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ICC issues notice to Indian cricketers
Controversy looms large with the ICC issuing notices to
some Indian cricketers as Samsung ads featuring them continue to appear
in media...More
Kirit Somaiya
to take TV trade to court
The BJP MP says he will file a criminal case against MSOs
and cable ops on 17 February...More
Intelsat 907 launched
aboard Arianne 44L
Intelsat 907, the seventh in the series, is expected
to be operational by March 2003 to service several continents...More
Murdoch is not the
largest shareholder in NewsCorp
Media baron Rupert Murdoch has been thus known as the
biggest share holder of NewsCorp. Turns out that he shall not be
known so henceforth. According to the media reports, Murdoch no
longer owns the larger economic stake in News Corp. Liberty Media's
John Malone, popularly known as Cable-TV magnate, is the larger
share holder...More
Team Players
"Jaikishin Chhaproo, Manager - Group Media - Godrej Consumer Products
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...And a PIL against cable ops, broadcasters, government
BJP member of parliament (MP) Kirit Somaiya is sending
out a message that he means business. Apart from announcing on 15
February that he would be filing a criminal case against the TV
trade, he said that he, along with other BJP MLAs Mangal Prabhat
Lodha, Atul Shah and Sandeep Joshi of Mumbai Cable Grahak Sangh,
will file a public interest litigation (PIL) against 12 respondents...More
IATAS calls for entries
for 31st Intl Emmy Awards
The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
(IATAS) has issued a call for entries for the 31st International
Emmy Awards which will take place later this year...More
Sky's revenues rise
to £1,511m in 2002
Sky Digital subscriptions will touch its yearend target
of 7 million, as per the latest results announced by the company...More
Zee's ZILS sets
up IT training centre at police HQ
Zee Interactive Learning Systems has setup an IT training
centre inside Maharashtra state police headquarters to conduct training
in MS-CIT Course with the support & co-operation of the office of
the Maharashtra director general of police...More
Yahoo! Movies expands
coverage of Academy Awards
Yahoo! Movies which claims to be the Number one movie
site on the Web has announced the launch of its comprehensive coverage
of the 2003 Academy Awards (http://movies.yahoo.com/oscars)...More
Media Advertising
& Marketing watch
India's chess
federation seeks support for Commonwealth games
The annual Commonwealth Chess Championships will be held in Mumbai
from 19 April 2003 for a period of 10 days. More than 30 grandmasters
(GMs) and 40 international masters (IMs) from over 58 countries
will be participating in the contest which has a prize money of
around Rs 1 million...More
World Cup
Special
Mumbai
girl will lead India on the field against Zimbabwe
'Pepsi Badaa Shikari Hunt' organised by Pepsi, Nickelodeon,
MTV, Max, claims to have received 12,000 entries so far...More
'Extraaa Innings' opens with a rating
of 3.1
The ratings for the opening ceremony of the ICC Cricket
World Cup 2003 have come in, and Extraaa Innings, the cricket related
programme on MAX, has opened with a rating of 3.1 reaching 5.23
million viewers...More
MTV website makes a 'silly point' about
World Cup
For all those who have fears about the Indian team getting
the World Cup home, just logon to the mtvindia.com website to get
their fears confirmed. The website is getting a lot of 'hits' as
cricket crazy fans log on to the site, claim channel officials...More
Source: www.indiantelevision.com
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