Tewari justifies rules for regulation of television audience rating agencies
Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Minister Manish Tewari addressed the attendees of the fifth CEOs round table conference organised by the Confederation of Indian Industries yesterday.
(24 January 2014)

Pitroda Committee: Prasar Bharati should be free of govt hold
The committee has recommended reorganisation of the pubcaster Board to make it a professionally managed body and make it more effective in guiding the organisation.
(24 January 2014)

MTV India gets a programming head in Vikas Gupta
Almost after a decade, the channel will have a programming head; Vikas will report to Aditya Swamy.
(24 January 2014)

ZMCL q-o-q PAT up 53 per cent for Q3-2014
Operating revenue for Q3-2014 at Rs 91.68 crore was 10.4 per cent more than the Rs 83.02 crore for the immediate trailing quarter.
(23 January 2014)

Sunil Lulla promoted to President, Corporate Development of BCCL Group
Former Disney UTV Media Networks MD MK Anand will be stepping into his shoes as the new Times Television Network MD and CEO.
(24 January 2014)

Star Sports on a route to ‘glocalise’ Hockey
The broadcaster is taking a gamble of Rs 1,500 crore over a period of eight years to promote Hockey in a big way.
(23 January 2014)

Zeel reports 10 per cent higher y-o-y PAT for Q3-2014
Consolidated PAT for the current quarter was however lower by 9.6 per cent than the Rs 236.27 crore the company had reported for immediate preceding quarter.
(22 January 2014)

‘Roadies XI’ is back with a bang
The season XI of the youth reality show promises a thrilling ride sans the vote outs and the group politics.
(22 January 2014)

Reliance group makes RBNL public shareholding buy back offer
The plan is to acquire 25.05 per cent of its public shareholding of RBNL at an offer price of Rs 46.47, taking the group's holding to 90 per cent, which will allow it to delist the media firm from the BSE and NSE.
(22 January 2014)

TV 18 completes ETV channel acquisition
The deal was completed at Rs 2,053 crore and is effective from 22 January 2014. News channels will stay with TV18 Broadcast; GECs are likely to be transferred to Viacom18.
(23 January 2014)

Sony revives second non-fiction show ‘Entertainment Ke liye...’
The channel is planning to strengthen its non-fiction line-up with the show that premiered in 2009. Recently it also brought back its long running dance show 'Boogie Woogie'.
(21 January 2014)

Is ETV Bangla looking at a news foray?
More than 100 professionals - including journalists and techies - are expected to be recruited for the news foray.
(21 January 2014)

MIB: Now on to DAS phase III & IV
Minister Manish Tewari met up with key stakeholders on 21 January, urging them to to sort out their issues and continue beating the path to digitisation. The deadline for the two phases is one now: 31 December 2014.
(22 January 2014)

Viacom18 uses Celebrity Cricket League to give leg up to Rishtey
The Viacom18 Network will be telecasting the Celebrity Cricket League live on its second GEC Rishtey on 25 January. The hope is that viewers will tune in and sample the channel.
(20 January 2013)

Assam cable ops now take APDCL to Court
GGCTOA has moved the Guwahati HC on the issue of payment of Rs 25 per electric pole per month. Court hearing likely next week.
(24 January 2014)

MCOF and its MSO-LMO revenue sharing proposal
The Maharashtra Cable Operators Federation (MCOF) says revenue share between MSOs-LMOs should be as follows: 37:63 for FTA channels, 45:55 for basic pay channels, 50:50 for advanced pay channels. It proposes sharing of carriage fee revenues too.
(23 January 2014)

DEN, Hathway and InCable get interim relief on ent tax
Delhi HC orders entertainment tax collecting authority to stay away from using coercive action against the MSOs.
(22 January 2014)

Four national MSOs file writ petition against Ent Tax
Hathway, DEN, Siticable and InCable approach the Delhi High Court, seeking justice and protection from the entertainment tax authorities. The case comes up for hearing today.
(21 January 2014)

Tata Sky opens Actve Series to advertisers
The DTH player is selling airtime and offering brand integration to advertisers on its Actve platform which has about 2 million subscribers. Media planners have given a thumbs up to its proposition.
(21 January 2013)

BARC signs deal with Médiamétrie today
The announcement was made by BARC chairman Punit Goenka at a press conference in Mumbai.
(20 January 2014)

The Mumbai Marathon lures media professionals
Scores of advertising, media, broadcast professionals took to the streets of Mumbai to take part in the Mumbai Marathon even as the city snoozed on 19 January 2014.
(20 January 2014)

Awards shouldn't be taken very seriously: R Balki
The driving force behind the advertising agency Lowe Lintas and Partners doesn't believe in awards but good work that can be excellent even without any recognition.
(20 January 2014)

Star Plus to extend weekday fiction to Saturday?
India's leading GEC will air one extra episodes of its popular weekday primetime fiction shows on Saturday once 'Nach Baliye 6' goes off air.
(21 January 2013)

MipTV roadshow to hit Chennai on 20 January
The Reed Midem Paris team is down for a three city whistle stop tour to engage with India's content creation and sales community and help it become a part of the content-without-borders entertainment economy.
(20 January 2014)

Jai Ho …………..Not Quite Salman Film Review
With an array of blockbusters behind him, the burden of delivering a bigger grosser grows every time a new Salman Khan film hits the screens.
(24 January 2013)

Dhoom 3 still going strong at BO Box Office
Dhoom 3 squeezes the box office to its last potential collecting 4.75 crore in its fourth week taking its four week tally for the Hindi version to 272.49 crore; 285.24 crore including TnT versions.
(20 January 2013)