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Sameer Nair elevated to Star India
COO
Effective
yesterday, Nair is the chief operating officer (COO) of
the Rupert Murdoch-promoted numero uno Indian cable and
satellite TV network.
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Hathway
Bhawani plans equity offer; mulls pay-per-view service
Hathway
Bhawani Cabletel & Datacom Limited has announced that
an offer of 1.6 million equity shares of Rs 10 each for
cash at a price of RS 20/- per share aggregating Rs 32
million is on the anvil.
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'Jurassic
Park' - monster movie rakes in mammoth ratings
Jurassic
Park aired on Star Plus in the last week of March,
has notched ratings that would make a Kyunkii…
green with envy...
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Asia-Pacific news website launched
AsiaNet,
a consortium of news organisations in the Asia Pacific
region, has launched a website - http://www.asianetnews.net.
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Prasar
Bharati revokes telecast fee hike for serial extensions
The
Prasar Bharati board has decided to remove the hike in
telecast fee on serials getting an extension beyond the
minimum 26 episodes on DD National.
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Media,
Advertising & Marketing Watch
Disney Online launches 'The
Magic Banner'
Disney Online has announced the launch of a new advertising
format that expands on the traditional banner ad.
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Tube
Talk
Nickelodeon's
'Rugrats' celebrates tenth anniversary tomorrow
Kids
channel Nickelodeon has announced that it will commemorate
the tenth anniversary of the show Rugrats with
a special episode titled Rugrats: All Growed Up.
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Cartoon
Network will enthrall toon lovers with 3D animation series
Cartoon
Network has announced that it will spice up the Toonami
programme franchise by introducing two cutting-edge 3-D
animation series, Dan Dare and Beast Machines
Transformers.
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Technology
Update
Leitch
to provide master control switchers to CNN
Leitch Technology Corporation has announced that it will
provide five Opus master control switchers to CNN International.
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Telisar
launches TV channel-doubling product line at NAB2002
California-based high tech company Telisar Corporation
has unveiled its first product line at the NAB2002 Show.
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Source:
www. indiantelevision.com
Other
Headlines
Philips India may dump B&W TVs More
America
Online’s Schuler goes More
Source:
The Economic Times
Philips to stop producing B&W TVs this year More
Source:
Business Satndard
Philips may exit B&W TV production by year-end More
Televising the World Cup More
Zee launches online lottery show More
Source:The
Hindu Business Line
Reality TV looks to win Indian hearts More
Source:
The Times of India
Answer and win money More
Source:
Mid Day
No one’s blinking More
Source:
The Statesman
Spotless and... unreal More
Source:The
Hindu
The Shah is back! Bharat Shah out on bail More
Stop Thief! Entertainment pirates on the run More
Source:
www.moneycontrol.com
Pune Associated Cable strikes deal with Star TV,
hike in charges likely More
Source:
Indian Express
RiTV To Shed 30 PC Stake, Plans 2 New
Channels More
Cricket Rights Sale Strains ESPN Ties With Star Sports
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CETMA Advocates Close Co-operation Between Software And
Hardware Industry More
Su-Kam To Double Capacity, Focus On Southern
Market More
Source:
The Financial Express |
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"Art
is a moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion
without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment
without moral passion is television ."
--- Rita Mae Brown
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International
Headlines
7m
pay tribute with BBC
If success is the best form of revenge then the BBC more
than settled its score with its critics in its coverage
of the Queen Mother's funeral... More
ITV
Digital: Murdoch asked to help
BSkyB and the BBC have been asked by regulators to help
save digital terrestrial television in the event that
the troubled pay-TV platform ITV Digital finally collapses...
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Sky
One takes a shine to TV dating
Elisabeth Murdoch's independent production company has
made its second major series for Sky One, an interactive
dating show called The Final Score.
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America
Online chief removed
The head of the world's biggest web company, America Online,
has lost his job as part of a wider attempt to shake up
its parent company, the US media giant AOL Time Warner.
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Gallagher
blasts 'unfair' BBC
The woman behind Footballers' Wives and Bad Girls is compiling
a dossier of complaints about the BBC's "unfair" treatment
of independent producers. More
BSkyB
rules out cash to save KirchPayTV
The Kirch empire's pay TV company was yesterday locked
in talks with shareholders in a last ditch effort to avoid
following the group's biggest subsidiary into liquidation.
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Source:
Media
Guardian
FX's
'The Shield' Hit by Ad Defections
FX's new cop series "The Shield" won critics' praise
and drew viewer attention by pushing the content envelope,
but now the show's risque approach may be pushing advertisers
out the door... More
Source:
www.mediaweek.com
Roswell Canceled
United Paramount Network science-fiction series Roswell
is being canceled. More
Two Added
to AT&T Board
SAT&T Corp. named Frank Herringer, chairman of Transamerica
Corp., and Tony White, chairman, president and CEO of
Applera Corp., to its board of directors. More
Martin, Copps Fault Two-Dish Ruling
Two Federal Communications Commission members -- one a
Republican and the other a Democrat -- teamed up Wednesday
to criticize last week's staff ruling on EchoStar Communications
Corp.'s broad reliance on two dishes to receive local
TV signals. More
Stunt
Not Stormy for The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel’s 'Storm Week' boosted the
service’s primetime ratings last week but fell short of
the mark produced by its predecessor last year. More
FCC
Gives NBC Go-Ahead on Telemundo
The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday that
it would give NBC one year to sell KVEA(TV), an independent
TV station in Corona, Calif., that the network acquired
from Telemundo Communications Group Inc. More
McGowan:
Cable Upfront Up, Broadcast Flat
Discovery Networks U.S. executive vice president of ad
sales Bill McGowan forecast that basic cable will grow
to $4.5 billion from $4 billion last year, while the broadcast-television
networks will hold at $7 billion... More
Sony,
NBC strike deal
Sony's NAB press announcement of a deal with NBC could
keep Sony laughing all the way to the bank. More
Powell plan gains support
After unveiling an ambitious plan to speed the digital
TV transition, FCC Chairman Michael Powell is winning
support from at least two of the three principals in the
DTV transition. More
Source:
www.tvinsite.com
EchoStar
and Disney Settle Family Dispute
EchoStar Communications and the Walt Disney Corp. last
week settled their legal dispute over carriage fees for
ABC Family Channel and ESPN Classic. More
FCC
Plan for HDTV Puts Cable in the Crosshairs
The radical plan proposed by the chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission to jump-start the transition
to digital TV isn't supposed to be about one industry.
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Source:
Financial Times
Ozzy
shows MTV, VH1 headed different ways
"The Osbournes" has helped MTV build the biggest
audience in its history ... More
Source:
www.cnn.com
NBC
says Telemundo acquisition may close soon
The president of major U.S. television network NBC on
Wednesday said the closing of the network's multibillion-dollar
acquisition of No. 2 U.S. Spanish-language broadcaster
Telemundo could come in a matter of days. More
Source:
www.iwon.com |
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