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Star offers to shake hands with Dish TV
Star & Dish TV move towards burying the hatchet; Star offers boxes, network channels for Rs 27 per subscriber with no MG from Dish.

Filmy to launch Hollywood dub movie block
The new born Hindi movie channel plans to explore Hollywood action movie genre; in talks with 3 intl studios for film acquisition

Bahl sells 2,00,000 TV18 shares to Network 18 Fincap
Network 18 Fincap Pvt Ltd has acquired 2,00,000 equity shares of Television Eighteen India Ltd ("TV18") from founder-promoter Raghav Bahl at Rs 650.25 per share.

Haber inks distribution deals for 'Victoria's Secret'

Get shaken & stirred on DT&L new series Cocktail Kings

Mobile2win rolls out 'Anthony Kaun Hai' game

Time Warner to offer AOL service free-of-cost

MIH Group taps Ashish Kashyap as CEO of India ops

XM Satellite Radio & Google deliver targeted ads

BSkyB launches Sky+ remote record service

MtvU to acquire online student newspaper network

Ziff Davis in online, print media pact with Microsoft

For new merged entity Lodestar Universal, a coming out party

Slideshow of Lodestar Universal launch party

Bid2Win to foray into radio and print content

Radio City to launch creativity contest 'Radioactive'

Nick India GM and VP Hema Govindan resigns


Highlight - Tellywood's erstwhile protagonists
Jinxed with jaundice
Sinndoor...gets a comic relief
Funny or grim? Baa Bahoo Aur Baby
Grapevine - Mr. Khan's fear psychosis
The Week Ahead - Racing Stripes on Star Movies

Technology Update
LG Electronics deploys Riverbed's Steelhead Appliances across global network

News Releases
Star Gold celebrates Yaari-Dosti this August
Kuch Khatti Meethi Yaadein Kajol ke Sang on Star Gold
eBay India offers gifting options on Raksha Bandhan

TV Ratings
Top 10 Programmes (16/07/2006 to 22/07/2006)
Doordarshan's Top 10
Top 10 In All TV Homes
Top 10 in Cable & Satellite Homes

Top 100 Programmes (16/07/2006 to 22/07/2006)
Star Plus
Zee TV
Sun TV
Star One
Sony Entertainment
Gemini TV

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Today's Newsbreakers.......India
    		• Pioneer may sell 30% stake
    		• Film City may get three state-of-art studios
    		• Hughes launches online supply network course
    		• Beyond the ratings game
    		• Disney will go to Bollywood soon
    Source: Business Standard
       
    		• Notification to curb violence, obscenity on cable
    		• Onkyo to bring in high-end AV cables from AudioQuest
    Source: The Hindu Business Line
       
    		• Global TV channel to boost country’s image
    		• STAR channels to beam on rival Zee’s Dish TV
    		• Visual Radio: powerful interactive medium
    Source:Financial Express
       
    		• Music videos, songs require certification
    		• Hindujas get SC all-clear
    Source: Times of India
       
    		• Centre allows 185 channels to uplink from India
    Source: Hindustan Times
     
    		• CBFC clearance must for telecast of films, songs
    		• Kerala to have four EDUSAT channels for school education
    		• Journalists told to take advantage of info law
    		• Indian film bags critics award at film festival in Tanzania
    		• China's most expensive animated film to be released
    Source: The Hindu
       
    		• Star may beam channels on Zee's Dish TV
    		• A new dawn for Chinese journalism?
    Source: Economic Times
       
    		• ‘Business Baazigar is close to my heart. It’s a revelation’
    		• Govt orders censors to put hot videos in the cold
    		• Star agrees to beam channels on Zee's Dish TV
    		• Intel to begin WiMax trials in India soon
    		• ‘From day one I knew I had to win’
    		• The grey truth about beauty
    Source: DNA
     
    International News
    		• CBS profit rises 4% including gain on sale of parks
    Source: MarketWatch
       
    		• IOC agrees new TV rights deal to 2016
    Source: Guardian
       
    		• SES Astra Contracts TV Channels For Digital Service
    Source: www.broadcastbuyer.tv
     
    		• Sony Pictures Television to Offer Exclusive Direct-To-DVD Content
    Source: www.movieweb.com
     
    		• AOL short-lists BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse
    		• Liberty Global ends talks to buy Essent Kabelcom
    Source: Reuters
       
    		• Japanese Cos. Plan Web TV Joint Standard
    Source: www.chron.com
       
    		• BBC Refused Broadcasting License in Tajikistan
    Source: www.mosnews.com
    		• FCC Orders Time Warner Cable to Restore NFL Network
    		• CNN's Kagan Departing to Start Web Site
    		• Castro's Daughter Signs With CNN
    		• Univision Revenues Score Q2 Goal
    Source: TV Week
       
    		• RTP DTH Channel Targets Brazil
    Source: Advanced - Television
       
    		• Sci Fi gets rights to "Star Trek: Enterprise"
    Source: Yahoo
       
    		• ADSM & Reuters sign landmark service level agreement - the first in the Gulf
    Source: AME Info
       
    		• Charles Allen expected to leave ITV
    Source: Digital Spy (UK)
       
    		• MALAYSIA: Internet users fear govt crackdown
    Source:Asia Media
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