10 March 2007Newsletter Subscription Email this Page Volume 19 - Issue No: 5






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Cas success lures foreign investors: Trai advisor
Trai advisor says 3 foreign firms, each with $1 billion investment portfolios, examining investments in cable in India.

NDTV 24x7 to become FTA in Cas areas

Parliament approves Sports Telecast Bill
Parliament approves Sports Broadcasting Bill after Rajya Sabha passes legislation by voice vote.

Encryption of DD signals will cost just Rs 20 million: BCCI

Box Populi
Get the holistic picture?
Is there an unwritten rule that makes it mandatory for each soap to incorporate the festival on hand into its track?


ESS announces World Cup programming
ESS will be gearing up for the 2007 ICC World Cup at the West Indies with some World Cup programming initiatives on its channels for its viewers in the sub continent.


Sony CTO Anil Garg quits

Alfred Haber to take a ride with MTV

Dan Fawcett is Fox president digital media

AT&T lets mobile phones control the television


Nickelodeon to incorporate kids generated content into new show 'iCarly'


Highlight - "Left Right Left Takes A Breaks"
Booby trap for Bobby Darling!
Meet Saif and Soha sipping Koffee with Karan
Grapevine - Late latif Shweta.

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TV Ratings
Top 10 Programmes (18/02/2007 to 24/02/2007)
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Top 10 In All TV Homes
Top 10 in Cable & Satellite Homes

Top 100 Programmes (18/02/2007 to 24/02/2007)
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Today's Newsbreakers.......India
    		• ZEE, TataSky clash over DTH
    		• Parliament nod for bill on sharing signals
    		• Undertrial seeks DTH facility to watch World Cup matches
    		• INSAT-4B launch likely from Kourou tomorrow
    		• Guruji.com introduces search service in Hindi, Kannada, Telugu
    		• Promoter of unauthorised Poorva TV held
    		• Australia launches exhibition on Indian cinema
    		• India: newspaper articles not clinching evidence
    Source: The Hindu
     
    		• Adlabs Films plans to focus on South
    		• Guruji search in Indian languages
    Source: Hindu Business Line
     
    		• CAScade effect
    		• TALKING POINT with Roopa Ganguly
    		• Bhojpuri channel ‘president’ held for duping IT firm of Rs 1 crore
    		• Free TV from anywhere streamed to your computer?
    Source: Indian Express
      
    		• INSAT-4B launch gets green signal
    		• Australia launches exhibition on Indian cinema
    		• I am as mischievous as Durgesh says Rinku Ghosh
    		• Panchi finds college boring
    		• Doing some serious talking
    Source: DNA
     
      
    		• Nimbus, BCCI offer to bear encryption cost awaits nod
    		• Crest, Altair to co-develop management portal
    		•  Percept styles fashion with designers' talent hunt
    		•  Home advantage for cricket on ad pitch
    Source: Economic Times
     
    		• Nimbus’ World Cup revenue seen at $100 m
    		• Tangled origins haunt audio format
    		• CNN Hummer of Iraq war to raise money for wounded soldiers
    Source: Financial Express
     
    		• Serial measurements
    		• Two films, two struggles
    Source: Business Standard
      
    		• Parliament approves Sports Broadcasting Bill
    		• It's a law: DD must get feed
    Source: Times of India
      
    		• Expert comments by Mandira Bedi
    		• Interview with Puneet Nanda
    		• The future of home entertainment
    Source: Screen
     
    International News
    		• Spielberg's DreamWorks to bring cartoon hero Tintin to the big screen
    		• Watching TV shows online getting easier; new web service signs network deals
    Source: Canada
     
    		• UNICEF seeks entries for children’s television award on AIDS awareness
    Source: www.un.org
     
    		• UPC Ireland relaunches digital TV service
    Source: www.rte.ie
     
    		• GIO protests CNN's 'impolite wording'
    Source: www.gov.tw
     
    		• Nickelodeon beefs up digital content
    Source: Variety
     
    		• Taiwan market: NCC scrutinizing foreign investment in cable TV industry
    Source: Digitimes
     
    		• Star Choice to launch five HD channels this spring
    Source: Digital Home
    		• Disney investors reelect board, reject rights plan
    		• IOL plans $103 mln capital spend on IPTV drive
    Source: Reuters
     
    		• Telefónica confirms sale of Endemol
    Source: Digital Spy (UK)
     
    		•  Karsch Departs Turner Classic Movies
    Source: TV Week
      
    		• Comcast, Sinclair Reach Four-Year Retrans Deal
    		• Fox to Air American Idol Charity Event
    Source: Media Week (US)
     
    		• James Murdoch Fights Branson in Test of News Corp. Inheritance
    Source: Bloomberg
     
    		• President decries Russian league's cable TV contract
    		• THAILAND: iTV Plc still liable to pay fee and fine
    Source: Asia Media
     
    		• Spain: DTT sales near 4m
    Source: Advanced - Television
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