16 Jan 2003 Volume 6 Issue no: 56

 










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Top Story
SportzBiz 2003 - India's 1st sports marketing forum on 24 Jan

indiantelevision.com, in association with SportzPR - the communications consultancy focusing exclusively on the business of sports - presents yet another first from its growing list...More


Headlines

Media planners accused of anti-DD bias

DD's dwindling client base has forced it to rationalise and re-negotiate terms with producers...More

Channel loyalty fetches Star better ratings
Sony may have managed 'K3G', but Star Plus with its hotch potch of TV artistes on 'Kasamm Se' grabbed better ratings on 31 Dec... More

'Qaawali Muqabla' as 'Heena' completes four years

Heena, one of the longest running soaps on Sony, has just completed four years on air. The serial produced by Rakhee Tandon, is a story of a girl unlucky in love, will celebrate completion of its fourth year by airing a special 'qawaali muqabla' coming Friday. ...More

1000 radio stations likely to be set up this year
About 1000 radio stations are likely to be set up this year in the country by the educational institutions like the Universities, IITs, IIMs and residential schools...More

Wrestling to add muscle to niche channels' weekend programming

Star and Zee have both decided to strengthen their weekend programming lineup on their respective English entertainment chanels with some wrestling action...More

XIC award for Anand Patwardhan

The Xavier Institute of Communications (XIC) will confer the second Fr Parmananda Divakar Memorial Communication for Peace Award on Mumbai-based activist, environmentalist, journalist and filmmaker Anand Patwardhan...More

World Cup 2003 Special
MAX takes out press ads to set 'record straight' on cricket coverage
Sony Entertainment India is leaving no stone unturned to ensure that Indian viewers realise that MAX and SET are the only channels that will show "live and exclusive premium digital coverage of all the 54 ICC cricket World Cup 2003 matches." ...More

Cricket, telecom to boost bus shelter, kiosk ads

The battle for outdoor advertising channels like bus-shelters, kiosks and hoardings is intensifying with World Cup on the anvil...More

CricketNext.com to webcast World Cup matches

CricketNext.com, the Walchand Capital Group driven Internet portal has bagged the rights for the mega ICC Cricket World Cup in South Africa commencing 8 February...More

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Media, Advertising & Marketing Watch
Rajat Sethi appointed Wunderman India CEO
Wunderman, the world's leading direct marketing agency, has appointed Rajat Sethi as CEO of its Indian operations...More

Mediacom wins J&J baby products media planning business

Mediacom India, the specialist media independent of Grey Worldwide, has won the planning of a certain section of Johnson and Johnson baby products' account...More

Telecom, content cos need to ally for product differentiation
The Advertising Club Bombay's Value Creation seminar on marketing entertainment and their growing inter-dependence last weekend threw up a possibility that telecom, entertainment and content development companies will forge alliances to provide product differentiation and increase penetration in an increasingly competitive scenario...More

Yap is NDS AsiaPacific business development director

NDS Group plc, a News Corporation company and a leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced the appointment of Christopher Yap Boon Yee as business development director Asia Pacific...More

Technology Update
X3D unleashes X3D Transformer
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Zenith unveils 40 digital products at CES
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Source: www.indiantelevision.com

Other Headlines
DIT Pitches For Rs 50-80 Cr Allocation For Media Lab More
SET Ropes In NDTV For Run-up To The World Cup More
Nothing Official Here More
Source: The Financial Express

Freeze Frame - Amit Khanna : Content’s the key to success More
Movie rights sale puts Mukta under kliegs More
SET unleashes Rs 30 crore World Cup blitzkrieg More
Source: Business Standard

Viewers refuse to bite Zee's Bollywood bait More
Sony, DD finalise Cup sponsors More
Sony's got Pepsi, DD Coca-Cola in their opening line-up More
Kashmir's Mission: Shoot for films More
Music scores over copyright for now More
Source:The EconomicTimes

Task force soon to oversee transition to CAS More
Get set for conditional access in July More
AOL unit reshuffles top management duties More
Source: The Times of India

Samsung earmarks Rs 125 crore as marketing budget More
Source:www.agencyfaqs.com

Ekta’s filmi fundas More
Inspired by Devdas Devdas is a major pre-occupation with the makers of Kahani Terrii Merrii More
Source: Mid Day

Get Real... More
Life is All Ha Ha, He He... More
Prabhat Studio founder’s kin ask why such neglect More
Source: The Indian Express

Bollywood Or Hollywood:Om Puri Balances All More
Source: Hindustan Times

"Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we should have people standing in the corners of our rooms."
- Alan Coren


International Headlines
Murdoch TV channel hires Hewitt as war reporter More
Jowell issues licence fee warning More
TV ad rule change confirmed More
Howell: 'a good deal for both sides' More
Loach lambasts BBC drama More
Cash injection for Telewest More
TV test for US intelligence More
Emergency services switch to gay channel More
Greene pays out in agent settlement More
Source: www.media.guardian.co.uk

MTV raids BBC More
Source: www.mediaweek.co.uk

ABC Searches for Reality Success More
'TV Guide' to Rejoin MPA More
Source: www.mediaweek.com

AOL Time Warner Board May Weigh Dual Parsons Role More
Source: www.cnetnews.com

EchoStar Breakup Fee Boosts Hughes Profit More
Source:www.siliconvalley.com

Hidden ad-skipping feature found in TiVo More
Source: www.news.com.com

Schools, cable TV are making history More
Source: New York Daily News

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