10 January 2007Newsletter Subscription Email this Page Volume 18 - Issue No: 55








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Global Broadcast News sets Rs 230-250 price band for public issue
Global Broadcast News, owners of English news channel CNN-IBN, sets price band of Rs 230 to Rs 250 for its Rs 1.05 billion IPO.

Year Ender
In pursuit of what in 2007?
The Cas word gets TAM India CEO LV Krishnan thinking about what this brave new world could mean for the likes of the airtime sales exec and media planner.

Other Headlines
Radio One launching in Chennai Wednesday
Radio One 94.3 launches operations in Chennai tomorrow after 9 days of test runs in the southern city.

Zee unveils 'Maayka Saat Zindagi Bhar Ka'

Sahara One to launch 'Ghar Ek Sapnaa' on 15 Jan

Rive Gauche TV slates various reality shows at Natpe

Dasmunsi urges diaspora role to reflect changing India

BBC Entertainment enters Malaysia on Astro

IPTV subs in AsiaPac to reach 27 m by 2013: report

Korea Broadcasting, BBC to back Miptv's Content 360

Casbaa Convention 2007: It's all about content

Bennett Media licenses select library prgrmg to MS

Nath releases India Retail Report '07; launches portal

Big B clearly way ahead of King Khan: OMS study

Disney's Robert Iger unveils redesigned Disney.com at Consumer Electronics Show


Highlight - Interview with - Shobhaa De
"I cannot think of life without working out" – Narayani Shastri
Meet the Pink Band stars
The Week Ahead - BBC World’s exclusive programme on Indian weddings

News Releases
'Lage Raho Mithunda' on Set Max from 15 to 26 Jan
Psychic Surgery - magic or science?

TV Ratings
Top 10 Programmes (24/12/2006 to 30/12/2006)
Doordarshan's Top 10
Top 10 In All TV Homes
Top 10 in Cable & Satellite Homes

Top 100 Programmes (24/12/2006 to 30/12/2006)
Star Plus
Zee TV
Sun TV
Star One
Sony Entertainment TV
Zee Cinema
Star Sports

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Today's Newsbreakers.......India
    		• Star may move Sanjay Das from Hong Kong to India as COO
    		• Sirius Radio pays host Howard Stern $82.9 mn
    Source: Economic Times
      
    		•  Cisco to lend its name for set-top boxes now
    		•  Chennai digital studio eyes Bengali market
    		• Moser Baer debuts with 101 Tamil video titles
    Source: Business Standard
      
    		• Animax unveils hottest animation on television
    Source: India Infoline
      
    		• TiVo’s Interactive Advertising Platform Wins Emmy Award
    		• Dell launches a digital home entertainment suite
    Source: TechWhack
     
    		• A fine balance
    Source: Times of India
      
    		• Croc-hunter's daughter takes show to US
    		• Scooby-Doo designer Iwao Takamoto dead
    		• Microsoft's Vista launch promoted with space ride prize
    		• Apple unveils long-awaited phone, AppleTV
    		• Deanne on a reality show
    		• Game up for Shilpa?
    		• ‘We should pull up our socks’
    Source: DNA
     
      
    		• Global Broadcast News plans Rs 105-cr IPO
    		• Essel plans to set up 50 multiplex malls in AP
    		• `India likely to use hybrid network for broadband'
    Source: The Hindu Business Line
      
    		•  Chennai: New radio station The latest addition to the city's radio boom
    		• CNN-IBN owners to launch IPO, price band Rs 230-250
    		•  Kerala Govt. to take all steps to protect film industry
    		• Chinese films rack up record sales overseas
    		• Shanghai, first to be totally wireless for Internet
    		• Telugu cinema fete: no entry for film lovers?
    Source: The Hindu
      
    		• Mumbai: State readies proposal seeking ban on high speed scenes in films
    		• Cartoonist Takamoto, Scooby-Doo creator, dies at 81
    		• C-NES announces 3rd media fellowship for N-E
    		• Google tops Fortune list of best US places to work
    Source: Indian Express
     
    		• Yahoo 'n Moto to put Net in your pocket
    Source: Financial Express
     
    International News
    		• Apple's Jobs Unveils iPhone, Apple TV
    		• Discovery Taps Cosgrove, Goldberg for Programming
    Source: Media Week
     
    		• Kids in Italy banned from Disney film
    		• DirecTV offers mobile satellite service
    Source: Business Week
      
    		• BT among those handling Xbox 360 IPTV
    Source: eurogamer.net
     
    		• BSkyB claims 89.4 pct of 365 Media; extends
    Source: Hemscott
     
    		• ESPN STAR Sports Eyes Over 4.3 Mln Viewers In Malaysia
    Source: Bernama
     
    		• Setanta Sports launch Golf channel
    Source: Setanta
     
    		• US Supreme Court rejects EchoStar appeal on TV broadcasts
    Source: MarketWatch
     
    		• Chinese group licenses mobile TV technology from TTP
    Source: EETimes
     
    		• National Geographic Channel Expands HD Resources With ATG Broadcast
    Source: www.4rfv.co.u
    		• DirecTV sees 100 HD channels, Net videos in '07
    		• Disney to launch more massively multiplayer games
    Source: Reuters
     
    		• Fox Announces Sponsors for the Next American Idol
    Source: Movieweb
     
    		• Internet helps viewers bond to TV series
    		• Discovery Channel giving away 2 million Xbox Live points
    		• BBC to launch climate change game
    Source: Monsters and Critics
     
    		• NBCU, Turner, CNN to Launch HD Networks
    		• Disney Racks Up 120 Million Digital Plays, Iger Says
    		• NBCU to Offer Programming Through New Mobile-TV Service
    Source: TV Week
     
    		• Parky breaks pay TV ratings record in Oz
    Source: Digital Spy (UK)
     
    		• Nielsens: NBC edges CBS in ratings
    Source: Yahoo
     
    		• Peshawar : Delay in Pushto TV channel blamed on federal govt
    Source: Dawn
     
    		• Spain eyes International TV market
    Source: Advanced - Television
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