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Playwin fever spreads
The
Essel group promoted online lottery fever is spreading
through Mumbai city, if the success of its print campaign
in Monday's newspapers is any indication. More
Kirch
goes under; no threat to soccer World Cup telecast
KirchMedia,
the core rights business of indebted media media mogul
Leo Kirch, filed for insolvency on Monday.
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CMS
initiates census of C&S households; report expected in
May
For
the first time in the country a census of Cable TV Households
is being conducted by the Delhi-based Centre for Media
Studies (CMS)...
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Media,
A&M Watch Special Report
Fusion
Media ties up marketing deal with Shop 24 Seven
Fusion
Media, a company specialising in marketing of television
airtime, has tied up with Shop 24 Seven to exclusively
market and sell airtime to branded products and services.
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Nickelodeon
and Global-QVC solutions develop new e-commerce site for
parents
The
two parties will develop and operate a new e-commerce
store for Nickelodeon Online...
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Technology
Update
eMotion
offers two digital media management solutions packages
eMotion Inc., the digital media management solutions provider,
has announced the delivery of two new out-of-the-box products...
More
Envivio
delivers television industry's first MPEG-4 solution on
SeaChange VoD systems
Envivio has integrated its industry-leading MPEG-4 Envivio
Streaming Server with SeaChange International, Inc.'s
VoD system, the first of its kind available to the television
industry.
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Source:
www. indiantelevision.com
Other
Headlines
BPL
launches its first VoIP system More
Bharti-SingTel’s
i2i project launched More
Nortel launches ethernet products in India More
Source:
The Times of India
Bharti
makes an international call More
Source:
The Hindu Business LIne
TV
viewing leads to sedentary tendencies More
Source: The
Hindu
Kirch moves soccer WC rights to Swiss arm More
No
World Cup this year for India? More
AC Nielsen shadows ORG-Marg in retail More
Source:
The Economic Times
BPL Tele unveils gizmo combining phone, Net
data functions More
Baron exhumes Bush brand for colour televisions More
Baron group may sue TCL for JV collapse More
Playwin jackpot odds 1 in 14 million More
Source:
Business Standard
Bharti, SingTel complete i2i cable network More
Source:
www.moneycontrol.com
BPL is more but Philips is better More
Moving out of the shadow of KBC More
Source:
www.agencyfaqs.com
In House In Pact With New Age Entertainment
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‘Save Dexter’s Brain Campaign’: Cartoon Network Launches
New Promotion More
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The Financial Express |
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International
Headlines
Stockholm
Syndrome on TV
The dramatic bank robbery that spawned the term Stockholm
Syndrome, the attachment that sometimes develops between
hostages and their captors, will become a television movie.
More
Source:
The
Economic Times
KirchMedia
files for insolvency after pay-TV flop
The core unit of heavily indebted German media group Kirch
filed for insolvency today, raising the prospect of new
investors gaining an interest in the broadcaster built
up by founder Leo Kirch. More
End
of an era for TV football
The deep financial troubles being suffered by German media
giant Kirch are knocking those at ITV Digital into a cocked
hat.
More
Source:
The
Scotsman
Television
advertising climbs out of slump
A sudden surge in spending on television advertising has
raised hopes in the media that the worst of the industry’s
most serious recession for decades may be over. More
Source:
The
Times
ITN
given Queen's TV address
ITN has been handed responsibility for the production
of the Queen's message to the nation this afternoon in
a move that is bound to be seen as a snub to the BBC.
More
Just
£20m to run ITV Digital, court reveals
Carlton and Granada have committed just £20m to continue
running ITV Digital, the high court heard today. More
NTL
hopes rise for salvage deal
Cable group NTL, struggling to restructure its £12bn debt
mountain, hopes to agree a deal with bondholders by the
end of this week that would remove the immediate threat
of bankruptcy. More
TLC to inject
humour into the NHS
The BBC is to throw the spotlight on the health service
once again with a new comedy billed as a "jet black" satire
on the state of the NHS. More
Source:
Media
Guardian
Parsons Delivers
NAB Keynote
In an NAB keynote speech as broad-ranging as the company
he runs, Richard Parsons, CEO designate for AOL Time Warner,
Monday said the digital future is filled with opportunities...
More
HRRC, CableLabs Scrap Over Standard
Two factions of the digital-television industry are fighting
in public over whether the open set-top-box standard developed
by Cable Television Laboratories Inc. violates consumers’
rights to copy content. More
Powell
Aide: DTV Plan Voluntary
A new digital-television plan unveiled last week by the
Federal Communications Commission is a voluntary proposal
subject to modification, a senior FCC official said here
Sunday. More
Parsons:
NCTA, NAB Forging Closer Ties
AOL Time Warner Inc. CEO-designate Richard Parsons said
the company's cable division is working to improve relations
with TV broadcasters. More
FCC's
Stewart Surprised by DTV Misses
Roy Stewart, a veteran TV-broadcasting regulator at the
Federal Communications Commission, said he was caught
by surprise by the number of local TV stations that are
not meeting an FCC deadline. More
TV
Groups Appeal Media-Ownership Case
A pair of TV-station groups is asking a federal court
in Washington, D.C., to reconsider a pair of media-ownership
rulings issued in February. More
Source:
www.tvinsite.com
Jobs pledge as KirchMedia files for bankruptcy
Leo Kirch's core rights trading and free TV business filed
for insolvency on Monday, revealing that the German media
mogul harboured previously undisclosed liabilities and
bigger debts than expected to Hollywood. More
Grabiners
to back ITV and Energis rescue bids
The Grabiner brothers, who now work for the venture capitalist
Apax Partners, may each back rescue bids for the ailing
companies they used to run. More
NTL
close to debt restructuring deal
NTL could sign a deal with its bondholders as early as
this week enabling a debt restructuring of the cable operator
and removing the threat of a forced liquidation. More
Media
at odds over Queen Mother's funeral
Tuesday's ceremonial funeral of Queen Elizabeth the Queen
Mother brings to a head 10 full days of unrelenting media
coverage following her death on March 30 at the age of
101. More
News
Corporation's Asian Star begins to shine
Star, News Corporation's pan-Asian television group, is
expected to announce on Tuesday that it will post an operating
profit for the first time since Rupert Murdoch acquired
an interest in the group in 1993. More
Soccer
warms relations between Seoul and Tokyo
South Korea could end its half-century ban on the broadcast
of Japanese music and television programmes as a result
of the World Cup, said Se Hyung Cho, Seoul's ambassador
to Tokyo. More
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Financial Times |
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