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Demands for channel price ceilings to be extended to non-CAS areas
As a fallout of Trai mandated Rs 5 for pay chnls in CAS areas, demands to regulate prices in non-CAS areas start surfacing.

HTMT consolidates media biz, spins off IT/ITES
HTMT (without IT/ITES) to house media biz & have a cash of $125 mn; IT/ITES to be under HTMT Tech, listing expected in Q4 07.

Box Populi
Plain Luck!
Star announces full-fledged launch of Voice; the service now offers audio capsules of the leading shows in Star Network.

TV actor Anuj Saxena on his way to Intl Emmy

NDTV Profit launches three new shows

PTC files indecency complaint over Emmys

Nat Geo Intl to air a show on disease outbreak in Oct


Animax to air 'Inu Yasha: 'The Castle beyond the looking glass' on 2 September


Highlight - Sachin Khedekar turns anchor with Chamatkar
Sameer plans for an actor's forum!
Kanchi’s plea to the government!
Fizzling out pesticides?
The week Ahead - Inu Yasha on Animax

News Releases
Spice Telecom appoints Man Mohan Nandwani as COO for Punjab circle
WWE Summer Slam on Ten Sports

TV Ratings
Top 10 Programmes (13/08/2006 to 19/08/2006)
Doordarshan's Top 10
Top 10 In All TV Homes
Top 10 in Cable & Satellite Homes

Top 100 Programmes (13/08/2006 to 19/08/2006)
Star Plus
Gemini TV
Star One
Zee TV
Sun TV
Sony Entertainment TV
Maa Telugu

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Today's Newsbreakers.......India
    		• Shobhana Bhartia elected chairperson of ABC
    		• Genesis Colors, J J Valaya tie-up
    		• Online travel sector may touch $2bn-mark by ’08
    Source: Economic Times
       
    		• Chaitanya Kalbag is HT editor-in-chief
    		• Indian media defaming me: Salman Khan
    Source: Hindustan Times
       
    		• Amrita TV to telecast longest single-shot film on Onam day
    		• China to have its own digital TV standard by August 2007
    		• HTMT hives off IT/ITeS business
    		• PVR's multiplex gets five-year tax exemption
    Source: The Hindu
       
    		• Television`s next big wave
    		• Cash register ringing for internet firms
    Source: Business Standard
     
    		• Pune Intl Film Festival from Jan 11
    Source: Times of India
     
    		• Watch your TV go digital
    		• Abhijeet ko gussa kyun aata hai?
    		• Kushal flies high
    		• Night of upsets at MTV awards
    Source: DNA
     
    		• AOL to launch web tools boutique in India
    		• HTMT de-merger ratio at 2:1
    		• You’re Fired!
    Source: Financial Express
       
    		• Juniper explores IPTV opportunity in India
    Source: Moneycontrol.com
       
    		• Tollywood protests bid to privatise Technicians’ Studio
    		• How the channels lost the plot on the campus drama
    		• Multiplexes to screen Lage Raho Munnabhai
    Source: Indian Express
       
    		• Hinduja TMT to demerge IT,ITES biz
    		• Laptops no longer sole flagbearer for wireless Internet
    		• Mumbai multiplexes test higher price points for tickets
    Source:The Hindu Business Line
       
    		• Ganpati Bappa Morya...
    		• Twinkling Stars
    		• Homespun and entertaining, that’s DD
    		• Mahesh hopes to score for entertaining
    		• TV channels get tax reprieve
    Source: Screen
     
    International News
    		• BBC launches public value test into iPlayer
    Source: www.dtg.org.uk
       
    		• China Telecom and SMG launch Internet TV service
    		• Thrill is gone at MTV Video Music Awards
    Source: Yahoo
     
    		• SABC boosts its profit
    Source:www.mg.co.za
     
    		• Top 3 cable firms offer $2.3 billion for airwaves
    Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer
       
    		• BBC plans to start ‘Bangladesh Sanglap’
    Source: The New Nation
     
    		• Telkom, SABC apply for pay TV licence
    Source: www.moneyweb.co.za
     
    		• Asian Network unveils series on honour killings and porn
    Source: Asians in Media
     
    		• BBC News 24 to be streamed live to field reporters
    Source: DM Europe
     
    		• European Broadcasting Union head blasts Hungarian TV
    Source:rawstory.com
    		• Nielsen: Media Ad Spending Rises 5.1%
    		• RAB Names New CEO/President In TW's Haley
    		• Bozell Exits Parents TV Council
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    		• Karr drives ratings higher for TV gossip shows
    Source: Reuters
     
    		• 2006 MTV Video Music Awards
    Source: BBC
     
    		• Showtime Orders Three Pilots
    Source:TV Week
     
    		• Setanta Sports signs five-year Nationwide Conference deal
    Source: Media Week (UK)
     
    		• Fox tries to block DISH network deal
    Source: Advanced - Television
     
    		• MediaCorp TV12's Kids Central puts up 'live' show at Indoor Stadium
    Source:Channel NewsAsia
     
    		• Castro, Chavez make TV appearance
    Source:The Australian
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