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Sony, Discovery ink distribution
deal, warn of hike in subscription rates
Sony Entertainment Television (SET) India and Discovery
Networks International (DNI) have announced a distribution
alliance that brings the two DNI channels, Discovery and
Animal Planet, onto the Sony platform. Expect a subscription
hike once the modalities have been worked out.More
'Everyone Wins' may be the next
big gameshow
Everyone Wins, a show created by Singapore-based
media baron Robert Chua, is being pushed into global markets
outside Asia by UK distributor Action Time. More
Sony still lags behind
in the 9-10 band, claims Star
Star is unwilling to give up its hold over the 9-10 pm
band. Even as Sony's top two soaps, Kkusum and
Kutumb continue to inch their way up the charts,
Star maintains that the rise is yet to make a dent in
its number one position. More
Source:
www.indiantelevision.com
Intelsat says it
will make a public play before end-2002
Satellite operator Intelsat Ltd has announced that it
would be making an initial public offering of its ordinary
shares valued at around $500 million before end 2002.
The company is also giving its current shareholders a
chance to offload their stock during the IPO. More
Tube
Talk
Star Movies counts down to live telecast of Oscar night
The countdown to Oscar night is well and truly on and
Star India has the 74th Annual Academy Awards live and
exclusive on Star Movies, Monday, 25 March, 6:30 am, &
9:30 pm. Star Movies is also bringing Oscar Fever, a slot
featuring Hollywood blockbusters and classics from 1-24
March in the late prime time slot (post 11:30 p.m.).More
Vishal Patel is February 'Super Selector'
Vishal Patel, an MBA graduate from Baroda, has emerged
ESPN Star Sports' Super Selector of the February contest
with a score of 4097.More
International
Womens Day's Special Features
Women Who Matter In Television
The Indian television industry would just not be what
it is today without the women who have helped shape it.
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Frames
2002
"The Indian film industry will create its own force to
deal with the menace of piracy "
Chairman of the entertainment committee of Ficci, Yash
Chopra says the film industry will shortly unveil a task
force to combat piracy, on the lines of the one set up
by the music industry. More
Source:
www.indiantelevision.com
Other
Headlines
HFCL
moved funds to KP-linked cos More
Direct-to-home
norms in for a jig More
Media
czars Murdoch, Levin visiting India next week More
Acid
test for German media czar More
O&M
bags Abby for best agency More
Discovery
, Sony tie up in India market More
Old not turning to gold for movie channels More
Sushma
Swaraj hogs Pak media attention
More
FCC
halts EchoStar-DirecTV review More
Hughes Escorts launches DirecWay More
Source:
The Economic Times
Ramkrishna Keny, Maharashtra Cable Sena on subscribers’
complaints of arbitrary rate hikes More
Joy
and sorrow for wannabe popstars More
Source:The
Times Of India
Shapoorji Pallonji to build country’s tallest residential
building More
Sony,
Discovery in JV to offer 6 channels More
Source:Business
Standard
I’ve Shed A Few Tears (For P&G): CoferMore
ISPs
All Set To Offer Internet Telephony Services From Day
1
More
Source:
Financial Express
[V]
Popstars props up Star Plus; Hooks youth More
Source:
www.exchange4media.com
Samsung India CTV output touch 2 m More
Source:
Deccan Herald
Aamir
Khan To Direct Coke Ad! More
Source:www.
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"Advertising
is the ability to sense, interpret . . . to put the very
heart throbs of a business."
- Joan Kufrin
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A light rain,
no downpour
Looser rules will lead to more but limited station consolidation,
experts say. While cautioning against a land rush that
some dealmakers hope for, mid-size TV-station groups signal
clear interest in doing deals, given relaxing media ownership
regulations. More
LatAm
Satellite Industry Sees Healthy Growth
Latin America’s satellite industry should see healthy
growth over the coming years, but still faces some significant
macroeconomic and business-level obstacles, industry executives
speaking at the Satellite 2002 industry conference here
said.
More
Sky Offers A
More Revealing Big Brother
Mexican media giant Grupo Televisa will air a more explicit
version of Big Brother on pay TV amid criticism that the
reality show format is unsuitable for national broadcast
TV.
More
TV
Azteca Seeks Sub Fees
A business column in Mexico’s
Reforma newspaper reported that the country’s No. 2 broadcaster,
Television Azteca, would like to charge the cable group
Productora y Comercializadora de Television (PCTV) $1.48
dollars per subscriber per month for the transmission
of its two national networks.
More
45%
of Stations Are Not Ready for DTV
About 45 percent of local broadcast-TV stations expect
to miss the digital-transmission deadline set five years
ago, according to Federal Communications Commission records.
More
AT&T, Comcast
Make Pitch to FCC
AT&T Broadband and Comcast Corp. said their merger is
needed to drive the penetration of several new services,
especially local phone service in competition with entrenched
phone incumbents.
More
Variety
Spices Up Turner's Promos
Turner Network Sales has shuffled its 2002 slate of 22
affiliate promotions to emphasize some weekly shows and
Cable News Network's revamped lineup. More
Family Sitcoms
Rock MTVN's Ratings
Views of family life on two opposite ends of the spectrum
helped two Viacom Inc.-owned channels post strong ratings
last week.
More
TiVo Eyes Cash-Flow Break-Even
In a year-end earnings call late last Thurdsay, TiVo
Inc. executives told Wall Street analysts the company
expects to become cash-flow positive within its current
fiscal year. The company plans to reach the milestone
through a combination of increasing subscriber revenues
and eliminating hardware subsidies. More
Nagin
Wins Big Easy Race
Cox Communications Inc.'s go-to guy for southern Louisiana
is now this city's chief elected executive. More
Cable
Entrepreneur Bill Turner Dies
Cable
veteran and Wisdom TV founder William "Bill" Turner died
last week after a lengthy bout with cancer.Turner, 76,
started one of the first cable systems in the country
in 1951 in Welch, W.Va. He eventually expanded his business
to include three... More
FCC
Queues Up Vote on Cable Data
After
stewing for 18 months, the cable industry is expected
to learn Thursday how federal regulators intend to classify
cable-modem service.
More
CTPAA's
Backdrop: A Tough Job Market
Job
security and soul searching aren't on the official agenda
for this year's Cable Television Public Affairs Association's
conference, which started yesterday at Washington's Ritz-Carlton
Hotel. More
Local
Dominance Could Drive Deals
With
a court-ordered relaxation of media cross-ownership rules
starting to settle in, Lowell "Bud" Paxson said he's fielded
a flurry of inquiries from companies interested in buying
his TV stations — including some cable operators. More
Comcast's
VOD Approach: Keep the Packages Simple
Comcast
Corp. executives opened their on-demand marketing and
pricing kimono last week, unveiling a marketing approach
meant to drive digital penetration in basic-only households
through simple, low-cost, on-demand programming tiers.
More
Dish's
Supreme Appeal
One
week after vowing to carry every local TV station in the
country, EchoStar Communications Corp. made a legal move
that has the potential to fundamentally alter the substance
of that promise. More
Time
for Hardball? YES Says Yes
Yankees
Entertainment and Sports Network added another MSO to
its roster last week, and then tried a public squeeze
play to fill the big hole left in its distribution lineup.
More
Virginia
Adds Teeth to Service-Theft Laws
Virginia
lawmakers last week approved new language for the state's
theft-of-service bill, updating its protections to account
for such new products as video-on-demand and high-speed
data. More
Cox
Hits 100K-Sub Phone Mark in S.D.
Three
and a half years of promotion and support have paid off
for Cox Communications Inc.'s local phone offering in
San Diego, which zipped past the 100,000-subscriber milestone
on Feb. 21, system executives said More
Source:www.tvinsite.com
‘On-Demand’
Services Poised to Revive Interest in Interactive TV
After several years of hype and false starts, the worldwide
interactive TV (iTV) market is finally beginning to take
shape, according to Cahners In-Stat/MDR. More
Source:www.instat.com
New BBC radio
station launches this week
The6 Music, the BBC's latest digital radio channel,
launches this week on Sky Digital. "The station is aimed
at people who are passionate about pop and rock music,"
says the BBC. More
Sky to launch
instant messaging service
Sky Digital viewers will soon be able to take part in
chat rooms using their remote handsets. The service will
be similar to real-time instant messaging chat services
on the Web. More
Source:
www.wotsat.com |
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