favourite
films hit IIFA mark, popular stars give it a miss
More
Source: The Indian Express
Cable TV rates to rise as operators team up More
Source:
Business Standard
For
the kids, by the kids show soon on DD Bharati More
Source: The
Daily Pioneer
JIKNH
brings in new viewers for Zee More
Source:
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''The
TV business ... is a cruel and shallow money trench, a
long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free
and good men die like dogs."
-Hunter S. Thompson
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International
Headlines
Murdoch
frozen out of Kirch
A German banking consortium has come up with a last-ditch
rescue plan for the Kirch empire, effectively locking
out media rivals Rupert Murdoch and Silvio Berlusconi.
More
Source:
The
Guardian
Liquor
brands to flood TV with ‘malternative’ ad blitz
HARD liquor television advertising has been barred anew,
but commercials for Bacardi, Smirnoff and Stolichnaya
will continue to pour into network broadcasts this summer.
More
Source:
The
Economic Times
£6m
SPL backing in balance over TV deal
Bank of Scotland is reviewing its position as main sponsor
of the Scottish Premier League in light of the crises
the SPL is facing in trying to secure a broadcast deal
for next season.
More
Source:
The
Scotsman
FCC
Pushing Switch to Digital TV
Federal regulators may look for ways to mandate faster
transition to all-digital television if the TV industry
fails to move quickly enough on its own, a Federal Communications
Commission official said Friday. More
Source:
www.hoovnews.hoovers.com
Bertelsmann
offers £21m for Napster
Thomas Middlehoff, the chief executive of German media
giant Bertelsmann, plans to spend up to £21m buying controversial
online music service Napster outright. More
Source:
Media
Guardian
BBC
'opens back door' to advertising
The BBC has been accused of introducing "advertising by
the back door" after securing television sponsorship deals
worth more than £2m. More
Source:
The
Independent
Kirch
crisis threatens to engulf Bavarian banks
The crisis at Kirch Gruppe, the German media group teetering
on bankruptcy, is set to engulf Bavarian banks and politicians
this week after the breakdown of last-ditch rescue attempts.
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Granada's
chief meets key League adviser
Steve Morrison, chief executive of Granada, has held talks
with advisers to the Football League, in a sign of the
media company's growing concern at the damage being done
to its reputation by the ITV Digital dispute. More
New chief
to shake up AOL Time Warner
AOL Time Warner is working on a corporate strategy to
be put in place after Jerry Levin steps down next month
as chief executive of the world's largest media group.
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Liberty Media pulls out of NTL rescue talks
Liberty Media, the investment group run by John Malone,
on Friday night announced it had ended discussions with
NTL over a possible injection of cash into the financially
strapped cable group. More
Sale
of cable stake on hold
A Mexican cable television company has abandoned its attempt
to place the first initial public offering abroad since
2000 after finding lower demand than expected from US
institutional investors. More
Source:
The Financial Times
KirchMedia
insolvency would not directly effect ProSiebenSat.1 -
The chairman of KirchMedia's ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG -
Urs Rohner - said the company would not be directly effected
by KirchMedia's ossible insolvency. More
Granada
says no truth in reports of writing off ITV Digital
Granada PLC said there is no truth in reports that it
has decided to write off its investment in ITV Digital
with a spokesman saying, "Granada just wouldn't do that
at this stage, there are too many unknowns." More
Source:
www.ananova.com |
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