Indiantelevision.com's TV Linx Reporter dated 21 April 2008 - links to broadcasting, cable, satellite, media, TV, television related news stories from India and abroad !

Headlines

Cable: You Telecom buys Scod 18
Citigroup's You Telecom buys majority in Scod 18; JV with Mumbai's cable distributors to invest Rs 1.2 bn.

Pyramid Saimira to invest Rs 4 billion in Chinese JV
Pyramid Saimira to invest Rs 4 bn in joint venture company with China Society of Music Research Board.

Special Report
Marathi GEC space: Zee Marathi winner in numbers game
Marathi GEC market expands to Rs 2 bn; Zee Marathi leads with 46% channel share.

News Releases
‘Dream Merchants’ premiers on NDTV Profit

TV Ratings
Top 10 Programmes (30/03/2008 to 05/04/2008)
Doordarshan's Top 10
Top 10 In All TV Homes
Top 10 in Cable & Satellite Homes

Top 100 Programmes (30/03/2008 to 05/04/2008)
Star Plus
Zee TV
Sun TV
Sony Entertainment TV
NDTV Imagine
Kalaignar TV
MAX
Gemini TV

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

	Viacom, MGM, Lionsgate to launch TV channel
	Mjunction in talks to buy out IPFonline for $20 million
	PepsiCo misses IPL action, Coke thunders
	Broadcast World hosts preview of TV Southasia
	Islamic comics group ties up with Chandamama for 'The 99'
	Saimira floats JV with China Society Music
	Festival of B R Chopra's film inaugurated
	Adlabs to get into megaplexes, plans 15 destinations
	Shotgun for film development corporation in J&K
	Pyramid Saimira in digital film exhibition
	Source: Economic Times

	Sony hits Max-imum with IPL
	A Kiran of hope for ICL
	`We will launch our film channel by August'
	Powergrid to lease bandwidth for TV
	Source: Business Standard

	HCL looks to expand in media & entertainment biz
	Avoiding portfolio panic
	LG’s small wonder
	A bit of the old and the new
	IPL changes its own rules within a month
	Spice wins title sponsorship for Mohali IPL team
	Pyramid scales Chinese entertainment wall
	Source: Financial Express

	BCCL to sell 25% stake in Zoom to Merrill Lynch for Rs120 crore
	IPL arrives in style
	Source: Livemint


	Saimira arm, Sony group co in pact
	Source: Hindu Business Line

	IPL's richest worth less than 1/10th of top US baseball team
	Source: Hindustan Times

	US military groomed TV analysts
	The war between Babylon and Disneyland
	Shah Rukh is king in world of business too
	Potter stars experts on handling romance rumours
	Source: DNA

	Life’s a pitch: Baseball whacks IPL teams out of money park
	Big change on a tiny screen
	Google earnings surprise may give Yahoo leverage
	THE PLAY NEVER ENDS
	Fireworks, glamour and cricket
	Source: Indian Express

	Shotgun for film development corporation in J&K
	Zee TV to launch pay-channels in Russia by year end
	ICC will have to adjust IPL in its calendar: Dhoni
	Website launched for buying and selling advertising space
	Majola wants ICC to carve out annual window for IPL
	Sathish hopes ICL will get ICC recognition
	Concern over arrest of veteran journalist
	IPL daily tickets find more takers
	Source:The Hindu

International News

	DirecTV Wins Patent Case with Finisar, Saves more than $117.3 million
	Source: IB Times

	Asian pay TV set to grow 11% a year
	Richard Engel promoted at NBC News
	AOL Hong Kong launched
	Source: Variety

	Viacom teams up for new premium channel
	Dish Network adds CNN, Sci Fi, USA channels to HD lineup
	Source: CNN

	DirecTV Group acquiring 180 Connect
	Source: Hollywood Reporter

	BBC shuts its internet service provider
	AOL to cut about 100 jobs in Web ad-selling unit
	Source: Guardian

	Swiss to get access to more mobile TV channels
	Source: Mobile Marketing News

	ESPN, Wimbledon reach coverage agreement
	Source: UPI

	Viacom Says Dauman Received $9 Million in Pay, Bonus
	Source: Bloomberg

	Premiere says no signal News Corp. to raise stake
	Domenech tells French not to watch Games on TV
	T.Italia Media says CEO steps down
	Source: Reuters

	Kashmir University signs MoU with the BBC
	Source: Kashmir Live

	"Loser" guy fit for MSN series
	ABC News conjures J.K. Rowling documentary
	Source: Yahoo

	Taiwan market: Cable TV revenues to investment ratio much higher than in other countries
	Source: Digitimes

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