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Star Gold ups ante to take on rivals
After 'Nimbu mar ke', this will be yet another high-decibel marketing blitzkrieg that the channel proposes to unleash.

Trai fails to announce FM recommendations
Trai sources indicate no consensus still on recommending foreign investment in private FM radio ventures.

Former MTV VJ Nafisa Joseph dead
 The MTV House Full VJ for six years, Joseph had moved on to host Style, a show on Star World, which ended on 30 May.
Zee's Astitva interacts with Singapore audiences
Zee TV, in its endeavor to reach out to Asian audiences, took a step forward with a special beam for Singapore to get interactive with its viewers. Viewers in Singapore will now get a chance to spend an entire day with Dr.Simran, the lead character of Astitva…Ek Prem Kahani.

Hungama 'Captain Hunt' heats up
BBC series on Indian film directors from 31 July
Chernin signs new five-year pact with News Corp
Nick's 'Dora The Explorer' to air in UK
Viacom reorganises its operations
Asian Golf Tour launches weekly TV show
Reality TV takes animation route in US

Box Populi
Filmi chakkar on television

Tube Talk
AXN's 'Next Action Star' goes on air from 3 August

Media Stock Watch
A dull day for media scrips

TV Ratings
Top 10 Programmes (11 July 2004 to 17 July 2004)
Doordarshan's Top 10
Top 10 In All TV Homes
Top 10 in Cable & Satellite Homes

Top 100 Programmes (11 July 2004 to 17 July 2004)
Star Plus
Sun TV
Sony Entertainment T
Star Sports
Gemini TV

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Today's Newsbreakers.......India

Balaji Telefilms bottomline dips 22% to Rs 11 cr

Prime time performers

Our films, their films
  Source:Business Standard
   

ESPN English telecast draws more ads than Hindi on Star Sports

Asia Cup garners less ad revenue than Indo-Pak series

Telugu film makes waves with new colour tech

Zee hopes to tap rural viewers for Telugu channel

TN Assembly drops privilege action against newspapers

Showdiff deal with Muralitharan

TV Today Network registers steady growth

  Source: The Hindu Business Line
   

Nickelodeon Channel tells kids to go out and play

New broadcast rules to aid consumers

Sex, lies & CCTV: Film moguls on guard
  Source:Times of India
   
Campus Radio: Waiting for my kind of sound
Cubans lap up anti-Bush film
Barclays complete Telegraph buyout
New Viacom co-president shakes up ranks
  Source: Hindustan Times
 

Watch your fav soap on a mobile!

  Source:www.ciol.com
 

Zee to launch business channel on DTH

Harry Potter conquers cyberspace

MGM's Q2 loss narrows to $20m

Source: The Economic Times
 

Film festival organisers hit out at `panel members'

Nafisa will be missed: PETA

BBC to telcast new series 'Bollywood Bosses'
  Source: The Hindu
   

STAR Plus Knocks on girl-next-door

Chidambara Ragasiyam on Sun TV

TV France's 10th Rendez-Vous
  Source:Screen
   

Plain young things
  Source:Mid-day
   

Soap scene to spice up
  Source:Tribune (India)
International News
C4 joins the beeb?
  Source: Advanced Television
   
PAKISTAN: PTV, PBC told to ensure balanced coverage
MALAYSIA: TV3 plans to stop all SMS contests
  Source: Asia Media
   
Trump 'after $18 million an episode'
McCutcheon to play Monica Lewinsky in TV Film
  Source: Digital Spy (UK)
   
Call for Eastenders' Asian family to be axed as rating nosedive
  Source: Asians In Media
   
TV Executive Charged with Spying on Fox FX Network
Kerry Draws Convention's Biggest TV Audience
  Source : Reuters
   
French ISPs to turn off P2P downloaders' internet connection under new agreement
  Source: DM Europe
DNC: CNN, PBS celebrate ratings
  Source: Lost Remote
   
Liberals planning own network
How the 18-34 male is reinventing advertising
  Source: Wired
   
Big 3 Have Another Big Quarter, Approaching Double-Digit Network Ad Gains
Audience Growth, Repurposing TV Ads to Drive Online Video Spending
  Source: Media Post
   
Glitch Broadcasts Convention Snafu on CNN
  Source: AP/Yahoo! News
   
NBCU Names New General Counsel
TLC Gets 'Feng Shui'
Insight Reports Q2 Results
  Source: TV Week
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