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TV Today mulls business channel, Bloomberg tie-up
Aaj Tak parent TV Today exploring business news channel in association with Bloomberg; co-branding, equity deal likely.

Pogo Amazing Kids Awards get interactive this year
Apart from airing the awards on Pogo in December, channel will also weave programming, interactivity around it.

MindShare tops ACNielsen Agency Equity Index
Mindshare tops ACNielsen Media AgencyTrack Media Agency Equity Index; Madison & Maxus come 2nd & 3rd respectivey.

ESS announces exec appointments; Vijay Rajput is COO

Ekta, Irani to co-produce Star Plus' 'Thodi Si Zameen...'

Zonemedia initiates rebranding excercise

Star World focusses on crime with new show 'NCIS'

Vijay TV set to launch 'Kallaka Povadhu Yaaru 2'

India to host Afro Asia Cup next year

Time Warner's Parsons Mipcom Personality of the Year

MTV Asia Pac postpones first edition of Movie Awards

Emmy Awards to salute TV icon Dick Clark

CNN doc traces the footsteps of Osama bin Laden

CNN doc examines the plight of illegal immigrants

News Corp to acquire a stake in Turkish TV station

Granath US Academy of TV arts and sciences chairman

AOL co-founder Case apologies for Warner merger

UN in global news, video monitoring deal with Teletrax

Warner makes classic TV shows available on iTunes

Guba, MPAA to crack down on movie piracy

Motorola to extend portfolio of 'video anywhere' solutions with acquisition

Online matrimony revenues to double by 2007: IAMAI

MTV brings global competition for Video Music Awards

MTV Apac ad sales EVP Toby Hayward calls it quits

US media companies unite in effort to help parents monitor kids' TV
4Kids' popular properties to launch on VOD channel on Comcast PlayFirst releases 'SpongeBob SquarePants Diner Dash' for the Macintosh

Channel Spotlight
Dr Prannoy Roy's English news and current affairs channel NDTV 24X7
This week's Spotlight edition features the 24-hour English news and current affairs channel NDTV 24X7.

Highlight - Sumeet replaces Kiran in Resham Dankh
Amit back in Kaisa Yeh…
Kunika turns restaurateur!
Moonmoon and Mouni…long lost sisters?
Grapevine - Kanjoos no one
The Week Ahead - Premiere of the month on Zee Studio

News Releases
Essel Propack global sales record growth of 18% in Q2
Zee Studio to premiere 'The Pirates Of the Caribbean: Curse Of the Black Pearl' on 28 July
Viewers depend on CNN-IBN and Channel 7 during Breaking News
Sri Lanka Vs South Africa test series to kick off in Colombo Live & Exclusive on Ten Sports on July 27th
Star Movies takes you on a wine-tasting road trip this Friday night
12,793 Indians use eBay as their primary or secondary source of income!

TV Ratings
Top 10 Programmes (02/07/2006 to 08/07/2006)
Doordarshan's Top 10
Top 10 In All TV Homes
Top 10 in Cable & Satellite Homes

Top 100 Programmes (02/07/2006 to 08/07/2006)
Star Plus
Zee TV
Ten Sports
Sun TV
Star One
Sony Entertainment
Gemini TV
ESPN

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Today's Newsbreakers.......India
    		• FM round III: I&B to sell 700 more frequencies
    		• Online ‘match-fixing’ business in a fast forward mode
    		• Amazon Japan mulls virtual shopping mall
    		• CPR, the column and grid of the Express
    Source:Financial Express
       
    		• ESPN Star Sports announces mgt appointments
    		• 'Radio Mirchi now gets up close & ‘visual'
    		• Microsoft to invest $150 mn in Pune
    Source:Economic Times
       
    		• Deccan Chronicle up on Q1 numbers
    		• Swooping eyeballs
    Source: Business Standard
       
    		• British Councils to have more books by Indian publishers
    Source: The Hindu
     
    		• Emmys’ judging gets outsourced to India
    		• No Small Feat
    Source: Indian Express
       
    		• Star to offer comprehensive branding solutions
    		• Pogo kids awards to have 19 episodes
    		• Essel Propack net flat at Rs 9.7 cr
    Source: The Hindu Business Line
       
    		• Coming soon on your TV: Indian Cricket Idol
    		• 'I love spa products'
    		• Getting to know...Aditya Singh Rajput
    		• ‘I have 10,000 songs on my iPod’
    		• Splitsville for Sooraj-Roma!
    Source: DNA
     
    International News
    		• TiVo Launches Audience Research and Measurement (ARM) Division
    Source: TechWeb
       
    		• Disney veteran takes reins at Disneyland Resort
    		• Interview: Rupert Murdoch
    		• Euro Disney Q3 revenues rise 13 pct
    Source: Reuters
       
    		• XM strikes five-year deal for ASCAP music library
    Source: www.theglobeandmail.com
       
    		• Motorola to acquire video-on-demand techr
    Source: ZDNet
     
    		• France uses digital TV to boost films
    Source: tvnz.co.nz
       
    		• BBC announce new filmmaking initiative
    Source: www.4rfv.co.uk
       
    		• Sama Dubai TV to conduct opinion poll on war in Lebanon
    Source: Strategiy
    		• News Corp. sculpting bold plan for growth
    Source: Hollywood Reporter
       
    		• Martha Stewart Narrows Loss as Sales Rise
    		• Granite Acquires CBS Affiliate in Upstate New York
    		• New PBS Chief Concerned About FCC Fines
    Source: TV Week
       
    		• PSAs Launching on Controlling TV Indecency
    		• Survey Shows Trends of Households With DVRs
    		• Cablevision Picks Up Hi-Def Feed of TNT
    Source: Media Week (US)
       
    		• Google to offer advertisers click fraud stats
    Source: CNET News.com
       
    		• US: Bangladeshi TV production house launched in New York
    Source: Asia Media
       
    		• BT Vision to offer film, TV programmes by Universal, NBC
    		• More cable operators deploy fibre networks
    Source: DM Europe
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