8 Oct 2012 Newsletter Subscription Email this Page Volume 35 - Issue No: 90
 
 
 
 
 
 
Headlines
Broadcasters, MSOs agree for genre-wise switch off ahead of 1 November

Mutual consent not to violate Tdsat ruling that barred MSOs from switching off analogue delivery of channels before 1 Nov; move set to smoothen the transition to digital cable.
We are in the advertising business: BCCL MD Vineet Jain

"We are not in the newspaper business, we are in the advertising business," BCCL MD Vineet Jain tells The New Yorker, while dwelling on the dominance of his company in the media business in India.
SMG Delhi reshuffles senior management team

Starcom North ED Nigam will move to VivaKi Exchange by January; Menon to take charge of Nigam’s clients in Delhi and also service Dabur, while Starcom South VP Sharma will shift to Delhi to head team Samsung.
 
Monika Shergill puts in her papers at Star
 
Star Plus extends two daily fiction shows to Saturdays
 
Zee Studio revamps prime time at 10:30 pm
 
Prasar Bharti eyes bigger slice of ad rev from Govt, PSUs
 
Rupert Murdoch gets backing for re-election
 
ESS in 3-year deal with Shane Warne
 
Turner targets Asian buyers at Mipcom
 
Endemol lands new deals with Astro
 
Turner, Major League Baseball extend media rights for 8 yrs
 
 
Depp injured his back shooting The Lone Ranger
First film on killing of Osama to me aired on 4 Nov
 
Cableready completes 315 hours of pre-Mipcom sales
 
Endemol signs format deals in Holland ahead of Mipcom
 
Samira Ahmed is the face of BBC News' 'NewsWatch'
 
Georgeville TV, ‘X-Files’ creator team up for ‘The After’
 
Siti Cable signs up rev share pact with 55% of its LCOs
 
zeebox gets in Viacom
 
SPT, Zeptolab to collaborate on 'Cut The Rope'
 
Jayanta Bhai Ki Luv Story to release on 14 February
 
Film on agrarian crisis to screen at South Asian International Film Festival, New York
 
News Releases

NDTV to support Association of Indian Universities (AIU)

 
TV Ratings

Top 10 Programmes (27/05/2012 to 02/06/2012)
Doordarshan's Top 10
Top 10 In All TV Homes
Top 10 in Cable & Satellite Homes


Top 100 Programmes (27/05/2012 to 02/06/2012)
SONY MAX
Star Plus
Z Zee TV
Colors Viacom18
SONY ENTERTAINMENT TV
SONY SAB
Life OK
Sun TV
Star Pravah
Star Jalsha
Disney XD
GEMINI
Star Gold
ETV Marathi
Z Marathi
 
 
Source: www.indiantelevision.com
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Today's Newsbreakers.......India News
    		• Bigg Boss season 6 comes up in new avatar
    		• Prasar Bharti to set up 839 new FM stations in private sector
    		• Games play into Facebook's future
    		• Amazon pays top dollar to buy Seattle HQ
    Source: Economic Times
       
    		• Angry Birds’ franchise hopes to fly high this festival season
    		• Speed up 4G service rollout, DoT tells broadband players
    Source: Hindu Business Line
       
    		• `Bigg Boss' back to storm TV screens!
    Source: Total Filmy
       
    		• 'Bigg Boss' sixth season comes up in new avatar
    		• James Bond auction raises USD 1.6 Million
    		• Jiah Khan signs 3-film deal
    Source: Indian Express
       
    		• Prasar Bharti plans of setting up 839 new FM stations
    Source: Total Filmy
    		• Prasar Bharti plans of setting up 839 new FM stations
    		• Facebook Likes automatically being added
    		• Akshay produces documentary on global warming
    		• Archana & Manav to know about Soham in Pavitra Rishta
    		• Rohit Purohit returns to TV with Life OK's next?
    		• No small screen acts for Ollywood stars
    Source: Times of India
       
    		• Barfi! is second-highest foreign-market profit maker after Ek Tha Tiger
    		• Facebook seeks dismissal of $15-bn suit
    		• Jay-Z to launch his own YouTube Channel
    Source: Business Standard
       
    		• ‘The best way to regulate content is self-regulation’
    		• An online chat show for the Internet age
    Source: Livemint
       
    		• TDSAT no to retrospective hike in infra charges
    Source: Financial Express
     
    International News
    		• CinemaWorld International to launch in the Philippines
    Source: Philippine Star
       
    		• Saudi Arabia to launch youth television channel
    Source: Al-Shorfa
       
    		• New channels expect to make big impact in France
    Source: Variety
       
    		• Scripps Networks expands global reach
    Source: Broadband TV News
       
    		• Baylor agrees to TV deal with Fox regional carrier
    Source: WLFI.com
       
    		• Media queen Oprah holds court in Houston for TV show
    Source: Houston Chronicle
       
    		• ABC Orders Celebrity Diving Reality Competition Series From Eyeworks USA
    Source: Deadline.com
       
    		• M-GoO streaming service preps Q4 launch with Dreamworks, Relativity content deals
    Source: Rapid tv news
       
     
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