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Let’s resolve telecast issue: Zee to BCCI
Subhash Chandra extends olive branch to BCCI in a letter; cricket board mum.

Sumangali bids for RPG Netcom
Sumangali is in talks to acquire RPG Netcom, a move which coincides with Sun's plans to launch a Bengali channel.

Special Report
Into the mind of a TV network programmer
How does a programmer really know he/she has hit the bull's eye with a story? Here's how...

Other Headlines
'Indian Idol' campaign reaches last leg
The clash of the titans has reached to its final lap. Sony is leaving no stone unturned to make a splash across the media.

Times' Goswami upbeat about mid-year launch

Sankraman Studios reopened; shooting to resume

Mediawatch meters a complex media mix, passively

SS Music joins Pehla 'Navratna' bouquet

FCC broods over illicit wireless content to kids

Yashwant Sinha to host budget show on Zee Business

Cable Quest to hold broadcast seminar

TiVo subscription crosses three million mark

Cartoon Network prepares to 'Get Animated'

Cartoon Network signs licensing deal with Mattel

Telly Chakkar
Rahul Vaidya out of Idol race!

Tube Talk
For CBSE students DD brings 'Maths Helpline'

Technology Update
Worldspace unveils satellite radio receiver 'Diva'

TV Ratings
Top 10 Programmes (30 January 2005 to 5 January 2005)
Doordarshan's Top 10
Top 10 In All TV Homes
Top 10 in Cable & Satellite Homes

Top 100 Programmes (30 January 2005 to 05 February 2005)
Star Plus
Sony Entertainment
Sun TV
Zee Cinema
Zee TV

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Today's Newsbreakers.......India
Zee seeks `reasonable resolution' to telecast issue
"Regional newspapers more eager to address women's issues"
Media violence can lead to aggressive behaviour in young children: study
Rane Government to probe IFFI expenditure
Sahara Samay triumphs
  Source:The Hindu
   
Prasar Bharati CEO unveils ambitious global plans
PVR plans to raise Rs 70-cr
Hasbro banks on Star Wars, classic brands
  Source: Economic Times
   
FII in news media likely
Disney’s next hero: a lion king of kings
Two Indians among Post, Times reporting awards winners
Paper-based processes can’t match the pace of electronic media
  Source:Financial Times
   
Now, a 'studio city' in Dubai
This buffalo is addicted to BBC
It's time to bid and win with the Times
  Source:Times of India
 
Telecast row: ZEE writes to BCCI
On a power trip!
From real to reel life
  Source:Mid-day
 
Interactive TV: Moolah for channels, cell cos
Content digitisation, broadband to impact media industry: Study
PVR Cinema scouting for strategic investor?
Archie's comics on mobiles via Nazara content platform
  Source:The Hindu Business Line
   
'Family tear-jerkers are dying on Indian TV': Vinta Nanda
Don't regulate satellite radio as per FM: WorldSpace:
  Source:New Kerala
   
UTV Soft: Poor clarity, stiffly priced
  Source:Sify
   
Zee writes to new BCCI chief
  Source:Newindpress
   
Yahoo in search for stake in Indiatimes
Austrian president briefed at ISRO
  Source:Business Standard
   
Couple confessions
Talking point with Susanne Bernert
  Source:Indian Express
International News
CNN Headline News undergoes big changes
  Source:Seattle Post-Intelligencer
   
Sky Network TV 1st-Half Net Quadrupled to NZ$48.7 Mln
  Source:Bloomberg
   
Reality TV does business worldwide
  Source:Times Online
   
TV's big three 'refused Ashes'
  Source:Australian
   
Trump Gives Kudos to 'Apprentice' Students
ABC's Jackson Special Raises Questions
  Source:Yahoo
   
Grade and Thompson could go in bust-up over BBC licence fee
'Cynical' UK media may lose Olympics for London
  Source:Independent
Spanish media groups line up against new TV plans
TPS Neuf Telecom IPTV service
Liberty Media International Consolidates
Eutelsat for M. East broadband
N. American STB market grows
  Source:Advanced-Television
   
CNN previews new Headline News shows
New nasty judge joins 'Australian Idol'
  Source:Digital spy (UK)
   
Quebecers get first French business TV channel, part of Quebecor empire
  Source:Canadian Press via Canada.com
   
A struggle over digital-TV controls heads to the courts
RTL pushes into Europewide digital radio
  Source:IHT
   
Germany television market overview
  Source:ZDNet

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